One fighter to watch out for!

 I had the chance to teach Tomasz Wojtyna a bit of kinetic punching up at the Hustle gym 

ME WRISTS!...Ive held pads for many hard hitters over the years,and theres only 2 that really stood out,both of which had at least 30 years or more training behind them,Tomasz is right there with them after only 4 years! this guy is one to watch very talented! and his kinetic punching? one of the finest examples ive ever seen!  he picked it up faster and threw it harder than anyone has!

 Heres one of his fights

BASIC RULES OF POWER KICKING FOR MMA RULE 1 THE STEP

                                                                  RULE ONE THE STEP
stepping in with the opposite foot rotated fully before the kicking leg leaves the ground

One reason to do this is to make sure your not spinning and twisting your knee with all your weight on it as your other leg throwing the kick you will lose power to the ground,if your foot jams or your on a surface that your foot doesnt spin on and your twisitng after the kicking leg leaves the ground you can tear your knee apart,and it akso causes problems though time.If your Stepping in and rotating the foot so that its in the direction your going to be after youve finished the kick,then theres no pressure or twist on the knee,Another reason is power because this also opens up the hips and creates more torque.done right its like the difference in a light shockwave compared to ripping shockwave with the kinetic punch.were you step in relation to your oponent usually about 45% also makes a difference,say if you were kicking the liver you may step in 6 inches deeper than a leg kick because. It makes a significant difference in the effect your kick has ,Heres Bas Rutten an exellent kicker explaining a little.

it also lines up the shin in a stronger postion one more reason to avoid a broken leg!

results? with a bit of precision one kick Ko power

in part two im going to chat about rotating the hips through and body torque for kicks.I can also highly recomend  Bas,s big DVDS of combat

"IS YOUR CUP EMPTY OR FULL" BRUCE LEE

Is your cup full or empty?

I always find it interesting how some people resist change, and they don’t realise there blocking their own ability to learn and gather knowledge and even pass it on.

Now imagine if I was in an gym and I said to the bloke next to me who I had watched on the bag, I can show you how to hit harder,explain a bit, just give me the chance to show you. Most of the time you will get people interested, enough to test if the claims are genuine. After all it only takes 5 minutes to hold a pad for me to answer any questions. For someone to do this is pretty normal and id say, this usually happens over 98% of the time. These are people that haven’t stopped learning and are open to new techniques. You have to be, to be successful in any fast changing or growing sport. You can’t control the flow but you can go with it and ride the wave on the front so to speak. There’s is another small percentage of guys who have stop learning ,these are often much more experienced martial artists, who could have been training something one way for years and their beliefs are fixed. And there’s almost a fixed stubbornness to refuse to believe anything new.

Many Guys have said to me something like “I believe your power is what you’ve got from the start " Your born with it and it takes many years to build any explosiveness and it can’t be taught” And most come round particularly after hold a pad! But there’s the occasional person so fixed in their beliefs that even when I offer to show them and prove my point in person they run a mile, They  refuse to even take a look or even entertain that fact, that after all these years training they could be shown something new. Most trainers know how to throw a Boxing or Muay Thai punch, I’m teaching kinetic punching it’s a punch designed specifically from the MMA gloves up, stronger positions to deliver more power, the body mechanics are much more efficient using less energy, and the strike is much more explosive because of the shockwaves trained on the end of the strike

Is your cup full or empty?

Bruce lee

 Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

HUSTLE GYM TEACHING QUOTES AND PROGRESSION

 Here’s a few quotes from lessons at the Hustle MMA gym

J Hill “tonight has made a massive difference, cheers mate”

L Jones “Thank you great session from an excellent teacher”

N Edwards “Some good tips from Karl Eastwood on kinetic punching”

J Pulford “thanks mate it was great the techniques you showed me and I learnt loads which I never knew or would of known, great teachings”

There’s a few guys now at the gym, who I feel have a very good chance of using and fully appreciating the kinetic punching in there next fight. Nathen, Mac, Chay and whatever you do don’t underestimate Jonny hill who is the biggest guy I've taught there and one of the strongest kickers I've seen there as well (not sure has got anything lined up fight wise) all these guys now know how to punch harder kinetically for mma, so the next few months is going to be very interesting. what I have noticed is just how much quicker they can pick it up, and there a little more hungry for information, it gets to the point where the fight will answer my questions about how much they’ve taken on board, and if it comes out under pressure. If you’re training up at the Hustle and you want to take a look at the kinetic punch, or you want to train some self defence get in touch on facebook KARL EASTWOOD or email me here kaarl52@hotmail.com

INSIRATIONAL CLIP FROM TEACHING CHAY LONG AT HUSTLE MMA GYM

REVIEWS,INFO FOR PART 1 KINETIC PUNCHING FOR MMA DVD

I’m Getting some good feedback from the lads at hustle gym in wrexham, Nathan Edwards and his brother Macaulay have been the two fighters that have really taken it in so far, what I like about Nathan is he’ll go into detail About how he’s used the kinetic striking in training through the week and when I show him something, he’ll say “I could use that in the clinch, here” and run through certain positions, this helps me out loads when it comes down to refining what I’m teaching specifically for MMA. I’m used to teaching some basic ground positions for self defence, but when you’re in the full mount of a trained fighter, it’s like you’ve grown an extra limb, like a good fitting belt! Larry Hartsell used to say "theres no gaps in grappling" I had visions of bucking furiously to exhaustion trying to get him off me...I’d have no chance

I gave him a copy of my DVD “ADVANCED KINETIC CHAIN PUNCHING FOR PROFESSIONAL MMA PART 1 THE KINETIC PUNCH” to see what he thought.

He said “I found it interesting about lining up the arm with the elbow and the power ark, because it’s different from boxing and it’s driving the punch in, good for close distance and goes well with boxing”

He also mentioned how it’s good for when you’re tired, as it uses less energy.

the biggest difference with a kinetic punch and the standard MMA punch is the part of the knuckles you land with, you can’t throw or learn the punch in boxing gloves, it designed specifically for the MMA glove, this allows you to line up the knuckles and the elbow and finish the strike with the shoulder, rather than finishing the strike with the triceps and the outside three knuckles like you would in bigger gloves.

The other part that completes the kinetic punch is the type of snap or shock that you can train on the end of any punch for a more concussive effect, Boxing, Thai or the kinetic punch there’s a choice of 4 types, the light snap, deep snap, the ripper, and the kinetic chop which is a mix of the first three and the most powerful, these can be trained on the end of your punches, hammer fists, elbows, knees etc improving your precision and impact.

What Nathan really sends home is the importance of training across the board which may seem obvious for MMA, with Boxing and Muay Thai being the main stay for striking at the Hustle Gym like any MMA gym, I’m glad that he’s realising the benefit of adding the Kinetic striking to his training. And that it can only improve his individual MMA. His 3^rd fights in less than a few weeks come on TEAM HUSTLE!

Just want to add another review of the DVD short but sweet from Macaulay Edwards another amateur MMA fighter and Nathans Brother "GOOD, INTERESTING,I LIKED IT"

From Bradley Scott UFC Fighter after watching kinetic punching dvd  "100% agree with your punching power my boxing coach (mark kent) teaches identical to you!! It's nice to see someone who actually knows what there on about instead of some if the utter shit I get sent! My boxing coach shows me another punch where as you throw (straight right) turn knuckles down at a very slight angle and use the gravity. It's now my favourite punch it does horrific damage. Where are you based? "

KINETIC PUNCHES MEASURED BETWEEN 30-50% MORE POWER THAN THE STANDARD PUNCH BY SCIENCE AND THE STRIKEMATE
25/10/2014 (click on it for closer look)

part 1 of the advanced kinetic chain punching for professional mma series is available now

part one shows you how to line up your body correctly to land a kinetic punch ,it shows you how to use a slightly different trajectory in the punch that allows for you to line up the body 100% kinetically,giving you the strongest and most efficient positions.these punches can not be trained in boxing and muay thai gloves,this punch was designed specifically for the MMA gloves and the mechanics are different. and also up to 40% harder than the standard MMA punch or boxing, muay thai punch,you will be hitting significantly harder than you ever have for mma

and heres a rundown of part 1 approx 88mins which is available now theres a link further down the page to buy its on sale at £19.99 plus postage

click on the link yellow link for the kinetic punch dvd part 1

kinetic punching for mma part one

knuckle conditioning treatment

After years of playing around with knuckle and hand conditioning and just general training,the best and only thing I found for wrist strains,sore knuckles or aching hands besides ice was this stuff, three times a day to any sore spots.

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