Kickboxing technique: jab

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Hi this is Tristan at the Austin Martial Arts Academy. We’re online at http://www.austinmartialarts.com. This next clip I’m going to teach you the jab. There are four punches in boxing, in kickboxing, if you remember from the first clip this is your on guard position, your self defense position, your fighting position, and your work out position. The jab is always thrown with your front hand. It’s the closest hand to your target – the back hand is the cross. We’ll get into that later. When you throw the jab, here’s the tips, extend your arm, rotate your fist, so it ends up in a horizontal position. This is a vertical punch, this is horizontal. As you throw the punch, don’t telegraph it. Don’t pull it back first and then throw the punch. A lot of people do that, that’s not a good boxing technique. Again, extend your punch, rotate your shoulders, look down your arm, and notice my shoulder, my front shoulder. I’m not like this. If I was really learning boxing, kickboxing, and I wanted to do sparring later I could get hit in the head if I was working with a partner. I want my chin hiding behind my shoulder. Very very important. When you extend your arm, do not hyper extend it. There is a meniscus cartilage tissue. If you snap out your arm repeatedly, it will begin to hurt. Do not do that. Just go slightly short of full extension. Okay. And bring the jab back in. where’s the power coming from? It’s not from your arm it’s actually from your legs. You’re going to be pushing with your whole body into the punch and you can probably start hearing my breath. Never hold your breath. You want to expel the air from the center of your body on the execution of the technique. That’s the jab. Moving with the jab, if you recall the foot work, this is a step and a drag. Let’s do that with the punch. Notice my hand as it comes back it doesn’t drop down it goes out and back the same way that it went out. That’s the jab.

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