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Ah, now let's talk about deception

and how it can make you more dangerous at every single level

of the martial arts game.

Well, the faint is at the heart of deception

because it creates unpredictability.

So if every single strike that you throw

that looks like a jab is in fact a jab,

then you have a tendency and you can be countered easily.

Your opponent just has to time the full extension

of your arm to coincide with his counterstrike,

and you get punched in the face.

This is the major problem with predictability.

But if you're jab and faint, and faint and jab and faint

and jab, you no longer have a timetable moment

of vulnerability that your opponent can exploit.

Otherwise, that guy can just wait for your jab

so he can slip it and bash you in the head

with a counterstrike.

Now, with Koto having an additional tendency

of pulling his hand back too low,

this cross was almost guaranteed to land.

But if you're fainting once or twice per jab

or even every other jab, your opponent can't have that kind

of timing, certainly not without giving away his idea.

So if you fire a jab and then you faint

and that guy whips an uppercut,

that just barely misses your head.

Well, for one thing, it's a good thing you might have just

been saved by your faint,

but for another, now you know

how he might intend on countering your jab,

and if you're smart, you'll take a step back

and think of a way to make him pay for throwing

that counterstrike again.

Now that you're expecting it,

that would mean you're countering your opponent's counters.

You're thinking two steps ahead in the chess match

that is striking, which is even more impressive than just

observing an offensive tendency

and making that guy pay for it.

But both of 'em certainly count as smart fighting

or fight smarting.

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Yeah, like tweeting or xing, whatever.

Now, I am gonna break down some make

or break technique in this video,

but I have to mention first that you can also use your faint

to exhaust your opponent.

It costs you almost no energy to do this,

but if your opponent keeps reacting with a big slip

or a big blast backwards,

or pretty much anything

that consumes more energy than a faint, well,

you can keep fainting and fainting

and drawing out that response.

And over time you start to win the battle of energy economy,

at which 0.1 of two things will likely happen.

Number one, the guy gets tired

and he has to stop executing those big defensive movements

because of fatigue.

And of course, this makes it easier for you to hit him

with the intended strike in the absence of those defenses.

Now, when people get tired, especially in street fights

where there's no one minute of rest between rounds,

it's extremely unlikely that he ever catches his breath.

And as a result, his overall offensive output will be

lowered, he'll be significantly less dangerous,

and the, the, the probability of you winning

that fight increases dramatically.

Now, number two, let's say the guy's a little bit smarter

and he realizes that you're just trying

to faint him into executing big defensive movements.

Although his big defensive movements are again gonna get

smaller and smaller,

and when they're essentially not happening anymore,

it becomes a whole lot easier to hit that guy in the face

with the strike that you want to land land.

So either way, the faint creates a lower defensive output in

our opponent, and that's exactly

what we want when we're trying to land strikes.

So in this video, I'm gonna teach you how to faint a jab,

and then you can apply a similar method

to pretty much any strike that you want to throw.

Now, arguably, the most important part of a good faint is

to take the same step

that you would normally take if you were actually

throwing a jab at that guy.

So the the, the thing that's gonna give the guy the feeling

that he's being threatened is in part the encroachment

of your body, the feeling that you're getting closer to him,

like you're trying to move in on him and to hit him.

So you gotta take that step.

If you don't take it and you're just throwing a faint, it,

it just, it just reads as fake.

It reads like you're, you're one

of those guys who's just doing this to try to get you

to put your hands up and be like, eh, alright.

So you gotta take a step.

Now that step can be a small step if you're worried about

encroaching too much and potentially

being accountable, right?

You could even potentially step in place though it's not

gonna give you the same type of a defensive impulse,

but no matter what, to have a successful faint,

you gotta be taking a step.

Now, while you're taking that step, I need you

to do two initial movements simultaneously, one in the core

and one in your arm.

Both extremely simple movements.

So for the core, what I want you

to do is get in your stance,

imagine an opponent right in front of you,

and then try to crunch your abs in a way

that would draw your body

and your, your lead shoulder two inches

closer to your opponent.

So this'll sort of depend on how square

or angled your stance is.

For me, it's mostly on my obliques

and a super quick crunch brings my torso

just a little bit forward.

Alright, a couple inches.

Really the smallest movement that you can make

where it discernibly brings your,

your torso in towards that guy.

Little abdominal crunch. Alright?

Now, the arm aspect I like to describe as if you're,

you're standing with your pinky knuckles three

or four inches away from a door

and you're trying to quickly knock on that door

with your pinky knuckles.

Please note we never lead real punches

with our pinky knuckle because the fifth metacarpal has a

tendency to break upon impact.

But since we're not actually punching anything, it's fine.

Keep your hand loose if you can,

that makes it move a little bit quicker

and maybe a little bit of flex

and tension at the end of that.

Okay? Now we need to combine the step with the,

the torso crunch, and then we add the arm flex to that.

And then we have a faint try

to be unpredictable surprise even yourself.

All right, throw a real jab, throw a faint.

Alright, throw a faint, throw a jab. Okay?

This is giving you the, uh, an uneasy feeling.

That's a good sign that my faint is working on it, right?

Just a, a quick little burst.

So now I command you to throw at least one faint,

throw every three jabs

or perhaps throw one jab for every three faints.

There is no right

or wrong formula other than ensuring absolute chaos

and unpredictability.

How about that left Hand?

Now, in the full minimal striking course, I point out

that there's really only a few common defenses to a jab

that you're likely to see,

and people are much more likely

to have defensive tendencies than offensive

ones offensively.

You kind of get to sit back

and think for a second about

how you wanna dive in there and attack.

But defensively, the vast majority

of people are still operating under some degree

of flinch reflex,

where they're not consciously choosing their defenses.

Their brain is just telling their body what

to do in the midst of an oh crap moment.

And sometimes that's a block and sometimes it's a slip.

But since it's instinctive, they're a lot less likely

to vary that movement since they're often not consciously

choosing it to begin with.

This leads people very quickly into defensive tendencies

that you can exploit.

So in this course, we examine those common responses to jabs

or to fainted jabs,

and for each extremely common response, I'll give you a way

to knock that guy unconscious if he keeps on doing it.

So we build up your faint so that it's sharp and deceptive.

We keep an eye on how your opponent tries to it,

and then we put 'em to sleep

for not being as smart as we are.

So if you wanna build all that stuff, feel free

to click the button beneath this video

and learn more about the course.

That'll teach you all of it.

And hey, that's it for the free miniseries.

I hope you enjoyed watching it

as much as I enjoyed making it.

And I do hope we get a chance to work together more in

the full training program.

And again, I appreciate you even just watching my videos.

So thank you for being a part of Fight Smart.

I really do appreciate it.

And as always, have a fantastic day. Hey.

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