Champions' Fighting Secrets Tip #1 - How to score on your opponent in such a way that they cannot defend

As I have learned early on in my martial arts journey, which now has spanned roughly 40 years. Every martial arts instructor can teach you basic kicks, basic throws, basic takedowns. However how to actually get those techniques to your opponent while preventing them to use those techniques on you is rarely taught. As a matter of fact, several of my Martial Arts instructors have been champions. By studying them I have learnt that they know things that they do not teach to their students. In a way, after I found that out it made me kind of upset. I'm not a fan of withholding information but that's just me.

So, in a away, what I have learned through my own research, became a lot more precious, valuable, and close to the heart, because this
information was not easily available.

Today I will share with you 1 tip of many tips from my online course how to score on your opponent in such a way that they cannot defend. I place this concept under the broad umbrella of qualities of movement, polarities of movement, and modalities of
movement.

So, after watching thousands upon thousands of hours of professional fighters fighting, not just martial arts, but also boxing. I noticed and this was especially well seen in slow motion that a fighter begins to move at a specific pace, specific rhythm, or at specific speed.

To stay “on his or her level”, the other fighter, begins to adapt to that same quality of movement. In other words, he's trying to understand his opponent. Most people do this without understanding that they're doing it. I have done this many times. And I know that by changing how I move, not kick or punch, just move, I can change how the other fighter will move in an attempt to figure out what I'm doing.

Here are a couple of notes:

#1: If a fighter knows what is being done to them and they're very well trained, they are able to resist adapting to their opponent’s movement. It took me a long time to be able to resist but it can be done.

#2: Not everyone can simply change how they move. It’s very easy to change how you move to follow your opponent. But, to initiate that change, and pull the other person into your quality of movement, that takes practice. And of course, in the ElasticSteel Champions Fighting Secrets Online Training Course I teach all of this and much more.

So, now when your opponent has adapted to a specific polarity or specific modality of your movement. Once you change your movement again, your opponent will not be able to react. Simply because their mind will not interpret what you did. As part of what you are supposed to do, or as part of what your opponent expects you to do.

Now, this is a broad concept, which has many, many applications. And each of those applications is trained. Just like you train your kick or punch thousands of times, you train specific qualities of your movement many, many times. And after training you'll know how to change your opponent’s quality of movement. You'll begin to understand what qualities of movement it is easy to pull them into. And
when you change again, what is the best way to switch into a new movement, or what is the best quality, or polarity, or modality of movement to switch into, that your opponent will not be able to respond to, and thus your attack will go through successfully.

If you have trained in martial arts for a long time like I have. You have seen people practice their techniques. You have seen people practice their techniques in front of a mirror, on the pads, on the bag, on the opponent. But you’ve almost never seen people practice the quality of their movements.

This is not something that is usually taught. I know from experience, and I do not want to name fighters here because most of them
have copyrights and trademarks on their names. But these tricks and these tips pass from father to son, they pass from a trainer to a very special and close student or trainee. But usually this information is not given out freely. It was not given out to me. I had to find it. I wish it was given to me, but it wasn't.

So having said this, I hope that today’s tips will help you. To learn more I invite you to take a look at the ElasticSteel Champion’s Fighting Secrets - Online On Demand Training Course.

In a nutshell, it is a 15 lesson journey into everything that champions of different styles of hand to hand combat and commanders of
conquering armies used to win the fight or the battle.

Any Martial Arts Master will teach you how to kick or punch, but almost no one will teach you how to win, how to get those kicks and punches to your target, while easily making sure your opponent is defenseless against you.

My research into ElasticSteel Champion’s Fighting Secrets started many years ago when I noticed that champions are not the fastest or the strongest people, but are those who know something that others do not, and use that knowledge to score and win.

Let me tell you right now that ElasticSteel Champion’s Fighting Secrets Online Training Course is not about positive thinking or about believing that you are the best (No offense to Tony Robins) .

As a teenager training in martial arts, I was an excellent technician. I had explosive and powerful kicks. I had fast and devastating hands. Yet, there were some fighters that I just could not beat. I could not beat them in point fighting; I could not beat them in full contact.

I did all that I could and sometimes would get a kick or a punch in, but most of the time I would lose the match. Forward a decade later. Now having an education in the science of human movement, having access to high speed equipment and cameras, I had decided to answer the questions I had once and for all. No one else was going to answer it for me, so I decided to do this myself.

At first I would watch many champions in slow motion sometimes dozens of times over and over again, trying to figure out what they did. Exactly how much their front foot moved when they made an angle, exactly how much weight was on each foot. I studied the timing of their attack, the distance they were from their opponent, and the maneuvers they used to control their position and distance.

After a few months of spending hours in front of the screen I began to get answers. I also began to try them out in the ring both as a fighter and as a trainer. The more I got into the strategies of top fighters, the more I began to realize that many strategies begin five, ten and sometimes even thirty seconds before the punch or kick makes contact. Sometimes the set up for one technique would take one or two rounds. Everything was very subtle and a very tightly kept secret.

Trying to apply these strategies to my trainees and myself, I realized that, some things can’t be done by everyone. Certain footwork or
fakes required specific strength, balance or speed not everyone had. Those modalities had to be developed. I began experimenting with different kinds of conditioning and transfer-over exercises and finally, after finding the right ones all of a sudden, the impossible strategies became possible!

The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. The next big hurdle I had to tackle is the applications of different plays in relations to different fighters. Some fighters are too short, some are too slow, some are too big, or small to pull off certain strategies; what works against one opponent, doesn’t work against the other one. After thousands of trials and errors I finally began to see what plays to recommend for one type of fighter against the other.

Amazingly I began to score on what I consider to be more experienced opponents. Scoring turned to dominating. After all, I don’t spend 5-6 days in a ring, since I write, research and teach a lot. Compare this to people who train at least 3 hours a day, almost every day of the week.

Having not sparred for a while, I began to enjoy it more and more. I also began to participate in many specialized competitive drills with top athletes. Hey, when you can easily out-spar the person who is faster, stronger, more agile, and younger than you, just because of your superior combat analytical ability and specialized training, the game becomes so much more fun.

Armed with years of experimentation, experience, and research, I set out to put together a seminar that would blow anyone’s mind, even the most experienced of masters. Over the last year and a half, I conducted small group, private seminars to the most advanced masters of combat strategies that I had contact with.

Two things came out of this. One, I was happy to see that most of the information I presented was new to people who I truly consider my superiors in martial arts. Two, despite having armed myself with large amount of knowledge, I got to learn many interesting bits and pieces, that I did not already know. I also got a ton of a high level informed critique on the information that I presented.

Fast Forward another 10 years. After having done many revisions, I finally molded the ElasticSteel Champion’s Fighting Secrets Online
Training Course into a form that I am happy with. It’s my privilege to say, that I am truly convinced that this is the best training course that I have put together so far.