Today, I worked the Trip-hammer jab and did my Run in relatively good weather. The park was closed due to maintenence, which I found to be somewhat upsetting.
The Trip-hammer reminds me a lot of the type of punch utilized by Bruce Lee (ie. The Vertical Punch). You'll see him utilize it a lot in his movies.
The author of this blog gives a description of the Trip-hammer.
Notice it's stiff, but there's not a whole lot of bodyweight behind it. He keeps his knuckles close to his cheeks, and the jab falls from there without warning, nice and short usually, but with more range than people think. It's not meant to hurt but it could smash a nose. What it's meant to do is get you looking at it, so you don't see anything else that might come. The trip-hammer style jab is great for making a guy jumpy.
He suggests watching Felix Trinidad...
I found this jab works very well if you want to use corkscrew punches along with it. I also found it worked well with a Jab, Cross, Jab combination.
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