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found this article which seems to have some excerpts from an interview of kostya tszyu for a magazine i used to have. the part i quoted only hints at part of his secretive training method and does not hint at the hand conditioning as in the full interview. i figure you guys who train in MA like me or boxing will find this interesting and perhaps even usefull.
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“I can’t cry, all I can do is come back,” the brash American Zab Judah reflected after being ruthlessly chastened by Tszyu inside two rounds in 2001. “Kostya Tszyu is a legend, know what I mean?” Tszyu smiles at the reference to Judah, a fighter accomplished enough to be world welterweight champion now. “I had worked on two or three different punch combinations to be especially effective. The other punches were only to provoke him,” Tszyu reveals. “Once I had him doing what I wanted him to do, I stepped in and nailed him. He got up but weaved across the ring like a drunk at closing time and the referee stepped in. To me, totally predictable.”
Like a ballistics expert, he describes the science that has felled 24 other men in addition to Judah, a technique that distinguishes his right hand as perhaps the most dangerous and feared weapon in boxing. “To disable an opponent, you must accomplish what I call ‘internal hurting’. I use the example of Chinese balls, which are metal balls that contain a second ball inside, to explain,” he says. “When you throw one of these balls and it strikes the target, it will penetrate deeper because of the internal ball. There is initial impact, then a second impact a split second later. The second impact is devastating. This is when the internal power is released.
“When I throw a punch it opens a hole in the target. The second impact, which is accomplished by delivering the punch in the correct manner, brings the internal hurt that results in concussion.”
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now, if you understand what he is saying, you can gain a small glimpse of a trained punching method from classical chinese boxing. if you compare getting hit by both, a normal western boxing punch and the punch described by tszyu, you would be able to recognize very easily that they feel completely different. well, they are different. very different.
add your thoughts. i would like to see some of the trained boxers or other trained martial artists thoughts on KT's brief description of his power right cross.
perhaps even a comparison to your punching technique.
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“I can’t cry, all I can do is come back,” the brash American Zab Judah reflected after being ruthlessly chastened by Tszyu inside two rounds in 2001. “Kostya Tszyu is a legend, know what I mean?” Tszyu smiles at the reference to Judah, a fighter accomplished enough to be world welterweight champion now. “I had worked on two or three different punch combinations to be especially effective. The other punches were only to provoke him,” Tszyu reveals. “Once I had him doing what I wanted him to do, I stepped in and nailed him. He got up but weaved across the ring like a drunk at closing time and the referee stepped in. To me, totally predictable.”
Like a ballistics expert, he describes the science that has felled 24 other men in addition to Judah, a technique that distinguishes his right hand as perhaps the most dangerous and feared weapon in boxing. “To disable an opponent, you must accomplish what I call ‘internal hurting’. I use the example of Chinese balls, which are metal balls that contain a second ball inside, to explain,” he says. “When you throw one of these balls and it strikes the target, it will penetrate deeper because of the internal ball. There is initial impact, then a second impact a split second later. The second impact is devastating. This is when the internal power is released.
“When I throw a punch it opens a hole in the target. The second impact, which is accomplished by delivering the punch in the correct manner, brings the internal hurt that results in concussion.”
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now, if you understand what he is saying, you can gain a small glimpse of a trained punching method from classical chinese boxing. if you compare getting hit by both, a normal western boxing punch and the punch described by tszyu, you would be able to recognize very easily that they feel completely different. well, they are different. very different.
add your thoughts. i would like to see some of the trained boxers or other trained martial artists thoughts on KT's brief description of his power right cross.
perhaps even a comparison to your punching technique.
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