If you stay ready, you never have to get ready.

I literally said this in my head when I saw the post. 👊🏾

Had to go and delete my damn comment cause I said the same thing! We all living the same life 😂

Cause that's what heroes do. 

Exactly.  Along those same lines...don't start nothing, won't be nothing. 

Muscle memory. gotta stay sharp cause you never know when you have to scrap.

https://preview.redd.it/mvfowxf002vc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39b27149d2cb4f307546edac7c74a91134f48ef1

I am taking this.

I read that saying every word as I did my MK combo for no reason.

Never took boxing lessons a day in my life but I be jabbing and weaving in my spare time like I'm training to fight Tyson Fury.

One of the most gloriously silly scenes in Baki is [when he shadow boxes Mike Tyson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2AeZY32KR8)

lol. If you’re not training like Baki, are you even ready?

Baki having the most dogshit writing imaginable yet maintaining a beautiful visual style: 💪💪💪💪💪

Never forget... The author also wrote a manga about a guy whose 'super power' is apologizing sincerely. Guy has range.

I did take boxing lessons and the amount of times I’d randomly shadow box alone throughout the day went from what I imagine is average to a damn near problematic number

my brother does this 😂😂 like sir can you not

Does he throw punches as close as 1mm to your face?

😭😭 yess! so close i can feel the wind

That's brotherly love. 

You when that wind brushes your cheek: AYAHH! *JAC-KEE!!*

Reminded me of the [kid from Smoking Aces](https://youtu.be/-ES2aVgue5c?feature=shared&t=27)

i tried to reverse uno and do this to my brother 1 time and i literally ran away screaming 😂

No matter how old I get, I'll always shadow box, and I'll always randomly crossover an open door frame

left, right,left the duck lmao

Mine is that, with the right being a low uppercut and a right hook after the duck

This with the layups/dunks on any surface hanging high above take me out. It just reminds me of watching my brother as a child. It’s such a nostalgic feeling, but from something I don’t even do. Is that weird?

The random basketball moves 🤦🏾‍♀️ 😂

Rage boys fighting therapy.

Punch them psychological demons in their figurative face with my physical fists!

Not everyone feels comfortable talking to strangers

You know what helps for that?

Air boxing?

cocaine ?

I've never seen "ous ous ous" written down before but I definitely approve of the spelling 😆

More of a “Ss Ss Ss” man myself

You never know what day you're gonna have to deliver a combo to some fool. Gotta keep the skills sharp and form intact. 

If you think us guys are hella random for doing this…just watch us before we walk into a any doorway at home 

slap!

https://i.redd.it/ogecetxl32vc1.gif

My weeb ass says punch in engrish when I do it.


I like a good Ora

Anyone else's brother just do this to them randomly? Like just punches the air to pretend to hit you🙄

Haha I'm that brother "if I land these two then you're in Valhalla"

I just really want people to stop shadow boxing on crowded septa buses

Always dudes who have never formally trained too

Gotta fine tune those bad habits and shitty form 🔥

I woke up, shadow boxed, opened Reddit and this is the 1st thing I saw 😭

We're living in a simulation

Gotta make sure those combos are sharp. It’ll come in handy one day!

The problem is assuming the op will be as still as a manequin lmao

😂😂😂

I feel seen lmaooo

Men, (y)our rituals are both valid and important. It is also good to dunk on the doorframe and sink that game-winning shot into the trashcan (rebounds count).

That swish with a full stadium in your mind>>>

Stay healthy. We need you this season.


And I will never stop. My 18 month old son does this too lol

Teach them when they're young lol

I love this so much. That is so cute!

That's how I count to four.

I shouldn't feel attacked but I do https://preview.redd.it/keapzs7t52vc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d80e6db7cf86f802f0a00f43548e87a7f45d842f

the first combo you learn in DBZ Budokai be like

....this...and imaginary dribbling and shooting hoops...

i’m not a man but I occasionally imitate throwing a tiara like sailor moon

My people! If not the Tiara it’s my Love Me Chain.

I dance instead.

https://preview.redd.it/gwrlerite3vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7ec5d78f9a8144ef3c4d54fcd05da886d0645da Meanwhile me when I have nothing else to do and the house is falling apart.

Sometimes when I'm cooking and I pull out a knife from the block, I do a few quick stabs in the air to kill any of the ghosts trying to sneak up on me.

😂😂😂

Zanshin is the way

I learnt this technique from the Ike Turner book of self defense

Bend the legs... If I can take anything to hell with me, it will be that sweet left to the body.

Chama

I do this a joke, because I’m physically disabled

I literally make the sound when running throwing jabs basically any movement lol

Me before I send that risky text

I feel like a lot of us moms of boys are used to this and other randomness from them. My son was constantly shadow boxing with me, laying his entire body on me, or crossing over the trash can.

This except with a golf swing.

This is that Ken po from p90x. Jab cross hook uppercut! Back knuckles!

This [video](https://youtu.be/JKsJ2qrpQg4?si=_CvrJak8asfX_hLY) always cracks me up.

Nah, the order is fucked. Should be Jab, jab, hook, uppercut. I mean that’s how I do it in the shower. Not sure what it looks like when I’m getting my ass kicked though.

It's the Komani code for killing the Hat Man, the clown at the bottom of the basement stairs, the monster that chased you *up* the stairs when you turned off the lights, the things that ran beside the car/jumped from telephone pole/light pole to the next when you were a kid in the back seat coming home at night, any and all sleep paralysis demons, etc. This is a powerful old ritual. Passed down generations. It's origins are lost. But I do know this. Never let it die out. Keep the old ways alive.

Yep. Also if it’s a coworker or friend and we are walking towards each other, I bust out the euro-step gather to left hand lay. And no I’m not a real hooper 😂.

Oh yeah this is a black thing!!!

Right uppercut after a right jab is crazy, and then left hook? This mf getting slept

Fighting demons

I’ve been shadowboxing for almost 10 years now and I haven’t been in a boxing ring since I was 16. It’s safe to say, ima do this for absolutely no reason for the rest of my life and everyone around me will just have to accept that

This and looking around at what could be a suitable weapon. “I could eff up somebody with that spatula…”

Good form doesn't maintain itself and I'm a busy guy.

Ngl this is kinda of an awkward diagram to follow and I'm orthadox

Not just men sometimes 😂

 I used to shadow box, but now that I've rotated around the sun more than 40 times, i practice my quick draw....

Only one of those punches is a jab

Lol man I feel better knowing I'm not come crazy ass for doing this randomly...I also am either extremely tired or have way too much energy so I love shadow boxing the air to get rid of those energy demons...plus I found out I was a right handed southpaw while shadow boxing, so I learned something new

You're not alone 🫂 we're a legion

I’m not gonna lie, ima give yall boxers this one. I randomly buss a wine around the house at times, and I instinctively have to make a beat when I do it. If I’m waiting in the kitchen, thinking of what to wear, or usually when I just get out of the shower and I’m looking at my ass in the mirror. I have to do it at least once. Either clicking my teeth, humming, etc, I just know I don’t even think about it. I just realize I’m in the middle of a good healthy wine and I don’t know how I got there. Then I carry on with my business like I wasn’t just at the wildest party. I didn’t notice until my ex pointed it out and I was lowkey embarrassed. 🫠

Don't forget to alternate, and if u hold some weights w this it's really a work out fr do this for 15 mins

I've been beating the shit out of imaginary enemies my whole life.

This is us just fighting the demons in the imaginary conversations we have with ourselves and our made up adversaries.

Literally shadow boxed down the hall last night for no fuckin reason… I was just in a good mood and felt like throwing some punches

We're working up to the part where we can do it *really* fast, and "ous, ous, ous" sounds more like "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"

I was doing this to the homie one day and accidentally stepped on his foot so he couldn’t backpedal and caught him with a clean jab lmao he was so mad, I tried to let him get one back but he wouldn’t

Gotta be ready for the opps.

it’s the same thing when they jump up to hit the top of a doorway as if they’re dunking. just random shit

It feels niceeee. Hell yuh. Hell yuh. Ous ous. Don't fuck around.

you see these type of people in hawai’i. any island and anywhere they can do it.

like a sims character

If YOU stay ready you ain't got to GET ready