Hands UP VS Hands DOWN Fighting Style ... Which One Is Right For YOU?!
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"Unless you are Gilbert Burns and aim for the whole back of the head" - Sweet T is a national treasure.😂😂😂😂
Back of the face 😂😂😂
Point taken 😂😂😂👌
@George Washington quite random
The gilbert burns aiming for the back of the face line had me dying.
Me too
that was so hard to watch
Too bad it’s bs & they are just sore loosers
@@annerenk7109 true
@@annerenk7109 wonderboy is the absolute opposite of a sore loser lmao, have you even paid attention to his career??
If you’re in your opponents range, hands up. If you’re at your range, keep them wherever you can throw the fastest from.
Same place.
YEAH BUDDY
When I've done this, every time I get in range I bring my hands up and that becomes a telegraph for when I'm coming in
@@amhawk8742 coz u scared :)
@@amhawk8742 agreed. Can be predictable. It’s hard
The only intro that never gets old... "What's up everybody... Everybody".
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@@johnkreese4706 Absolutely!
Dotto. It's better when WB has that sly smile...!
My instructor teaches me hands up incredibly strictly, so it's great to hear such a seasoned fighter like WB advocate for hands down. I think because of my short reach and height, it's probably better for me to continue to use hands up, but I like WB's perspective, as always.
Tbh height and size rly doesn’t matter. I’m 5”5 and weigh 125 and hands down works a lot better for me. Im always sparring people bigger than me so I have to really on movement and speed and it works really well. If you have good footwork and you move really well, I suggest u use hands down because it’ll only make your movement better
"Roy Jones Jr was a master... baiter." - Sweet Tea, kinda.
Haha
Lmao the Burns call out.
I like Gilbert burns but him throwing 5 hammer fists to wonderboys brainstem with 5 seconds left and then celebrating like he won the super bowl definitely didn’t make me happy
Really gross to see
@@osio7528 he didn’t know what he was doing man Gilbert is nice as they come he was in the middle of a high stakes fight. Little hard to keep your composure in there
@@niqowyd yeah I tend to agree with you I don’t think it was malicious, just 5 seconds left he wanted to open up and make a definitive statement who won that rounds. It’s just negligent though to hit the back of the head like that, even if he didn’t mean to hurt him like that you gotta he more careful especially when dealing with back of head. That being said wonderboy spinning heel kicked the back of the head which is legal but probably didn’t feel great either lol
@@NeoValeTudo yea I was gonna say that spinning kick that dropped Gil was kind of back of the head so they both tasted it. It’s easy to say they need to be more careful but in the heat of that moment, a fight in front of a giant crowd and live cameras, it’s just a thing that happens sometimes.
Did you not see the immediate replay? Or hear the commentators clarify the strikes were not to the back of the head? I’ll so tired of the excuses and trying to discredit a good fighter on a well deserved win.
Hands down, Wonderboy is my favorite UFC fighter.
👏👏👏
I see what you did there
Yo WB it would be great if yall did a video on fighting backwards/ countering.
Hey , I like you dp .
Where do I get one ?
@@AryavardhanYaudheya same here
Hands up is what my style practices. I’ve gotten good at it, and can’t see myself doing hands down. But then I watch wonderboy, and I’m like WTF!
He also switch stances at well. That why he so good. A lot of people can't do what Wonderboy can and it's almost impossible to get a sparing partner like him.
@@alexlilano1931 burns used Raymond Daniels, pretty good comp who else is gonna blast you with those spinning kicks like him
What you do on close distance? run in clinch?
@@W1LDtracer I found that circling/reverse circling and kicking helps close distance the most
Whenever we ever go hands down coach yells at us saying you're not good enough for that Floyd Mayweather shoulder shrug or nate diaz type shit 😂
I've been kickboxing a long time. Agreed - hands up actually feels too stiff and seems to takes more energy, but it comes with higher risk
I like hands up. I’ve done karate and kick boxing and I like parrying with my hands and blending the two styles together.
I do both. I like to be light on my feet and counter, but I do understand why keeping my hands up is important especially in punching rage.
“Keep your hands down” - Anthony Pettis
No offense, love you wonderboy
I learned to fight hands down, because I love how unpredictable it makes me. I thought I was making a mistake, but I’m glad to hear you advocating for it!
Mixed with my philly shell defense I think I’m getting pretty good!
Do some hard sparing with a partner who practices a different MA while being padded. Its a good indicator on how well something works for you.
That shade at Burns lmao
Thanks man! This helped a lot!
I don't know that I agree with the energy efficient comparison. I think it is how you drill it and how you move with it. I find that having my hands down is more efficient because I don't have to move as much to effectively defend myself. My major concern is with my distance and controlling my distance. I also think that a major problem with teaching hands up from the start is that to then adopt hands down later is much much harder because of muscle memory. I think teaching both and a hybrid in between would be the best way for someone to find their comfortable fighting style. Everyone is different though and that's the great thing about martial arts. There is a style for everyone.
Grew up in a shotokan dojo and we always drilled in constant motion, legs bladed and with the lead hand up and extended. Likely because of this, I found myself getting rocked by hooks when I started learning traditional boxing years later. Specifically right hooks over my left eye - always caught me blind, even on the pull while standing orthodox.
Had to completely change the way I understood my lead hand defence and now spar with the lead hand down by my hips until I get gassed. Since switching my form I've been getting touched significantly less, and I'm rarely getting hit by shots I don't see coming. Since the ones you don't see are the ones that hurt the most, I've also been able to be a lot more active in general - spending less time recovering and overall having more fun with it.
Great video.
FMA training has lowered my hands. You have to protect everything and attack from everywhere.
Like most things in martial arts, it depends on the situation and the fighter. Both can be done well, both can be done poorly. Great video!
Dude You are my favorite UA-cam martial arts channel and I learn from you all the time, coming from Austin Texas
Using both are nice. High guard at the beginning. Then changing between high and low when you are more experienced. If you are in a good position in relation to your opponents it can be great.
Strait line is the shortest distance and quickest to your destination. Hands down longer distance to cover also takes more energy to cover it. I prefer to aim for back of head to as my father taught me at like 4 years old but I try to get their through the face.
Must important with the hands down style is to control the distance and timing. If you control the distance and timing there’s no need to have a high guard.
For me Hands Down I've been practicing your combinations Wonderboy your my inspiration I've been training all by myself 😁
Quite a good explanation 😃
Great insight.
I have taken in a lot of knowledge from this video thanks
MAKE A TUTORIAL SERIES OF HANDS DOWN DRILLS!!!!
SHOW US HOW TO DO IT RIGHT!!!
Great video. Idea for next TT: Long guard pros and cons!
Did you get a prompter?? That draft kings promo was TIGHT!!!
The rest of the vid was super dope as always but from one on camera performer to another… truly nice work!
love the technique of having a checklist visible throughout.
Love the balanced discussion.
How about getting someone to cut clips of examples in to go with your checklist?
Videos are getting better. Smash the like and Subcribed button.
Nice information thank y
I say this when it released he's totally right I have developed my long guard and high guard and head movement now I can use my hands down effectively after two years of training defensively
I mix both ways, depending on the situation
Technique Tuesday the Wednesday Edition.
Also, Sweet T on fire today.
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Wonderboy the real goat
Would love a video on lateral movement and evades for resetting
Yay u answered my question!
Great stuff!!! Now i know why i get so tired in sparring hands down and eventually start getting hit as i run Outta gas
Well said, well done fellas!
It's all just a matter of mixing and matching it up well.
When I shadowbox I practice more bringing my hands back along with footwork to change the angle for me it's the two most important things.
No need for an iron chin if all they hit is glove (though some big guys have dazed me through my guard before lol)
I am not a good fighter.
Once I figured out that my feet and distance determines everything in a fight though, I became a lot better than I used to be.
If my feet are wrong and I am too close/far away. That determines everything from being able to hit your opponent and how hard you can hit/be hit by them.
If the angle is poor the connection may not be clean.
Landing a good clean punch isn't as simple as going through the motion and copying a movement.
It's a real time measurement of distance and angles.
Sometimes in sparring i do get my hands down and try to do like you WB but i fail miserably, i am not as quick as you in getting in and out of range, so yeah, for me hands up is the way to go!
I'm team "Hands Down", it's not a liability if you're good at changing levels, have a low stance, and have good proprioception.
Back when I was younger I tended to stand up more straight and couldn't smoothly transition off the ground. Back then hands down absolutely would have gotten me mauled or I'd have spent half my time on my butt.
I think it's a lot more complicated than just up or down and it's just as much how your hand position interacts with how you're standing and how you're moving.
For me I feel like I was better with "up" when I was busier using my brain to keep track of where my body was and I was arguably overthinking, and I'm better with "down" now that my body's mostly on autopilot.
holding the hands up for too long is tiring, if they are bent too long in the elbows, you cut off the blood supply and of course the gravity does its job, so after strong blows to your hands, your hands just fall asleep.
Good job mate
I want a bond with another man like WB and Sweet T have with each other. The trolling between each other and the hip bump at 13:02 was very insightful as to how close they are with each other. Thanks for being so inspiring!
I became anti social by smoking weed. Its time to quit and draw my people in, instead of searching for them
I sincerely hope you win the UFC title one day my man!
if it's late in a fight after a couple of rounds I usually have a traditional hands up. Otherwise I'm using a flicker stance
WB when can we see you fight again? Dont wait, we fans need more WB-cageside action!!
I m in love with intro.......😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Great video
Hands down one of the best videos
Hey Champ!
Wonderful video. I don't know if anybody would agree with me, but i'd say hands down style starts to backfire with time - it's lot about reflex and stamina and these two vanishes the most with age. Doing hands up style you can do your fight career longer. And I think perfect example of such hands down backfire is Anderson Silva - goat but also a veteran now.
Great content, I'd love to see more. Keep the good job. Im a huge fan! Oss!
Nice video! Any tips about the long guard?
Your footwork is so good that you don’t need your hands up, please! :)
That trucker really knows his mma fundamentals
I remember a few years back I was teaching my neighbors boxing, and I always focused on what was best for each person. I myself am a hands down counter striker, but my peek-a-boo was not bad either giving me a hybrid counter and swarmer style. I sparred every one of them after a few months and while I never lost, it was only due to experience and they all wanted to learn my hands down style and I showed them all why you need amazing head movement and footwork to do so since they thought it was all about head movement alone. It's kind of crazy when I think about the fact that even at the MMA gym I went to for sparring that the biggest issue for the hands down style is so many people like to admire their work and that gets them clipped. If fighting is like chess, hands down fighting is like chess with your opponent holding a firearm. Your only form of defense is not taking a shot
I switch between hands up and down depending on the range and the kind of fighter I'm sparring. I throw a lot of kicks which I'm always hands down side stance during. I don't throw much Muay Thai style kicks, mostly karate. It's good to throw a kick on your way out of a clinch with a kick and you should definitely have hands up for that. Peace and love
Nice to know that we are on the same page...
I have been fighting itf taekwondo, point fighting and light contact ever since I was a kid. Even in my Thai fights I move around and have my hands down most of the time. I just feel faster, more elusive and able to set my shots up way better. Screw exchanges in the pocket and screw taking turns hitting each other. I hit you, move and you don't hit me. Move in get stopped by a sidekick. It's always my turn. Stephen gets this better than everyone. If you have the endurance and head movement to sustain a hands down, bouncy style it can be very awkward and effective.
Ooooo! I like this one!
I teach a certain baseline stance to my students but tell them later to do what feels right to them as long as they know WHY they are doing it. For example I've never liked the traditional sideways stance . But the reason why is my hips are a mess and I can't kick from there to save my life . But I can still teach it if I want and let them decide if it's for them. I prefer hands up in general but have super long arms and let them down at times to switch things up or bait people. Think it depends on your reaction time and ability to read your opponent
I do shotokan and our Kamea is quite low so I naturally prefer hands down especially with in full contact sparing as I like to move on almost a pattern but still random enough to not get hit then freeze and counter and I move around a lot like a lot a lot but I think that’s from taking sport and traditional karate but sparring full contact
I would also say hands up also block your own vision to an extent so it's harder to counter. That said, I'm still a hands up dude lol
I fight hands down mostly also. I think an additional pro would be Balance... Easier to transition to angles...I have sunk in many guillotines (sprawling) on shooting fighters...
I wish Wonderboy learned bjj young... He would have been 🐐
Love the Gilbert Burns Comment about the Back of the Head. I was Screaming at the TV when that Happened! I wanted Wonderboy to Win that fight so Bad! He'll Get it Next time! Gilbert Fought so Boring, It's like a "Cheap" Way to win a UFC fight with the Judges... I just think Stephen had to unload and be more aggressive with his kicks and not wait to counter as much as that happened... I know Gilbert is a power guy, but Wonderboy has got to give himself more credit at how dangerous he is, and he will be surprised at the outcome that could occur if he kicks things into high gear and gets aggressive. And, If anything ever starts getting out of hand... Just use wonderboys amazing push kick to suppress the pressure.. I'd just love to see Wonderboy go crazy and overload his opponent and always use his counter techniques but switch it up sometimes and mix in some aggression and the counters will be more successful i feel but what do i know... Im just going off a gut feeling because i know wonderboy is just THAT SKILLED! I believe! I believe in you dude! Keep up the great work!
Back hand up and lean hand down works best for me 🙂
I love you WB hope you get another shot. I wish some how you and izzy could fight talk about 2 fantastic strikers and you are just 1 weight class below 🤔
vid on feints/combos in hands down stance?
5:50 "you don't know if it's a hand coming up, a foot or an uppercut"... I wanna see a wb front hand uppercut McGregor style in his next fight.
Gilbert the the back of the head hunter Burns hahaha
Ngl man, I imagined Wonderboy with full white hair, it looks pretty dope.
Try and work both depending on which stance I use
Sometimes the best deffence is offense
But could be said opposite as wel
Best offense could be deffence
i would add that hands down or atleast 1 hand down makes it easie to use kicks or sneaky fast kicks
the brainstem from this day forth shall be referred to as "The back of the face."
Good video.
Bobby Green is the king of keeping his hands down
What up Wonderboy!!
I've realized that I'm a counter puncher, jamming attacks is just too fun for me, so I may try a hybrid of this, just letting the lead hand dip. Thanks WB!
Also, Gilbert Burns is a bum.
I think a huge advantage you have also WB is your footwork. It allows you to maintain that distance. Do you think this also helps you with the hands down style?
I like hands down when sparring with guys the same height as me and with less experience, but with taller guys or guys at my level I go back to hands up.
Nice ring
Every gym I’ve gone to has always done hands up but I personally like my hands down as throwing strikes low has been more easier for me to hit them and if u trust ur head movement and ur guard just as soon as they throw you can do a lot with combination but like I said if u got good headmovement but if u don’t pls done do it
Btw this is boxing and Muay Thai gyms no wrestling or bjj I mean why would they teach it and if ur boxing please have good movement and footwork if u want your hands down
took so many punches learning to keep his hands down that he turned grey
I do both actually.
Hands up, hands down. Itf Taekwon-Do kinda like karate.
I want to do hands down so bad, and work the head movements but the hands up fits my fighting style better, says my coach
Every coach Ik has said that to me just give it a try in sparring couple time see how u feel about it
Nicolino Locche was a superb boxer with lead hand down style.
Another pro for hands down is it is extremely intimidating…
I prefer the hands down, i like them all, and i use them all, but i prefer hands down, its the element of surprise
If you kept your damn hands up against a striking genius like showtime you'd be a ufc champion
I’d say it really depends on who you are fighting
Stephen Thompson man ur the man god bless u for showing people how to strengthen the bones thanks 🙏 god bless u man 😊
i used to have a high guard , but it really restricts upper body movement
show me someone who goes everyday with their hands up, it's not natural, that's why we have a better balance with the hands down, it's natural, it's so simple, it's like a spoon falling off the table, you are not prepared for it ,but you catch at the last moment, a natural reflex.
Man I miss your lessons and our dodge ball games from Logan Maye
Hands downs if you have lightening speed, great footwork and head movement and accurate counter punches like Roy Jones Jr at his prime. When his lost his speed and got caught and knocked out many times.
Hands up cause ummm you would have got us if we had our hands down 😹 was taught by you hands up.