Boxing for MMA: Building the Fistic Edge in Competition & Self-Defense for Men & Women - Softcover

Hatmaker, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935937626 ISBN 13: 9781935937623

Verlag: Tracks Publishing, 2014

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Although dramatic head kicks and garrote-tight submissions may get most of the airplay in highlight reels, the stats show that punching combinations and knockouts reap more MMA victories than any other fighting technique. This boxing primer not only covers the basics, including stance, footwork, punches, and combinations, it takes these boxing skills and views them through an MMA prism that addresses the realities of the mixed martial arts game. While there are some must-know fistic skills for MMA, there are also more than a few boxing tactics that will get you smashed in MMA. Boxing for MMA builds on the good and tosses the bad, discussing the differences in strategy and tactics when it comes to facing likely MMA scenarios. Matchups covered include Boxing vs. Wrestling, Boxing vs. Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing vs. Muay Thai, Boxing vs. the Slugger, Dirty Boxing Inside the Clinch, and Boxing off of the Fence. All the techniques are illustrated in hundreds of action-sequence images, making this guide the go-to resource for blending boxing skills into your fighting arsenal.

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Mark Hatmaker is the bestselling author of the MMA Mastery series, the No Holds Barred Fighting series, Boxer's Bible of Counterpunching, Boxer's Book of Conditioning & Drilling, Boxing Mastery, No Second Chance, and She&;s Tough. He has produced more than 40 instructional videos and he has extensive experience in the combat arts including boxing, wrestling, Jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. A highly regarded coach of professional and amateur fighters, law enforcement officials, and security personnel, he is also the founder of Extreme Self Protection, a research body that compiles, analyzes, and teaches the most effective Western combat methods known. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Boxing for MMA

Building the Fistic Edge in Competition & Self-Defense for Men & Women

By Mark Hatmaker, Doug Werner

Tracks Publishing

Copyright © 2014 Mark Hatmaker and Doug Werner
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-935937-62-3

Contents

How to use the MMA Mastery manuels, 
Intro: Boxing for MMA, 
1. "You've got to walk before you can run, but you've got to]TC1 TC1[stand before you can walk", 
2. Footwork concepts, 
3. Boxing Plus arsenal, 
4. Boxing Plus defensive vocabulary, 
5. Appetite for destruction, 
6. Punch, don't paw, 
7. Pyramid build, 
8. Let's stay focused, 
9. No hitting below the belt ... why not?, 
10. Sunday punch as cut-kick, 
11. Boxing Plus sprawl & get-up, 
12. Combination menus, 
13. Prescription for scrimmage drills, 
Resources, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

"You've got to walk before you can run, but you've got to stand before you can walk"

Any discussion of stance worth its salt has to use Good Athletic Position (GAP) as the default starting base. For the uninitiated, GAP is the fundamentally sound mechanical position that the body assumes when it is expected to perform optimally across a variety of stressors. These stressors can be a sudden vertical jump, a quick explosive lift, a preparation to move to either direction laterally, a transition to back-pedaling, et cetera. The key to GAP is that it is a preparation for variety — a start point for options if you will.

Task Specific Positions (TSP) begin with the end in mind. That is, the sprinter knows which direction the body must move, the batter knows the approximate plane he must swing into, the fighter setting up the spin kick knows where and how she must set the hips to facilitate the smooth pirouette. Still, even with TSP there are, usually, only minor adjustments from GAP, and this close adherence is for good reason.

GAP wisely adheres to an equal distribution of weight so that movement in any cardinal direction can be smoothly transitioned into. Too much weight over any given foot slows the transition into that direction.

GAP's equal distribution of weight not only optimizes mobility, it increases access to power. Full body commitment is already realized by having both feet underneath the hips. GAP allows for quick power access to any given side by this same equal distribution of weight. If I am running a 70/30 stance (70 percent of weight over the rear foot and 30 percent over the lead) I've got to make up that distribution when I go for lead-side strikes. In my 50/50 GAP position, a flex of the rear calf and a pelvic torque loads me for power.

OK, I've rhapsodized GAP as the way to go with stance, but I want to stretch this idea further. There is a tendency in some combat disciplines to pay a lot of attention to stance as if it were an isolated element. That is, "OK, here is our stance, got it? Looks good. Now, here is some other stuff to learn." I'm pleading a case for not thinking of stance as a stock-still element, but rather an athletic position that informs all of your movement. After all, what good is a stance if it no longer supports your offense or defense as soon as you take your first step? Fights happen on the move. MMA is not some Karate Kid crane stance adolescent fantasy.

With every step you take, with every punch you throw, with every takedown you stuff, with every move you make, in an ideal world, you should be analyzing it for GAP and making adjustments whenever and wherever possible to adhere as closely as you can manage to perfection. Always be asking questions about GAP in your training.

Are you falling into your punches rather than stepping into them? If the answer is falling, I smell an easily countered fighter and/or a weighted lead leg rife for leg-kick punishment.

Is your lateral movement overloaded when you move? A leg kick or a Lyoto Machida-style foot sweep will bring that foolishness to the mat.

Is the lead foot light? Sounds like someone is inviting the takedown.

Is the stance too high? Again, takedown city.

Any deviation from GAP acts either as a situation to be countered or information about your intentions.

Stance, although similar to the word stand, is not really about how you stand.

Stance is an athletic start point that travels with you wherever you go. Stance is every step you take. Stance is every punch you throw.

Modified Boxing Plus stance

The Boxing for MMA or Boxing Plus stance needs to be altered a bit from the standard boxing stance as the MMA competitor has more concerns than the straight boxer. Let's get to it.

• Take one natural step forward with your lead foot (the foot that you prefer to have up front when you fight).

• Feel the weight through the balls of your feet. You won't necessarily raise the heels off the mat, but you don't want to be a flat-footed fighter. Flat feet are slow feet.

• Pivot ever so slightly on the balls of your feet toward your inside — that is toward your chest side. The Boxing Plus stance is a little more forward facing than a standard boxing stance, but we don't want to be so square that we invite unobstructed front kicks.

• Give a slight bend to the knees. This leg coiling will supply us with mobility speed and preload our punches for power.

• Adhere to a 50/50 GAP weight distribution.

• Keep your feet under your hips.

Upper body positioning

• Forearms parallel. A common error (perhaps as common as drifting the hands low) is creating an inverted V, where the forearms move apart toward the elbows. This invites shots to the liver.

• Keep your rear hand on your jaw.

• Your lead hand will be held forward of your lead shoulder at the same level as your lead shoulder.

• The lead shoulder is carried a bit high to protect your jaw. Think holding a phone hands-free, pinched between your lead shoulder and chin.

Head Positioning

• Tuck your chin toward your chest. It will not rest directly on it. Simply tuck it toward the chest an inch or two.

• When you have your eyes on your opponent, there should always be a little of your brow or upper orbital socket in your sightline.

CHAPTER 2

Footwork concepts

We labored footwork to death in Boxing Mastery. Here we will educate a stripped down Boxing Plus footwork approach in our focus pad drills, but there are a few broad concepts to keep in mind in all Boxing Plus movement.

Step & drag

Forget bouncing, shuffling, staying up on the toes and shoe-shining with your footwork. Such light, high-base work will work against you in MMA.

Too high in your stance and movement? You're welcoming the takedown.

Too bouncy and light on the toes? Hello, again, to the takedown.

We need you solid, but solid does not mean stiff and immobile. Far from it. To keep you in solid contact with the planet earth, we need to adhere to the step & drag protocol that is essentially ...

• Any direction you want to move, you will step the foot nearest to that direction first.

• This is immediately followed by dragging/sliding the trail foot back into GAP stance position.

To reiterate:

• If you want to advance, move the lead foot first, then drag the rear foot.

• To retreat, the rear foot steps first and then the lead foot is dragged into position.

• To move...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tracks Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1935937626
• ISBN 13: 9781935937623
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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