Boxing Footwork, Speed and Feints for Close-Range Fighting

Watch. You see how fast it is? Yeah. He would have got you if you hesitated a second longer.

Watch my footing. Watch my footing. See how I stood there? Yeah.

If I'm actually trying to hit you, I'm gonna step in like this.

I punch you. Right. You see it? Yeah. You see how I stepped in a little bit? Yeah. And punched you?

Remember, I stepped in and I punched you. Right.

But I don't want to do that. I really want to use my right hand.

Why? Because I'll punch you. It's open. Crush me. Boom.

Right. Make sense? Yeah. So I don't want to step in.

My hand's right here, right? Yeah. When I step in, I want to be fast.

See? Yeah. Watch me speed.

You gotta be faster. That hesitance is- I'm not even using my footwork.

Right. I'm just being fast. There you go.

Oh, shit. You gotta learn. Yeah. Because while I'm fighting you, I'm learning. Right. Right?

I know you're blocking like that, so I'm just gonna fake it like that.

Fake, fake. You see it? Yeah. I'm gonna aim a little bit for your body so you can block enough like that.

Yeah. Just get you. Right. Now, in an actual fight, I'm just gonna try to throw a jab and do this.

I'm just gonna be doing that or doing combos like that.

That's what I'm gonna be doing. Right. Because I'm gonna be faster with it.

Like, we're wearing boxing gloves, right? Mm-hmm.

This is like actually like teaching you like real, like, person-to-person combat.

Because like it's not, it's not none of this like no footwork, like if you're a bad, like if you're bad at fighting, you'll be like no footwork.

I'm just like punching like that. You could dodge all day.

But no, I'm moving. I'm moving when I go to my opponent.

I'm right here, right? You want me to be right here. Right.

I'm right here. Yeah. Right here. Right here. Yeah.

You want, you want to, you want... It's like a snake.

Mm-hmm. A snake. I want my, I want my vision to be like this.

It's going right here. Mm-hmm. You're moving me.

You're moving me. Right. It's going right here, right? Yeah. I'm going like this.

You want to move me. Right. So I come right here. Yeah. I get you.

Meanwhile, while he's doing that, he's getting slowly closer and closer.

Exactly. Use your footwork to be uncomfortable with being comfortable, right?

Mm-hmm. It's just like jumping off a cliff. You feel fear when you get up close because your hands are right here. Right.

You can do so much damage to your face. Yeah.

But we're up, we're up here. We're like a few inches from our eyes.

I could do so much damage to you, and you could do so much damage to me.

Mm-hmm. Who's gonna take the more hits? You.

Exactly. A lot of training. Right.