Kickboxing is all about maintaining your posture and trying to take away your opponent’s posture.
Posture – having your knees slightly bent and keeping your head directly over your feet – is the universal “ready” position in virtually every sport.
Whether you are guarding someone in Basketball, or receiving a serve in tennis, or snowboarding – if you are standing and if you need to be athletic, this is the posture you need to maintain.
In fighting, as your opponent or training partner, I want to take you out of this posture, to get you to cower, to bend over and cover up, to turn away from me. From here your attacks will be weak, easily defended and non-threatening.
Conversely, I always want to keep my posture. As I am defending and countering, as I am moving in and out of range, I always want to keep my posture.
With my posture strong and intact, I can fire my punches. I am quicker, more responsive and more agile.
Watch videos of yourself sparring. Ask yourself, is my head too far back when I defend his punch? Is my head too far forward when I charge in to attack?
If you are out of posture, you have to do 2 things to fire an attack. One, get back into posture and two, fire the attack.
You have to “get set” and then “go”. When you fight we want to already be set up in good posture so that at anytime you can “go”.
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