I tried BOXING like Ippo | Hajime no Ippo

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[@sacredboxing]

This came out fire 🔥 🔥

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks for all the help!!

[@voiceoverandmocapguy]

I love how you gave him pointers and exercises to get his anime Dempsey Roll better!

[@hard2hurt]

"Anime... ok... what is that?" lol you couldn't script a better line than that.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

You really couldn't 🤣

[@dusandragovic09srb]

@@metrolinamartialartsI didn't even need to see your comment, I knew it was Mike🤣

[@Machina03exe]

You're not alone. Back in middle school and high school, I watched Ippo a LOT, and it really reminded me of my days in the dojo when I went to rewatch it after college. It's been two decades, but I still regularly listen to Under Star, especially when I'm training.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

So good! Glad I'm not alone

[@runakobannister3316]

Hey man thats #1 on my playlist when i do road work

[@saadkayani]

This should definitely be remade in future when video ideas are running low- but instead of "i tried boxing like ippo" it would be "i trained like ippo for a month/extended timeframe", where you just sign up at a boxing gym train for the month pure boxing with ippos style. That way you can actually absorb some pure boxing fundamentals instead of imitating them from a jkd base, and you would have a lot of footage to use instead of trying to squeeze every technique into one sparring session. And it would probably help your overall game too tbh. EDIT: im realising that this is basically Seths Muay thai yearly series, but hey those were good videos too

[@metrolinamartialarts]

As much as I would love to do this - time is an issue. But I've got some good plans working

[@The31st]

The real Dempsey roll is really underwhelming when you've seen hajime no ippo. Jack Dempsey basically just rolls and throws a hook.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Yeah lol I know

[@Ingeb91]

Kinda requires the explosiveness of someone like Mike Tyson just to function. I mean, if you use it just to land a single hook, great stuff, but if you want there to be several in succession, you have got to move, so you'll probably need hella leg muscle.

[@pantasticlaire3966]

@@Ingeb91 I mean when dempsi uses it it’s basically just a super brutal finishing sequence. If someone is conscious enough to properly defend themselves it’s not all that great

[@Ingeb91]

@@pantasticlaire3966 Yeah, definitely. it's an all offense, minimal defense sort of sequence. And when executed with boxing purity, with your weight behind every hook, it is brutal as hell. But that's the thing. try to catch your own hook and spin it around when you're putting your weight into it. It murders your quads. My point about having to be ridiculously strong and explosive to get this to work still stands.

[@KittSpiken]

That's only because none of Jack's opponents took hits like Ponchai and the jet engine had yet to be invented.

[@HittokiriBatosai]

I loved Ippo back in uni. Channeled his determination to get through some tough exam periods. Years later, I got a job around the same area of the city where my student part-time job was and it kept throwing my mind back to Ippo. I'd been wanting to train in pure boxing for a while, so I joined a boxing gym near me. Would play the closing theme on my drive home every time. One of our pro boxers did a podcast recently. When asked why he got into boxing, he cited watching Hajime no Ipoo when he was 16. I had no idea lol

[@metrolinamartialarts]

That's awesome!! I'm so glad this anime is responsible for many success stories

[@user-bx3uk7sl4y]

He just like me

[@BMO_Creative]

Man! Great video! Jared is a great trainer! Your JKD background pops up every time you use head movement... your guard drops, But you're fast!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much for watching 🙏

[@brianlewis1331]

sliding in the real folk blues at the end of the video nice

[@douglaswhite2038]

Definitely a difficult style to put into practice especially if you're used to out fighting, but if done right simultaneously stepping shifting weight while also throwing is very effective if the opponent is going back in a straight line, just remember what coach said short steps shifting your weight to the opposite foot keep your head off center

[@metrolinamartialarts]

💯

[@ComicusFreemanius]

He called it immediately ,Tyson style but there's no mass in anime. Mike had Mean squat though and most people can't move like that no matter what size they are, he had that Shaolin quality squat. I try to gas my thighs every chance I can, I don't have a bike atm the lactic acid is easy to get rid of if you can get high cadence pedaling on a bike and just spool it out.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Oh damn that's a good idea

[@ComicusFreemanius]

@@metrolinamartialarts I've done enough cycling to know how to crest a hill with minimal suffering. Cus would actually have Mike do stationary bike at the end of his workout too though. Never done stationary, I just try to reach max rpm least amount of load to end on.

[@lady_draguliana784]

Loved watching your footwork evolve!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much!

[@Ninjacob00]

5:50 LEG MOUSCLES Gang!!

[@dyn9726]

LEGGG MOUSCLESSSS

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Leg MOUSCLES

[@gello303]

So happy to see a vid like this. Only started boxing after i found HNI and i'm so happy i did

[@metrolinamartialarts]

That's awesome!!

[@jmiahTNT]

This was an awesome video brother. Also one of my few favorite anime. We definitely gotta do punchy kicky stuff in the near future!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Absolutely brother!

[@elcidgaming]

the "dempsey roll" you kinda just do it by accident by bobbing and finding an opening for hooks

[@kosherkep9398]

Enjoyed every min! 💯

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much!!

[@Kottenification]

Cool video! Really liked this!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks for watching!!

[@adgeifc]

These current chapter is wild and were only half way done

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I know - it's wild how long this manga is

[@BushCheney04]

Really fun video. I feel like the Dempsey roll is really hard to practice in sparring because a big part of it is approaching while doing the head movement. The problem is that it's sparring so your opponent probably isn't that afraid of your punches because you don't want to hurt him(unless you want to be a jerk). So he won't back up from what should be powerful punches. I think that's where Mike Tyson's peekaboo style works better since it has similar forward movement but also to the side of opponents so you don't need to rely on your opponent backing up to keep pushing forward. Hmm, perhaps a future video if you collab with Jared again🤔

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks for watching!! It is hard because of what you said

[@CombatSelfDefense]

I’ve never even seen this anime and I love this video

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much!

[@dylancarson4538]

no joke that ep is why I started boxing

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Oh nice!! That's awesome!!

[@strystyl]

Okay so I had to comment. Ippo is one of my favorite anime period and I think something that really gets his Dempsey to work is the pressure. He’s usually not getting caught up in head movement (specially when he really relies on it) and because of his guard he just tanks hits. That and if you really wanna make it work I’ve have some success with really getting into damn near clinch distance and keeping the turns as tight as possible and even then you can really only get like three or four shots max before it’s a good idea to clinch or cut out.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Cool! I need to try it from that distance

[@luunchbox]

Top tier content right here

[@metrolinamartialarts]

🤜💥🤛

[@Kus0ice]

just realized my friend and I are probably Aoki and Kimura.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Uh oh lol. I'm turning into Kamogawa lol

[@sanic0718]

Love the icy mike cameo!!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

He is everywhere!

[@jakefisher-psalm23]

When I saw the thumbnail for this video I thought, "Uh, is Ed going to do a 'Fighting Like' video about Little Mac from Punch-Out!!?" I tell ya, Ed--I've learned of more anime from your videos than on my own in the past 10+ years. 🤣 And I love anime! Clearly my love of video games surpasses my love of anime..."Mario punch." I get it! 😍 Great video, bro. As always.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much for watching!!

[@gw1357]

Bruce Lee loved Dempsey and the shovel hook. See all the stuff about "shifty blasting" in the Tao of Jeet Kune Do sections on infighting. The anime's portrayal of the peak-a-boo style does get one thing right and that is that the slip also serves to load for the hook, and that becomes the start of most combinations. Its the footwork and evasion that really makes the peak-a-boo special, not the punching. I've experimented a lot with trapping off of the peak-a-boo style. So (ideally) I'll slip outside, shovel hook to the liver with the outside hand, pin the elbow with the inside hand, and finish with an elbow over the top.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Interesting combo!

[@gw1357]

@@metrolinamartialarts Honestly, if you can effectively slip and d'amato shift (aka tyson hop) to get outside of their shoulder already loaded to act, then you're really in such a superior position that you can do whatever you like -- trap, strike, sweep, enter the clinch, etc.

[@PheseantNetsuke]

nice video i love that music

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much!

[@allstarwoo4]

You already admit to not liking the Dempsey roll (the real one I hope) which is fine. A problem with the Dempsey roll and peekaboo style it's super committal. That's why shorter heavier fighters like it is because plays to their advantage when they'd be at disadvantage other wise.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Definitely agree!

[@jamesbaggett7223]

Former college boxer here….precisely

[@SergioXavierJr]

Yeah man, while I was tranning after see an episode of Ippo, I aways see the chars in the gym, very satisfing

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Yessir!! Thanks for watching!

[@Ventus_the_Heathen]

Definitely end every video with the Japanese segments I love it

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Lol give the people want they need

[@thewarriorandthegarden1562]

Hey great video ik everything is easy when watching from the couch , but you abandon the strategy on and off I think to get the feedback ur looking for in sparring 1.keeping guard up 2. Forward head movement 3. Constant motion for throwing the combination But I enjoyed the video and when I was competing I incorporated alot of ippo fighting style in my own cause boxing really coincided with my wrestling thank you for making the video

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks for watching!

[@maddinkn]

I love Hajime no Ippo! Still reading it! It got interesting again. The Dempsey roll was hype but I don't like it as much as his other moves since he was potrait as a power punching monster. (yet he suddenly needs 20 hits with his full body weight behind it and the oponnent just can't do anything... ) Anyways, thank you very much for doing this! This must have been a lot of fun! Peace

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much for watching!!

[@adriangarciasantiesteban8227]

Great vídeo!. I love Ippo si mucho lol.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Me too! Thanks for watching!

[@olegon21]

My wife and I both train boxing, she's definitely "Aoki" of the group :D

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Uh oh.

[@pedromedrano5110]

lets gooo

[@metrolinamartialarts]

🔥🔥🔥

[@psyk0duck]

I love this video. Would love to see something similar for other anime like @JaxBlade does with his Tough Like the Toons series!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

That's the plan! Already have one on Goku and one on Rock Lee!

[@psyk0duck]

@@metrolinamartialarts Awesome! I can't wait to see them.

[@dobo9150]

How you feel about the Philly Shell with that there liver shot? Also, thank you for the ramen recommend; I came for the martial arts KZbin but I stayed for the travel guides. ;)

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Hahaha any time!

[@LattrellGolden]

I want to take a time that props that you use that app that’s a really good app for all the animes is my favorite and I’m working on get back in Mixed Martial Arts and I’m aiming for 2023 Grappling championship

[@ElDrHouse2010]

you actually did good

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks so much+

[@gingercore69]

Dempsey vs willard = real life Dempsey roll... He almost killed that guy

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Oh damn

[@andrewbidwell6421]

Well…I think we already know the answer considering Dempsey was a heavyweight champion boxer, but…please continue lol

[@HolyHadou]

I need to go back to the manga. It's been a while since I picked it back up.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I skipped around. I've caught up and it still moving so slowly 😭😭😭

[@christophervelez1561]

Yes! I love Haijime no Ippo!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Such a great show

[@christophervelez1561]

@@metrolinamartialarts if you like haijime no ippo you should check out kenichi the mightiest disciple.

[@christophervelez1561]

It’d be cool to see if you can incorporate some of those techniques from that show.

[@Kiyan-tl5fy]

ah yes FuuFuu ramen. 11 years later and the memory still looms large love your footwork and head movement in the sparring, but your hands do drop quite low, frequently. It's not easy to keep them up, but sometimes we have to take the hard

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Sometimes we do have to take the hard

[@nickdavis5420]

I think the guy who created hajimi no iPpo has a boxing gym and did boxing before creating the anime .

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I've been outside his gym. It's awesome

[@HBRO_04]

Should’ve learned the Sendo San smash

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Future video 🤣

[@lady_draguliana784]

Icy Mike FTW! Still a game yo! 🤣

[@metrolinamartialarts]

He's everywhere

[@yeout4386]

You should do fighting like kenichi history's strongest disciple for your next video its about learning multiple martial srts andovercomming your limitations

[@metrolinamartialarts]

A lot of people have recommended that. I think it's next!

[@KickyFut]

*KEEP YOUR GUARD UP!* You're shorter than most of your opponents in this video, you're boxing & your hands are down half the time! In TKD or JKD you can let your hands slip lower to protect more from kicks, but in boxing you need them much higher. Footwork and core control can also help you slip and dodge better. That vertical uppercut could be useful, tho... Especially if you get them used to tons of normal horizontal punches!😁

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Easier said than done bit I appreciate it nonetheless 🤜💥🤛

[@KickyFut]

@@metrolinamartialarts Oh Light, of course it's easier to say than do! It takes work, but the 1st thing to know is where the opportunities for improvement are. You can do it! 👊

[@antonioyeats2149]

Idk. In tkd I found my gaurd was still good placed higher. Pretty much all of the lower body defense happens through slides and checks

[@KickyFut]

@@antonioyeats2149 I was in TKD as well, and I at least kept my back hand at my chin, just in case! When doing boxing/hands only, those hands need to always be higher than the elbows!

[@antonioyeats2149]

@@KickyFut now that I think about it, guard placements probably gonna have a lot to do with height differential. I'm pretty short, and even at a lean fighting fitness level I'm still pretty heavy so I nearly always ended up against a taller guy. Transitioning from tkd to boxing to mma my gaurd was always on the higher side but my tkd guard reaches out quite a bit more than the guard I use when I had fights in the cage. Funny enough I didn't really go through the usual struggle of adjusting my boxing for mma because my boxing crouch already puts me in a good position to intercept shots.

[@Pk12gaming]

Btw the hole serie is free on youtube😎

[@metrolinamartialarts]

It is! Love it

[@otonworldproductions]

Please what gloves do you use? The one in black with blue and white logo

[@metrolinamartialarts]

The ones I use in training? They're custom gloves I had made for my school.

[@MomDoer-qc7iw]

Oh man we need some Holyland (highly recommend the manga if you haven't read it) and Baki training

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Baki on the list!

[@malkomalkavian]

Arigato :)

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Arigato~

[@sirliamgalvez5276]

If you want to land that liver shot you could throw a short right cross then transition inside to a liver shot

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Yeah that's a good way of doing it

[@heraldofoblivion727]

Leg mosscles lol, you got some icy mike in you now

[@metrolinamartialarts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@emperortime4380]

Looks a lot like Mike Tyson’s Peek-a-Boo style

[@thewarriorandthegarden1562]

It is that's what anime was going for

[@sirliamgalvez5276]

It's even mentioned in the earliest episodes that the coach taught ippo mike tyson's peekaboo style to work on his defense

[@zeroblade6599]

That gazelle punch was also a tyson move

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Ippo a mini-Tyson

[@Yt_chatEnjoyer]

You should check out megalobox! Underrated boxing anime.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I had trouble getting into it. I'll try again+

[@Yt_chatEnjoyer]

@@metrolinamartialarts that’s fair! It kinda has a generic premise but throws some spicy curveballs in there later. S2 is probably one of the weirdest(but good) follow ups I’ve seen to a shonen.

[@Yt_chatEnjoyer]

What’s the name of the real folks blues remix at the end?

[@metrolinamartialarts]

It's from @RiftiBeats

[@Yt_chatEnjoyer]

@@metrolinamartialarts thank you 🙏

[@Joseph-iw6yp]

you could have made it more realistic if you could move faster thats prob why ippo was so good he was super fast

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Yeah I'm also a bit bigger than ippo.

[@SuperZombiezero]

Great video, but ed the reason you were getting hit by straight punches while doing dempsey roll is because unlike ippo you stayed up, ippo does what mike tyson does and gets low which makes straighg punches miss and set up the dempsey roll at the same time

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Very true 😂

[@PotatoBoy]

One thing I'd like to point out is that the Gazelle punch which is a leaping upward hook or other variations of punches rather than what you showed. With it being utilised from Floyd Patterson, link to it being used kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGelnWelhciBoaM But overall, really love this video!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Thanks for watching!!

[@gigaballer]

bro i can relate like myy friend said how much do you eight and i said 70 kiograms, he was like man you fuck*ed because the same weightclass you in has many tall guys and they have large reach. so I can relate myself to ippo in start, im short as hell and im starting boxing, and have a good power like him.

[@metrolinamartialarts]

That's awesome! Keep going

[@gigaballer]

@metrolinamartialarts thanks man I will. I actually wanna become a world champ. Well I'll work as much as I can to be. Thanks again

[@talk-no-jutsu7304]

just fight like mike tyson lol

[@tristenburd5493]

If you like this you should read holy land

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I'll check it out!

[@jboettc2]

They do know that the Dempsey roll comes from Jack Dempsey right?

[@metrolinamartialarts]

They do lol

[@jboettc2]

@metrolinamartialarts thanks for reply. Love your channel!

[@YoyoJajun]

🥇🎄🤣🤣🤣👍

[@metrolinamartialarts]

🤣🤣🤜💥🤛

[@KittSpiken]

What is it to be strong?

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I'll let you know when I know. As Ippo and I are still searching

[@makaiev]

Ippo does fight a lot like mike tyson, but lacks evasion skills because he sucks at faints so he couldn't bait strikes to doge better and end up needing to brute force opennings instead of the mix&match iron mike did... I do feel kinda sorry for myata, he just needed A LOT of strenght trainning (and heavier hands)... Mashiba definatelly is in the wrong weight category, he looks malnurished!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Agreed! Miyata definitely needs more power. And Mashiba iirc did move up one weight class.

[@krioni86sa]

What level is your Japanese language?

[@metrolinamartialarts]

It's rusty - but I'm conversationally fluent. About 10 years ago I was working towards business fluent, but quit the job I was at. Now I visit Japan and basically can bullshit my way around the language lol

[@Khattab99]

Check out tommorow's joe!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I read a bit of it and loved it!

[@elcidgaming]

at least do the peekaboo

[@pangopod2969]

:)

[@metrolinamartialarts]

:)

[@denji-sb4bm]

Bro ur hand

[@metrolinamartialarts]

Yeah it's there. Kinda.

[@outtabubblegum7034]

Take a look at the "JumpRopeDudes" channel and you WILL learn how to jump rope!!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I like that I can't do it lol 😂 but thanks I'll check it out

[@Riot076]

Don't wanna bring you down,but those hooks in the sparring footage looked REALLY sloppy. I know it was supposed to be rather playful,but you lost your form completely and you were looking away constantly. Also your very bladed stance seems to be doing you a huge disservice in this purely boxing context,as there are times you almost turn your back completely on your sparring partner. Kinda sucks that they didn't even attempt to punish any of those mistakes. Your headmovement (other than looking away) was good,tho

[@metrolinamartialarts]

I don't wanna bring you down.... proceeds to type 1000 characters bringing you down 😅🤣 I believe I made fun of my boxing and form in the video, lol I appreciate it though 🤜💥🤛

[@Riot076]

@@metrolinamartialarts Yeah, I know how it looks XD I meant it as feedback, tho, not just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking