Watch the youtube short. It's 30sec. Chan is describing how after a year's worth of training, boxers can shell up and be effective while karate defense needs more time to develop. After years of his own experience and training, he is now able to use distance and head movement exclusively for...
Bottom line, all they're saying is the acknowledgment that boxing is more efficient to learn how to fight. It's higher level to use exclusively distance management for defence.
Makes sense on the face of it. Given it's a youtube short , it's like a 30 sec video so how much nuance can you...
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These videos are an interesting thought experiment on "self-defense" and goes into more than skill and experience. I mean I hope it's not expected to defend yourself against a huge ex-rugby player who can chasing you down at will.
Truthfully, sometimes I'm so gassed that I need to yell for a strike to come out with any semblance of form, technique, and explosiveness. Otherwise, it's not coming out.
Fairtex BGV9 are a boxing style (longer cuff, wrist support, boxing hand position, padding for bag only vs sparring) as opposed to MT style glove. It's got some raves in this forum and is very different from the standard BGV1.
If you're able to get around, the UK seems to have a lot of...
Youtube reviews of people trying to destroy it. It can most likely block melee weapons but not guns or high powered crossbows.
This one has them shooting the thing but I don't think they used good testing methodology -
This is the video that sold me on it -
What about using a plastic buckler like one of these with a baton? One to block, another to bludgeon or a different weapon in the 2nd hand.
https://www.amazon.ca/Cold-Steel-92BKPB-Medieval-Buckler/dp/B006YBXYYS?th=1
They blended it in with other kicks. I recall Siver used to do it frequently but he was too short. But probably the best in combat sports is Semmy Schilt in kickboxing. The kyokushin style guys applied it much better than TMA karate guys
It's called a front snap kick. Most current fighters didn't come from a competitive TMA background where the technique is more prevalent. The guys that did (Machida, Kikuno, Anderson) actually have a damaging front kick. Like any kick, it has to be practiced religiously before it's useful. Like...
It sounds like this is pain around the back of the heel? That could be Achilles tendinitis. Does it get worse in morning then better as you move around?
Try massaging and releasing your calves. Tightness there can cause muscle pain around the ankle and all the way to the outer metatarsals...
It's quite different in kata based karate, which I come from (Shotokan). There will always be an active block/parry to deal with the strike. It makes sense for Karate because it is/was, at the core of it, a standing grappling art rather than a pure striking sport like modern boxing. But nothing...
Fortress Boxing SS 2.0 (velcro) is as snug inside as a Classics Mexicombate, and has a comparable small profile. The former's profile not much larger than a 12oz TB Aliens. Much longer cuff though.
IMO it isn't that great cause I expect more pop; the pad holder doesn't seem braced for a big kick. He's landing the kick without connection to the ground. Jumping round kicks are great if you can generate a lot of inertia from the jump. If it's primarily body rotation then you need connection...
He's a YouTuber until he fights either a pro or an amateur boxer. He's definitely a pro prize fighter but his avoidance of fighting even ammies with similar skill/experience makes him questionable as a pro Boxer.
I have a pair of the Mexicombates (care of @Edgar Martinez) and love 'em. I'd be totally interested in a Mexicombate vs. all the other MX brands you bought.
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