These days fighters are looking for any extra advantage they can to better their striking skills. Training hard at the gym and utilising your training partners when sparring, will always enhance your striking abilities. Repetition on the punching bags is a must according...

The Roundhouse kick is one of the most popular kicks in Muay Thai. It has become famous due to its effectiveness in many different competitions like MMA and kickboxing, where it used to inflict a lot of damage and possibly finish the fight....

  Every fighter should know how to work their opponent’s body. Not only do body shots drain your opponent’s stamina and leave them weak during the later rounds, a well-placed liver shot can end the fight in a matter of seconds—even in the...

The Middle kick is a type of roundhouse kick used in Muay Thai. Its primary purpose is to break the opponent’s defense through powerful kicks repeatedly until his hands are too damaged and useless so we can land our fight-ending high kicks and...

In boxing, defense is everything, but we have different types of defense, and we need to be well-rounded and good with all of them. Each type of defense gives us a unique benefit, as it can create an opening so we can move...

Evading the jab to throw a right hook to the body is a great technique used by many great fighters. Here Duane"Bang" Ludwig demonstrates throwing a right hook to the body/spleen after slipping and stepping away from the jab. Great boxers like Sugar...

Drilling is one of the most popular ways to train in the martial arts world, and it is widely seen worldwide in different gyms. But drilling is a vast subject, and we can drill in many different ways to develop different types of...

Body punches are one of the most critical aspects of fighting; when we see a fighter working the body, we know that he is experienced. Beginners are usually called “head hunters” as they forget the body and commit to hitting the head.   ...

  There is certainly a mastery to refining your striking techniques, you need to master the ability to stay focused and keep yourself covered up while trying to land shots of your own. Once you have your opponent hurt then follow up and...

The most beautiful moves in boxing almost always have some kind of head movement ingrained into them, either as a setup for a strike or as a defensive maneuver that allows us to be aggressive while avoiding the opponent’s counters.   We have...

Unlearning Basic Mechanics Trevor Wittman has some bad news for you: every step you’ve ever taken in your regular life has been reinforcement of incorrect boxing footwork. Too often, we learn proper punching techniques with our upper body and then target footwork on...

Grappling in MMA has changed over the years; initially, the Gracie family and BJJ practitioners dominated the scene. Until a new style has developed that is suited for wrestlers and can deal with BJJ fighters, this strategy is called - Ground and Pound, ...

When we talk about the clinch we instantly think of traditional Muay Thai, which works extremely well in a Muay Thai fight. Competing in Mixed Martial Arts the clinch work has to be slightly adapted to cater to the many variables MMA has...

  On the face of things, striking is a relatively simple art. We are limited in the number of weapons we have; everyone has, at most, two arms and two legs. With these limbs we can throw straight strikes or curved strikes. Capping...

There has always been talk about which Martial Arts is the most effective, anybody who is anybody knows that Muay Thai, also known as Thai Kickboxing is the real deal. There are a lot of current and former Mixed Martial Artists that use...

Throughout a fighter’s career, they will typically throw more jabs than any other punch in their arsenal. Its versatility is unparalleled—the jab can be used to get a better feel for how your opponent moves, it can be used to create space while...

When we look at most fights, the naked eye sees chaos, but a good fighter puts order into the chaos and takes the fight into his own hands to lead the dance. But how is it that some people seem to do it...

Kicking is essential for strikers as it uses our legs which are the strongest and longest part of the human body.  Because it is so effective, good kickers dominate the long-range where only kicks are viable, and damaging our opponents from afar keeps...

When you look at fighting in general most people instinctively punch to the face, after all we have all watched the UFC and seen some ferocious knockouts! Anyone who has trained in Martial Arts for a while, has realised it takes more than...

  Throwing leg kicks in MMA or other combative sports is a very effective weapon, when you're trying to win the stand up battle. A good leg kick comes when you have angled off on your opponent and delivered your shot with power...