According to Joe Lewis, there are forty mistakes that kickboxers make during their training and preparation for fights. These mistakes will ultimately cost you and may at some point or another, take from your joy of training and will remove you from the gym all together. So lets nip a few of those bad habits in the butt before they become a permanent fixture. So WNY MMA & Fitness will give you ten of those forty mistakes for you to look over.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #1
Trying to counter when you should be leading the attack. Counterattacking, like faking, is an advanced art. It requires knowing three things: the lead of the opponent, your method of avoiding his lead and the exact way of executing the proper counter-shot. Unless you know them all, initiate.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #2
Failing to step in when you punch. Whether jabbing or kicking, you always need to put your weight behind your executions for maximum power. Stepping in also increases your energy when you use the pivot-shifting and waist-pivoting (hinging) principles for punching power.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #3
Rushing your closing kick after a punching combination. The kick doesn’t have to be in cadence with the rhythm of any preceding punches. After the last punch, you should practice angling out of one of the side doors, resetting and then finishing with a power kick.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #4
Slugging toe-to-toe from the pocket with a slugger. Remember the fundamentals of fighting: Don’t slug with a slugger or hook with a hooker.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #5
Standing square while you’re in front of an opponent or in the pocket. If your shoulders are open, you not only present an easy target for your opponent but also limit your ability to fully rotate your hips through the centerline to create power in your knee strikes or inside punches.
I can say with confidence that if you are learning kickboxing under Corey Webster at WNY MMA & Fitness, you will not be making these mistakes. He is a competent coach and will definitely be there to correct this before it becomes a bad habit.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #6
When facing a southpaw or a sharpshooting hard kicker, failing to possess effective feinting or faking skills. Such skills would enable you to draw him off-balance by breaking his timing. When it seems impossible to back him up, you need to know how to disrupt his rhythm or cause him to hesitate using faking skills. Then you must work defensive timing to come in the back door with a counterattack.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #7
Failing to keep your back toward the center of the ring. You’ll end up getting walked to the ropes and find yourself trapped and punished without any room to maneuver or escape.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #8
Remaining in the same pocket position and continuing to fire combinations.You need to at least turn your opponent or change the angle or position from which you attack. Remember that standing in the same spot makes you an easy target.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #9
Failing to keep your feet directly under your punches. When you overreach with your punches, especially a straight right, you’ll end up lunging off-balance without any power. You’ll have too much hang time at the end of your punch, which leaves you unable to follow up with a left ridgehand or hook. You’ll often find yourself collapsing into your opponent directly behind your overextended punch. Or you may leave yourself open to his counter.
Kickboxing Training Mistake #10
Positioning yourself directly in front of an aggressive opponent. This will get you hit. To avoid that fate, you must know how to employ rhythm sets, both with your head movement and your footwork, to offset his alignment or range just before his trigger squeeze.
There are many more training mistakes, way too many to have posted here. I would have gotten sick of looking at them, so I saved you from that trouble. But what we can do is hit up the gym if you're every in the Western New York area, just look for Corey Webster. He will definitely fix those problems for you, he helped prepare one of the worlds highest rankers in american kickboxing. So he has what you need. Just saying.
WNY OUT!!!!
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