How To Out Punch Much Bigger Guys
Most people’s punches are weak because they haven’t learnt to punch correctly. A 10 stone guy can easily punch more powerfully than a 15 stone guy if he learns and practices correctly.
Most people do not apply their whole body into a strike and just use arms and shoulders; you often see in fights its handbags.
Here’s 5 quick tips guaranteed to triple your power.
1. The first thing is to visualize where power comes from when punching, visualize it starts through your feet, up your legs, up your back and then down your arms and out of your fists when striking like a big laser beam. Just visualizing this whilst striking will make a BIG difference, as you will start to use your whole body and focus your energy into one action.
2. Bend your knees slightly when punching, this ensures you sit down on your punches, and your weight stays on the floor, which adds lots more power to your strikes. Never punch with your legs or back straight.
3. When you punch try curling your toes as if you are gripping the floor this ensures you don’t lift up and loose power. You start the chain of generating and transferring energy up your body as outlined in point 1 above.
4. When striking visualise the effect your strike will have on your attacker, see him go down from your powerful strike. As they say dream it, believe it, achieve it!
5. When practicing hitting a pad never stop at the target, visualise in your mind punching through the target, and then follow through with your strike. My Beginner Download program really shows you how to strike with power so you can develop real skills for defense or sport.
Here’s to being to being confident and in awesome shape.
Hook Punch – Beginner Training & Drills
This video teaches the martial arts technique the hook punch, which is one of the most challenging techniques to learn but also won of the most devasting techniques to inflict on an opponent. This video covers all the drills required to learn the hook punch and get it upto speed and working quickly in your martial arts training.
Men’s Health Expert Launches Martial Arts Training Video Download Programs
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London, UK February 27, 2009 — Lee Mainprize a 5th Degree Black Belt and Men’s Health Magazine Expert has shown more than 1000 martial arts instructors how to develop the best martial arts students through his training programs and now for the first time is making these martial arts programs available to complete beginners and practitioners.
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Here is what experienced Master Instructor Garry Phillips of the Shogun World Martial Arts Association had to say about Lee Mainprize’s programs “Since learning your programs I have changed the way I teach, I have enhanced the feel good factor for all students and instructors. Your teaching methods have inspired me and opened doors that were there but I could not see them before.”
Lee Mainprize has launched Martial Arts Training TV which currently offers three step by step easy to follow martial arts training programs online in video download format, making martial arts training more accessible and affordable to people who wouldn’t necessarily go to a formal class or may simply want to build on their existing skills in their own time.
With 15 years experience as a professional martial arts instructor Lee said “I wanted to cut out the confusion and often overloaded complicated learning process that I experienced with old school teachers, and create a process of learning that could help people regardless of ability achieve a good skill level, which was not always the case in my experience of over a quarter of a century of martial arts training”.
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Different Martial Arts Stances & Guards
1. Self Defence Stance
What does this stance say? Does it look aggressive? That’s the purpose of the stance to create a physical barrier between yourself and your potential attacker, without saying you want to fight. Put this with a assertive “back off” or “I don’t want any trouble” and you have a potentially effective method of avoiding conflict. Remember the way we communicate is broken down into the following
• Physiology 55%
• Tonality 37%
• Words 7%
An attacker can tell just by looking at you exactly the way you communicate whether it weak, frightened, confident, alert. Try and look like a victor not a victim, “when your strong appear weak, and when your weak appear strong”
2. Sparring/Fighting Stance
This stance says your will defend yourself if you have to. The objective of this stance is to protect as much of your upper body as possible the following are key points to observe:-
1. Elbows tucked in to protect your mid section
2. hands tight to your chin to protect your head
3. bend your knees slightly
4. turn your shoulder to form a tight and compact defence
5. tuck your chin in
Benefits Of Martial Arts Training
WHY TRAIN IN THE MARTIAL ARTS
There are many benefits for training in the martial arts. These can be categorised into two areas:-
1. Physical benefits
2. Mental benefits
Physical benefits would be self defence, weight control, tone up, speed, power, flexibility, balance, co-ordination, stamina, more energy, etc
Mental benefits or the lifestyle benefits are self-confidence, respect, humility, gratitude, self-discipline, courage, integrity, inner peace, assertiveness, leadership, social skills, focus, self control etc
The physical skills are often what may be the initial reasons for beginning your training. These are great to develop and will enhance the quality of your life. The many people who have been training for several years feel the benefits mostly from the mental, because these skills can be used every second of your everyday life.
A famous and successful martial artist who had been training many years was asked if it where possible, how much he would sell the benefits he had gained through his years of training. “Ten thousand pounds, one million pounds, 100 million pounds” the martial arts master replied “the benefits I have gained are priceless you just couldn’t put a value on what the martial arts has given me”
The Martial Arts is the only activity that develop the mind, body, and spirit that’s why its popularity has never faded in thousands of years.
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Countering Punch Tips For Martial Arts Training
Counter Punching
Counter punching will give you an edge over your opponent, it will help you develop your upper body movement by slipping punches and make you more relaxed under pressure which will allow you to have more time and see more opportunities. You will also be able to capitalise more effectively on your opponent’s mistakes.
1. Evasive Skills
• Slip Left & Right
Keep you feet still and chin tucked in, hang your hands by your head and elbows tucked into your side. Move your upper body left and right to avoid the oncoming jab.
• Roll Back
Bend your back leg and roll back, keeping your chin tucked in and your shoulder facing your opponent. Roll back to evade the oncoming jab.
• Duck
Bend your knees, keep your back straight and duck to evade the attackers jab.
• Practice these movements separately, and then one after the other, and finally free play in any order. Remember we want to develop a natural movement without thought.
• To counter simply add a jab counter after movement, you can work these by yourself, with focus pads, or padded up with a partner.
TIPS FOR COUNTER PUNCHING
Focus on your chin being tucked in and your defence being tight.
Remember to keep breathing
When working with a partner try not to go too fast too soon develop your skill and take your time – relax!
Develop these movements until you are not thinking.
You can then start experimenting with different attacking punches and counters.
Remember the harder you work the luckier you get. I look forward to working with you next month.
Quick Tips For Kicking
TIPS FOR KICKING
Practice your balance by chambering your leg tight.
Keep your hands up at all times
Practice your kicks using different methods to develop different attributes – shadow for form, pad work for power and speed, partner work for distance and timing. Remember to focus on Quality not Quantity
Stretch and strengthen your legs to develop flexibility and strength to allow greater movement and use less energy in your kicks
Practice with both legs – when I was competing the front leg was mainly used and because of doing many more repetitions on one side I have developed a back challenge. So practice both sides!
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Tips For Beginners Performing Basic Martial Arts Kicks
A great deal has been written and said about kicking in today’s age of modern martial artists. Many people who are cross training seem to mainly focus on low Thai kicks because of their effectiveness and they present less risk of being taken to the ground by the grappler.
When it comes to kicking you really have to decide what your purposes are for training in the martial arts, it might be that the art you practice in encompasses a lot of kicking. If you are aiming for competition then kicking might be an important element, or you may be hooked on the Kung Fu movies and like all the flamboyant techniques which are generally kicks.
When I was a junior, kicking was my best technique and I quickly realised that I also need to be able to punch after being beaten by the puncher on several occasions. I then set about developing my hands to the same leveI as my kicks to be an all round fighter.
I personally enjoy kicking very much and find it rewarding, I am confident enough of my kicking ability in a real situation, because I have had the unfortunate pleasure of using them on several occasions, but you must train your kicks for this test and not just competition to give yourself any chance of success.
1. Front Kick
The front kick is a good powerful kick that is good for stopping attacker coming towards you. Practice chambering your knee, so your knee faces the ceiling. Extend your leg out bending your toes back and striking with the ball of the foot. Keep your hands up and if kicking with the back leg change your guard over. You can snap your kick or push kick (we will go into different ways to kick in a latter column). Good areas to strike are shin, knee, groin, bladder and abdominals.
2. Roundhouse Kick
The roundhouse kick is a circular techniques and is good for throwing in combinations, beware that you can open yourself up when kicking to the inside of your opponent. When executing your Roundhouse Kick chamber your leg so that it faces to the side. Extend your leg and point your toes strike with either the top of the foot or the shin. Areas to strike are thigh, body and head.
3. Side Kick
The side kick is a very strong and fast kick, great for points sparring but you need to work on this technique to fire strong and effective combinations because you turn side on whilst throwing the kick and this can slow the next technique down. Chamber your leg the same as a roundhouse kick, extend your leg and strike with the heel or foot sword. Areas to strike are the knee, body and head.
4. Back Kick
If you know Master Bob Sykes you will know this is his favourite technique, and bob has a great back kick, this can only be achieved through lots of repetition. Its one thing to have good form in a kick and another to actually be effective at putting it into practice. If you get this kick right it can probably be the most powerful kick of all. Keep your feet still and turn your body, look over your shoulder, chamber your leg and throw a sidekick and you have your back kick.
This technique can be used to counter if timed correctly or it should be used in a combination with other techniques to set it up.
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Beginner Tips For Martial Arts Punches
TIPS FOR PUNCHING
These martial arts training tips are quick pointers.
Keep your fist clenched properly – it’s easy to get into bad habits.
Keep your chin tucked in at all times, remember the only time you should have your chin in the air is when your having your photograph taken!.
Breath out from the stomach when punching.
Remember to pull your punching hand back to guard when you have completed the punch so that you have a defence when firing the next punch in the combination – take your time!
How to train a martial arts Combination
· Once you have gone through the sections individually then put the whole combination together, in front of a mirror would be ideal.
· This combination lends itself well to using focus pads with a partner.
· You can also break down elements of the combination with a partner (body blocks and bob and weave)
· Once you have the combination down then begin to shadow box any of the combination in any order, using your imagination to
Remember the harder you work the luckier you get. I look forward to working with you next month.
Beginner Martial Arts Tips – Punching, Blocking and Movement Skills
Where going to go through what is called martial arts techniques and combination 1 this is a natural and practical combination of movements that include striking, body movement, blocking and footwork.
1. Jab & Cross Punch
Jab with the front hand keeping your rear hand up protecting at all times then fire your cross punch twisting on your back foot. When you do the jab, pull your hand right back to your guard so your hand covers when you fire the cross punch, this should be applied to any of your punches.
2. Hook Punch & Cross Punch
When executing your hook focus on keeping your shoulder high and punching from your guard, so that you don’t bring your arm back when punching, and therefore present a nice wide opening for your opponent to take advantage of. This is a common mistake to avoid. It’s always best to practice your elbow first then add the hook to this if you’re having a challenging time keeping your hook tight. Then fire your cross punch same as previous.
3. Bob & Weave
Evasive skills to move from punching attacks. When performing this movement lean your upper body forwards as if you’re putting your head into your opponents chest. Keep your hands up protecting your head at all times; remember blocking with your head is never a good idea. Weave left and then right.
4. Body Blocks
This movement is used to defend against a hook or roundhouse kick to the body. This requires a short, sharp movement dropping your elbow to cover your side and bend your upper body to strengthen your defence. Focus on that short movement and bring your hand straight back up to your face so that your not open. Repeat on both sides.
5. Hook to the Body
When executing your punches turn your body into the target and have your palm facing you when punching. Keep your other hand up high to protect when punching. Repeat this on the both side.
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