Name: The Comprehensive Guide on Head Movement: Boxing, Muay Thai, and MMA
Uploaded: 2026-03-01T03:38:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 35 s
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When it comes to slipping, bobbing, weaving, rolling, pulling punches, you have to move your head as fast as someone can throw a punch.

So I think about headbutting the air, that's how fast I'm moving.

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Think about your headbutting a trampoline.

It's not slip and then go way too much time.

Think about how fast someone can jab and pull it back.

I need it to be or got the old school fight tips vibe for you today because we're focused on head movement specifically for a street self defense scenario.

This thought occurred to me when I was in in the airport.

By the way, if you missed the live stream yesterday, some absolutely incredible fights back and forth, striking excellent knockouts.

But this is how this thought really occurred to me was that head movement is probably the most overlooked defensive skill when it comes to a street fight.

In an airport, we don't have to worry about firearms or weapons.

So it really is just hand to hand combat.

So I want to cover three concepts to make sure that you are becoming untouchable.

Because we all know a single punch can end a fight.

we see it more commonly in mma, small glove muay, bare knuckle boxing, and

So before we get into these three concepts, remember, head movement is done defensively to make someone miss so that you can counter.

Or head movement is built in as you're throwing your offense so that you're not getting clipped on the way in.

That brings us to our first concept which is take the target away.

The pull counter is probably the most common head movement that you're going to see in a street fight video or the highest level of boxing.

For Floyd Mayweather's signature move, right Stick the chin out.

When they fall for the bait, you take the target away and you counter them.

But also Floyd takes this to another level where he leans forward and to the right and when he pulls, he goes back and to the left.

And that's because of the concept of arcing punches, right?

Coach Trevor Whitman talks about the danger zone.

This is where hooks and overhands come in.

So if someone comes chopping with an overhand right, Floyd knows that by going not just back but back into the left is going to take him out of that danger zone.

Side note, that's why I always say if someone sticks their chin out Hit them to the body.

So this hula hoop concept is a great visual because now you realize that you're safe on the outside.

Too far away, you're safe underneath, you're safe at an angle, and

you're also safe if you're too close, right?

I can't hit you with these punches if your head is in my chest.

And that's also very important to remember for mma, so that you're not running into knees or kicks to the face.

In fact, one of our fighters, Vochon Mac, who just defended his Freedom Fighters title, he's now 11 0, undefeated, has some of the best head, head movement.

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All right, the most important part of this video is this.

If you go watch like a Prince Nassim highlight video and then you go spar that night, you're like, yeah, no one's going to touch me.

And what's going to happen is you're going to get smoked every single time because their action is faster than your reaction, right?

They have tens of millions of reps with the jab.

And you've practiced head movement for five minutes, right?

Head movement has to be built into your style, into your rhythm, into your offense.

You can't just go out there and be like, okay, when they jab, I'm going boom.

You have to be able to move your feet and you have to understand these three concepts.

So you've probably heard the expression don't admire your work.

That means you don't want to slip a punch and celebrate too early because there's probably a follow up punch and that's the one that's going to catch you and knock you out.

So instead you have to keep your head constantly moving.

That brings us to our second concept, which is a moving target is harder to hit.

Now there's a drill that I have that helps you get underneath of these punches, under the hula hoop range to the outside.

Plus there's counter offense built into it.

What we're going to do is make sure that we're constantly moving our head nonstop.

We're offering some offense back and we're also moving our head while throwing punches like we talked about earlier.

So what we're going to do first is imagine there's a jab coming in.

So we're going to slip already going to start to layer my defense and keep this lead hand up.

But I'm going to imagine that the punch is going to be followed up with a right hand.

Now I'm going to offer some offense back.

So I'm going to throw a cross as I come back and I'm immediately sitting down to get underneath of the left hook.

Now I'm not going to stand all the way up.

I'm going to bob and weave to the opposite direction in case there's a right hook that follows it.

And then I'm going to continue this motion.

So if I do this in full, you can see that my head is is in a constant rhythm.

It's going side to side, it's going forward and backwards, and it's going underneath of shots.

Now I can start to layer in different offense as I do this.

Talking about throwing shots while I slip.

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