Hippy Singmanee - Developing Power | 69 minutes (Patreon)

Hippy was absolute in his desire to focus on bringing knock out power to my kicks, which he taught me how to do as well as how to train myself toward the next step in a process of development. That’s enough to be thrilled over, but Hippy also worked with me on footwork, spacing, some fight theory involving both of those things and some keen pointers for clinch turns and locks as well. Looking at it on paper, that’s a lot to get out of a 1 hour and 9 minute session; but off of paper the real beauty of this long-form style of training video is that the lessons are actually “an inch wide and a mile deep,” as my 6th Grade teacher Val used to say. In no way at all do I think that it’s a waste of time to have a trainer buckle down on the details of where your foot is landing, how to turn your hip, how to generate power from rotation or how far away you are. All of that is really important and practical; what’s really precious, however, is a trainer who works on your energy. Hippy stands among the top-tier of those legendary men who have focused on this with me and I consider it the greatest lesson that these men can offer. It suits Hippy’s style, as well, since he was 90% energy and confidence on top of some really remarkable technique. It’s what makes legends.

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So patiently watch this 69 minutes of brilliance. It’s really like no other session I’ve had with a legendary trainer. He is forcing me to abandon many of the hard-earned bag drill habits that I’ve developed over my 4 and half years in Thailand, and instead focus only on the idea of power in the context of real fight circumstances. Use the bag to train spacing and timing. Use it to learn to float and relax in between explosions. Think about how to set up moments when you can just let go. Everything he is doing here is to open the door to a relationship with your target, and honing your technique, using energy. This is very high-level stuff, honestly something I’m not sure I would be open to even a year ago. Putting me on a bag for 20 minutes to slowly count out kicks in a private session? This is some bullshit! But instead this is masterful and golden. 

filmed in 1080p50 for very high level streaming if you have it

You can read my blog post on this sesson  to get wider perspective on what the session meant to me.