I’ve seen your shorts man You hit like a beast Tell your sparring partner to lay off just slightly, and work on entering his space with a mix of slips, and footwork Just master the slips first Weaves and slips put together are much more complicated, because then the Weldon shift/D’Amato shift has to being taken into account and you need to learn how to hit with the new lead hand when switched to south paw. And the reorientation, of the new angle. If you take an angle, to switch to south paw but in your head your still acting like your still in orthodox now even changing the mechanics of how the jab now works from the south paw angle; it’s being done wrong. The mechanics should be the same, just the angle is different, you have a more advantageous angle to strike from. The cross still having the same mechanics of one knows them is how the new left cross with an extra 2’ gained behind the cross , as it is now slightly behind the opponents right eye,just out of line of the periphery, to be used for tactical strikes that they can’t see without having to upset pace by adjusting using footwork which then can create openings for you; then switching to south paw is essentially going to get you knocked out. I’m not sure if you do, but definitely train your south paw jabs and hooks religiously along with the footwork, forward stepping and back stepping and D’Amato shift with any number of 3 hit Combos focusing on max power, but still having complete balance, never over throwing or under throwing. For example when throwing a straight right, lead hook, then lead uppercut, Your left foot will have to take a slightly different placement, angle; due to the weight distribution, and different feeling altogether then the hook alone. Try watching Tyson in slow motions when he hits pads, it a thing of beauty. But seriously the number of weight shift-type problems that arise with D’Amato peek a poo between shift is high, because people don’t first; learn to understand how to create leverage like they do from their dominant natural stance just as good as their non-dominant stance. It wasn’t that mike just could knock people out with either hand easily, it was that his level of comfort ability with both stances were so high that when shifting it was bo different to him, he saw all stances for what they were, Otho fox and southpaw are just reflections of each other, that need to be master separately, just like how one learns how to do something with their left hand that they regularly do with their right hand. It takes a lot of time to get both sides to ‘TRULY’ feel like home. And then master the in between 50/50 Where one foot may be slightly ahead of the other but the angle is so absurd is ridiculous to try and say whether that person is in a southpaw or orthodox orientation. It’s it’s own thing it’s self, which may be mastered over time through repetitive stance switching and the number of different Angles that can arise from that. One might argue that this is the hardest as this is what can make or break this style, because one MUST understand when it’s more advantageous to be on a south paw or orthodox, if one is going to be switching stances THAT OFTEN; it would only make sense that you must have supreme judgement just like an agile cat, able to quick make a strong decisive move because they’re instincts and intelligence paired with their reaction time gives them that ability to make swift movements that aren’t even able to be seen without slowing down the video… So One must gain similar instincts through repetitive training cause we aren’t born at all with speed and reflexes akin to a cat. But those instincts, left or right, when’s the best…. it’s not always that clear. My pad holder always is challenging and mixing me up on purpose cause in a real fight that’s what happens, it’s only through very specific common punching combo drills that your able to develop that high of a level of discernment, mixed with speed. Mike had a serious talent as far that. Along with weight distribution, leg strength, fast twitch, intelligence, and ultimately a student and warriors mind. And most importantly he knew when to do what. When to be aggressive, and when to evade, and then counter. But his aggression was always there, he would just alter his level of pressure, as the peek a boo, requires intense stamina, and that you know how to relax all your muscles, you need to bee flexible and not stiff, as it encourages putting yourself in the line of fire, tempting and prodding, highly encourages baiting you opponent into throwing certain punches, particularly exploiting jabs and hooks But seriously, I notice, you are not applying sufficient pressure, if you get closer you’re gonna have so many more opportunities to strike the body and head, but since you’re shorter and not closing the distance you’re not utilizing your best tool, Your height and feet, as I know you know already, when you get close, that tall guy will have a hard time thirsting you while the inverse would be true for you, easy access to all shots and angles to exploit his ‘expected’ retreats, Being aggressive, soon enough he’s in a corner or on the ropes and can’t retreat. You master those in the pocket quick timing duck unders, weaves, and slips, Like I said tell your sparring partner you wanna focus on closing distance and slipping jabs to exploit that counter jab You can’t master it when you’re opponent is going full throttle at you I box, and when I study Tysons film He literally is drilled on the pads hundreds of times before a sparring partner is even considered He would learn the combinations, and literally would do them in his room for hours and then cus would further refine that. But what I’m saying is learning that inside work, those gap closing techniques, and then the in-fighting, when to strike, when, particularly important, NOT TO STRIKE, Mike wasn’t greedy despite the strings of combinations he would get in He only threw what was tactically advantageous. Cus drilled that into him. We all know how scary a punch can be when it hits you without you see it coming, it’s really confusing, you end up teleporting 2-3 back because you get knocked back, and an experienced boxer follows that stun up with a critical counter shot to end it. Just like Tyson would Short story learn to close that gap and gain a sense of comfort while in the pocket, being comfortable at avoiding rockets coming in cause you can parry, slip, and avoid like a master looking for his moment, to end it all tactically. Good work man, can tell you have passion. Have been watching your progression. All respect man, seriously, I can tell you take your craft very seriously. Commendable
Hope that made sense. For example when I say you shift to southpaw you’re shifting to your left, D’Amato shift from orthodox off of a right cross, right hook, a left jab and retraction, or a left hook and a roll through to the dmato shift, shifting to your left (opponent would be forced to look to their right, the new lead hand is the right, and the new cross hand is the left, and it plants it closer to your opponent head, particularly the back, and it is out of the sight line of the opponents right eye, setting them up for either a mean 2-1 - right hand uppercut or 2-3- right hand uppercut) And for the situation I was describing for the second Mike drilled starting out with a 2 (a cross) from orthodox, often, cause it’s very common for people to only rely on their jab so people are well equipped and trained at countering the jab. They no it like the back of their hand So it you find it hard to slip and jab to close distance, try messing around with footwork and countering with a 2 alone or a 2 plus footwork, so 2 -push of to left of right angle, can switch stances if you want, the hit an easy 2 to 3 hit combo and exit quickly, then repeat until your opponent figures it out But back to the original point; So when fighting a counter fighter, he would use a mix of foot work and head movement + waiting for the opponent to over extend and then WHOP; this scenario plays out The second example It was one of Tyson’s favorites So it was starting from orthodox, He would shoot the cross, weight is shifting to his left, lead leg, (could include a slip, not always) throw the lead left hook, and then HERE: Freeze. So for the hook, he obviously twists his hip and slightly his foot to get follow through, now this, after the hook, is where I’m saying then he would take his left foot and move into his squared up 50/50 stance, sometimes his left foot was in front so he would still be in orthodox, but he takes the step back (only with the left leg, the right leg 🦵 DOES NOT MOVE AND STAYS FIRMLY PLANTED, he in not retreating, he is gaining a tactical space advantage) ….left leg steps back, to square his shoulders so he could sit up all his weight into the left uppercut cut, Sometimes he would indeed step even further back, landing left leg behind so it was more of like a rear uppercut, regardless, try it, you’ll see what I mean on the aqua bag, that step back on the uppercut is extremely important and allowed mike to really sit back and away, his punch went forward and then straight up, like I spear, smashing either through his opponents guard, his Nose, or ribs. And then because his hook uppercuts feed into each other, imagine just getting, WAAAP(hook) WOP(thudding uppercut) A quick 1-2,hook upper combo, every body shells up. Which then he could literally have 3-5 seconds to see where they were least protected, and repeat with either hand, either stance this time just quick succession Body-body-body-body-body-head Head---head Body -body - head-head Body --head-body-body-body-head The dash length indicates time length. Weaponize the speed of awkward timings and rhythms and hit hard and something will land that will cause you’re opponent to go down, even if only momentarily; Which is all you need. Once someones been dropped, it’s almost always over, even worse if the guy is tough enough to get back up. Even more so in a street fight. Done.
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Jabbing is timing and less about reach!
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I’ve seen your shorts man
You hit like a beast
Tell your sparring partner to lay off just slightly, and work on entering his space with a mix of slips, and footwork
Just master the slips first
Weaves and slips put together are much more complicated, because then the Weldon shift/D’Amato shift has to being taken into account and you need to learn how to hit with the new lead hand when switched to south paw.
And the reorientation, of the new angle.
If you take an angle, to switch to south paw but in your head your still acting like your still in orthodox now even changing the mechanics of how the jab now works from the south paw angle; it’s being done wrong. The mechanics should be the same, just the angle is different, you have a more advantageous angle to strike from. The cross still having the same mechanics of one knows them is how the new left cross with an extra 2’ gained behind the cross , as it is now slightly behind the opponents right eye,just out of line of the periphery, to be used for tactical strikes that they can’t see without having to upset pace by adjusting using footwork which then can create openings for you; then switching to south paw is essentially going to get you knocked out.
I’m not sure if you do, but definitely train your south paw jabs and hooks religiously along with the footwork, forward stepping and back stepping and D’Amato shift with any number of 3 hit Combos focusing on max power, but still having complete balance, never over throwing or under throwing.
For example when throwing a straight right, lead hook, then lead uppercut,
Your left foot will have to take a slightly different placement, angle; due to the weight distribution, and different feeling altogether then the hook alone.
Try watching Tyson in slow motions when he hits pads, it a thing of beauty.
But seriously the number of weight shift-type problems that arise with D’Amato peek a poo between shift is high, because people don’t first; learn to understand how to create leverage like they do from their dominant natural stance just as good as their non-dominant stance.
It wasn’t that mike just could knock people out with either hand easily, it was that his level of comfort ability with both stances were so high that when shifting it was bo different to him, he saw all stances for what they were, Otho fox and southpaw are just reflections of each other, that need to be master separately, just like how one learns how to do something with their left hand that they regularly do with their right hand. It takes a lot of time to get both sides to ‘TRULY’ feel like home.
And then master the in between 50/50
Where one foot may be slightly ahead of the other but the angle is so absurd is ridiculous to try and say whether that person is in a southpaw or orthodox orientation.
It’s it’s own thing it’s self, which may be mastered over time through repetitive stance switching and the number of different Angles that can arise from that.
One might argue that this is the hardest as this is what can make or break this style, because one MUST understand when it’s more advantageous to be on a south paw or orthodox, if one is going to be switching stances THAT OFTEN; it would only make sense that you must have supreme judgement just like an agile cat, able to quick make a strong decisive move because they’re instincts and intelligence paired with their reaction time gives them that ability to make swift movements that aren’t even able to be seen without slowing down the video…
So One must gain similar instincts through repetitive training cause we aren’t born at all with speed and reflexes akin to a cat.
But those instincts, left or right, when’s the best…. it’s not always that clear.
My pad holder always is challenging and mixing me up on purpose cause in a real fight that’s what happens, it’s only through very specific common punching combo drills that your able to develop that high of a level of discernment, mixed with speed.
Mike had a serious talent as far that. Along with weight distribution, leg strength, fast twitch, intelligence, and ultimately a student and warriors mind. And most importantly he knew when to do what.
When to be aggressive, and when to evade, and then counter.
But his aggression was always there, he would just alter his level of pressure, as the peek a boo, requires intense stamina, and that you know how to relax all your muscles, you need to bee flexible and not stiff, as it encourages putting yourself in the line of fire, tempting and prodding, highly encourages baiting you opponent into throwing certain punches, particularly exploiting jabs and hooks
But seriously,
I notice, you are not applying sufficient pressure, if you get closer you’re gonna have so many more opportunities to strike the body and head, but since you’re shorter and not closing the distance you’re not utilizing your best tool,
Your height and feet, as I know you know already, when you get close, that tall guy will have a hard time thirsting you while the inverse would be true for you, easy access to all shots and angles to exploit his ‘expected’ retreats,
Being aggressive, soon enough he’s in a corner or on the ropes and can’t retreat.
You master those in the pocket quick timing duck unders, weaves, and slips,
Like I said tell your sparring partner you wanna focus on closing distance and slipping jabs to exploit that counter jab
You can’t master it when you’re opponent is going full throttle at you
I box, and when I study Tysons film
He literally is drilled on the pads hundreds of times before a sparring partner is even considered
He would learn the combinations, and literally would do them in his room for hours and then cus would further refine that.
But what I’m saying is learning that inside work, those gap closing techniques, and then the in-fighting, when to strike, when, particularly important, NOT TO STRIKE,
Mike wasn’t greedy despite the strings of combinations he would get in
He only threw what was tactically advantageous.
Cus drilled that into him.
We all know how scary a punch can be when it hits you without you see it coming, it’s really confusing, you end up teleporting 2-3 back because you get knocked back, and an experienced boxer follows that stun up with a critical counter shot to end it.
Just like Tyson would
Short story learn to close that gap and gain a sense of comfort while in the pocket, being comfortable at avoiding rockets coming in cause you can parry, slip, and avoid like a master looking for his moment, to end it all tactically.
Good work man, can tell you have passion.
Have been watching your progression.
All respect man, seriously, I can tell you take your craft very seriously.
Commendable
Hope that made sense.
For example when I say you shift to southpaw you’re shifting to your left, D’Amato shift from orthodox off of a right cross, right hook, a left jab and retraction, or a left hook and a roll through to the dmato shift, shifting to your left (opponent would be forced to look to their right, the new lead hand is the right, and the new cross hand is the left, and it plants it closer to your opponent head, particularly the back, and it is out of the sight line of the opponents right eye, setting them up for either a mean 2-1 - right hand uppercut or 2-3- right hand uppercut)
And for the situation I was describing for the second
Mike drilled starting out with a 2 (a cross) from orthodox, often, cause it’s very common for people to only rely on their jab so people are well equipped and trained at countering the jab.
They no it like the back of their hand
So it you find it hard to slip and jab to close distance, try messing around with footwork and countering with a 2 alone or a 2 plus footwork, so 2 -push of to left of right angle, can switch stances if you want, the hit an easy 2 to 3 hit combo and exit quickly, then repeat until your opponent figures it out
But back to the original point;
So when fighting a counter fighter, he would use a mix of foot work and head movement + waiting for the opponent to over extend and then WHOP; this scenario plays out
The second example
It was one of Tyson’s favorites
So it was starting from orthodox,
He would shoot the cross, weight is shifting to his left, lead leg, (could include a slip, not always) throw the lead left hook, and then HERE: Freeze. So for the hook, he obviously twists his hip and slightly his foot to get follow through, now this, after the hook, is where I’m saying then he would take his left foot and move into his squared up 50/50 stance, sometimes his left foot was in front so he would still be in orthodox, but he takes the step back (only with the left leg, the right leg 🦵 DOES NOT MOVE AND STAYS FIRMLY PLANTED, he in not retreating, he is gaining a tactical space advantage) ….left leg steps back, to square his shoulders so he could sit up all his weight into the left uppercut cut,
Sometimes he would indeed step even further back, landing left leg behind so it was more of like a rear uppercut, regardless, try it, you’ll see what I mean on the aqua bag, that step back on the uppercut is extremely important and allowed mike to really sit back and away, his punch went forward and then straight up, like I spear, smashing either through his opponents guard, his Nose, or ribs.
And then because his hook uppercuts feed into each other, imagine just getting, WAAAP(hook) WOP(thudding uppercut)
A quick 1-2,hook upper combo, every body shells up. Which then he could literally have 3-5 seconds to see where they were least protected, and repeat with either hand, either stance this time just quick succession Body-body-body-body-body-head
Head---head
Body -body - head-head
Body --head-body-body-body-head
The dash length indicates time length.
Weaponize the speed of awkward timings and rhythms and hit hard and something will land that will cause you’re opponent to go down, even if only momentarily;
Which is all you need.
Once someones been dropped, it’s almost always over, even worse if the guy is tough enough to get back up. Even more so in a street fight.
Done.
short man has a good jab.
like tyson
I appreciate it 🤝🏾