Zahabi's videos are excellent.
I really loved his tutorials on Ground and Pound:
He is great at explaining very thourougly but doesn't go overboard:
Excellent stuff, Zahabi is underrated as a coach nevermind as an MMA coach.
It's good to see at least some MMA camps are starting to take the footwork stuff just as seriously as being able to put combinations together.
In that street fight vid the boxer pivots left after his hook which Zahabi calls great technique. It looks like it actually puts him in a worse position to fight the 2nd attacker even though he adjusted and it ended up not mattering...
That pivot left hook is something I've been playing with in sparring lately and I am having some pretty good success with it so far. I just wait until I see an attack coming and pivot off to the left and throw the hook over. This is one of my more successful means of landing clean left hooks.
So I have a question, when is it right to back up on an angle vs. backing up straight?
Is the foundation of defensive footwork to always be going in and out?
Should an angle always be taken?
Zahabi's videos are excellent.
I really loved his tutorials on Ground and Pound:
He is great at explaining very thourougly but doesn't go overboard:
In that street fight vid the boxer pivots left after his hook which Zahabi calls great technique. It looks like it actually puts him in a worse position to fight the 2nd attacker even though he adjusted and it ended up not mattering...
In my personal opinion, the only time you should go straight back is if you're trying to draw the other guy in. Of course it doesn't work out like that in reality, but that's what to strive for.
Do you always try to angle back if you're evading a shot in your own sparring?
Not sure if anyone else in MMA, or Muay Thai has encountered this, but have any of you had training partners point out you're moving away too much?
It's an infuriating mindset as people are way too set in their ways, gets me questioning if I'm doing the wrong thing.
Im having trouble angleing to my left after throwing a combo (to the inside angle in orthodox vs orthodox), since I keep getting my left leg kicked on the way out, it seems its right on the path of my opponents right kick. Im gonna try going the other way now like Rory in the video, hopping back diagonally and to the right after the right hand. Any other suggestion dealing with this? Ive thought about catching the leg but dont want to get faked and thrown to the head, altho dunno if the distance would be right for that... I wish I was a southpaw lol, they can get the outside angle so easily