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Without drilling head movement, you're never going to be able to avoid punches in the ring. In this video, we're going to go over the most effective head movement drills and how to perform them with correct technique. And at the end of the video, I'm going to drop probably the most epic drill I've ever came up with, so stay tuned for that.
We're going to start with the easy ones and we're going to progress into the more difficult head movement drills as we go along, starting with knee touches. So, a lot of people have a problem with slipping. Like, they don't know how far to slip, they don't know how to move their body in a way that takes their head just enough off the center line. Well, knee touches are super useful for giving you a reference point for this. So, take your rear hand and put it on your lead knee. This is a lead slip. And then take your lead hand, put it on your rear knee, and this puts your head in the right position for a rear slip. Now, we just want to go back and forth between them, using the rotation of our hips naturally to touch our knees, fully extending our arms as we do this as well, so you're not going too far. Okay, so fully extending the arms, going side to side. Once you get used to this movement, then just bring your hands up, and that's how you slip.
Now we've got a reference point for where we can, where we move our head to slip. We can use that in the other drills. The first one being slip, slip, roll. So, we can touch our knees, slip, slip. And then from here, I'm going to roll to this position here, right? To give you a reference point again. And from here, I'm going to slip to here, slip to here, and then roll back to the other slip position here. So, this is slip, slip, roll. So, going slip, slip, roll, slip, slip, roll. Now, once you sort of make this, or these two head movements flow together, you sort of draw this sort of shape with your nose back and forth like this. You see what I mean? So, we're going to slip, roll, slip, roll, slip. It wants to be less here than here, than here, you know? It doesn't, it needs to flow together. Making our head movement flow together is what makes us much harder to hit. For reason being, if I'm moving my head like to here and to here and to here, my head is spending a lot more time, time in the static position. Whereas if it's constantly flowing together like this, then it's always moving and it's a hard target to hit.
The next drill is pull, slip, pull, slip. Now, pull is where we're just leaning back slightly like this. So, my torso is at the same angle as my thigh, if you will. And that takes my head just out of range like this. Whereas it would be here, we're just coming just slightly out of range by leaning back like that. I'm not dropping my hands as I do this. That was a bad habit of mine. I was used to like, I don't know why, but take your hands with you like this. Don't come off at an angle like that, you'll come off balance. Just back, only needs to be slight. Then we're going to combine that with those slips. So, again, if you're struggling with the slips, use them knee touches for reference. We're going to pull, and I'm going to slip to my lead side, so to here. And I'm going to pull again. Slip to my rear side. And then we're just going to combine pulls with the slips. The reason why this drill is so effective is because imagine someone's, I've got an opponent attacking me. They're, if they're throwing straight shots, which is what they're likely to be throwing, a pull and then a slip has just taken away their double jab. They're following up with the right hand, they're aiming for my head here, I can pull out the way again. I can slip. And just that move cycled over and over again makes you really hard to hit. So, pull, slip, pull, slip.
Another great drill. You've probably heard a lot of people say before that, what's the point in making someone miss if you're not going to make them pay? Well, this next drill is combining head movement with counter punches, and that is the slip and punch drill. So, I'm going to throw a rear hand and I'm going to slip. I'm going to slip again. Then from here, 'cause my body's in this position, I'm rotating back this way, I'm going to throw a jab. And then I'm going to slip and slip again. And I'm going to throw a cross. I'm going to slip and slip again. I'm going to punch off these two slips here. Remember, you need to make, make sure everything is flowing. So, don't get this the wrong way around. Don't slip this way and then come back and throw a jab so it doesn't flow properly. You can use other shots as well. Don't have to be straight shots. You could slip this way, come back with a lead hook, slip, slip, rut. But this is getting on to the drill that I have at the end, which I know you're eagerly waiting for.
Next drill is combining hooks with rolls. So, get into our stance now. Our hips are either in two positions. They're either here, or they're here. And we're going to use this movement from here to here to roll and throw hooks off of. So, from here, I can throw a rear hook, right? My hips move to this position, and I'm going to come back this way, and I'm going to roll back to this position. From here, I can throw a lead hook, and I'm going to come back from here, roll to this position where I can throw a rear hook. And then I'm going to keep cycling through this for the hook roll hook drill. Look like this from the side. Remember, with the rolls, we're using the bend in our knees to go under the punch and the rotation of our hips. This is like one variation of a roll. You could do various other rotation, uh, variations. But for this one, we're going down, rotating our hips, coming up. We're drawing a U shape with our nose effectively, right? Going there and there. And from here, we can punch off that. You can also do uppercuts. Yeah, that's the hook roll hook.
Before I get into the most epic drill known to mankind, I should let you know I have a private coaching community which has got a road map laid out from beginner to competition level boxer with drills, all these kinds of drills put into workouts which you can follow. Super easy shadow boxing at home with plenty of feedback. The link's in the description if you're interested, or go to HBelite.com.
The moment we've all been waiting for, the most epic drill known to mankind. You'll have to join the elite to, uh, access it. No, you won't. You won't. This drill combines head movement and different punches into a bunch of multiple phase attacks. So, the more you do this, the more you'll naturally just throw punches off the slips. So, it is as follows. We're going to start off with a one, two. And from here, I'm going to slip this way. And then we'll come back with a two and a three. I'm going to slip this way. And then a three and then a four. I'm going to slip this way. A four and then a five. I'm going to slip this way. A five and a six. I'm going to slip this, this way. Six and a seven. Arm this way. And a seven and an eight. And that's the drill. Obviously, you can cycle it. But I'm going to try get it right first time. Let's see. See you go from there. Don't make me look ahead.