I Tried Getting Canelo's Head Movement in 1 Week

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[Markperna]

I’m disappointed Seth. A week should have been more than enough time to completely master the near psychic head movement of one of the greatest active boxers in the world. Lol. Seriously, you did good for a week’s work and, more importantly, the video was very entertaining.

[IHateHandleNames]

Canelo is gonna watch this and think "dang, if only I could have got my own head movement in a week. I spent years on that stuff".

[mirzunayedali]

Alternate title - I tried to learn canelo's head game in one week.

[thomasli]

Seth: "I want head movement like Canelo Alvarez"
Lucas: "Me too"
Seth: "...and I want it in a week"
Lucas: ఠ _ ఠ

[GluttonforPunishment]

The biggest mistake I see in learning head movement like this is trying to slip and duck shots on purpose. Stop that. When you shadow box, slip or duck before and after every combo. Do this quickly, do this randomly. You aren’t trying to slip a specific shot, but you’re trying to move on automatic before and after every combo. Avoid patterns, don’t be predictable. Then apply this is sparring instead of trying to slip the shots as they come. Your reaction time will make you too slow. You’ll find that as you just slip automatically, you’ll make people miss by accident. Not because you meant to, just because you moved before your combo, they saw where you were throwing your shots from and will try to catch you on the way out, but you’re already going to move your head at the end of the combo so you’re literally making them miss - not dodging. Sometimes you’ll still get hit. Sometimes you’ll slip to the inside instead of the outside. But you’ll see a difference. It doesn’t matter if you can enter the Matrix with your head movement, only that you can make others think you are. Do this for a while and over time you’ll start to feel more natural and you’ll find some combinations of strikes and head movement that are frequently successful for you and things will slowly start to happen on purpose a bit more, but keep just moving your head anyway.

[whitewh]

Head movement is not easy.
I think when under pressure and in your bladed stance, you tend to fade back and this gets you off balance. (Like at the end.) This is fundamentally different from Canelo who is slipping with his head coming a little forward and in a squarer stance.

[sylascole]

Something that doesn't always get mentioned is that slipping can be looked at in gradients. If I move my head a small amount (say 10% of the most amount of movement I can do before I need to reset my feet or bring my head back in line), this leaves me more room to slip shots effectively. Another term I've heard used applied to boxing is 'head slots' from ShortBoxing. Canelo will commit slightly to a head slot to get out of the way of a punch, but he almost always has 2 or 3 more slots available (say slipping forward towards your lead foot is a slot, and forward away from your lead foot is another, and then pulling backwards has two more). Partial commitment to a slot gives more room to play for followups.

Additionally, as far as the 'reads' piece goes, good boxers will pre-commit their head to certain slots to draw particular shots with good distance management. The classic is to commit the head forward while leaving the feet back, allowing for the age old pull counter, but this can also be used to create situations of fancy head movement. This is a large part of why Canelo's hybrid stance of heavily squared shoulders and bladed feet works so well even coming forward. His footwork and movement facilitates a pressure style about him manipulating the distance of the exchange while moving forward, which is relatively uncommon for pressure fighters, wherein being 'all the way in' (swarmers or smothers, or folks that look to punch and then enter the clinch) is more common.

[canalmelek]

damn canelo really evolved into a defensive mastermind after the floyd fight, very impressive

[EvolveNowYoga]

Canelo has been real quiet since this video dropped

[cristiantorres]

I'm from México and It's really unfair how many mexicans don't like Canelo, he trains like crazy every day, he is disciplined and that's respectful he is a great fighter

[Mike-cxlc]

With this head movement you are freaking unstoppable

[Dondlo]

The head movement and boxing/muay thay techniques helped me so much in my Karate sparrings, they weren't used to these movement and I won in 10 seconds lmao

[oldblood_eyes]

you definitely improved. you looked great for a week's worth of training. gotta realize canelo's got like 15 years in the sport. you just cant expect to replicate that 15 years of hard work and dedication in a week but hell, it's serves as great motivation for the average joe to improve. great job!

[Timmmmmy]

I like that you came to the conclusion and stated that this sort of head movement is more important for smaller people. I'm 6'2" and I would love to have that level of head movement but I think that my time is better spent somewhere that I will use more of like grappling or better striking or better kicking. Thank you for being an honest channel. It's something Youtube's running short on.

[Ptrrrrrrrr]

I think you're right in that it's not so much about seeing punches coming as it is baiting your opponent to hit where your head was a second ago. And balance is everything.

Really funny video!

[Jonathan-rmkt]

I love this video. Not only does it show great focus, breaking something down and setting a short timeline to make as much improvement as possible. Really motivating. Also, when you get pegged in the head at 6:43 i nearly did a spit-take

[theunpretentiousvegan]

Head movement is definitely something missing in my traditional karate training.

[einatnatan]

Hi Seth you should make a channel with Mikey wonderboy Houston and sweet t I subed mostly because of your collaborations

[reyesjacob]

From the clips you showed of Canelo it seems like you were more focused on his defensive head movements. Try to search his counter-punch head movements and his offensive head movements such as his set up for his left hook where he also could be slipping a jab. Good work great vid

[basedanddadpilled]

I’m so glad I rediscovered your channel! I found your channel like a year ago, not long after I started working out at home, and your channel has taught me so many moves and techniques that I still practice at home to get a good workout in. Shadowboxing, practicing kicks, and working on stuff like footwork and head movement really gets my blood going and puts me in such a good headspace, especially while I’m grinding through boring college assignments. And it’s really helped my physical health. Still not completely in shape yet but the important thing is that I’ve stuck to it because it’s fun and I’m seeing really good results! So thanks again for all the amazing content and I’m glad you’re back on my algorithm radar!