The work is king. You can control the fighting measure, distance, and timing with good footwork. Footwork allows you to use your weapons with maximum speed and power. Your opponent can hit you if you don’t know how to walk. There is no body mechanics in your punches and kicks. You will learn how to break the rhythm and setup your opponents for attacks.

Make lethal hands. You can learn how to fence with the lead hand and develop an illusive lead that is ready for jabbing, backfisting, pot shotting, and intercepting your opponent. The proper body mechanics and form are needed for boxing punches like the jab, cross, hook, uppercut, and overhand. Throw them with the correct power, placement, and psychology. Fight based defense can be learned by using head movements.

You should develop lethal feet. Savate, Muay Thai, Pananjakman, and Karate have effective kicking tools. Speed, technical precision, and power generation are covered in this volume. Discover how to use kicks in the long range to harass and intercept your opponent. Shadow kicks are the ones that are never seen when combined with punching and trapping. Finally, learn how to finish the fight with kicks.

The 5 Ranges of Combat and the 4 Phases of the Fight are required to master them. Primary Attack strategy means to attack first which sets the rhythm of the contest with concepts such as Preliminary Analysis, Engagement and Entering. Learn about the purpose of combinations and how to use them. You will learn how to organize your attacks so that you can execute them in combat using The 5 Ways of Attack as well as how to combine offensive footwork with your attacking combinations.

Continue to develop the 5 Ways of Attack, how to break the rhythm, how to attack your opponent by exposing, forcing, and feinting. ABC, HIA, and ABD are Attack by Draw. Learn how to setup and finish your opponent with deception. You will learn how to safely bridge the gap and apply a variety of martial arts.

The core of the MMA system is Trapping and Blasting. The ability to use trapping or Hand Immobilization Attack to transition from striking distances to grappling is a huge advantage. You can learn the Slapping Hand from Wing Chun to setup many other lines of attack.

The volume goes into detail on closing distance, following up with striking and grappling, entering against the lead and the Hand Immobilization Attack. MMA evolved from brawlers against BJJ to wrestlers dominating with takedowns and ground and pound, and recently super technical strikers who have a top notch ground game are now dominating. The emergence of JKD for MMA is due to the fact that many of the top champion already exist.

The 3 times to Strike an Opponent, Interceptions & Stop Hits, the Jeet Sao (Intercepting Hand) and De-fanging the Snake Destructions are included in this volume. You can learn how to cause pain during the opponent’s attack and how to intercept all of the opponents weapons with your own. This is the science of fighting for advanced MMA artists.

Focus mitts provide an important training method because it emphasizes accuracy and timing for striking as well as the opportunity to practice trapping and move into the grappling range.

Timing, fitness and reflexes are developed by partner drills. This is where MMA comes together and gets refined. These drills will make you unstoppable once you have studied and built the basics.