Media Vitor Belfort padwork

[Saku'sEar]

Wearing hats while doing padwork now...?

 

[NatoHoro]

There are two videos. Lol. Press the little arrow on the right to see his son in a baseballcap hitting pads.

 

[Sädspridaren]

Serious question. Do steroids help increase your speed too? He is pretty sharp for a man in his 40s.
If you don't see a correlation, look at other fighters when they were 42 like chuck liddell.

Ask Ben Johnson

 

[ApplesVild]

Does he have a fight booked?

 

[MescalineDreams]

Not bad for an old man

Nothing particularly noteworthy but I appreciate the diversity

Victor's come a long way from being just a boxer over the years

He could certainly still merk some fools

 

[Misanthropist]

Vitor should’ve gone to Bellator or some low level retirement division years ago like other legends did and would be a champ by now.

 

[Hirashin]

Looks slow

 

[itchynuts]

we need vitor vs. rocksalt 2

 

[MCS]

Thick as he should be

 

[superpunch]

Can someone with more knowledge than I please explain why guys hit those type of pads instead of just working the heavy bag?

It seems like his son is doing most of the striking with the mitts.

As other people are saying, the heavy bag isn't mobile. Another reason is weight distribution and center of gravity. If you leg kick a heavy bag, for example, you feel like a god damn boss. Throw a hook or uppercut at it, you're met back with 50-100 lbs of reverse force reaction on your kicks and punches. Your hits feel like a cement block, you think you're the next George Foreman.

Then you go hit a person's real legs or a person's real head and you're only met back with 10 lbs of a leg or 5 lbs of a head of reverse force reaction on your strikes. Instead of going BAM BAM they go pfffffff, pfffff.

Also the heavy bag fucks with your combination ability and balance. You swing a left at a 50-100 lb heavy bag, it kinda stretches your body like a rubber band and then you go BANG into your right. You swing a left at a real 5-10 lb human body part target like that and you just kinda whiff and fall over like a dumbass or hyperextend and blow out a joint. Hitting real pads makes you distribute your own weight and power realistically.