Boxing, MMA, Combat Sports
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Can You Spar With MMA Gloves? – Risks & Advantages Explained
You can spar with MMA gloves and most MMA fighters will occasionally use them for sparring when preparing for a fight. This is because it gives them the most realistic sparring where they can grapple as well. It also allows them to get accustomed to the glove size they’d be using for the fight. However,…
How To Stay Loose In Boxing – Stop Being Stiff & Stay Relaxed
For a lot of beginners, being fluid is a challenge in boxing. It’s easy to let the intense nature of the sport make you uneasy and reactive. This creates tension and rigidity that won’t allow you to move freely and will often result in bad positioning, form, and fluidity. Think about boxing as a motor…
How To Throw A Lightning-Fast Whipping Jab: Complete Guide
Having a fast jab is greatly beneficial for boxing. The jab is the most important punch in the sport as it is often used to dictate pace and authority, and is used for setting up harder punches. So its imperative that your jab is not only accurate but also fast. However, many new boxers find…
Do Boxers Get Paid More Than Footballers?
Floyd Mayweather’s Instagram is an assemblage of cars, money, and watches. A never-ending catalog of luxurious goods. A testament to the American dream. While Floyd is the face of this lifestyle, it could be easy to assume that most professional boxers live a similarly lavish lifestyle. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. The…
Are Straight Punches Better Than Hooks? – Breakdown
Straight punches are often more efficient and effective than looping hooks, but considering them better wouldn’t be correct. They both have a purpose and they are both good for different things. From a sporting perspective, one isn’t objectively better than the other as every punch has a different use case. Straight punches are more effective…
Does Being Strong Help In A Fight: Explained
This is one of those questions that gets gym-goers and fighters perpetually arguing. Frankly, it isn’t easy to be objective and have an unbiased opinion when you belong to either of these communities. As someone who goes to the gym frequently for general health but also trains MMA, I’m informed enough to tell you that…
Is Boxing Considered A Martial Art: Fully Explained
In the modern day, I suppose you could consider boxing a martial art. Most people would define martial arts as a form or discipline of fighting. However, it isn’t that simple. The Cambridge Dictionary defines Martial Arts as a traditional Japanese, Chinese, or Korean form of fighting or defending yourself, practiced as a sport or as exercise. Martial arts include karate, judo, kung fu, and aikido. According to these parameters, boxing can’t be considered a martial…
Can You Punch A Bag Without Gloves? – Detailed Explanation
Punching a bag without gloves comes with challenges and isn’t typically recommended. There are two issues with punching a heavy bag without gloves. Firstly, if you put considerable power into your punches, the skin around your knuckles will split open. As you can expect this will hurt your hands and will prevent you from punching…
How Would Mike Tyson Do Against Today’s Heavyweights?
I know it’s unfair to compare fighters from different generations but for the sake of sporting fun, this is a really interesting one to conceptualize. As technology and science have progressed sports have become more calculated and athletes have become better overall. However, boxing has quite a few exceptions to this. Some people will argue…