Keep Your Guard Up!

[Mike1962]

If your guard is too

- far apart, your opponent may punch between your arms.
- close, your opponent's hook punch may knock down your arm along with your head. You opponent can also head lock your head along with both of your arms.

Also,

- A short guard is good for offense.
- A long guard is good for defense.

There is no perfect guard that exist. No matter how good your guard can be, you are still put yourself in defense mode. Again, it's better to put your opponent in defense mode instead.

A: Do you teach self-defense?
B: I teach my students how to make their opponents to defense themselves.

Thanks, this is very useful material

 

[Mike1962]

The WC Bong Shou violates that principle.

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Pool noodle...

Jeff Chan MMAShredded
Sep 11, 2021

In this video, I test out 4 different types of guards. In each round, I specifically use only one guard to show and talk about the pros and cons!

Pool noodle...

Jeff Chan MMAShredded
Sep 11, 2021

In this video, I test out 4 different types of guards. In each round, I specifically use only one guard to show and talk about the pros and cons!

This is excellent - great videos! Many thanks!

 

[Mike1962]

Getting punched helps. Well, it helps some people.

OK...

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

It's a bad idea to train kicking with soft target like this. You will develop "point fight" bad habit - freeze your body, only move your leg (without body unification).

 

[marvin8]

It's a bad idea to train kicking with soft target like this. You will develop "point fight" bad habit - freeze your body, only move your leg (without body unification).

1. I timestamped to the part that gave an answer to the OP—a drill to keep one's hands up.
2. As Alex says, that kicking drill is to build strength and control for kicks which can lead to power.
3. At :37 of the following video, Dewey,(top MMA coach) shows a similar "Shaolin kicks" drill to MJW which develops the "secondary muscles to make kicks stronger and more accurate."
4. Another video showing Dewey using paddles to train defensive skills (e.g., keeping hands up) more so for boxing.

 

[Mike1962]

1. I timestamped to the part that gave an answer to the OP—a drill to keep one's hands up.
2. As Alex says, that kicking drill is to build strength and control for kicks which can lead to power.
3. At :37 of the following video, Dewey,(top MMA coach) shows a similar "Shaolin kicks" drill to MJW which develops the "secondary muscles to make kicks stronger and more accurate."
4. Another video showing Dewey using paddles to train defensive skills (e.g., keeping hands up) more so for boxing.

Great! Thanks so much for putting this together!