Vancouver Kickboxing Instructor talks about the Fighting Stance for Kickboxing

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

Vancouver Kickboxing coach, Ritchie Yip, explains how the fighting stance for kickboxing is much like the posture you would assume if you were to push a car.

Imagine if you were to push a car. Your feet are far apart. You’re on your toes and your torso is slightly titled forward.

In kickboxing, striking is like pushing. How our body develops power for pushing is the same as how it develops power for striking.

The only difference between pushing and striking is that striking is just much much faster.

So the fighting stance in kickboxing is a position that the body can develop power for pushing. Much like if you were to push a car.

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Vancouver Kickboxing Coach Defines Striking

Posted on April 17, 2012 by admin

Vancouver Kickboxing coach, Ritchie Yip, who is the head instructor at Infighting MMA, a Martial Arts school in downtown Vancouver that specializes in introducing beginners to Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, talks about what striking is and how it’s defined.

Striking is basically impact. A moving object has force. A moving object that hits another object then creates impact.

The less time the two objects are in contact, the greater the impact and thus the greater the damage.

Imagine a fist moving quickly through the air. Like a Jab in Kickboxing. The Jab hits someone’s ribs.

The moment of contact is brief and thus has a high degree of impact. This high impact blow to the ribs causes trauma- broken ribs, bruising of the muscles, etc.

This is the purpose of striking. To cause trauma through high impact.

A common mistake amongst Kickboxing beginners is to “push” their punches. If someone were to launch a punch but the contact time between the fist and the rib cage was prolonged, then there would be less trauma.

A great example to help understand this is the training method used to teach kids how to catch a ball- they catch a raw egg.

What happens when you swat at the raw egg? Well, it breaks due to the high impact. There is a short frame of contact time.

However, if you slowly reach for the egg and let it descend into your hands you have lengthened the time of contact and the egg is safe. The impact is low.

So, when you’re kickboxing, to have powerful high impact strikes, snap out your punches and keep the contact time as low as possible.

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Vancouver BJJ Instructor Explains what “Tapping” is

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Vancouver BJJ instructor, Ritchie Yip, explains that “tapping” or “tapping out” is simply a way to keep everyone safe when they are practicing BJJ.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an art that is about choking and arm breaking.

Yes, BJJ is a great way to stay in shape and is a fantastic vehicle for self betterment. BJJ is also a team oriented activity so that means that BJJ is wonderful way to make new friends and enhance your social circle.

If you boil it all down, BJJ is a technology- a proven method to attain consistent results- based on choking people unconscious and breaking peoples arms.

So how does one go about training and practicing BJJ when it is inherently a life or limb threatening activity?

That’s where tapping comes in.

I tell my students at my vancouver academy that your can tap (slap your hand on your training partner two or three times, much like how you would play a hand drum) for any reason.

Because you have to sneeze.

Because you have to get up to go to the bathroom.

Or because your arm is about to break or because you are about to go to sleep do to a choke.

Tapping keeps everyone safe and it is how BJJ is passed on from one practitioner to another.

The more you tap the more you learn.

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Vancouver BJJ Instructor Explains the different positions in BJJ

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Vancouver BJJ instructor talks about the different positions in BJJ.

BJJ is profoundly complex and confusing especially to the novice. To anybody just starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, BJJ can seem like a maze of positions, submissions and strategies.

To simplify things so that absolute novices to BJJ can immediately grasp what’s going on in a typical brazilian jiu jitsu match- Ritchie Yip, who runs the Infighting MMA academy in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia- explains how really there’s only 2 positions in BJJ.

1) Top
2 Bottom

And that generally, top is better!

Yes, this is an overly simple breakdown of BJJ but one that can help absolute beginners start to grasp the complexities of BJJ.

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Vancouver BJJ Instructor Explains How BJJ is Simply a Solution for a Problem

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Vancouver BJJ instructor Ritchie Yip, talks about how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is merely a solution to a problem in the video below.

BJJ is a grappling art were the foundational position is the Guard. The Guard in BJJ is similar to “keeping your hands up” in Boxing. Not only is the Guard the main defensive structure you are maintaining in order to keep your head and our torso safe but it is also the primary offensive platform in which you can launch your attacks.

If you are in a fight and you wind up lying on your back then BJJ has a solution to this problem. You can give your attacker your legs, meaning that you are point your legs at your attacker and you are thus placing them in your Guard.

This is a simple breakdown of BJJ but one that allows a novice to immediately understand the complexities of BJJ.

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Vancouver Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drill- 1,2 with Covering and Countering

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Vancouver Kickboxing coach shows a complex but highly functional focus mitt drill.

Through this drill, kickboxing students will understand how attacking by combination and counter attacking flow seemlessly together.

InFighting MMA is a martial arts school located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver that specializes in Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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Vancouver Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drill- 1,2 with Roll Overs

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Vancouver Kickboxing instructor teaches an advanced focus mitt drill that emphasises timing and coordination.

Kickboxing students will find that maintaining the rhythm of the drill to be the most difficult part.

InFighting MMA is a martial arts school located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver that specializes in Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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Vancouver Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drill- Covering and Countering

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Vancouver kickboxing coach shows a fun focus mitt drill to help kickboxing students understand the concept of counter fighting.

Kickboxing students will find this focus mitt drill easy to learn and highly functional.

InFighting MMA is a martial arts school located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver that specializes in Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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Vancouver Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drill- the Roll Over

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Vancouver Kickboxing teacher demonstrates and easy focus mitt drill to help kickboxing students understand offensive and defensive arm movements.

InFighting MMA is a martial arts school located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver that specializes in Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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Vancouver Kickboxing Mistake #11- Hook Kick, Heel Position for More Follow Through and More Power

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Vancouver kickboxing coach Ritchie Yip explains the importance of foot positioning when it comes to the follow through and power of the hook kick.

Kickboxing students need to turn their planted foot so that the heel points to the target.

InFighting MMA is a martial arts school located in the heart of Downtown Vancouver that specializes in Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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