A (wannabe) Inside-Fighter's questions

[Andre]

For just an exercise in ,inpositioning; have someone just grab you by the scruf of your shirt front with both hands and hold you close to them so that if they released they could hit you easily with any hand, right on your beak.

Just start with your feet in neutral stance like you would if you were faceing them with your hands on your hips.

Ok now just imagine that you have bolts through your feet so your feet cant move at all back or forwards ,but you can pick them up and turn them on angles around the bolts.

Pick them up one at a time and turn on a 45% angle with your wrists at their forearms and bend you knees as you land and see what happens to them and feel what they could reach you with now and what you can reach them with now.

Then do it so you can adjust your fet outwards as you do it and see the difference.


If you get to practice that weight shift and feel equal going either left or right you will gain an advantage in in fighting feeling.

You will feel an opening arise in their guard and more as they react to you, you can slip their arms reaction and use your turn and landing to launch the uppercut unseen or a high hook instantly if they dont react. Low hook ,high bomb ..whatever.

You will realise that you have moved your center line off of their center line of attack.

You can explore it all further by bending legs pulling one leg back behind you slightly and relaunching up the opening.

Tread on their foot as you attack around under or over that same side arm; see what that does to him.

You can even shove an arm of his across ,before or even after it has been fully spent hitting your face! "Just shove his elbow across his center line" You know dam well he will reactivity go against it the complete opposite way that you have just pushed it! And you slip around it ,move in, or under his arm right at that point and fire straight up the opening and your feet will automatically back you up (as above) to make him pay even harder.

Its a different game, if they are into in fighting too, you need alot of tools.

[Benserker]

Thanks for all the answers!

I've been trying your tricks on the heavybag. I can't use them in the gym because the trainer keeps telling me to use the other hook technique (pivoting the foot where the punch comes from) and we never do inside fighting ...

I'm still not 100% sure how to use my hooks to maximum potential. I try to study all fighters with great hooks, but it's hard. Any tips on that would be really appreciated.