In my experience, reaction time is the one you should count on the least. Reacting implies that you have no clue what your oponent is about to do and you are moving by whatever auto default movement comes out. While you cannot know precisely what your opponent will do next, you should have your basic evasive movements cemented in to your muscle memory anyway, wich makes it much less about reaction and more about seeing the general patterns in the attacks. If you are constantly reacting to your opponent, you will get caught sooner or later. Head movement should be about temporarily evading so you can get a better position to start your offense. Not flinch reacting to every punch thrown. Good question though!
2 months ago (edited) | 4
Knowledge of what usually comes next from your opponent!
2 months ago | 3
I feel they’re all equally important, but I thought on this for a solid minute before answering. Felt cool to have selected the correct one lol
2 months ago (edited) | 0
Your speed won’t matter if you mistime your movement, put yourself at the wrong distance, or fail to set up your footwork. that’s kinda where my mind went
2 months ago | 0
Speed, because it’s not necessarily how fast you complete the movement. everything else plays together to put you a places where you should have to whip your head around alot
2 months ago | 1
The majority of the time that I’m catching someone with a headkick or making an angle on someone after they move their head it’s because they’re overcompensating with speed and end up losing control of themselves when moving their head. And when I say losing control of themselves, I mean putting themselves in positions where they can no longer or can hardly counter me after moving their head somewhere, and often times not even understanding where they’re putting their head. Things like leaning over past their own center of gravity so they then have to fall to that side or have no choice but to bring their head back to center, or even just stumble to whatever direction they moved their head in. You don’t have to move particularly fast at all to avoid strikes, or land them either. When it’s required you should apply more speed to your movements for sure, but understanding your distance, timing, and positioning before, during, and after an exchange both defensively and offensively is how you achieve excellent striking fundamentals. Athleticism can only do so much to make up for poor technique as much as it can to create it, and technique exists to make you more efficient and less vulnerable, which lets you make the most of your athleticism. That’s why technique comes before athleticism and any good coach will teach you that way.
2 months ago | 3
You need to be fast enough still, if ur as fast as a sloth, guess who’s gonna wake up in the locker room asking what happened?
2 months ago | 0
I don't get how the last two options aren't tied into each other.
2 months ago | 25
I think head movement should be minimal when all limbs are involved. You can easily just lean into something, it’s too dangerous. Head movement is more for boxers! A solid guard and footwork are where it’s at for everything else.
2 months ago | 0
Star charts. Mercury in retrograde? Better duck. Mars in line with Venus? Time to weave. Fool proof.
2 months ago | 0
I thought it would be distance control because you're either gaining or losing distance when slipping a punch. Jeff, can you explain why speed is the least important? I feel like I would be hit if I'm not reacting fast enough.
2 months ago | 33
It makes sense, but it's counterintuitive. You can have all the speed in the world, but without a firmer grasp on the other 3, you'll end up running right into them strikes.
2 months ago | 1
I feel like speed would be more important than distance control, especially in situations where you can’t get more distance than arms-length. Maybe this scenario just doesn’t come up AS much as scenarios where speed requirement is lacking compared to distance control 🤷
2 months ago | 0
I feel like they are all equally important since they pretty much serve the same couple of purposes. The footwork, the sense of distance, timing, angles and rhythm and the speed of your head movement are all there to give you as much reaction time as possible and to narrow down the options of punches that your opponent can actually throw back at you. All of them also equally help you get into a good position to land counters.
2 months ago (edited) | 0
I am not good at nothing in particular, but I guess head movement has to do more with position than speed or reaction time, you cannot dodge (easily) a punch that has already been thrown, so position and distance management are dictated by footwork. so I say footwork primarily. although I am opened to being educated on the matter.
2 months ago | 0
Reaction time is the correct answer. If you’re in range to get hit, 200-300 milliseconds—or even half that—is still far too slow to avoid getting hit. The answer marked as correct is objectively the wrong answer
2 months ago | 2
I think distancing control is the least since you gonna use head movement when you are up close to our opponent either offensive or defensive purpose. Distance control is already the obvious element depend your strategy for the match, staying long to strike or getting up close to pummel as well as takedown
2 months ago | 0
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