6 Ways to DRAMATICALLY Increase Your Fighting Skill LVL

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[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Try adding all these tips over the next 1-2 months. I really believe you will see a skill level improvement if you do. 😀😀😀

[@lrwhiteley]

Excellent video 📹 cuz alot gyms don't stress this issue.

[@Robin_Is]

Ok.

[@CL-vx9dr]

Doubt you'll read this, but I started muay thai about a year ago after getting mugged. I've got a great instructor, and the gym is awesome, but your videos might have been the biggest x factor in me improving. I'm happy to say that I just passed my advanced test to move on to the next level, in big part due to your videos. On the off chance you see this, thank you.

[@remyhavoc4463]

Hope he sees this I've never been mugged before so I don't know how scary it might've been You're a warrior for still trying to improve, man!

[@CL-vx9dr]

@@remyhavoc4463 Thanks boss, couple guys with guns, happened all in under a minute. Not much I could've done, but I feel a lot more confident walking around now that I've been training as much as I have.

[@Q-Mac_]

@@CL-vx9dr Sorry to hear that you were mugged with guns. I’d suggest you cross train in Krav Maga while doing Muay Thai, In Krav Maga they teach defense techniques for guns and other weapons.

[@dask7428]

​@@Q-Mac_ krav maga is a meme. If you get mugged with guns just give away all your shit and pray, what's wrong with you

[@Phospion]

@@Q-Mac_ good way to get shot

[@egarcia1360]

1:29 Find your weaknesses and work on them every session 2:47 Work on defense consistently and vary your defensive tactics 4:36 Spend three to five minutes per day drilling at home 5:40 Watch new fighters 6:22 Spar with new people 7:30 Find your favorite moves/combos and work on set-ups, fakes, and follow-throughs

[@BloodDawg]

Thank you Emmanuel 💙

[@whoknows8223]

Thank you for your effort! Much appreciated

[@1smg346]

Thank you very much bro appreciate you 🎉❤

[@JT_SOG_513]

🙏

[@renatoign]

You dropped this🏆

[@assoverteakettle]

Is it unusual to actually spar better when you're not taking it seriously? I was recently too tired to spar but decided to do so anyway but took a page out of watching Saenchai sparring with people just goofing off and having fun and I found myself doing moves and techniques that usually I only wish I could remember to do. Things Gabriel Varga tells you to do. Sweeps, and 3 kick combos, improvised punch combos, working the long guard, working the feints. It's like my brain just shifted to creative mode and my body took over. I think it's what in traditional martial arts is called empty mindedness (or unconscious competence) where you go on autopilot. Not sure I can ever do it again is the problem.

[@JustSomeGuyWithAMustache886]

And that RIGHT there is why light flow sparring is so good!

[@zephyr60078]

No it’s not unusual-there’s a whole video explaining why light fun sparring is better than rougher sparring because it allows you to improve your technique and defense since you’re not in fight or flight mode

[@dirtpoorchris]

Shadow box in a very dark, cleared out room (maybe set up glow stuff or candles on the boundries) and literally shadow box till you zone out and start imagining enemies and what they would do, reacting and flinching to your strikes. I call it madman kung fu like a prisoner that got locked away or something but practicing with himself. Or put a kung fu movie in the background to augment your shadow boxing and pretend thats what your imaginary target did when you see a move in the movie or put on a MMA match and shadow box your favorite fighter.

[@Kal-El207]

This is great advice. Makes it fun too.

[@drazenrode5869]

Hello Gabriel, Two days ago I had my first Kickboxing competiotion. I won 2nd place in my Country and had 2 fights. Sadly I lost in the finals with a brutal KO via direct. All in all for my first competition I am more than happy to be the man who is 2nd in Croatia in -94kg. Thank you for your content you really helped me to prepare for my first competition.

[@AljosaPLampe]

Svaka cast. Pozdrav iz slovenije 🇸🇮🤝🇭🇷💪🔥

[@pingislife2653]

Congrats!

[@adamfanning9412]

How you feeling after the K.O?

[@jamesjaeger8078]

@@adamfanning9412 dont know how he felt, i can say from my experience that ot sucks for your self confidence for a few days, also i didnt even feel the punch itself

[@adamfanning9412]

@@jamesjaeger8078 I was more thinking about his brain, concussions are serious.

[@jaxonnevermore1394]

I found out that when I’m taking a break, some things just click mentally and I get better when I return. I guess it’s because of pure mental work when on break or just watching matches

[@IceNigrootin370]

I noticed that happens to me and others as well. One guy in my gym I always used to get the better of in the grappling sessions had like a month long break and after he came back he did much better than before the break and he almost subbed me Crazy how that works sometimes

[@jaxonnevermore1394]

I think it’s because of recovery and getting back in with a fresh mind. Healed injuries and everything

[@allenbackbone]

I think it's a mixture of watching matches and letting your brain process all the information you learned in training.

[@remyhavoc4463]

It might not be the kind of "break" you're talking about but I think this is a huge factor on why we see a lot. Of fascinating adjustments made in boxing Because they have fairly short rounds but many of them Compared to longer rounds in MMA but with less rounds. They only have 4 breaks in MMA in a 25 minute fight Meanwhile they have 11 breaks in a championship boxing match with shorter rounds. I figure that it's easier to come back and adjust in boxing than in MMA since they have more breaks

[@bobross4447]

I train mma and this always happens with my boxing, after a break I preform super well. But bjj is the opposite, I always get my ass kicked after a break and preform better when consistent. It’s weird.

[@matheusfelipe1136]

General themes I caught in the video: 1 - Don't limit yourself, try out new things with new people 2 - Do what feels uncomfortable so you can slowly get more comfortable at it 3 - Mask your strenghts behind fakes and mix it up with other setups and techniques

[@yhyhyhhh]

If I become world champion I will dedicate and honor you Gabriel varga

[@zacharyhui9113]

Hey Gabriel, I was never able to train muay thai before because of restrictions from my parents. But now that I am a grown adult and have a job, I am able to pay for my training. Been doing it 3 hours a day for almost a month. Your videos were extremely helpful in all aspects. But I had my first sparring session today against two bigger guys (60-70kg)(I am 54kg). One of them just lost a match yesterday. It was a pretty bad hard sparring session, I left with headaches, shin splints and bleeding lips. I know I am still a beginner and learning at an exceptional pace, but that kinda torn my spirit apart to sparr again because of injuries. Or even to compete in the near future. And just when I try and find a new video to show me some inspiriation, this popped up at the exact right time. I am truly grateful that you're still giving tips to beginners everyday. And I just wanna say a massive THANK YOU. Keep it up! Zach

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

First of all that shouldn't be happening. If people that much bigger are going hard just ask them to lighten up. And I'm very happy to hear you enjoy the content. Means a lot.

[@Sophisticlesenergy]

If the man himself telling you wasn't enough, I can say as a bjj coach at an MMA gym that sparring that hard your first time against bigger opponents means you should be conscious of if it's a safe gym to train at. I recommend you watch Gabriel's video on how to spot a bad gym. Until then, be safe, protect your brain, and good luck on your journey!

[@JustSomeGuyWithAMustache886]

Yeah man, your partners are hitting you too hard for your first spar! It will be harder to learn when you are trying to avoid getting injured. Sparring hard is only good for testing all the stuff you practiced in light sparring against full impact and pressure. Even in hard sparring, hard shots to the head aren’t good. Make sure you aren’t getting head injuries by telling your partners you want a light spar or finding better partners/gyms. Also if you light spar make sure you actually go light so your partner does too.

[@zacharyhui9113]

I was going light, and the guy was still going pretty hard. And I still went light though as I didn’t want to injure him. The hard sparring was probs just a one off as he looked pretty sour from the lost yesterday. Thank you all for the tips. I will work even harder from now on.

[@josesantos2084]

​@@zacharyhui9113 headaches after sparring could be a symptom of brain damage. This is really dangerous and could have long lasting or even life long effects. Do not spar with someone that does that to you. Find a way out. To learn and train technique you should train with people that take care of you and you take care of them. Brain injury is not a joke. People should not train to give or to receive brain damage. This is just dumb. Boxing gloves are weapons.

[@moniryaseen9056]

Great tips. Thanks Gabriel!

[@RoninHLee]

Great video! Thoughtful and thorough explanations of each tip.

[@raygains2118]

Awesome, thanks Gabriel!

[@patricknez7258]

These are such gr8 vids! Well done, very wise and insightful

[@tomascastro4189]

Thank you Gabriel! 🙏

[@dominikb8430]

Thank you again, Gab

[@ayske1]

Last point absolutely on point. I think this what makes it fun when you add stuff to your combos and make it yours!

[@14leonids]

Thank you , Gabriel! Always good to learn from the best! High quality video as usual.

[@PazCristo]

There are good ways to put onto your effort but also smart ways

[@Kal-El207]

Yup…that’s what he said…

[@Ash__Adler]

Love all the tips 🙂 Similar to your first and last combined, I try to have 3 focal points when I spar (1 for offense, 1 for defense, and 1 for whatever I feel like I'm struggling with), and whatever else happens, as long as I'm trying to work on those every round, it's a good session for me. Felt like it really helped me improve my understanding rapidly.

[@josemarialaguinge]

Your videos really are a gold mine, thanks Gabriel imo you're one of the best kickboxers of our generation.

[@7777wilson1]

You are the greatest❣️Well Done ~ Great, helpful presentation. Thank you. I'm going to apply these techniques to other things too 👍💯😘

[@tiernanh1902]

Hi from Ireland Gabriel! 🇮🇪 Appreciate all the tips & advice you upload 🥊🥋

[@marshalsaini9619]

Dude what have you done to me I'm so much addicted to your videos

[@notyoave_9293]

Great suggestions. I find a lot of my young guys don’t have a plan when it comes to training. I try to emphasize that they should have a goal with each session, to improve on a technique. Ultimately they resort to what comfortable, to the detriment of adding new skills. I feel like they are more interested in filming, taking pictures to post, and conditioning vs improving their skill and becoming well rounded as a fighter.

[@Freiheit1232]

This is solid advice!

[@ronaldson57]

Love the fact that you said train the techniques for 5 minutes everyday and learn from different fighters great amazing videos

[@RodrigoFerreira-of5vv]

Hi from Portugal love ur videos keep it up 👊

[@toplion777]

Brother you've been dishing out content crazy and I appreciate it 🙏🏿

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad you're enjoying the videos

[@lethargickatz7756]

Thanx for being such a great instructor 🤗🤗 love from iran ❤❤

[@DedicatedSpartan]

I really like Gabriel Varga. The fact that many do not view vidoes like his and Bazooka Joe's shows that people often do not like hearing the truth in my opinion. His advice is simple but effective.

[@ayoubex1951]

Thanks champ 🙏☺️

[@jonashaggstrom4140]

thx for good tips.

[@painted1469]

Best content as ever!

[@GalacticBored]

You single handedly made me so much better at kickboxing so much so that my brother in law who is better than me in every way athletically wise is saying that I'm actually better food for someone who started a week ago

[@abderrahmaneworks]

thanks for helping ! ❤️ love from morocco.

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

😀😃

[@fudsta4193]

Watching your videos lowkey set me up for some really good sparring rounds last week lol cheers

[@EandEsystems]

The home training for weaknesses reminds me of nucleus overload training 😮🤔 will give this a go!

[@forlorn916]

My experience in the penultimate tip that you give: yeah it works really well, but depends on level between 2 players. Last Saturday I had a sparring section with 1 professional kickboxer and 1 kickboxer from gifted school (a type of school that trains potential kids for national sport team). Yes I did use long guard trying to figure out their patterns but they outclassed my stamina haha. I couldn't make it to the 3rd round. So, if you guys want to spar with new people, pay attention on their level.

[@vivix35]

Hi Gabriel, thanks a lot for the great tips! How do you organise your trainings? There is so many techniques I like to work on and I don’t know how I should prioritise it

[@joshualaukala9480]

Hope you and Jeff Chan do a collab someday

[@DefenderOfAzeroth]

dang, you explained it all so well, brother

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Glad to hear it 🙏

[@MatthewConlon.]

gabriel, amazing video as usual, you should consider adding segments to your videos with titles and footnotes in the timer bar!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Yes I will work to add those more in future videos.

[@MatthewConlon.]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial lovely news, ill be here for it!

[@Rjthatguy8232]

One of my weaknesses was my switch kick, now i destroy livers with the speed and power I can’t throw a regular body kick too good😂 feels weaker without the switch

[@chadwithautism]

Every technique has its weakness. So if you're solely trying to compensate for that weakness by drilling something specific, you may very well run into another weakness. You can sort of ricochet from drilling one specific technique to another, but that would only do so much, especially in terms of making yourself understand the entirety of your art. Which is why fundamentals are key. You have to understand that you need to leverage your strengths, which would make you at least somewhat vulnerable to certain strategies or techniques. But with good fundamentals (from drills) and understanding of strategy (from sparring & watching fights), you can diminish your weaknesses very well to the extent that it wouldn't matter if you had them since it's at the expense of leveraging your strengths to its or their highest level. In contrast, if you're too focused on diminishing all of your weaknesses to the point where you may have none, you would hardly be leveraging anything at all. However, at an advanced level, I believe that there are certain strategies that are the exception to this caveat, but not to the extent of defeating its purpose.

[@midnightblue1874]

Such a nice insight and i'm not even in martial arts, but perfectly undestand your logic.

[@OGSirSmokezAlot]

Thanks, I know my weaknesses but I don't want to practice them. Because I'm bad at them lol Helpful Video

[@juansabaTV]

Gabriel, awesome vid as always. How can i practice defense if im alone? Not always I have a partner

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

Can you do a part 2 called “how to stop being a can”?

[@ajm2857]

6:36 personally I recommend watching new guys spar someone else first so you have an idea what their sparring ediquet is like, I didn’t do this recently and got blindsided by a dude swinging for the fences.

[@GamerFan2050]

Explosion training is the keyword..

[@Juel92]

Lol I've been training my left roundkick (and also my right from south paw) half the training pass today because I didn't like my form. Funny coincidence how it's your first example. I guess I'm on the right track.

[@DavideV101]

I would ask a video in the best way to train solo defend

[@Robin_Is]

Noted.

[@xd_zaythoven3154]

My weakness is just my willingness to scramble I be so focused/frustrated on getting back to the feet I don't pop back up on takedowns

[@mega1283]

the second you said that it wasn't just gong to be about working hard/grinding, I know this was a going to be good. I actually was thinking of doing 3-5 mins of stuff i have to work on since that's what I have done to improve some weak links in my body and its worked really well. Do you have any tips for people who tense during sparring? I been told my punch are to stiff but haven't gotten any good tips execpt to breath out ( got that from wonderboy's channel).

[@adventurefamily3220]

I have the same problem, slowly getting better. I think it mostly comes from being too tense expecting return shots, this really limits the speed you throw your punches. Also a lot of it is learning to throw with speed but not full power.

[@David-wy8fn]

My coaches say that im really good at muay thai but i dont feel like i am, and i dont know why do i feel this way.( have been training for 4 years in total)

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Sounds like you are just hard on yourself. Sometimes that an amazing way to get better. Because you keep pushing trying to get good but not feeling like you are. But I hope at some point you feel like you've got a good skillset.

[@ayhambashaireh5068]

Do you compete? If so then that should probably be you're gauge, if not, it's the reason why you feel so (I can relate)

[@thepyroguy624]

Can you do a video about a plan for fightcamp day by day

[@baroudeur418]

Can you do a fighter breakdown of Alexander Volkanovski?

[@mohammadtausifrafi8277]

My age is similar to you but I am not as smart as you, I wish your videos were available when I started martial arts.

[@dominikb8430]

Hey, i just watched KarateCombat and I wonder; when will be your next fight?

[@dirtpoorchris]

For some people REALLY expensive headphones with VERY HIGH BEAT music can double your cardio.

[@JustSomeGuyWithAMustache886]

Sheesh, looking jacked in that top! Time to start modelling

[@justinb.delrosario9913]

Hi gab, can you do what makes Manny Pacquiao so good? It's just fascinating to see pacman broke alot of "boxing rules" but makes them work, thank you:))

[@randomthings8057]

What about for boxing purely

[@paulconrad6220]

How Improve To Fast

[@mertk.9136]

Don't get too scared but if my typo prof sees that thumbnail text he will probably come to beat you up... "How improve to fast"

[@nokoh]

Hi

[@Boltrex100]

How improve to fast.

[@outscogaming6462]

Can we Master Boxing from home ?

[@ranvirojha3441]

Not master no but u could get pretty decent as long as u can go somewhere to spar or something but u can master the fundamentals , but to master ull need to spar often to get over the fear of fighting

[@scarzandy436]

Nope

[@xinsanedefeatx]

Quick suggestion, the "QUICKLY" in your title seems a little repetitive and unnecessary and I think you may want to avoid too many words being in CAPS People often associate that with click-bait and low effort vids

[@manhalfamazing00]

Meh... i suggest working on perfecting your strenghs than making your weaknesses mediocre. Most people will ever be a complete fighter but if you have a right hand from GOD put all your energy in figuring out how to set up and land it consistently. Work on weaknesses gradually. But im not a 6x champ...🤷🏿‍♂️

[@AngelOvDeath4014]

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[@HamasGonnaDie]

Hi from Israel

[@bilelmsd7465]

free palestine

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Love the views from around the world ❤

[@Mrpicklestick]

Free Palestine

[@sansy279]

​@@bilelmsd7465 do you have to bring politics into this

[@HamasGonnaDie]

@@sansy279 exactly extremely unnecessary and stupid

[@RAPEDBYBLACKS]

‘3 years…” Lol I wish

[@tux75]

I tried this on my grandma. She couldn’t stand a chance

[@snow7728]

I can't stress the first tip enough of working on techniques you know are your weakness. I had a very sorry excuse for a left teep for the longest time and I never threw it because I thought it would never be effective for me. A day came where I sparred with a guy with a crazy good left teep and I thought to myself, man I want that tool in my toolbelt. After that, everyday I went to the gym I worked on that left teep at any chance I could. After I got competent with it, it quickly became my new favorite technique and turned into a new kind of Jab for me and something that I could feint so I could land my right hand. 🦵