3:20 This lesson was most profound to me when the gang went swimming one time: There was this huge log in our swimming hole and i tried to push it away and completely failed and just benchpressed myself away from the log and it didnt move an inch, then my buddies little daughter maybe 5 years old just puts one hand on it and with slow, gentle steady pressure she pushed the log away and made me look stupid😅 An object lesson on the laws of physics like inertia, ill never forget

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🙂 Hi Gabriel, i am just wondering ... the slipping of the head doesnt expose you to high kick ? It reminds me of many knockout by high kick like the last fight between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier or the last fight of Kamaru Usman vs evans ... isnt it better in kickboxin to slip backward to avoid the high kick counter ?

You can always tell if the advice is coming from actual combat tested fighters, or sparring masters that play patty cake.

You should collab with Jeff Chan someday I'm sure yall would get some good rounds in

Im a champion

What happens when you get the someone who “trains ufc” in the comments? (shout out Mighty Mouse!)

Great wisdom here icy mike

Probably a fight or a sparring sesh 😆

None of that Wing Chun nonsense blocking punches and this and that. It either works, or it doesn't in real combat.

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Great to hear! I hope you can find someone to drill this with. But if not practice in bagwork and I think you'll see an improvement.

Check out Fran Sands" KZfaq channel. Guy is a master at teaching basic fundamentals for boxing including slipping.

Thanks for the kind words 🙏 And thanks for the sub

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Glad to have you join the channel. Thanks for the sub 🙏

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Iirc gabriel already made a video about 3 ways to throw hook

@@hacooray525 True. I just recently watched his thumb up or down hooks video, and i believe, he says he usually throws thumb up, but in this he's throwing palm down. Just made me curious of his reason or if his opinion changed or something. Cheers!

@@A_Dubbleyew thumbs down you're preemptively protecting yourself more against a right cross or straight with your elbow/shoulder (supposing both orthodox), but you're more vulnerable if the punch is slipped as your body is more open and your vision more covered

Have fun

Try it now in the living room!

You are doing well :)

I only use 16oz for sparring. Everything else is 10oz.

Slipping to the inside is stupid. You being a southpaw has no affect on slipping to the inside or outside it only affects what punches you can return with after you’ve slipped. If you’re a southpaw you can still slip someone’s jab the same lol or someone’s cross it’s literally just the way you’d return is a little different or opposite we should say. It’s still the same pretty much though pal.

Yes. Jared described it to me as "add a fraction of head movement at the end of your combos". Then if you need to move more it's easier to do.

@@GabrielVargaOfficial thanks man

Work on keeping your chin tucked. That means the majority of punches land off the forehead.

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depends on who ur fighting tbh

Notice how small these movements actually are though. And you aren't slipping defensively, you throw then slip, so there is no time for your opponent to launch a kick.

I mean, you can always get caught slipping (see what i did there) but that's the idea.

TL;DR It can be effective in the right context. Training head movement can help you understand how to counter it. It's really important that the head movement is not predictable. Head movement can work if your opponent doesn't expect it. It can put you into bad positions that can be exploited. The rule-sets exaggerate and diminish the effectiveness of head movement in interesting ways: It is less effective in kickboxing than it is in boxing, and more risky. In Sanshou, MMA, etc. It becomes more useful again, because of takedowns. As you mentioned, in other forms of kickboxing leaning back is often a better choice than in something like Sanshou because their rules don't encourage takedowns. If a smart fighter saw someone doing what this drill suggests, and spots the pattern, they absolutely can catch you moving into their strike. Better yet, they can use feints to illicit the bigger response they want and knock your head off. It can work well to set up counters, especially when closing distance with your hands. If you're not smart enough you're the one getting set up for the counter. It helps to use small movements, like just shifting head slots. MMA and Sanshou guys can use it to setup takedowns, again if they are comfortable enough to avoid being predictable. If someone just loves training head movement and they're otherwise good kickboxers, it can be an ace up their sleeve. And some talented folks can just do it, big slips, duck and all-- it's unreal. Jeff Chan shares tons of videos of him doing it well on KZfaq; Prime Anderson Silva made it look easy; Samart-- Just watch him, I don't have the words. Most of us are not like them, and most kickboxers might find better uses of their training time. It can help a person be more elusive through being more aware of their position in space. Training head movement can also help you understand, and capitalize on other people's (mis)use of it

@@TreyYork1 well said. predictability is what gets you, not the head movement itself

Great question. A good boxer would adjust his aim to hit where you keep slipping. Now the guy said it works for him so it's worth practicing.

Hmmm 🤔? You think so? I like to move my head more when I get closer to set up body shots. If I’m further distance I like to be on my toes bouncing in and out. As a defense after I throw punch combinations I like to finish with a jab. Everyone says start combinations with a jab yet they rarely say finish your combination punches with jabbing. What bad habits do you believe that you would develop?

@@andrewtanczyk4009 if you make an attack on the line you will trigger a response from a good opponent. If you cross the line after attacking you will run into that response.

@@FoutsBoxingTheory The entire point of head movement is to take your head off the center line.

@@CADClicker according to who?

yeah but it would be silly for him to not use his legs after what we have seen him do with them

@@w0ngky I was just speaking hypothetically