Started Kickboxing

weepete said:
Sounds awesome, I'd need a few years practise to get reasonable, but maybe one day!

Just cracking away at basic techniques at the moment, my footwork needs attention, but it slowly starting to come back.

Enjoying learning the boxing punches along with slips and shoulder rolls tonight. A lot of it's new to me, and there's some interesting theorycrafting like setting up shots and how to use fakes properly which is things I've not heard verbalised before.
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Set up a line about shoulder height and practice moving forward and back, ducking and slipping , then when you have mastered that add uppercuts and hooks.
It's all about practice and get you body to move naturally as you do it.
Setting up your opponent up with fakes is a good way to capitalise, throw a few fakes while sparring and see if they respond the same way each time, then you can set them up for the shot. Different opponents will react differently.
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Mart
 
oneshot said:
Set up a line about shoulder height and practice moving forward and back, ducking and slipping , then when you have mastered that add uppercuts and hooks.
It's all about practice and get you body to move naturally as you do it.
Setting up your opponent up with fakes is a good way to capitalise, throw a few fakes while sparring and see if they respond the same way each time, then you can set them up for the shot. Different opponents will react differently.
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Mart
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Thanks Mart, I'll give it a good go.

I'm a fairly short guy, being 5"7' on a good day, so fighting in the pocket is something I'll need to get good at, weight wise I'll likely be in heavyweight, or superheavyweight 😱, therefore probably be matched up against opponents that are significantly taller than me.
 
oneshot said:
Set up a line about shoulder height and practice moving forward and back, ducking and slipping , then when you have mastered that add uppercuts and hooks.
It's all about practice and get you body to move naturally as you do it.
Setting up your opponent up with fakes is a good way to capitalise, throw a few fakes while sparring and see if they respond the same way each time, then you can set them up for the shot. Different opponents will react differently.
Atb
Mart
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Used to use fakes when i did karate, in one the clubs i trained at two boxers started built like frank bruno, muscles in their spit! Initially if you let them get close you were in deep trouble keep them away and you could kick them to pieces. It was good experience for both of us. In karate your appoinant attacks using karate techniques so as soon as they move you know whats coming. Boxing is a whole new ball game. However being hit on the head repeatedly as we now know gives you brain damage! I am daft enough as it is!
 
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Not quite kickboxing as such but I do use video sessions in my garage to supplement my other training. Started self protection / wing chun / systema / Krav Maga in the years before lockdown. It’s easier to find video sessions for kickboxing than the others when I’m being lazy and haven’t written my own session.
 
akacoach said:
Not quite kickboxing as such but I do use video sessions in my garage to supplement my other training. Started self protection / wing chun / systema / Krav Maga in the years before lockdown. It’s easier to find video sessions for kickboxing than the others when I’m being lazy and haven’t written my own session.
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I did Wing Chun briefly years back. It had some cool aspects to it, but I never found it practical, so dropped away. Did Jujitsu after that for a few years which was really well rounded, but found it a jack of all trades, but master of none.

I'm still at the kickboxing training, still enjoying it too after joining the big boys class. Some of these lads can hit hard! Though I'm still out of shape, it's a different level of fitness required to go several rounds with an opponent. There's some really interesting ringcraft in it as well.
 
weepete said:
I did Wing Chun briefly years back. It had some cool aspects to it, but I never found it practical, so dropped away. Did Jujitsu after that for a few years which was really well rounded, but found it a jack of all trades, but master of none.

I'm still at the kickboxing training, still enjoying it too after joining the big boys class. Some of these lads can hit hard! Though I'm still out of shape, it's a different level of fitness required to go several rounds with an opponent. There's some really interesting ringcraft in it as well.
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I agree with the wing chun as an individual discipline but the instructor is very good at mixing in a range of different arts. It’s more about self protection with a base in wing chun.
 
akacoach said:
I agree with the wing chun as an individual discipline but the instructor is very good at mixing in a range of different arts. It’s more about self protection with a base in wing chun.
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Fair dues, a good instructor can make a difference.
 
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