Wow….In all my years I have never seen that. Any ideas how to practice that? Did he target the vagus nerve? Great find.
I would assume that this guy probably had a coach throw 500 x Left / Right combos, and he probably leaned into his own counter right “invisible elbow” on every one of them… probably placing it to his coaches upper chest on a pad, or maybe throwing it 1/5th speed and gingerly laying it up on his coach’s head. (more likely on a chest pad).
Elbows are extremely hard to train, because it’s just so damn difficult to practice them without hurting your training partners.
I would assume that this guy probably had a coach throw 500 x Left / Right combos, and he probably leaned into his own counter right “invisible elbow” on every one of them… probably placing it to his coaches upper chest on a pad, or maybe throwing it 1/5th speed and gingerly laying it up on his coach’s head. (more likely on a chest pad).
Trav, please make a short instruction video showing how to throw this “invisible elbow” and add it to the “Striking Dojo” program. Hope you like this suggestion.
I actually did think of that technique and practice it thousands of times in the eighties, no kiddin’. Too bad I sucked at it.
The pro fighter struck with much more focus than I ever did. Back then, I just practiced in the air; I used to dream up every angle I could concoct for elbows and head butts in a pinch, and practice all such strikes every day. But that didn’t mean much in making me able to fight. I didn’t even have access to a freakin’ striking bag due to ultimate poverty at the time, and I knew I wasn’t any good at it. ADVICE WARNING!
When things got better, I learned some things I’d like to pass on. There are three aspects to that training: 1) toughening the elbow bone.
2) getting good enough to elbow your way out of a paper bag, and
3) avoiding injury. I used wall bags filled with sand, and they don’t move when you hit ’em, you know?
So I realized I could easily injure my elbow by striking them a small number of times, and so should you. Use your own judgement and listen to your body.
I noticed the head of the guy who took the elbow didn’t move at all when he took the hit, but the energy channel just somehow did short-circuit his brain. I almost wonder whether he got hit in a nerve plexus, or if his right cheekbone broke and a bone moved and energy was tranferred into such a plexus. That might be very important in failing or succeeding with this strike.
No time to look it up right now; I owe, I owe, so off to work I go…
Don’t really think it was an intentional attack of the elbow, think he just went in close with the block and caught his collarbone region. Collarbones hit just right are excruciating 😉👍
Don’t think it was an intentional strike with the elbow, think he went in and down a bit with the arms up blockand caught his collarbone. A good hard strike on the collarbone can be excruciating. 😉👍
Interesting that the right hand stays by the right ear; in a way it’s not an elbow strike, in the sense that the arm/shoulder stays in almost the same place; it’s the whole (upper) body that strikes forward with the elbow as the point. And the forward flexion and leftwards torsion of the torso also absorbs the other guy’s right punch to the body (with left arm pressing down Just in case); and his right arm doesn’t even need to move to block the ineffective right thrown while the guy doesn’t yet realise he has been hit. This is spectacular, thanks Trav, and thanks Scotty for the tip on slowing the speed—even if you did have to repeat it 3 times!
Following from my previous comment—the strike is mainly DOWN, not forward. The power of the lats, obliques and rectus, and look at the complete twist! Looks to me like it lands in the triangle inside the collar bone—scalenus, brachial plexus, and yes, vagus; I’m surprised the guy gets up!
Nice! I think elbows are underrated. You can do more damage with an elbow than with your fist. I focus on using fists to the body and elbows to both the head and bidy when training. Less risk of a broken hand during a street fight.
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Wow….In all my years I have never seen that. Any ideas how to practice that? Did he target the vagus nerve? Great find.
I would assume that this guy probably had a coach throw 500 x Left / Right combos, and he probably leaned into his own counter right “invisible elbow” on every one of them… probably placing it to his coaches upper chest on a pad, or maybe throwing it 1/5th speed and gingerly laying it up on his coach’s head. (more likely on a chest pad).
At the end of the day, it’s muscle memory!
Nah, I think he just bashed him in the head!
Elbows are extremely hard to train, because it’s just so damn difficult to practice them without hurting your training partners.
I would assume that this guy probably had a coach throw 500 x Left / Right combos, and he probably leaned into his own counter right “invisible elbow” on every one of them… probably placing it to his coaches upper chest on a pad, or maybe throwing it 1/5th speed and gingerly laying it up on his coach’s head. (more likely on a chest pad).
At the end of the day, it’s muscle memory!
Trav, please make a short instruction video showing how to throw this “invisible elbow” and add it to the “Striking Dojo” program. Hope you like this suggestion.
I like it.
I actually did think of that technique and practice it thousands of times in the eighties, no kiddin’. Too bad I sucked at it.
The pro fighter struck with much more focus than I ever did. Back then, I just practiced in the air; I used to dream up every angle I could concoct for elbows and head butts in a pinch, and practice all such strikes every day. But that didn’t mean much in making me able to fight. I didn’t even have access to a freakin’ striking bag due to ultimate poverty at the time, and I knew I wasn’t any good at it. ADVICE WARNING!
When things got better, I learned some things I’d like to pass on. There are three aspects to that training: 1) toughening the elbow bone.
2) getting good enough to elbow your way out of a paper bag, and
3) avoiding injury. I used wall bags filled with sand, and they don’t move when you hit ’em, you know?
So I realized I could easily injure my elbow by striking them a small number of times, and so should you. Use your own judgement and listen to your body.
I noticed the head of the guy who took the elbow didn’t move at all when he took the hit, but the energy channel just somehow did short-circuit his brain. I almost wonder whether he got hit in a nerve plexus, or if his right cheekbone broke and a bone moved and energy was tranferred into such a plexus. That might be very important in failing or succeeding with this strike.
No time to look it up right now; I owe, I owe, so off to work I go…
Whoa… Invisible Elbow and the Zombie Punch, dude got rocked so hard he didn’t even realize it and threw another left, lol
Don’t really think it was an intentional attack of the elbow, think he just went in close with the block and caught his collarbone region. Collarbones hit just right are excruciating 😉👍
Don’t think it was an intentional strike with the elbow, think he went in and down a bit with the arms up blockand caught his collarbone. A good hard strike on the collarbone can be excruciating. 😉👍
This is kinda like what appears in some karate and TKD patterns/kata. I can do those with this in mind now, thanks.
Upon seeing it at quarter speed , it is intentional, and no accident. Good shot.
Interesting that the right hand stays by the right ear; in a way it’s not an elbow strike, in the sense that the arm/shoulder stays in almost the same place; it’s the whole (upper) body that strikes forward with the elbow as the point. And the forward flexion and leftwards torsion of the torso also absorbs the other guy’s right punch to the body (with left arm pressing down Just in case); and his right arm doesn’t even need to move to block the ineffective right thrown while the guy doesn’t yet realise he has been hit. This is spectacular, thanks Trav, and thanks Scotty for the tip on slowing the speed—even if you did have to repeat it 3 times!
if you do a film study youtube channel, i’ll subscribe. Sound like a true hardcore technique “buff”-for lack of a better word
Following from my previous comment—the strike is mainly DOWN, not forward. The power of the lats, obliques and rectus, and look at the complete twist! Looks to me like it lands in the triangle inside the collar bone—scalenus, brachial plexus, and yes, vagus; I’m surprised the guy gets up!
Nice! I think elbows are underrated. You can do more damage with an elbow than with your fist. I focus on using fists to the body and elbows to both the head and bidy when training. Less risk of a broken hand during a street fight.