Shoot Boxing begins
- jamie03066
- 11 minutes ago
- 2 min read
03.06.2025
Hour seven of my client's Mixed Martial Arts course brought us onto a study of shoot boxing. This element, which should be a course all by itself, focuses on the transition between stand-up and clinch using punching. Punches are the most significant overall striking tools in MMA. Elbows, knees and kicks, due to their relative size and lack of padding, might cause more damage per blow, but punches are the fastest, best positioned and most dextrous natural weapon in the sport.
The art of Boxing and clinching have a long history together. Pre-Queensbury Rules Boxing allowed for above-the-waist grappling, similar in principle to Greco-Roman Wrestling. Even when the rules of the gloved sport became the norm and clinching was technically forbidden, boxers readily used the clinch and even amateur coaches acknowledge its importance. An entire sub-set of training, codified as "Dirty Boxing" from Filipino Panantukan to the methods of wrestler-turned-MMA champion Randy Couture not to mention the tactics of Robert Duran, Henry Armstrong, George Foreman, Tyson Fury and just about anyone in the pre-60s era of Boxing, has been acknowledged for its efficiency at combining grappling elements to land punches.
Therefore, it makes sense that when one trains in MMA, the transition between punches to clinching and back again should be developed. A fighter might wish to grapple a striker, strike a grappler or simply use this hybrid range to get the most from either as nak muays do.
We used the following 3-minute rounds:
Boxing with MMA gloves
Grip fighting with MMA gloves
High-line clinch - attack vs defence
Ditto
Trapping range - high-line clinch sparring
Mid-line clinch - attack vs defence
Ditto
Trapping range - mid-line clinch sparring
Low-line clinch - attack vs defence
Ditto
The rounds were broken up with brief appraisals and discussions.
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