Conor McGregor's Striking Secrets Explained

Learn from Legends: http://www.legendarystriking.com You can learn a lot about how an elite fighter trains by looking at their training montages. After all, how you train is how you fight. There are some golden nuggets here: Conor McGregor's style is focused on creating the "snap" - a well known key factor to generating knockouts. The snap relies on having looseness and relaxation on the body, and in Conor's case, the shoulder. It's surprisingly hard to do if your shoulder muscles are either shortened and tight, creating stiffness. Conor claims that being able to disconnect and reconnect the shoulders is what allows him to generating the knockout. Relaxation until the impact of the punch is an important factor to generating speed and power in a strike. He is one of the best punchers in MMA history, but he also added interesting elements into his boxing game. Instead of using Muay Thai style kicks like many other fighters, he uses Taekwondo kicks, which syncs up perfectly with his boxing stance and arsenal. He uses the Taekwondo kicks to close out angles and lull them into his sniper left hand. Quite interesting stylistically.