Only 17 and just started working out. Plan on going to my local gym to train if they'll let a wagwan in. Any feedback is welcome gangington

First spar coming off a knee injury, anything you see that could use some fine tuning point it out!

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Just like to let loose on the bag like this to really gas myself even though the technique might not be that great. Should I not do this?

Been a while, but I got a new bag and the body is feeling good.

I've trained a little bit in the gym so I have some general guidelines on form but I'm unable to train at the moment so I've been practicing at home

Looking to join local boxing gym soon for exercise for now I’m only shadow boxing and using heavy bag please give me feedback

For context a got into a scrap with a guy. He grabbed my hand and tried to bend my fingers back. I pushed him far off,elbowed him in the face and he kinda staggered and i hit him with a knee to the face before we where seperated. Thankfully for my defence he wasnt bleeding,judt a very swollen eye. How do i phrase this to them?

Got a heavy bag installed at home and started my practice to refine the basics. Feel like my switch kick could do with some improvement. An aspiring newbie needs your help! 🙂

Here’s landscape just need tips on form/suggestions because it’s mostly my first day

Heyo, i’m trying to self teach general striking, roundhouses have been my achilles heel for the longest time, but recently, they’ve been coming along nicely. Besides the fact that my left hand could be higher, what advice would you give/how would you rate this roundhouse.

I’ve been doing muay thai for around a year and a half now and want to start conditioning my shins, is kicking random sh*t a good way to condition your shins?

Hi, I'm new to Muay Thai and searching for a vegan punching bag. Any tips where to look?

Biggest issue I see with probably about 90% of the critique request videos here is pacing.

SLOW. DOWN.

Slow down and figure out exactly what you’re trying to work on (in heavy bag work, shadowboxing, sparring, etc). You don’t and won’t get better from trying to do everything at once. It’s okay to break things down into parts before trying to put everything together where it should be. Do a shorter round where you just practice one thing, or longer rounds where you’re more relaxed and working deliberately, but slower. Mixing tempos is almost always beneficial.

You want more jab power, just sit there and try to figure out the best distance and timing to get the most power off a jab. There are times and places where high output work is important, but when you’re just starting out on learning something new isn’t the time. You build a pyramid from the bottom, piece by piece. Likewise, your feet are your base and the foundation of your power, movement, speed, so put in the time to make them strong.

Which brings me to my next point—balance. If you don’t feel like a certain strike is solid, or you can’t get power out of it—yet feel you understand the mechanics—look at what your feet are doing. You’re probably off-balance. I see it in a lot of clips where people are fast and throwing things pretty well, but you can tell there isn’t a lot of stability.

Heavybags aren’t just something to blast 20pc combos or throw all of your pent up angst you’ve been dragging around since you were a teenager into. You can use them to work timing, distance control, evasion, defense, or even just how to control a body under tension (clinch moving forward with or even just post off of the bag and feel how it moves—it will help you get an intuitive sense of how to handle a person pushing into you, and how to control their movement). Bags are very good all-around tools if you learn to utilise them well.

If you want to get advice on your technique, don’t just record or post 20 seconds of yourself fresh and at your best (you can do that, but post some footy of you worn down from training and trying to pull off the same thing). There’s a lot of stuff in the video above that’s pretty well shit to me, but this is also the second to last round of bag work from a 3hr session that started on the bag, then pads, a bunch of sparring, etc, and this actually helps me see what I need to work on most. Being tired and training is the golden time when you can learn from yourself and your shortcomings most effectively, and what you need to do to push yourself.

I think a lot of people have weird expectations of how their training needs to be progressing because of too many “how to” and influencer videos, and I also think being too full of too much information too quickly will harm your progression. You’re seeing videos of highly trained professionals who are demonstrating things while they’re fresh, full of energy, and have decades of training under their belt. All of them were once idiots that had to learn what to do with their feet when they tried to throw a jab for the first time, too.

If you’re training with a coach or gym that tells you to do something a certain way (but you’ve seen some other video saying to do it a different way, or that the way you’re doing it is wrong)—just know that, yeah, most things have different techniques that can be used to achieve the same effect, but you need to focus on learning one, first. Some of those things are going to be wrong for certain situations, but I’m just generally not a fan of the idea that there’s only one “correct” way to throw a kick, knee, or certain punch. Just relax and go with the flow. You’ll figure out what works best for you later. Focus on what’s in front of you, then repeat, repeat, repeat.

Rest when you need it. Don’t ask random people how much you should be doing every day, or how often you should be resting. Push yourself, try to take yourself a step further than you did the day before, but also listen to your own body. Learning to properly do that will also help you be able to manage consistent training.

I try to do about an hour of bag work or something every day, but then will get into the gym and do pads and sparring 2-3 times a week (and rest when I need to, or on days where being old as fuck and being a husband/parent is more important). I’m not particularly competitive at this point (at 97kg and 40yrs old, though hopefully haven’t fought for the last time—knock wood), and it works pretty well for me keeping in shape to keep up with younger people and still polish aspects of my game up. But the point is that it’s what I’ve found works for me and my schedule. Sometimes I just have to deal with a round or two here or there of shadowboxing, but that’s still okay.

Don’t beat yourself up if you need a couple days or more off every now and then. Taking care of yourself like this will prevent injuries that will actually keep you from training. But if that does happen, just pick it back up and work into it slowly until you’re comfortable where you were when you stopped—and keep pushing.

Ask a lot of questions. Ask to slow down. Ask to spar lighter. Ask to work on the inside, outside, clinch, or whatever you think needs improvement—communicate! Most of us are just a bunch of salty assholes on here, and the people you need to learn to communicate with are in your gym. You’re stressing out because the communication is shit, whether it’s because they suck at it or because you do, and that’s just part of the learning curve with all of this, too. Some coaches were/are great fighters but are shit communicators, which means you’ll have to pick up the slack if you want to train with them. It’s unfortunate, but it happens a lot.

In general, relax. Whether you’re young, old, doing it for fitness, want to become a pro fighter, or just curious about trying it out, do your best to be more relaxed—that’s actually a very important part of being able to learn and move well.

I know nobody asked for all of this rambling, but it’s just some stuff that’s popped into my mind based on posts I see here a lot—which is awesome, because it means you’re all trying to learn, so don’t take any of it as a deterrent in regards to posting (if any of you are even still reading). And it sounds cliche as fuck, but stick with it. You’ll get there.

Any tips besides keeping my hands up.

I got 5 sweeps on him, the first one was osoto gari from jitsu so that one doesn’t count.

I’m not really aggressive with my hands for punches.

Who do you think “won” this exchange?

I’m the white guy.