He’s on his phone and gets sucker-punched, so you can’t fault him for the first stumble. Watch his right ankle; it’s all wrong; if he’d taken a proper step back with his right foot he wouldn’t’ve fallen, but that’s the element of surprise. The attacker wastes the element f surprise by not delivering a decisive blow to the head, instead doing a sort of push:
He stands up
The way he fell means he stands up with his left foot forward, but he gets his right foot back quickly enough. Moreover, look at how he gets his chin/head into position; his hands aren’t in guard but that’s ok from that distance because he uses head-movement. The punch he evades is slow because the attacker switches stances (starts the punch right foot behind, ends it right foot in front), and also because he winds it up massively:
Watch the waiter’s right leg here, how he loads it
☝️The attacker continues to switch stances: right-forward, left-forward☝️
Look at the waiter’s left foot: tiny step to the left to add power to the right hook.
Right hook
Best thing about this is the target-selection, aimed at the jaw/chin (and also the loaded leg and step we just looked at):
Slip, slip, roll, counter
He slips left, slips right; the attacker hesitates/freezes for a moment under cognitive load; should have thrown a knee. He sees the attacker loading up a slow right and rolls under it (keeps his left hand in a defensive position as he rolls left), countering again to the same target:
Start
He’s on his phone and gets sucker-punched, so you can’t fault him for the first stumble. Watch his right ankle; it’s all wrong; if he’d taken a proper step back with his right foot he wouldn’t’ve fallen, but that’s the element of surprise. The attacker wastes the element f surprise by not delivering a decisive blow to the head, instead doing a sort of push:
He stands up
The way he fell means he stands up with his left foot forward, but he gets his right foot back quickly enough. Moreover, look at how he gets his chin/head into position; his hands aren’t in guard but that’s ok from that distance because he uses head-movement. The punch he evades is slow because the attacker switches stances (starts the punch right foot behind, ends it right foot in front), and also because he winds it up massively:
Watch the waiter’s right leg here, how he loads it
☝️The attacker continues to switch stances: right-forward, left-forward☝️
Look at the waiter’s left foot: tiny step to the left to add power to the right hook.
Right hook
Best thing about this is the target-selection, aimed at the jaw/chin (and also the loaded leg and step we just looked at):
Slip, slip, roll, counter
He slips left, slips right; the attacker hesitates/freezes for a moment under cognitive load; should have thrown a knee. He sees the attacker loading up a slow right and rolls under it (keeps his left hand in a defensive position as he rolls left), countering again to the same target: