FEINT LIKE A PRO: 10 Tips to Outfox (and Out-Box) Your Opponent in Any Combat Sport
Feinting is the great equalizer, allowing shorter, slower, weaker fighters to beat physically superior opponents by negating their natural advantages.
Timing beats speed, as the old saying goes, and feints give you some control over your opponent’s timing, as well as their hand position, their movement, and, most importantly, their confidence.
All fighters feint, from backyard brawlers to elite professionals, and for good reason.
But while feinting is quite natural, feinting safely and effectively takes a lot of work.
Here’s 10 tips to help you out:
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Tip #1: Functional Feinting
2:19 Tip #2: Feint Small
3:42 Tip #3: Feint Responsibly
4:31 Tip #4: Eye Feints
6:16 Tip #5: Feint Outside the Box—Tips, Sits, and Weldons
9:56 Tip #6: Change Tempo
12:48 Tip #7: Establish Credible Threats
14:12 Tip #8: Sell Feints with Sound
14:46 Tip #9: Feint with Tells
15:43 Tip #10: Feint with Purpose
SOURCE MATERIAL:
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