Indigenous Ability

Mr. Mayweather “ Facer your wha?” Today’s titled historical offering borrows a bit of lingo from fisticuffs, or The Fancy [Early Boxing] circa. 1780. A Facer was a “blow to the face.” Whereas a “Muzzler” is an early term for an upper-cut. Today’s historical look-back is less about vocabulary than about a bit of lost tactical advantage when it comes to the use of the muzzler. First, let’s look to today’s upper-cut. It is crisp, sharp, cleanly-thrown and cleanly landed [if we’re lucky.] If we are throwing it well we have set it up with a wisely chosen preceding blow that masks our upper-cut intent as there is no punch more unforgiving than a poorly set-up upper-cut, or God forbid, an upper-cut thrown without set-up at all. The upper-cut of today is primarily an inside tool, that is, thrown from close-quarters, and in MMA, absolutely legal and wise to throw from the clinch. If we are throwing from the outside, it is wisely thrown from the Bridge , that is, ...

This brief burner will allow you to groove old-school strong, three modes of striking, and two rounds of hot and heavy ground movement. Part 1 Grab your heaviest sandbag, heavy bag, throwing dummy. ·          Body lock it and take it for a 50 yard carry. ·          Do not put it on your shoulder, you must remain in body lock grip while walking. ·          Rest 30 seconds. [In your rest, be thankful that you are merely working out/training and not hefting heavy loads morning noon and night via life and death necessity. ·          Repeat x’s 10 Part 2 Use a 3-minute round/1-minute rest protocol on the next 5 rounds. ·          Round 1: Bang the bag H-A-R-D wearing 16 oz. gloves. Power-Power-Power! ·          Round 2: Co...

Fisticuffs, now there’s a word we’ve all heard. Conjures up images of old-timey bare-knucklers striking upright long-guard poses, while wearing tights and sporting waxed mustaches. That image is exactly how the word has come to take its current form, as a synonym for boxing or an archaic word for a fistfight. But...originally there was a bit more to it than that. To get to what that “more to it was” let’s first digress into the world of historical fashion. Take a gander at woodcuts, paintings, lithographs or whatever medium moves you of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Look not for depictions of various royals and courtiers lounging and feasting and dallying. Look to images of soldiers, look for images of the working class. I want you to look at, surprise, men’s cuffs. With the middle-class and the aristocracy, you will find frilled cuffs, lace cuffs, loose billowy-cuffs. If you look hard enough at the lower and working classes you will see t...