Krav Maga Boxing Muay Thai Heavy bag Gerry KravMagaThailand.com
Krav Maga Thailand I spend A LOT of time teaching the regular Tactical Krav Maga students Boxing. Boxing -> Kick Boxing Sparring -> is good confidence builder, to bring especially a kravmaga student who has Fear of sparring,(I have Fear, I just hide it LOL!) but starting off on jabs so light to body, moving on, over a few weeks, upping it each session. I find people who blinked & turn away, with gradual exposure, a few weeks later, will have improved their "Self Belief" (self belief is more important in life, outside the krav maga gym), so they get confident, they will get stuck in to fight. Then I can introduce the 60-90 second all out "milling" brawl type fighting (with gear on). For good street boxing go to GeoffThompson.com buy, even the 1st DVD is enough, its called "Real Punching" by Geoff Thompson, watch it 1000 times, & try & train it. 10 years later, I still watch Real Punching & learn from it. Any if you cannot get in & hold your own for a few rounds boxing/kick boxing... if you cannot stop a boxing Jab to the Nose, now the hell in Krav Maga do you think you can stop real life full on knife attack. That Jab YOU cannot stop hitting your face, can be a real life knife, broken bottle, etc... only difference is a real stabber will not even let you see he got a knife! Get Boxing! Me, I am no way a perfect boxer, I am on fit as I was, I spot mistakes I make in this clip. But as Geoff Thompson says, Box but your not training 2 be boxing champ, your getting "good fast hands" learning to fight full contact, give it & take it. Remember Imi was a boxer as well as wrestler.
Krav Maga Boxing Muay Thai Heavy bag Gerry Tactical Krav Maga Instructor
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Comment by Gerry Nolan on May 14, 2009 at 5:29pm -
Hi Ivan.
That is a very good question you ask, "Is the leg work very different in boxing Vs Km"?
I am thinking about this as I type..
First, me LOL! I have as they say back in Ireland, walk like I have "two left feet"! meaning I trip, stumble, stagger. If I tried to kick a football forward, it files over my head & ends up behind me. Point is I am on my feet naturally awkward, clumsy, & as a teen, learning a bit of Irish Cheile Dancing, fell head over heals nearly breaking my neck. Michael Flatley the famous Irish American dancer (Riverdance, Lord of the Dance) need not fear! (actually Michael Flatley Irish Dancer is a damn good boxer, trains with Wayne McCullogh out in Las Vegas I believe).
I have to tell you any footwork of any sort I learned, I had to practice for months & months & months, one example is side stepping an attacker in a Combative situation, turning them v fast to their back is to my chest, & then eye rake both claws them back to dump them on ground. Now today I can do that move in 1 step (and have used in real live situations too, it works) to get myself to do that step, I spent 3 months stepping around pillars, trees, bus stops, any time any where, just to get an ok version of the step, another 6 months, I used to use the square tiles on bathroom floor, to make the "footwork" smooth. I ensure I practice this on ever class I teach myself. Now that move, that step, another person might get that in a few weeks, ME! 9 months until I was an ok average, now a few years later, can do instinctively.
So footwork was & is something I make sure I work on, re being a natural clumsy 2 left footed person! LOL!
To you question, as for pure Western Boxing, I would not be well schooled in that method, re footwork. Where I did learn good & very very unique footwork especially as I refer back to the mid 1980s, was in the
MuGenDo (Unlimited Way) Kickboxing. Where did the footwork & indeed way before its time unique & indeed unusual boxing hand work come from? Mugendo as they say in krav the "dead side" back in 80s we where learning to move off to deadside & almost behind kickboxing opponent, moving off in such a way, opponent would be whacked with a kick or punch coming from a "blind spot" working opposite hands & legs in way that created amazing momentum too. (Nearest thing I seen to this since was with Sifu Mark Stewart who has Bruce Lees, last & final decreased version of Jeet Kune Do. Mark trained privately under Ted Wong. same same... off to the side).
Now this Mugendo footwork & handwork boxing, came from a man from what was then "Yougoslavia" Splitz was his town called Pedar Meijic (sp?) a co founder of Mugendo, who learned to boxing from an old style Red Block days Russian Olympic Team Boxing Coach. (Re the Punch Bad vid clip, & that muay thai bag is rock hard, no give in it to absorb punch. I was working more aggression power thingy, & someone might say "gerry your hooks esp body shots are very wide, too wide you must hook close in.", I say "Yes the hooks were very wide, because I was training very wide hooks" ( I was visualizing this a liver shot on someone who annoyed me, when training my wide hookl ;-) )
So I footwork I learned, in Mugendo, while I am not as proficient these days, was amazing footwork re Pedar Mijic, & Prof.George Canning Mugendo Kick Boxing founder taught great footwork too. No stepping into a kick (in advanced training) just lift your leg & kick to head! BOOM.. came out of nowhere. In fact it is very good if you want to label this as "footwork" to practice & learn to kick from Static without stepping in, or knee, or flick kick to nuts, the step is the give away. While it certainly is not a recommended self defense technique, I still can from "Fence" position (geoffthompson.com) approx 18 inches from opponent, still kick to side of head with me toes roundhouse with a savate ele
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Comment by Ivan Raszl on May 14, 2009 at 10:30am - Isn't the leg work very different in boxing and KM?
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