Are You Wasting Your Muay Thai Shadow Boxing?

Heatrick Heavy Hitters – Muay Thai Performance

If you're anything like me, there was a time you felt silly shadow boxing. Maybe you still do. Muay Thai is about inflicting damage and having an effect... Lashing out in mid-air feels, well, lame!

But, I eventually realised how I could best use shadow boxing to do much more than just get my heart rate up and make me feel self conscious!

Are you (still) wasting your shadow boxing?

If you’re not making the most of your Muay Thai shadow boxing, you’re leaving a critical part of your training untapped.

Shadow boxing isn’t just about warming up or working through your techniques—it's your chance to mentally rehearse fight strategy and tactics, to build the necessary reps required for instinctive action in the ring.

It’s not only an opportunity to accumulate more random skill practice “clusters” that I’ve spoken of before to enhance your skill retainment over the long term.

But, it’s an often wasted opportunity to try on different fight mode “attitudes” and fight “ranges” for size, and become more comfortable with attitudes and ranges less natural for you...

A chance to enhance the range of chess pieces you have to play with on your chess board.

In this video, we’ll break down how to maximize your Muay Thai shadow boxing by using fight ranges and attitudes/modes to gain the upper hand.

Whether you’re up against a heavy-hitting boxer or a slippery counter-fighter, this method will help you control the fight, think ahead, and execute with precision.

Let’s strip back the complexity and focus on what really matters.

Further notes and resources at https://heatrick.com/2024/10/04/skill-based-muay-thai-shadow-boxing/