The Real Reason You Can't Get Inside and Land Punches in Boxing, MMA, Kickboxing and Muay Thai 

How about teaching distance and how to aim.

@@timw3485 idk about icy mike but i have a drill where i use a metal grate that my hand can go through. i started punching really slow so as not to hit the metal and mess up my hand. real slowly speeding it up until i can put my hand through the holes that i want without hitting the metal and going seriously OW. it doesn't even have to be a fist you can just put knife hands through the grate. a less retard3d way of doing it would probably be with a tennis ball, make it bounce and catch it just in time with your punch.

@@basteagui if you want to learn how to aim your punches you have to know how to line up and get your distance. If you learn how to aim your punches you will hit your opponent more often and with more power. I can teach you how to aim your punches!

Do a video for “Leaving the clinch”

@@timw3485 i have really good aim now. thx i'm even doing the tennis ball thing too, i got that from a boxing trainer

Why punch around yohr apartment when you can assault your girlfriend?

@@davybigfly this got pretty dark within like 2 comments.... SMH. everyday further from the light.

@@Brass_Heathen yeouch that hurt my feelings

Because after you are done dancing with a girl you can backdoor her. Cant do that if you're on your own working footwork skillz🤪 Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing😏

@@Brass_Heathen What light would that be?

Love it. Thank you

I am visibly confused

I've had experience telling them that Nate Diaz is the most famous ballerina. They were flabbergasted. So then I stepped in and landed my 3 piece.

It is good to get punched in the face in training learnings. You learn how to take it, to not be shocked, and to Not get hit. Also you learn how to SEE. (Especially Hooks )

@@RB-ye4ri always remember the 1st good one you caught. Only one that has ever mattered.

Yep

not only that but you can get into a punching exchange that doesn't get results. i recommend counter punching instead. you make them overcommit by throwing bait. instead of having a contest of endurance and punching prowess, make it about brains. i even make a stupid face to sell the bait.

@@basteagui Unless that's just wat are hoping for so they can counter your counter..

@@driver3899 then suddenly the spirit of ali bestows unbelievable reflexes upon you and you counter the counter to your counter.

@@jpsoriano899 This is the Way

When I spar I work a lot of blocking. It may be impractical to try to block everything in a fight but in sparring it's great practice and gets you comfortable coming in for power punches.

Same

I wish, I got dinosaur arms

Karate gives you long arms, it's scientifically proven

@RED CHUCKS That is freaking amazing

@RED CHUCKSso many savage kicks delivered, leg is now much longer

Correction: It's a game of millimetres and inches. Makes it all the more punishing😂

@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 - All you did was make me think of how wildly different life would be between packing 10 inches and packing 10 mm... Lol

if you got less inches stock out the womb then you add some acceleration to cover the distance

self esteem boost💀

The deadpan look at the camera afterwards was the icing on the cake 😂

For me that I believe is 100% my issue but i eat punches like crazy so idek why im so scared of it

@@shaylamckay1174 The same thing happened to me, and in the transition from traditional martial arts to combat sports, little by little I "learned to fight", to overcome that problem (there are people who when we train their style and rules are far superior to me, but having overcome my problem with sparring, although "losing" I always gain experience). In my case, what helped me the most was a teacher who was very, very skillful and strong, very careful in his counter techniques but hitting; who could also attack without fear of hurting or being hurt or knocked out (obviously in times of more sparring I had to do less because of migraines and dizziness). And today as a teacher, I emphasize the bases (such as footwork), and I use different types of timing, sometimes in controlled full contact or just "points", but the key is to train explosively but technically and controlled, knowing how to go very gradual. It is the European style of kickboxing, at first it seems too soft. That and lending myself to the sparring of my students, made that (very gradually, two years or more, from scratch) they have also overcome that problem (but there is a minority of people who have the opposite problem, by combining self-confidence with skill, lol)

Their counter punch can land on me. When it earns that right by dealing with my punch before

I have the issue of the footwork , i dont fear anymore punches

I spar with this guy who is 6 inches taller and has longer limbs. I'm 5,5 and he only really goes for the body and doesn't care if he gets hit. I'm smaller and it's not too hard to get in and out, but when I counter or throw normal punches like straights or hooks, he counters and gets good body shots and sometimes he gets liver shots that sometimes drop me. Help please

Ikr 😂 I thought he was about to tell us the actual names of the muscles, but I think he forgot what they were called, so he just said that instead. His examples for this video are gold. 🤣

Good/bad? Right.

It is, lol I literally got up in my pjs and proceeded to check my own stance.

I wish I could do a good IcyMike impression just so I could start a channel called Easy2Hurt Then fill it with videos about to use Kubatons and Aikido in da streetz

@@driver3899 Great idea do it I will follow you! 👍

@@driver3899 also do a video about sidekicks work

I wish someone had told me this I was so focused on punches that I could punch very hard like very hard but when it came to actually sparring I could ever land a punch

huh

@@Dzingzing Good girl muscles keep the legs closed. Bad girl muscles keep them open. Its gym humor.

6:04 this had my dying :D

True. I got hit my last training behind the ear and I didn't even felt it then. But I have huge headache from that even the next day. Should I continue training? Or rest from sparrings for now and then go again when Im recovered?

@@ceckolalovia u probably dead by now but anytime u having headaches after getting hit behind the head its good to check for concussions. Real easy to shake the brain sum serious that way

@@ceckolaloviarest

@@ceckolalovia head blows require rest days. Certainly and specifically NON CONTACT number of days of “rest”. I typically go 3 weeks (min) between (hard) spars.

Well, it's not insignificant

It's "Greatest Welterweight Of All Time," Ben Askren. Get it right!

One of the better aging comments 😏

so true

The dead pan at the camera just made it. 😂

100% lol

Came here to say this looool

Hehehe

Not sure if it's a dong joke or a short joke.

Cool, jab or right hand?

@@JukemDrawles87 Side kick, believe it or not.

@@jacobstewart2235 niiiiice stay safe

@@JukemDrawles87 both. He was way taller and muscular he was prob in his early 30s and I'm only 22. He slaped me and then I threw a jab, faked a jab to the body then hit him with a right to the face and broke his teeth, his friend tried to jump in but I saw him with from the side and slipped his punches and faced him. He seemed scared and started to back up then I had enough space to get out of there, they didn't dare follow me

@@akayokalumba5151 hell yeah us smaller guys can definitely do damage. Did you duck that second guys attack or was it like a slip to the side? Nice setup too

You still going how you doing now?

I started with boxing years ago and do krav maga now it is very useful clearly you never felt the pain they inflict

Skip a step, mma is more straightforward depending on what your goal is. We always had different types of traditional martial arts people come in and they thought you needed to bring some level of skill but you don’t. Mma welcomes all people and a black belt in traditional ma still will land you in the “beginner” class and you’ll wonder why you wasted the effort. That being said, there’s plenty of good reasons to just do what you’re doing if you like it and get a sense of value from it

@@anonymousbosch9265 Dude, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that I want to get far enough in Taekeondo because I want to use it in sparring :Edit: Sorry man. I stopped reading your comment as soon as I got to the last sentence. I didn’t see it. Sorry

@@hypnoticskull6342 did you not read his last sentence?

@@hypnoticskull6342 you practice what?

@@cristianestrada5381 I just did and I edited my comment to apologize to him

You got some catching up to do!