Punch Your Way Into the Clinch | Dirty Boxing Seminar Info

Seminar Info:
Saturday November 7th 2020
Seminar 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Open mat/sparring/pictures/videos etc after!
Seminar is at RKM Training
121 Gateway Dr Unit D
Myrtle Beach, SC 29579
Registration is $30 in advance if you register before 10/24 and after that it may go up. Please register in advance so we can ensure adequate resources.
To register paypal $30 to [e-mail] or you can email me and we can find an alternate method of payment.
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[@hard2hurt]

Question for Viewers: Who's coming to the seminar?

[@kingpimpskinnypimp5329]

Listen i came here to learn but saw this mans giant package no homo i am not a gay man but i am a man who speaks what he thinks and speaks the truth and the truth is that man has a good sized package on him again i am not a homosexual but nice package man it's not weird to respect another mans package again nice package man.

[@kingpimpskinnypimp5329]

The both of you.

[@feirabbitt]

Would love to I come but I can't make it .

[@kurylko8493]

i live across the universe, would pay to watch it online

[@superman1755]

Would definitely come if I was closer

[@KARATEbyJesse]

My brother once told me: "think striking when you grapple, think grappling when you strike". That really resonated with me. Good luck with the seminar Mike! Wish I could be there! :) Stay safe and take care.

[@hard2hurt]

Wow. I need to ponder that. What I think of when I hear that is that I will be thinking of the thing my opponent is not thinking of. Thank you sir.

[@driver3899]

I like it, Firas Zuhabi said something similar about advice he was given in his early fights

[@theflamingone8729]

Like "Strike to unbalance, unbalance to strike ".?

[@isaacm1168]

@@theflamingone8729that’s how I see it! Makes sense in a way constant shots and attacks in wrestling will make a wrestler flinch and set up offense and in striking engaging in clinches and disengaging can open up strike opportunities

[@jessicaSmash]

“Some people use the clinch defensively. That’s what losers do.” Lov this!

[@metrolinamartialarts]

You just made my day with Bong Sao.

[@hard2hurt]

I knew it lol

[@hard2hurt]

PREDICTABLE!

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

Same. I train various martial arts, but I love wingchun. So that made me happy, although I was thinking something else before he mentioned bonsao.

[@webherring]

*push glasses up my nose* 🤓 Uh, technically, that was a kap jaang or gwai jaang as shown in the biu jee form because the elbow went over and down. A bong sau will drive forward toward the opponent's center. 🤓

[@metrolinamartialarts]

@@webherring neat

[@ImKinni]

ah the good ole ‘aggressive hug’

[@grsimpson3957]

I'm a clinch fighter because Frye vs. Takayama is the coolest fight ever

[@Yoshi-dp1bc]

This ^^^

[@MostCriminalKK]

If you know you know 👌🏽

[@andrewferris1903]

They were the manliest men who ever manned a ring.

[@areallybigdwarf4560]

1:24 mike doing the ronda rousey

[@hard2hurt]

Lol exactly

[@coolman54061]

oh my😂

[@dmills5755]

Ur actually answering a question I have been debating in my head for the last few days, ty!!!

[@justastranger9868]

Because youre losing the exchange, clinch non defensively...this info would have helped TREMENDOUSLY before my first ever fight, i did everything you said not to do, Jiu Jitsu and grappling was my thing, i was comfortable on the outside, as soon as you get swarmed you charge in with your head down, punch shy...i can tell from experiance people, this is gold

[@ryantran7539]

You’re completely right about losing the exchange and trying to clench defensively, always getting wailed on and it doesn’t go my way. I clinch offensively now and it drastically improved my fighting

[@vajrarezaalam1262]

Great tutorial Mike! Gonna use this during sparring this week.

[@perrenchan6600]

5:14 , is the sound effect important for this technique too? 😂

[@tommysoderholm8305]

I love these wing chun episodes. Ivy Mike really knows his chi sao.

[@JohnGuidera-ws6nk]

Love the outlook even the ones I disagree with because you usually have at the very least a 1/2 truth in doing so

[@iammichael1094]

Awesome information! Thanks

[@DCRACKA]

Great video fellas!

[@andrewferris1903]

Kicking your way into the clinch is thr next level.

[@weshardy1063]

Praying Mantis...12 flexible methods, #3...twirling around opponents blocking arm. Invented in 1645 at the Shaolin Temple for the 7 Star Praying Mantis style. This is exactly what you are doing with gloves on...perfect.

[@johnbroadway7407]

good luck with the seminar hope it sells out .you should make a video of it for those to far away or are disabled but still have a way of using what they can use.

[@Fahim_Lalani]

Solid video thx 🙏

[@capturevr2974]

Best video in a while...

[@Zapinator321]

I suck at setting up clinching for stand up. This was helpful

[@ishan599]

my heart is hard bc i’ve been 2 hurt :(

[@Brass_Heathen]

Who hurt you?

[@hypnoticskull6342]

@@Brass_Heathen His Minecraft girlfriend

[@snazdogdbfan251]

Damn bro

[@temporaldisplacement]

I'm not great in the clinch ..this Bong Sau you speak of ..I like it.

[@kieran1581]

Hi Mike, I'm a big fan

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

I wouldn't call myself a clinch fighter. But I definitely like being in the pocket. 1: because of my wrestling and grappling preferences, and 2: I had a good boxing coach that used mitts and built up my "in the pocket" ability(footwork, head movement). I'm not quite as efficient as I was then, but my confidence is up, and I have the understanding.

[@liamcage7208]

I find this topic really interesting. I have always thought of the clinch as an offensive strategy. I've been taking Judo to add to my clinch repertoire (they really do own the clinch in my opinion - its hard to strike when you're being pulled off balance) but there is still the matter of getting to it when striking. I'm 6'5" tall and I'm always sparring shorter guys. I don't want to give up my reach advantage so I usually wait for my opponent to initiate the clinch. I would love to be more proactive and be the guy who initiates it, tall guys can really dominate in that position as long as you can counter their body lock.

[@pantasticlaire3966]

I actually work Mexican boxing inspired clinchwork into my Muay Thai plus a bit of folk style wrestling. I also made my wrestling clinching more strike-y, especially working into collar and Russian ties.

[@crimsonking4151]

I feel the strongest in the clinch position

[@malkomalkavian]

One day I'll make it to that seminar...

[@thisisbaxter1354]

Imma CLENCH fighter noooo booty bandits getting in!

[@DocTarnation]

Could somebody loop the bit around 05:08 to 05:17 and add some Bugs Bunny music and sound effects? @IcyMike, can you do Elmer? Oh, sorry. That was your Elmer. ;D

[@grapeleopard6809]

Yes this is perfect your mind is a thing to be protected at all costs

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

@7:52 A Kung-fu master or anyone who has trained Muay Thai. Either way; love the idea of leveraging the clinch offensively off the back of winning an exchange - great stuff!

[@robbybee70]

I like when you grab his wrists after taking the gloves off and his hands flip birds....

[@SqueezeLift]

Great fkn video brother, I was just working on this in sparring w my bro

[@perrenchan6600]

7:12 Also kung fu guy here, when you took the gloves off, that for me is what wing chun should look like. If your wing chun doesnt look this then youre doing it wrong and you need to learn kickboxing to contextualise your wing chun. In my kickboxing class, whenever we get in the clinch, thats when my wing chun comes into play. Other than that I just do kick boxing

[@jansettler4828]

When you need to learn a different martial art so that your martial art doesn't suck, your martial art sucks.

[@perrenchan6600]

@@jansettler4828 so you're saying that a jujitsu guy who has to learn Kickboxing so he doesn't suck in MMA means his jujitsu sucks? You crazy bro 😂

[@ninthkaikan1544]

@@perrenchan6600 guy gonna respond with something stupid when he sees this, haha

[@perrenchan6600]

@@ninthkaikan1544 I wonder if that guy is anti-mma jks jks. But seriously, you gotta mix your martial arts to become better. And he does have a point though, some martial arts have 0 context so you gotta mix em to get that context back so he's not that far off from the truth 😂

[@jansettler4828]

@@perrenchan6600 You're literally the Cathy Newman meme: "So you're saying..." followed by something I definetly wasn't saying. Jiu Jitsu is still effective in itself. You don't need KB to make your JJ work. WC in the other hand is pointless. It doesn't work against resisting opponents. That's why the only things WC apologists can point to are people who used to do WC, but in fights use standard KB, MT and boxing etc.

[@ymboriginal7980]

🤣🤣This guy is funny as hell, without even trying.

[@rockstarjoe5725]

Literally 😂

[@JuanMiguelQuezon]

"bUt I'll juSt g0 To tHe boDy"

[@toetoegan8999]

YESSSSSSSSSS

[@gw1357]

110% for this video. Great stuff. I always ask...are you entering the clinch ON YOUR TERMS, from an ADVANTAGED POSITION, with an INTENT TO FINISH. If you are, then you're doing the clinch right. Also, look out, but you're doing adapted Wing Chun to create advantage on the way in. Dig it very much.

[@Mcnutt420]

30 seconds in, and all I can say is your right mike, not only can you get punched, you can get headbutt pretty bad too depending where the fight is

[@ives3572]

I never ever wanted to be a clinch fighter, I'm a distance fighter and I love being that kind of fighter.

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

I'm more into being a fighter that wins.

[@TheWillToFight]

Really enjoyed that video love to clinch I drop someone in a gym show with a body punch in the clinch which makes me laugh because people say you can’t get power in your punches in the clinch 💪

[@ianpierregomes8373]

You don't need that much power to drop someone with a liver shot.

[@TheWillToFight]

@@ianpierregomes8373 oh yes that is very true

[@Ryansnuttz]

if your a clinch fighter because u dont want to get punched in the face u most not be afraid of elbows ask any mua thai fighter

[@crabbycabbage4568]

Kung-fu Cliff intensifies

[@driver3899]

Expect 200% increase at seminar after mentioning bong Sao Only problem is how many of them will now rock up in silk Wing Chun shirts and black canvas sippers

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

Yeah, that risk of getting elbowed if you try and go from a straight right for an underhook is too high - methinks better to enter clinch with a jab-to-left-bicep-control then come in (close guarded) to get half collar tie with the right. Safer

[@mizublackriver7021]

I swear Clint's shirt said OUCH! Like the legendary chad shirt does.

[@ishan599]

but thank you for the entertainment and education mike

[@billyg.personaltraining]

I’d be super down if it wasn’t a 14 hour drive. Sorry mike. I’m loving my double end bag though!

[@IceCold11235]

6:28 Cliff using the Double Flipping Bird!

[@adamzoubi96]

Awesome video, great entery to the clinch. I struggle mostly with getting hit on my way out of the clinch, do you have a safe way of getting out of the clinch?

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

Long guard retreat?

[@stevenrichardson4928]

The seminar will be great, even if the elbow doesn't collapse in Bong Sau. I would be there if I lived within 100 miles. As it is, I'm over 3000 miles away.

[@MeerkatMotorBoards]

Cobra Kai mindset!

[@loganlogan9095]

Boop!!!

[@andrewgayle1822]

You’re very good not only are you gorgeous you’re very funny but like I said keep up The good work what you’re doing

[@zionzolo668]

“I can take those punches cause I’m not a winnie

[@someguy2690]

Just gotta go to the....

[@billyg.personaltraining]

When is the next seminar? I just moved down south.

[@Cysubtor_8vb]

I'm in the weird scenario were I'm more of an out-fighter since I'm tall, but is forced to work on clinch fighting more as it's the main counter to me, lol

[@ChefMoshe]

This clinch mistake happened to me when I was super drunk and got jumped by like four people. But I knew that as it was happening but I was drunk and in my head saying what are you doing? I didn't really get beat up but it sucked.

[@jordantheokay3168]

I never had high esteam for the clinch because irl, it's strictly optional. Headbutts and steel toe shoes change a lot in fighting. Hell, I want people to try to clinch me up because if they do, it's there a$$.

[@DaroLinguiniJohnson]

Cliff will look like kratos if he shaved his head and grows his beard.

[@sephy980]

Mike already looks like krat is, albeit a Lil shorter :p There can be only one!

[@KalasEldaryan]

@StephenFawking You allright there mate? Thats an awful lot of information you gleaned out of one sentence before you went full savage...

[@complexblackness]

@StephenFawking You have some serious issues, especially to get triggered like that over the original comment. Don't go on a shooting spree on election day.

[@mythx123]

*Stares in Kung Fu-er* 🗣YEESSSSS!!! 🤣🤣

[@Sk0lzky]

"I wanna be a clinch fighter" said no burmese boxer ever :D

[@seetsamolapo5600]

Lol do these Lethwei guys actively avoid the clinch?

[@samalford8923]

Hi Mike, do you know of any good Muay Thai places in Columbia, SC?

[@hard2hurt]

I'm not familiar enough with anyone there to make a recommendation sorry.

[@Dr.Serbian]

You could just fall with him into side control 😂 if he tries that belly clinch 🤣🤣🤣

[@aaronwiles9770]

Ha! Read that as punch your way into church. I guess that's one way to do it.

[@coolman54061]

If someone tried to clinch me in sparring i would just go to the body and get the ko Also is cliff an instructor or does he just train there?

[@AnAnonymousObject]

Defense isn't losing

[@HavokStrifeX]

Lol, people obviously never took a clean straight to the nose from a fist in a 16oz "pillow." Honestly though, your videos with Ciff have been awesome for me. He's a big dude, like myself, we have a somewhat similar style, and I've been taking a lot more from the vids.

[@kcmacdonald]

I'm a dirty ass clinch fighter, finely honed by 10 years of dragging people out of bars while they're trying to hit you, and dodging sucker punches with bicep ties, shoves, the "lock" + shitty throw-bys And my goodness do I enjoy your trapping and scrapping. That shifting near side underhook, along with quarter Nelson's and bar arms and the Dutch trap (punch past the guard and drag it down on the retraction), are some of my favorite ways to hit to hold, and hold and hit 😉 As a.... Less vertical guy? do you use any of Daniel Cormier's bar arm/upjab/high crotch game? I'm 6'4" and trying to figure out how to implement the Archie Moore/Daniel Cormier/D'Amato slip boxing styles against taller, heavier guys. The new generation of LHWs and HWs just keep getting taller...

[@Fightinc]

i hate clinch fighters

[@McAppleWar]

07:37 I could be totally wrong, but isnt this a normal technique in muay thai? I seem to remember seeing this type of elbow as a standard counter to clinchers who pressure forwards.

[@hard2hurt]

All techniques are normal to someone. Thanks for making sure we knew that you personally were familiar lol.

[@McAppleWar]

hard2hurt Yeah that makes sense. My point was just that from my perspective, the counter seemed kind of obvious and it did not seem to be a very well kept secret. But again, i fully admit that this might not be «normal» to everybody. Anyways, good luck with your seminar. I hope it goes well!

[@jillurmalik1]

Where

[@spiderboy-fm3cv]

Can you punch when some one goes for a clinch?

[@neocollinsch.3040]

Where is this at?

[@bourbonbilis6367]

I wanna be a clinch fighter because in Thailand that's what they're betting on😉

[@diaeddinear3314]

What if your fighting a judoka?

[@FartCakes]

Wouldn't wanna get into any trouble with that elbow swingin, pink shirted tank lmao

[@Mrgood189]

Nate Robinson shouldve seen this video a few times

[@jumpykilllerqx6029]

Wished DC was able to do this better.

[@TheSamaell]

6:29 ... double bird :)))

[@youngmf6052]

Haha, he “bong sowed you” we call it a sway elbow. You can trap the arm like cliff being nice or put a little wu tang on it and aim for the face. Some of that fake“kung fu”, works about as good as a side kick though Edit: oh shit, paused it too early

[@BusterReeko]

It’s “tip toe through the TULIPS” ya psycho. 😂 But the bigger takeaway is THIS IS GOLD!!! thank you!

[@hard2hurt]

Wrong. Look up the lyrics

[@BusterReeko]

@@hard2hurt I stand corrected 🙏

[@carrollmma403]

"Thats what losers do" 💀

[@solrac4600]

King fu Cliff

[@SUPERVAX]

What are the purposes of a clinch?

[@dillonwolcott7655]

More control of your opponent. You can move him around and he can't defend himself as much

[@stevegoodfry2466]

I wanna be a clinch fighter so I don't get kicked :).

[@hard2hurt]

I have some bad news for you...

[@stevegoodfry2466]

@@hard2hurt You usually do....

[@driver3899]

Dude obviously didn't watch the knight bjj video

[@stevegoodfry2466]

@@driver3899 I'll have you know that I can keep whatever stupid opinions I have, even when presented with the facts! XD

[@driver3899]

@@stevegoodfry2466 lol you do you!

[@backwoodskarate9300]

7:55 Master Wong shit.

[@mrr3ye5]

Cliff is a killer

[@jillurmalik1]

958

[@johnriley4425]

I'm barely 5'11 and like 148-150 pounds, making me the smallest guy in my gym. Anytime I clinch with my training partners, who all have at minimum 15-20 pounds on me and are much stronger, they just whip me around like the child I am 😂 so if I get hit hard the last thing I wanna do is clinch. Like, I just got rocked, I'm not really tryna follow that up by getting manhandled

[@theflamingone8729]

​@@ETERMAX.Nearly six foot tall but could still be the smallest guy in his gym.

[@Cabbolf]

Wanna see you dance now.

[@hater3669]

clinch fighting should be separate martial art.

[@hard2hurt]

We treat it as such here.

[@hater3669]

@@hard2hurt fuck i am stuck in europe. can you do these seminars in some kind of payed video format or something?

[@hater3669]

@Dig Ol' Bicks I ve thought about this and I think the ultimate martial art for "clinch fighting" is judo. I think its way better to grapple than to strike in that position. I ve never done judo but it seems perfect for that.

[@mikejeffsteel]

First!

[@champpoints1899]

Bruh, Cliff has small hands. Or he’s so big everywhere else that his regular sized hands look tiny

[@nanayawberko3212]

You don't want to catch baby hand Cliff

[@champpoints1899]

@@nanayawberko3212 correct. Without gloves on there’s no guard that’s gonna stop his punches getting through. They used to talk in the ufc about Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin’s giant hands and how much of an advantage it was. But maybe it goes both ways, a guy that big swinging hands like that you’re not gonna block them and it’s like getting hit with a golf club.

[@a59rahulkashyap23]

sometimes u make it so complicated 🌝🌝

[@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758]

Maybe they can't hit that hard but be careful of the elbow "clinch fighters"

[@stevenshar1233]

For me, I don't see styles and the tribalism. I only practice the technique. Why should a Thai boxer not learn TKD techniques to become more well rounded? Why shouldn't a TKD practitioner learn boxing to really get good at managing the distance and finding good positions?

[@peterpetropoulos7458]

Cliff, talk more. I want to hear your opinion.

[@AnAnonymousObject]

You can't win every exchange