Your Fake Looks Fake — Feints

[headline_arial_large_left color=”#000000″]Your Fake Looks Fake: When you have boxing feint and fake problems[/headline_arial_large_left]

Are you familiar with boxing feints?

You jab at your opponent’s face — right up through the center. He (or she) blocks.

Again, you jab at your opponent’s face. Your opponent blocks across the opening, to meet your jab, as before.

On the third jab, you start the motion. Your opponent, blocks … but your jab was a fake.

You come in on the side with a hook (punch).

It’s a great sequence, except …

Most of the time, when someone does this move on me, the feint doesn’t draw any response. I don’t respond, because I know it’s a feint.

The fake looks fake.

It’s obvious.

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First of all, does everyone have to perform their feint on the “third” jab?

Jokes have the punch-line delivered with the “third” example.

I could almost shut my eyes …

Jab … jab … fake.

Jab … jab … fake.

Jab … jab … fake.

Jab … jab … fake.

[headline_arial_small_left color=”#000000″]Beginning Punch Movement — Make it the Same[/headline_arial_small_left]

Besides varying the count, you should also practice making your feint more like your real jab.

Either the move is too pronounced, or the fake has no shoulder lean, where the real jabs do. Either way, the fake looks and feels different.

And I don’t know about you, but …

“I don’t react the same to different.” 🙂

The purpose of a fake is to draw a response — to convince the opponent that this move is just like the others.

[headline_arial_small_left color=”#000000″]End Notes[/headline_arial_small_left]

1. Fakes and feints fall under the category of Progressive Indirect Attacks. I have a free video on Youtube that explains all 5 Ways of Attack:

http://kerwinbenson.com/martial-arts-disadvantage-to-advantage/

2. And if you have the bucks and really want to improve your punching, no matter what level of fighter you are, check out The Punch eCourse:

http://kerwinbenson.com/martial_arts_books/punch-ecourse/

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3. Finally, if you feel that most of your opponents’ fakes seem obvious to you, then here’s another article on Fakes. It’s for the more seasoned martial artist:

http://kerwinbenson.com/responding-to-fakes/