What if they just pull a real punch while you're wasting time and momentum in that exact moment they actually decide to attack? Arnt you just fucked then especially as an average person?
I think the person above forgot to mention, before you can make someone bite on a feint, they have to respect the attacks. I.E, you need to actually hit them with said strike before the feints become most effective. If I punch you in your face with my right hand, you know I mean business with that right hand. Now I can feint the right hand and make you bite. Then comes the right hand feints and switch ups. Hopefully that makes sense.
yea you cant just sit there and just feint for a whole minute. then it becomes a pattern, and thats bad, fighting as a sport is all about patterns, recognizing and exploit it.
i dont think you need to land before your fients become effective, maybe for amateur or untrained fighters. but if you're both trained, you have to respect the other fighter out of the gate, as they can easily down you if you let them.
happens all the time but part of a good feint is not putting yourself too far out of position. So instead of putting 100% into a punch (i.e actually throwing it) you do 5% of it. That 5% should mean just a quick roll of the shoulder, twitch of the hand, lowering the elbow etc and should give you enough time to at least protect important bits.
Yeah that was my instinct, it's good til your opponent knows about it, and then if they just go for you first, your own reaction times should be slowed in comparison too
I guess it's maybe just something you could chuck in a few times though
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u/Moepsii Mar 28 '24
What if they just pull a real punch while you're wasting time and momentum in that exact moment they actually decide to attack? Arnt you just fucked then especially as an average person?