foreign [Music] wasn't just a master of knock on people out he had an unbelievable defense and this is probably because of his unique peek-a-boo style which put him in positions to be able to defend punches and then counter with not out power punches of his own and on this video I'm going to explain exactly how Mike Tyson's peekaboo style worked and he had success with it and also at the end of the video I'm going to put my gloves on I'm going to give you a demo of how he generated so much power in his punches because I've been practicing this for some time now and are really surprised myself just how much power you get into your punches by doing what Mike Tyson did now Mike Tyson was very smart with his punches everyone thought he was too small to be a heavy we had stamina five foot ten when back then in his prime the average everywhere was six foot two six foot three but with the peek-a-boo style what we're going to go over today it really does give the smaller man the advantage over the bigger man now as you see here every time Mike Tyson throws a punch he throws it with bad intentions and as well he wasn't getting hit now with this style it's pretty Square on you would put your left foot forward but rather than the traditional boxing stance when you're here on a 45 degree angle you're a lot more Square the peekaboo style wasn't designed for a fighter to move on his back foot it was for a fighter to move forward so with this Square position here this gives you the ability to move forwards and side to side but not really moving backwards and honestly I can never remember a time when Mike Tyson was moving backwards now from this Square position you want to bring your hands up to protect your chin but not covering your eyes or not like the traditional stance when your hands out in front so your hands are here and your elbows are in now your right elbow is protecting your liver protecting you from body shots and your left elbow is doing the same here but also protecting you from then punches down coming through the middle to the solar plexus now with the Han Solo it's leaving you wide open throwing shots to the head which the taller Fighters always try to do with Mike Tyson whether we've thrown that jab all the time like as you can see here the taller fight has just thrown that jab from that jab put the way Mike Tysons get out of the way of it is by moving his head so with the hands up here the movement comes from side to side moving out the wheel of them straight punches now with these Square stance in hands here you can slip a lot faster like this than the traditional way of doing it the way that I teach where it's more like this if you can see the difference there I'm slipping transferring my weight but with this the weights already transferred to like when we're left whoa back to the right right one back on the left and now with the movement of this I'm going to be slipping and stepping at the same time so if I'm slipping to my left I'm going to step forward with my left foot like this and what I'm doing now I'm putting the weight on my front foot the same with the back foot if I slip to my right I'm gonna step with my right foot coming to my right side putting the Wii on the right foot then to the left to the right to the left to the right now the reason why we are putting the weight on that foot is because we're loading up that hand so when I've slipped to my left put the wheel on the left foot I'm loading up the left hand then from here I would throw it and that's putting the power in the punch just as we see here and the same with the right side I start with my right put the wheel on the right foot and throwing that right hook or even the straight right hand as we see Tyson do here which is perfect for what I saw at the beginning about when Tyson defends and comes back with the counter so you work on your defense first get out of the wheel of the punch and that's when you come flying in with the punch of your own Mike Tyson's trainer custom water who designed this style did it with the purpose for all of his fighters who step in the ring to do so with bad intentions and this style would really disarm opponents in an effective way not only to win fights but to knock out your opponent and Mike Tyson was the prime example of this and Tyson would devastate his opponents with short punches like I'm about to give you a demo and when Tyson got his feet in close to an opponent this would mean the punch had less distance to travel and if it's got less distance to travel it will get there faster but generally a punch that is so close wouldn't get an opponent but because of the way he would step and move put him in the position to really transfer his weight that's where the power come from with that short sharp fast punch he would also throw multiple punches at once fast hard combinations as he knew the more punches he landed the better chance of knockout he would have and when you're thinking Mike Tyson most people don't think about how good his footwork was and as well without that great and fast footwork that he had he would be getting out boxed off all these taller Fighters all day long so when you're practicing the peekaboo style you've definitely got to have good footwork and the way he used to change angles was very impressive and this is the way that he used to change angles now if you visualize I've got my opponent here his Feet's there he's facing me now what Tyson would do when he was changing the angle is what we just went over there with the slip and step like this taking his head off that center line but now what he's going to do is Shuffle his front foot then reset his back foot and then throw that lead hook so it'll look like this a little bit faster now if you think doing this the speed of Mike Tyson and he's finished up this angle against these big heavyweights who can't turn that fast what he would do from there is through a hook the body and threw that hook to the Head then through that cross which is really confusing for them and often he would throw that jab as he's doing that step and what this is doing there is got their opponents thinking about the job not thinking about his feet so he's through that jab there through the step then he's gonna do that fast Shuffle now if you don't imagine a big six foot three six foot four heavy weight they're not used to that they can't train for that and that's why he had so much success with it he would even do it the other way where he would slip and step and throw that right hand getting out the way of their punches to that right hand keeping them thinking about this then from there he would do the same Shuffle and change the angle from the other side a little bit faster it will look like this also with these peekaboo style he would dip very low down here and with the opponents being way taller now they've got to punch down if I'm punching down here look what's wide open boom boom so you would come down here then from there as the punches were coming he knew that the chin was open he would come up and finish the job now before I give you a demo on the bat and show you the power which is ridiculous I highly recommend you give this a go practice it the next time you're in the gym so now I'm going to demonstrate and show you how Tyson got so much power in his lead hook compared to a traditional lead hook first I'm going to explain the traditional lead hook where you're going to slip keep an upright position taking your head off that center line putting 60 of the weight on your front leg then from there drop the back heel transfer the weight around and that right there is going to get some serious power in the punch like this you've seen that's not our power right there that's a traditional lead hook now how Mike Tyson would do it he would get 70 of the weight on his front foot and then he would throw the punch now he's getting 70 the wheel behind the punch but the way he would do it to have more success he would be moving right left right left keeping the opponent thing and not knowing what's going to come not knowing when it's going to come and the punch that does the most damage is the punch that they don't see coming so he will be here right left right left oh and you see now the power one more time with that yes the power definitely increased when you do what Mike Tyson's with and also what he said he would do he would try and make two punches sound like one so rather than it would be ah and I've said this before my videos If you think about the sound of the speed of the punches you'll be able to punch faster so rather than that's what Tyson did and Mike Tyson also used to do Circa training to generate more strength which is helping with his punching power and I created a video here showing you exactly what he did in his Circle and click here and watch this Mike Tyson circular training video next click here