How To Land More Punches In A Fight

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Learning how to punch is one thing. Learning how to land punches is another. Want to land more punches?

Whether you're sparring or in a real fight, there's one bad habit that will keep you from landing punches—leaning.

I call it "Riding the See Saw" because people rock back and forth when they punch and kick. It shows up three different ways...

See Saw #1: Leaning forward when you punch.

This is a huge mistake for many reasons. First, you’re offering your head to the bad guy on a silver platter.

Second, you’re opening up your low line to punches, kicks, and takedowns.

Third, you’re setting yourself up for being snapped down or pulled off balance.

But it's the fourth problem that will keep you from landing punches. When you lean forward, your weight gets stuck on your front foot.

So, even if you connect with your first punch, you’re not in position to follow up! To throw another punch, you either have to fall forward or you pull back into your stance and start over.

The answer to this problem? Stay in your stance and use your footwork to drive in—don't be lazy. When you stay in your stance, you're not only protecting yourself, you’re on balance and in position to keep throwing flurries of punches.

See Saw #2: Leaning backwards when you punch.

No, I’m not talking about fading and snapping back on purpose. I’m talking about holding your head back while throwing your hand forward. What's the problem with that?

First, you shorten your reach. Second, you reduce your power. Your arm is going one way, your body the other.

To be frank, leaning forward and backward during a fight is a tough habit to break, because it’s usually rooted in fear... either the fear of committing your body into the fight or the fear of being hit in the face.

How do I know?

Watch people hit the mitts or a heavy bag and, unless they’re being lazy, they typically stay in their stance and practice good form. But once punches start flying during sparring or self-defense drills, fear holds back the hips and tips back the head. In short—

No one leans back when no one’s hitting back.

See Saw #3: Leaning back when you throw kicks.

This one is tricky because some martial artists deliberately lean back to counter-balance their raised leg. They See Saw on purpose!

Some folks even drop their head to the ground so they can even kick straight up over their head, which is a great move if you’re ever being attacked by a barn owl.

But here’s the thing—if you want to land punches, it's best to keep your hands in punching range. When you lean back to counter-balance a kick, you take your hands out of punching range.

Leaning back adds a beat into the timing of your follow-up punches after a kick. Instead of KICK PUNCH PUNCH, you end up throwing KICK -beat- PUNCH PUNCH. That beat is the time it takes to get back into your stance to throw punches.

Now, that little beat may not seem like a big deal, but believe me—it's everything! Against a good fighter, one little beat is all the time he or she needs to play their trump card.

The fix? Stay in your stance. Crunch down when you kick and keep your hands in punching range at all times.

So, get off the See Saw and stop leaning. I guarantee you’ll throw better punches, get hit less, and land more punches than ever before.

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