Cut Them Off! Footwork for Boxing, Kickboxing and MMA Sparring
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Question for Viewers: What other sparring scenarios are you having trouble with?
I'm having trouble to go sparring in the first place because I'm shit scared I'll look like a dumbass and get my ass kicked.
I am having trouble setting up and landing the lead-leg knee strike.
Nothing, i would just uppercut anyone trying to shoot and id just use my kubaton to beat the shits out of anyone trying to lay the smack down on my candy ass. This fighting stuff is easy, maybe ill go be the next UFC lightweight king.
I instinctively try to parry everything, and don’t use enough head movement even though I practice outside of sparring
Finding sparring partners during COVID. Find a gym that's open during COVID. LOL
Mike : "Look how dumb he looks !" Cliff : 😞
Lmao "now run away again..." *runs* "He RAN!! WHAT A CLOWN!!!!"
poor guy lmaooo
I'm surprised Louis CK is so knowledgeable on fighting
on god the last vid i watched was a louis CK funny...
Got a legit laugh out of me
this lesson made me realize how much unnecessary space I make and how many times I get myself cornered. Thanks, Icy Mike!
Its the classic trap virtually all amateurs fall into at some point. Moving straight back and trying to wait for counter opportunities rather then pressuring. They think countering will be safer and moving back will be safer but it isnt. You gotta move in and initiate pressure to deflate your opponents offense. People who dont get it, havent broken out of that cycle yet.
Same with fighting games! Lol
@@christianxxx9393 brainlet
@@iwantlee9510 nerd
This is something even some UFC fighters need to hear! Great stuff.
I'm surprised how many pro UFC fighters don't know this. I think it's because a lot of them have only experience kicboxing, muay thai, or boxing for stand up, and you run into this issue fighting guys with a TMA or point background. I still see this a lot where guys chase in a circle and eat shots.
Yeah let’s listen to the KZhead fighter and not professional ones
@@evanproctor4824 when pro fighters follow their opponent around the octagon ineffectively? Yeah, they should listen to the KZhead guy.
No.
Anyone disagreeing with you needs to go watch Irene Aldana vs Holly Holm. That shit hurt to watch. Aldana would circle in, get stuck, and then Holly would be angling off and it would start over.
Can't wait to try this.... In about two years at the rate things are going over here 😭
2:03 - Clif is in shock
1:53 -If He Runs, Let Him Run 3:26 -Cutting Side to Side
It freaks me out how rare it is to see striking arts use this Even going back to look at early(ish) UFC guys, a lot of them were just not doing this unless they were kickboxers
This one made a whole lot of sense. Nice one.
This channel is so underated
3:23 Wow, your camera man had one hell of a sudden growth spurt.
My latest highlight is literally me making people walk onto sweet sweet side kicks
That would be dope if side kicks worked
@@leeseoul5735 ;D
I'll go check it out.
But yeah #sidekicksdontwork
@@hard2hurt right on brother 👊🔥
THANK YOU! Blows my mind how much you see people chasing, even in professional bouts
"I would just shoot the double leg" ;)
Lol
well then i would just sprawl
Then i would just peek out ;)
Flying knee
@@oneshadowdragongenerally double leg takedowns are too fast to just knee
Great Info! Keep Killin It!🤘🏽
Hey man thanks for all the videos, and everything you do ! The way you think about and explain things makes so much sense and I really appreciate everything you do
This is a question i would ask my instructor alotttttt im not even joking this video is the one i have needed and wanted the most
I really liked that bag drill at the end, its both simple and brilliant.
thanks mike and cliff, stay hard out there folks.
Great video, ring control means so much in fighting and looks really favorable to the judges. Even with a basic grasp of it you can start learning that ring control is like controlling the battlefield or the center of the chessboard, and you can dictate where your opponent goes and where the exchanges happen.
Great breakdown icy, this is the stuff that many people don’t go into.
Nice explanation. Alot of coaches don't show how important footwork and positioning in the ring is until they already form bad habits. Thanks for the share brother..
Crazy it’s like this video was made for me, as I’ve started focusing on footwork and pressure I realized a lot of people just run from me and I kept chasing them and eating punches with zero return. Thanks for the awesome tips. Lol guess I’ll have to eat punches in one place now
Great video Mike, this was a thing I used to do a lot.
i figured this out last week and holy shit, it was the best feeling in the world when you see their face realize that they are just running away for 3 minutes at a time
I’ll definitely add this strategy next time for sparring, thank you
Great vid, explains the concept of cage/ring cutting and positioning really digestible. So much harder than it looks though, ask Edson Barboza.
I work security and this is what I was shown and trained on we call it "guarding the door" cause well we guard doors. Its is an effective way to keep yourself safe by having a solid object behind you preventing from coming up from behind if there is even the slightest potential for multiple attackers.
Like your energy.. Good stuff..
This is so dope. Thanks.
Nice work. Keep it up.
could you do one of offensive and defensive footwork patterns ? keep being awesome mike
first time here and love this right away. thumbs up and subscribed. oh, thank you for this vid upload.
The basics will save your ass every time. Shuffle and pressure alone can collapse the false confidence of every coward that may be technically more trained...but lacks balance and grounding provided by choosing one's steps. Psychology at play here too. Excellent video. Subscribed!
Well explained 🙌🙌
that was probably one of the coolest and simplest explanations of using foot work to cut your opponent off!
Yes. You described Dutch sparring 100% accurate😂
Ring craft 101. Great video!
Great video, i became an effective pressure fighter naturally, out of necessity years ago (slow as balls lol ) this had a bunch of great details and was very helpful, essentially for just a five minute watch , great work mike your awesome
Thank you
Just got to apply some of this today in class I felt a lot better, although I didn’t go with any of the heavy hitters at my gym I still managed to go at it a couple times and use foot work to back them into corners and stuff, also used head movement for once which was a crazy feeling cause I usually just block and try to take everything, kicks included
This is gold. You are saving a beginner months of frustration if they have the courage to apply this on their next spar!!!
Yes it is very frustrating that nobody ever explained this to me clearly
I live on 3 acres of clear land back yard boxing is obnoxious this helped
2:20 literally happens all of the time, I just stand still and wait like a substitute teacher trying to quiet down a class.
Awesome thanks
Fire video
Learning to shift ramps this up exponentially once youve got it down.
Awesome advise. It feels like it's an easy solution to just let them look dumb, but I honestly never thought of doing that. When one of the more inexperienced fighters back up like that, I get annoyed that I feel like I have to put extra effort in to chase them down.
Great timing, Khabib's performance the pressure was insane.
At first i tought that you are going to do shit things, because i dont saw real men with true advices on KZhead until i watched you carefully. I appreciate good videos with some serious good content. Very rare in the digitial world. keep going on, great work. regards from Germany
Great video
Best example of this Rodtang "Iron man" a muay thai legend that always pressure his rivals
Blew my mind lol, thanks
Question for Coach Icy Mike. I'm curious what do you think of some martial art techniques that turn a defense into an offence? Such as doing and inward block and then going for a back elbow? I ask because I've rarely seen them used in MMA style matches or sparing and was wondering if they can be adapted to be practical.
I'm trying this tonight! I'm tired of chasing people all over the mat. I've tried structuring classes around distance management so that they would stay somewhat in measure but it doesn't seem to work. I never thought about just not chasing them during free play
My boxing coach taught us how to cut off their movements like that. I used to just circle, but I didn't always like it cuz I would circle too much and actually get dizzy. Lol. But now, I can cut them off better. Still needs work. But better than before.
I just sparred with another beginner for the first couple of times. This is exactly what I noticed. We were just chasing each other around. I knew already we looked like a couple of clowns, but you gotta start somewhere. :)
awesome!!!!
(Prior to COVID), I had one sparring buddy who runs every round. Literally, he'd rather run than throw a punch. My teacher went over these scenarios with me because I had never sparred anyone who runs the whole time. Cutting someone off doesn't come naturally to me. I was working on this ring generalship concept prior to COVID.
You stalking me Mike? I was literally just talking about this after watching my kids sparring at their class last night, and my son who has to have daily growth hormone injections So is small for his age, chasing his partner all over the mat. That's insane how relevant this video is. The power of the Church of tactical Illumination is REAL!!
Why does your kid have to take hormones? Is it like the Messi situation?
He has growth hormone deficiency. His body doesn't produce anywhere near enough so he has to have daily injections. With a little luck, the cumulative effect will cause him to produce enough as an adult to not need daily injections any more. Otherwise he will need them for life.
Thank you for sharing
No problem. It's actually fairly common and, especially with the less severe cases ( the body is producing growth hormone but just a bit less than normal) it tends to go undiagnosed. People just assume their kid is small/short. Keeping him active is important as it encourages his body to start producing the growth hormones by itself too. Hence why he does kickboxing, BJJ, rugby, drama and dance. Even if he is small he will be confident and capable.
At my gym we have both tiny rings and big rings for sparring so we kind of learn to spar without running around a lot.
This video felt good, I had a sparring session yesterday and I felt kinda like shit because one of the guys was running all the time, threw a few punches and back to running again
Haha, this happened to me this Summer in longsword sparring. I'm not especially tall but am somewhat experienced at what I do, and when I spar I usually expect people to, you know, spar. So this one time, we were training outside due to corona, and a guy who doesn't really train much with us was there. He's gone through the beginner course and we see him every now and then, and he has all the gear so of course he spars with us whenever he comes around. He's something like 2 meters tall and a super active PE teacher who is fit as hell, and his whole thing when sparring is to run backwards and snipe shots... And the dude takes steps backward faster than I do forward. There were exchanges where he ran up a hill next to the field we were training on with me chasing him... I knew he moves backward from training with him inside before, but I never realized he wouldn't stop if there weren't walls in the way. I was really close to losing my shit that day and threw some nasty shots at him that I quite honestly still regret, mostly from going into some weird "hunter-mode," before realizing that he can't do that shit if I don't follow. Once I did, our sparring rounds became much more productive.
Let em run! They'll just die tired.
I definitely chase lol the lesson was learned
I remember someone watching me fight my teacher...boring they said...we both laughed. He is finally fighting smart he said...I had stopped moving around so much.
Sometimes that's all apart of the plan 😂
Hi Mike, I love your content ! I have a question for you which is not related with the topic here but I didn't know where to ask. I'm 40 since a few weeks and wanted to start boxing and kick-boxing for self defense (if those lockdowns we are experiencing now in France ends one day... ) and I'm relatively athletic but I have a kind of fear of being the clumsy beginner every time I walked into a martial arts gym... Do you have an advice to overcome this ? Thanks !
Everybody sucks when they first start. Every beginner thinks that they get it and they're gonna be pretty good. Everybody sucks.
@@hard2hurt Yeah I need to keep that in mind. Thanks !
Zero dislikes, perfect.
On the streets, not circling with them as you describe helps keep you out of traps/ambushes; am I wrong in thinking this?
Make a video about when someone is attacking you trying to keep your distance
My coach teaches us muay thai and he doesn't let me do head movement or footwork. Neither going back. Just covering myself or countering. So as a beginer I have to stay there and be sometimes obliterated because my guard is bad or I make mistakes. It's hard man but I love the sport. Ps: for real he gets so pissed off if I slide or put my head out of the center line 😔
Could you put a link for your leg gear too?
I'm going to be honest and say that I've been in a few too many street fights, note that I've never started one, never the less, I don't have words to put on the basics and without that it's difficult to know what to do in the moment even though I have some kind of natural know how, but it gets easily scrambled by being in a violent moment like a fight or even sports in general. With the words on it, it's much easier to follow "instructions", to follow what I know or have learned.
Sounds like you should join a gym, tough guy.
You need to swap every second comma with a full stop. Not a criticism, i have had a lot of trouble with the same thing in the past
@@driver3899 Thanks man,
@@driver3899 Im Norwegian, not native speaking English, so enjoy all, my, commas, bro, for, real. :)
@@driver3899 All love :)
Oh yeah, this was always my problem. Everyone I’d practice with early on would run away. It got to the point where I would just sit down and wait for them to come back.
Okay but what about if theyre backing off and shouting "timeout timeout"... and theyre Charlie Z...?
Well then you chase him
@@ryanbarclay7939 Maybe throw in a cheeky grapple and drop him on his head
Izzy needs to see this
The problem with this I think is with taller guys we get to reset when we back off and you're standing right there it gives me a chance to land momentum
I hate to admit it, but 2:03 is literally me😂.
"If they're running, let them run.". Facts. 😊
I only quoted Israel in that last video, because he is regarded as "the greatest striker in MMA" by many, but he only ran in what was suppose to be a fight against Yoel; not because I think that look good or that would work.
You have to master the basic rules before you can break them. That's something I REALLY appreciated about the kung fu curriculum I learned. It started with the most aggravating basics and slowly broke those rules one at a time. A well trained wushu guy can learn just about any style of movement. Too bad they never practice fighting 🤣
what shin guards are you using?
if you genuinely cant chase them or even do anything because they’re so good running away, counter or even take a punch to land a bigger blow like take a jab and strike back with a gigantic lead hook or stepping overhook, beware ur enemy can just go left or right
Nice one and let them waste their energy
Exactly, knowing when to use up energy in a fight is totally underated skill
@@driver3899 definitely 💯 it’s very easy to tie yourself out in a fight in the later rounds even if you’re extremely fit
@Lawng Jawn it was actually sensei Seth who come up with the name
@@TheWillToFight totally agree. Not long ago my friend got into a fight with this huge guy who hit him with an overhand right then tried to choke him out in the middle of the street. My friend kept his chin down and waited it out, the huge guys arm's burnt out after about a minute of trying to pop his head off. Huge guy feeling gassed, ended up loosing the choke hold then got dropped bad because he had couldn't punch properly anymore Got to be smart about how and when you use up your energy, once it's gone your pretty well at the other guys mercy
@Lawng Jawn lol that was 2 good
Instructions unclear, opponent fled when I pulled out the saw
Yeah, i definitely move wayyy too much, i land three, take a few steps back and to the side
You should do a self defense video against large dogs
Another thing beginners do is standing there are throw arm punches at each other until one guy can muscle his way through.
In the words of the great Willie "Pep" Papaleo, "My fighting style is 'he who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day'."
My muay thai coach pretty much had to beat it into me not to chase. Now I just move side to side and cut my opponents off with angles. I'm shorter pressure fighter always fighting guys taller than me so I have to fight to get in. But once I'm there I stay there and just beat the crap out of the person.
I didn't like you. Now I like you.
About the izzy adesanya look how Manny Packio knocked keith Thurman
Dark Souls-like games should do this. (mid-game) Do not chase the player. Just wait, and unleash combos when they get close lol.
Oh yeah it happens. I never understood the deal with runners, we're there to spar aren't we?
I feel attacked.
This still has street fight applications. Environmental attacks xD
Man. I do this way too much when I play-fight with my dad.
My dad does this too he cool asf
You know who has an incredible of the amount of ability to move side to side and cover a lot of distance and keep that up? Holly Holm. But unlike a beginner she is conditions to travel and keep moving for a periodf time without getting gassed out.
Lol She is pro mma, kickboxer and boxer -former ufc champion, and a multiple-time world champion in boxing - defending boxing titles 18 times in three weight classes, two-time "Ring magazine" fighter of the year (2005, 2006) and is ranked by BoxRec as the best female professional boxer of all time AND has the distinction of being the first (and only) fighter to hold a world boxing title and a UFC title. so ya... here footwork is ok, I guess...
@@danmclean7375 yaaaaa,,, think I kind of made that point in my original comment. I'm absolutely familiar with her she is my MMA idol. LOL. I have also one time partaken in her livestream cardio workout did she did several months ago before the pandemic broke out. So I'm pretty familiar with at least one big part of her training.
Realistically Adesanya could probably benefit from circling before he runs out of cage