Hey. Ando here from SenseiAndo.com. Today, with a
special guest. This is Sifu Randy Brown
from Randy Brown Mantis Boxing. If you
haven't checked out his YouTube channel
or visited his school out in the Boston
area, I'll put the links below. Make sure you do.
Sifu, today you were talking a
little bit about distance and managing
range. Would you mind sharing a little about that?
I just want to take a second to say
it's great to be here in Southern California.
I stopped by to visit Sensei Ando and
grab some lunch, and hopefully, introduce
me to some of this well talked about pie.
There will be pie.
Today, we we were going to share
some tips for range management with you
when you're fighting and how to deal
with changing gears. While you're
fighting, the range changes constantly.
It can be adjusting and we get stuck in a
rut and you get stuck in here. So, first of all,
if we're a little bit further out,
so, if you can set the range where you're
just outside that critical distance.
So, critical distance is this line that I'm
right on the edge of his longest weapon.
So, right here is a little too close.
He's got those long legs so right here is
about where I'm safe, so here I can have
my hands down. I could be more relaxed
because there's no fight. If you can
can think of it as this is the DMZ. This
is a demilitarized zone. The minute I
cross that, war is on and all bad things
can happen. So, I've got to be sensitive
to this this range right here. If I cross,
I'm now in long to mid range, so
I can start working kicks. But so can he.
So, if I start working kicks here but he
closes in on me, then I have to switch
gears and go to punching instead. If we
get to a grappling range where we hooked
up, we're dealing with elbows. He's trying
to knee me if I'm sitting here still
thinking punches, then I'm going to be in
a bad spot if he knows to break and
release right here and I drop my hands I
haven't changed gears yet I'm still
sitting here in that grappling bow and a
good way to look at the grappling and
many times we especially because Mathis
boxing is so heavy in the hooks and the
grappling we think about the hook
process before we actually get close
enough to make contact so you'll see
people they'll start coming in throwing
punches your opponent's blocking
and you're go like this trying to reach
and grapple and then you get punched in
the face while you're doing that where
you get kicked in the groin or your knee
or wherever so when you're coming in
you've got to change gears when the
range of appropriate so now I can start
grappling because we're close enough and
once we're here I could start working
elbows and knees
but if he's if he's grappling with me
he's got his hooks in and we stretch out
here this is now kicking range this is
where we're back so I'm still holding on
to him and he throws a kick I'm thinking
oh I'll take down grapple no I've got to
be looking at this so in this position
this is where I should be thinking okay
either I go to kick I change gears I
think okay I'm going to start kicking
him or I break and then I throw a kick
because that already set in the range if
he doesn't move it's a perfect setup for
going right to that attack so if I'm
hearing you correctly you just want to
make sure that if you're practicing
martial arts that your mind and your
body are together you don't want to have
your body stuck in one range while your
mind is thinking about another one's act
you want to make sure everything's
working as one exactly and a good good
way to look at this is a student will
often think before we're outside
critical distance and they're already
thinking we are already thinking
punching I'm going to punch you in the
head I'm not anywhere near close enough
the DNA of the pun
right I've got to deal with all the
stuff with movement legs coming in right
try to get there before I can land a hit
so I'm thinking punch and you're you're
kicking kick right then I'm in I'm in a
world of hurt so I need to account for
that then come in stage if you move then
this changes the game so now I can go
here and maybe go to a grapple because
he closed on me and I could look for a
takedown or these elbows and he's going
to be changing as well so if he decides
I don't like this position I'm going to
break he breaks right here good attack
right there go right for the knee oh you
can go right for your kick because they
exploded take that range back out even
further than the punch
Jesco I go here look I go to punches I I
can do some kicks from here but mostly
I'm still in punching range he comes
back in on me I need to change that gear
again and go back to here and grapple or
I need to come out and go punch so one
aspect of this that really is important
is we've talked about guard is what our
hands are doing we go to that critical
distance line again I can be out here if
I've got this range he's got to do a
Superman punch or a double kick or
flying me to get me so I'm not super
uptight about where my hands are right
now but if I cross that DMZ and my hands
stay here that bad idea I need to be
bringing my guard up and I need to be
dropping my stance sure I can be like
this out here when I come in here and I
stand up like this now I get thrown
because we're in grappling mode he's got
a nice route there and I'm sitting up
here like this so hands come up hands
can come down you can take a break come
back up and then they start tightening
in my stance starts dropping
sir that's beautiful it's a lot of good
information right there. Holy smokes!
You drink coffee? Where'd you get all that?
I read a book the airplane.
Very good. So, you can see that
Sifu Randy is full of all kinds of good information and concepts.
Like I said, I'll put the links below
for his YouTube channel and his school in the Boston area.
Thanks very much.
All right, let's keep building bridges, my friends,
keep fighting for a happy life.
Thank you.