How to Slip Punches in Kickboxing

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Andrew Bridden here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts here on behalf of expertvillage.com. I'm a fighter here as are Damon Sanchez and Freddy Luna we are going to be demonstrating right now defense against punches. Obviously Freddy who has the gloves on is attacking and Damon is working on defense. Defending punching is crucial because if you could minimize the damage you take, obviously self explanatory the benefit to that, and it is also kind of demoralizing to your opponent if you can't connect. So that is our goal to avoid getting hit. The way that Damon is doing that is two fold right here one he is slipping punches where if he comes in as Freddy comes in with the jab Damon is throwing his hand out to just flip it. He is moving his head slightly to the side and he is batting the punch aways as he comes in with his hand. The other way that you could avoid this is my slipping the punch. So as he comes in he is going to bring his hand up to his side like that and the punch just kind of slide by harmlessly it might connect to the side of his head but, it is not going to be a knock out situation. So those are two ways which you can defend against the punch. Again he showing just and they flow into each other. You know you will parry one slip the other, slip the one, parry. All this hinges upon on watching your opponent and proper head movement. It is hard to move a moving target so our goal is to make the head as mobile as possible and there by making it hard for the attacker to do damage as much as possible and that is how you use a parry and slips to avoid punches."