5 Ways To Become A More DANGEROUS Striker

[@garrieangreenhill5588]

1. Counter punching 2.chin tucked 3.change height and angles (be creative) 4. Dont be predictable. Feints, height, and angles 5. Throw shots that are available (look for openings) dont throw just to throw 🤛

[@StinkyMick99]

Honestly thought these wer all common sense, been doing these unconsciously for a while

[@gmoney7557]

@@StinkyMick99 yeah ok saenchai

[@cadcc]

@@StinkyMick99 I mean, they are. That's the thing about fight sports, at a intermeidate-advanced level, almost everyone knows all the tricks and techinques. we all know feints, to look for openings, level changes, etc. but the ones who succeed are the ones who train them, and consciously make them strong parts of your game.

[@garrieangreenhill5588]

I just appreciate the fact he takes the time out to spread the knowledge God bless him 🙏

[@brotherjk9438]

You the real champ for summarising. Now I dont have to watch the whole video. Thanks. JK LOL I did watched the whole video haha

[@kumo3922]

Thank you a lot for this video. I just came back from practice where i got absolutely demolished by a guy there. He was really fast, unpredictable and his punches and kicks felt like being hit by a train. He read me easily too, I'll continue training and I'll get better. God bless.

[@RyuSenninTKD]

Thank you so much for all these videos! While I don't have any plans to pursue a pro career I was able to capture an ammy kickboxing title thanks to alot of your videos!

[@patrickhaynes2394]

Congrats G💯

[@RyuSenninTKD]

@@patrickhaynes2394 much appreciated 🥳

[@whoknows8223]

For offensive being unpredictable is the best. The hardest hitting shots are the ones the other does not see coming. Expanding your portfolio of combos through youtube is an amazing thing to do. Also thank you for the timestamps Gabriel. Amazing to scroll back and forth to the video.

[@getsmart3701]

Great selection Gabriel, nobody ever gets good enough to forget thesd pointers. I would add one that made a huge disfference to me and that was: changing the speed on my shots, both for my energy levels and increasing my success with landing at a greater frequency. Love your work mate.

[@mikemacleod1329]

Always appreciate the content! First fight is coming up soon, and we always try to apply your tips during training camp.

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad to hear it and best of luck with everything 💪

[@rahulpataskar2222]

I have been following you since a month, I have took your precious tips while playing a local match ( district level ) it was very very helpful , now this weekend, my state level match is there, I am in 11th grade , playing in sub-junior category, complete love and support from India

[@harrywilliams3665]

Love the content man I really appreciate it I’m a former college wrestler thinking about improving my striking and this really helped me 🔥

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad to hear it!

[@intelconscious6897]

Bro, I love how humble you are. You have great character for a fighter. So many high level fighters are arrogant and toxic. I just had my first fight at wako US nationals and lost (never had any smokers.) I am a high level athlete who played d1 sports through college. I have been training seriously for 8 months - usually 3-4 hours per day split between 2 sessions. I feel like a world beater when hard sparring at gyms. But under the lights in Nashville I got my ass kicked around. I couldn’t even think, everything happened so fast. I wasn’t fighting the same way I fight in the gym. Is this normal? Do I just need more fight day experience? Can you please make a video about this or provide insight in a reply? I am just very confused on what happened and very discouraged. Thank you for all the great content. You have been a great inspiration for me in and out of the cage.

[@Cheeseisboss]

Yes that's normal, there's some fuckin sharks at national level competition, and sometimes you get matched with someone who has the perfect style for dismantling you. I hope you got a video record when you were fighting, the matches where you get annihilated give some of the most crucial data on your weaknesses. and about how you felt that it was totally different than in practice is right on. In the ring, there's so much adrenaline that your fighting IQ and decision making is usually worse than when you're practicing, but exposing yourself to more competition will begin to equalize your sparring level and your competition level. It took me about 6 fights to start bringing it up to speed, but other people can take up to ten, and a few lucky bastards just perform better in competition than they do in training

[@intelconscious6897]

@@Cheeseisboss thanks man, yeah my team and I ALSO didn’t know that you can have as many fights in any other organization and still fight “novice” in wako. You just needed to have less than 5 fights in wako. So everyone there was seriously good. Next year will be different.

[@jabarihaymond7704]

It comes with experience man and the more of that you have and the comfortability of being in it comes with experience so it's normal to not perform how you usually do because you aren't exactly who you usually are. We have stress and anxious and just doing something for the first time you have that but head up brotha you'll improve 👌🏿

[@tezo_25]

Hey dude I was just at wako lol

[@intelconscious6897]

@@tezo_25 suhhh dude!

[@СтилиянКръстев-р7т]

Amazing video again

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Stuarttombros]

Excellent video gabe

[@michaelkluver]

great video!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@peterb9481]

Love this channel!!

[@seansnipes8334]

This is one of your best videos. Loving it.

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad you think so!

[@KosimD]

Great video!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Thanks!

[@jayw8306]

That last tip is what I will be working on this month

[@honestlee9921]

Very good video

[@vindicator75]

I remember sparring with someone alot more experienced than me. I was eating so many shots to the legs. Great advice bro

[@MrCharlietoma]

Please make a video on entering from angles

[@Sophisticlesenergy]

Bro thanks for posting so reliably!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

It's a pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@ethanstover9859]

Don't listen to this guy Gabriel, he was sent by the CIA to infiltrate the kickboxing community

[@balajimkishan]

Thank you bro♥️

[@matthew-jy5jp]

Thank you champ 😊✌

[@optran4781]

Love this channel and all the videos! I watch them constantly and put them to use every week at my gym. They help so much and have helped me progress faster than ever before. Keep it up!

[@privatechannelusedtocommen826]

Hey Gabriel, great tips! I always try to work in these tips early when training someone. I do teach 1 thing differently and I'd be curious to hear your opinion on it. I don't teach to tuck the chin but instead I tell them to point their forehead towards me (which ends with them automatically tucking the chin). I don't like teaching tucking the chin the conventional way because it can be suffocating if they overdo it and it'll lead to bad habits. By telling them to angle down their face, point their forehead to me and guard the chin with their shoulders whilst punching it goes over very smooth in my experience.

[@tfjzz]

such excellent concepts..I learn so much from you...thank you!

[@cthulhu4278]

best channel in the world

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Wow! Thanks 🙏

[@muhammadabdulkarim3009]

Thank you very much puting that efforts to make us better fighters much respect 💓

[@unsheathdrbellion]

Thank you very much for the wonderful tips

[@ihabbnani1383]

tnx man

[@russfong5555]

Awesome and valuable insights! Thank you Gabriel!

[@ives3572]

Mixing up your strikes well, along with good fakes and feints, with proper mid-rhythm and mid-tempo strike selections and variations, occupying-space shots and intelligent lead side attacks, intelligently drawing out your opponent's attack/counter and countering it, plus good footwork and angle selections, these are things that I'd like to add based on what I've learned from Bazooka Kickboxing and MMA

[@williamcole7251]

April 16th I dominate in Muay Thai. Ya videos have helped a lot

[@alexanderschenk3459]

Yo man I’m a 2 fight pro mma fighter and I love these videos

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Awesome. Thanks for being around the channel. It's great having active fighters here. Please comment with your opinions as often as possible. The more the pro fighters can share the better.

[@jon-paulpatterson2112]

Missed this channel 🥊🙏🏾 but I'm back for more tips 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@spiritualworkout4544]

Thanks I have Polish Championships K1 in 2 weeks

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Best of luck! Push hard in the last 1-2 weeks of training.

[@spiritualworkout4544]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial thanks means a lot coming from a legend

[@rustywrench500]

Where can someone watch your mma match I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[@rafetzecovic]

Hi Gabriel. Thanks for the great content on your channel. I have a question for you which will mean a world to me. I would love to learn kickboxing, but I do not want to compete. Do you think that by learning the technique of the basic 4 punches (jab, hook, uppercut....) and basic 4 kicks (roundhouse, low kick, high kick, front kick), I would be capable of improving my punching and kicking power by myself on the heavy bag? In other words, I want to develop very strong power in my punches and kicks. Will I be able to achieve this by mere repetition by myself after I learn the proper technique with a coach, or I will be still dependent on the coach to observe me while improving the punching power and kicks? I want to learn these things in the shortest time period and get rid of the coach, and lean only on myself and my heavy bag. Thank you very much. Respect...

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

If you learn the basics with a coach you should be able to continue training on your own and improve provided you really focus on mistakes you my be making and continue to learn from channels like this. If you're not wanting to compete and are training for fitness and fun having a coach is not a must (although it does help a bit😉 )

[@dcnieho]

I think two things in reply to your question. 1: A lot of the power is technique. And your technique is never perfect. Even professional fighters still think some of their punches suck--they never stop working on them. You can in principle do this yourself by filming yourself and observing carefully, but it will be hard without years of experience. 2: Why would you not want to be in a gym? Many valid reasons of course, but to be sure, in case it because you don't want to spar: in my gym, a lot of the training is drilling. meaning you work with a partner (or sometimes on the bag) and alternate doing a set technique on each others gloves or pads. No head trauma involved there, and i find it offers more variety and thereby learning opportunity than a heavy bag can provide, unless you have a very lively and powerful imagination.

[@izzygarcialionibabaloipici6293]

Can you counter punches with head kicks?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

For sure. Not everyone can do it well but it definitely works.

[@cahallo5964]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial Sometimes when the puncher has range advantage that feels like the only option (for me at least I am sure there are more options)

[@pinip_f_werty1382]

Damn, I naturally do everything on this list

[@sharonzachariah1355]

Hi Gabriel, I have difficulty keeping my chin tucked in while sparring guys with a significant height advantage. Any tips on how I get around the problem?

[@jordanberry2358]

Tuck a softball under your chin/neck. Shadowbox/bag work and imagine a taller opponent.

[@paulorawdogcosta3630]

Hi Gab, I’ve sparred with somebody who does level changes in boxing. Does this fit point number 3? I have more a Muay Thai background and seeing someone who level changes a lot throws me off. However obviously when kicking is involved level changing might not be viable. What’s your take on this? Is it necessary to level change in boxing or kickboxing?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Yes. Level changes are super important in all fight sports. Guys like Mayweather and Canelo are amazing at angle and level changes and look how well it's worked for them.

[@Skibidi4234]

Hey u say change angles but why do muay thai fighters barely move or change angles but they move a lot more in mma?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I think the threat of takedowns requires more movement. Plus the smaller gloves don't allow you to stand and guard up against punches the same way. Movement is better with 4oz gloves.

[@caedenparisotto4540]

Hey Gabriel, just wondering if you can explain why in Kickboxing and Muay Thai that you seem to be able to jump between amateur and pro fights? Obviously in boxing you can't do that? Why is it different with Kickboxing?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

It depends on the country. In Canada you can't jump from amateur to pro. IFMA (amateur muay thai event) accepts pros and amateur. I think the big difference is in some countries like Thailand everyone is professional. There is a small purse your first fight. And in Europe it's not a simple as amateur or pro. There are different classes and it seems they compete professional and at big amateur events. But I don't understand 100% either because I just know I can't compete as an amateur.

[@ChocolateMilkCultLeader]

GV trying to create more competition so he can train better

[@ericignacio1493]

👍👍👍

[@tomlang]

I so would love to know you 20 years ago .... (i know it would involve time travel on your part ;).... )

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