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11 Fighting Tips To Immediately Boost ‘Speed and Power’

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Speed Fighting Tips Speed Tip 1: Always make the first move.

There is a psychological element to the speed your muscles can contract and therefore how fast you can fight. Key mental functions include analysis and decision making. As a result because of the time required for analysis and decision making the fighter that attacks first has a distinct advantage over the other side. The other party has to first analyse that an attack is taking place and then make decisions about how to respond. This essentially gives the fighter that attacks first a significant advantage.

This is often why the fighter that attacks first ends up winning the fight. Speed Tip 2: Wear loose clothing

The clothing you wear can seriously impact your speed and ability to fight. Tight clothing only restricts your moves and reduces the amount of power you can put into your strikes. It will also sap valuable energy making you tired more quickly. If you want to fight quickly with maximum speed and power wear loose clothing. Speed Tip 3: Always stay in motion

Those who have seen Bruce Lee fight or watched one of his movies will notice that he is always in motion. There is a very good reason for this...

By staying in motion you significantly increase your speed because it is easier to change the direction of an already moving part than it is to initiate motion of a static part. This tip will make your moves faster and strikes more powerfully. You also become a moving target and much harder to hit.

Stay in motion by bobbing and weaving. You will then be able to hide movement within movement and conceal your intentions. Use this to mask closing the distance between you and your opponent before you strike.

As a result you also need to become comfortable with a more dynamic and flexible stance. The wider the stance the more stable and the more power you will be able to deliver in your strikes. The narrow the stance the faster and more mobile you will become. You should be able to quickly move between the two as your needs dictate.




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Bruce Lee openly spoke out the limitations of the static horse

stance when it comes to real life fighting. You should learn the secrets of always being in motion and to adopt a more flexible dynamic stance.

Finally, you can easily improve your striking speed of any

technique by keeping your body fluid and in motion. This is because the speed generated from one body part can be added to the speed generated from the next body part. This multiplier effect is an excellent way to increase end striking speed and power. This is much more effective than from a ridged posture. Speed tip 4: Be unpredictable

Vary the tempo, leave an opening to draw him/her in, fake high go low, feign an injury and always fight in an unpredictable manner. What’s more you should use your opponent’s predictability against him/her.

Everyone has a natural tempo at which they are comfortable. An undisciplined fighter will always resort to their natural fighting tempo or rhythm. This gives you the opportunity to identify sequences in their fighting style. As a result he/she will start a sequence and will naturally want to complete the sequence. This predictability gives you chance to prepare a defence and launch a counter attack. Speed tip 5: Attack when your opponent attacks

If you attack when your opponent attacks he/she won’t be able to prepare a defence. He/she will already be in motion and committed to a move both mentally and physically. The door will be left ‘open’ for you to make an unexpected and undefended attack. This tactic will also irritate your opponent forcing them to make mistakes.




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Power fighting tips Power Tip 1: Strike as your opponent steps-in or moves forward

If you strike your opponent as they step in or advance forwards you significantly increase the power of your strike. This is because their own body weight gets added to the mass behind the strike and their body’s forward movement prevents any backward motion to help absorb the blow. Using this principle will make your attacks much more powerful.

If you watch any full contact MMA or boxing match you will notice that by timing the tiniest of jabs (to strike as the opponent moves forward) has floored many of the largest and most powerful fighters. Power Tip 2: Minimise the strike area

The smaller the striking area the more forceful (and painful) your strikes. When you deliver a strike you should do everything you can to reduce the size of the striking area. By reducing the size of the area you strike the entire force of the blow is channelled and concentrated into that smaller area. This reduces the available area on your opponent to absorb the force of the blow and therefore you maximises its destructive power. This will result in a strike that delivers more power and damage than it otherwise would.

For example, when you kick use either your heel or balls of your feet to make contact. Avoid striking with the whole of your foot. When you punch use the point of your fingers or one/two knuckles only. Power tip 3: Minimise contact time

The longer an object is in contact with an object the more time there is for the object to disperse the energy. You should therefore aim to reduce the length of time of contact for each strike. This will deliver a more forceful and more damaging strike as your opponent’s body will have less time to disperse the energy. Power tip 4: Strike through your opponent

A common mistake of both experienced and rookie martial artist’s is to aim to strike a point on your opponent’s body. If you aim to hit your opponent without following through you reduce both speed and power of the strike. Like a golfer hitting a ball the secret to maximising power is to aim past your target. This means you will continue to drive through the target after impact delivering a faster




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and more powerful strike. You should therefore aim not at his outer body but target in his inner body.

Research has revealed that when delivering a punch the arms contributes 24% of the force, the torso 37% and legs 39%. Power tip 5: Lure your opponent in then strike

In power tip 1 you learned that the tiniest of jabs can be very destructive because your opponent’s body weight is added to the power of the strike. As a result an important fighting tactic is to try and lure your opponent forward without stepping backwards. This can be easily done by leaning backwards but not moving backwards. Bending your front knee also creates the same effect.

This movement creates the illusion that you have stepped backwards when in fact you have not. As a result opponent will step forwards giving you the perfect opportunity to land a very powerful blow. Even if your opponent sees the strike coming they will be committed to the forward movement and will be open until their foot hits the ground. Power tip 6: Always define the ground rules

In military campaigns it is well known that the person who can define the ground rules tips the field of battle in their favour. Even is a two man fight you can employ the same tactics to tip the ground rules in your favour. For example, position your opponent so they face the sun or where a location where your moves can be masked in the shadows. Another example is to place your opponent on a slippery surface or in amongst objects he/she may fall over etc…Use your imagination and be aware of your surroundings and what you might be able to use to your advantage.




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Psychological fighting tips Psychological tip 1: Positive expectation

Your frame of mind will have a major impact on your ability to win fights. Top fighters are continuously positive about their skills. They do not allow negatives thoughts or feelings of self-doubt to enter into their mind. Learn to think of sparring as fun to reduce fear and anxiety.

If you want to be a fast and powerful fighter you must ‘feel’ fast and powerful. The amazing thing is that you can actually programme your mind for speed. If you think you are fast you will become fast.

By programming your mind for success you become self-conditioned to win. You expect success and develop a healthy positive expectation. Psychological tip 2: Focus on the ‘present’

Avoid getting stuck in the past by worrying about your last mistake or defeat. Only anger and frustration will come from paying too much attention to the past. This will murder your performance. Also avoid any anxiety and fear by not focusing too much on the future. Don’t get caught up worrying about the outcome of the match or fight just focus on the ‘here and now’.

When fighting in the ‘present’ you need to let go from all conscious thought. When you learn to do this successfully you will begin to act more instinctively. Your actions will become automatic and effortless. You will be drawn into distractions and you will ‘feel’ totally in control with everything around you. It is almost like a trance like state where your actions become easy, effortless and spontaneous.

The lesson here is not to crowd your mind by thinking too much. This will inhibit your speed as you will end up over analysing things and suffering from paralysis analysis. This will interfere with your speed and compromise your performance as you think about things that you don’t need to think about. The skill is to learn to quiet all brain activity in the left hemisphere and to let the right hemisphere take control. Each movement should not feel of paramount importance. You should clear all negative thoughts and let it happen rather than trying to make it happen.

The routine Bruce Lee used to complete before a fight was to write all his negatives thoughts, feelings and worries on an imaginary piece of paper. He would then imagine screwing up the piece of paper




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and burn it. This would help switch his mind into the right mind-set and to focus on the present. Psychological tip 3: Slow the pace down to force an opening

If you are up against an equally match opponent you need to seek the advantage any way possible. One way to do this is to act more relaxed and slow. The idea is to lure your opponent into becoming overly slack and slow. Then suddenly change the tempo and strike quickly catching them off guard. Psychological tip 4: Disrupt your opponents concentration

In order win you may need to use tactics to disrupt your opponent’s concentration and thwart his/her mental alertness. You can do this by using a number of psychological triggers to provoke mental lapses and force mistakes. For example, just before you launch an attack you could smile or wink at your opponent. This will often cause a momentary drop in concentration just long enough for you to launch a devastating attack.

These psychological triggers work because we all have learned responses to these types of stimuli. They are mental cues we automatically respond without knowing it at a subconscious level. They unknowingly relax and disrupt our attention. These are examples of legitimate tactics top fighters employ regularly to get an edge. An edge that can make the difference between winning or losing.

Other ways to disrupt your opponent’s concentration and provoke mental lapses include laughing, pointing or shouting etc… Mumbling something he/she can’t understand will also create the same effect.

As well as employing theses tactics you should train against them. So when your opponent winks or smiles you don’t get distracted. Also you should learn to tune out audible and visual disturbances. For example, while training you could have your training partner and others shouting at you while training. Learn to block out these types of stimuli during a fight.

Psychological tip 5: Disrupt your opponents natural tempo

As well as disrupting your opponent’s concentration it is also advantageous to disrupt your opponent’s natural rhythm. This natural rhythm is programmed into your opponent’s neuromuscular system. It is the tempo at which they are most comfortable fighting. This can be achieved by deliberately varying your own tempo. For




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example, slow right down or even stop, perhaps hesitate a little and then turn the tempo right up to frustrate him/her.

If you can do this effectively it will normally take him/her a moment to recover. This is the moment you can suddenly attack with a devastating blow. Anything you can do to make your opponent fight in a way to which he/she is unaccustomed will be to your advantage.

By the way if you can turn the tempo right up to the point it is uncomfortable you can force him/her to try too hard. This will then force them to make mistakes and telegraph more moves to you. Then it is only a matter of time until you win.

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