Getting Past a Fighter Who Teeps Everything
01 · The Situation
You are fighting someone taller. They teep you out every time you try to come forward.
The whole fight happens at their range. You haven't been inside their reach once.
02 · Your Turn
Find your tallest training partner — ideally someone with 10cm or more on you. Ask them to use the teep to keep you out for three rounds. Their job is to stop you from getting inside.
Your only goal is to get inside. Not to score — just to get close enough that the teep is no longer a weapon.
Try everything you can think of. Spend three rounds failing. Notice what you try, what almost works, and what gets you teeped every single time.
Come back when you have three rounds of attempts recorded in your body.
Try it before you read on.
03 · Solution
The teep is not a power weapon. It is a distance weapon. The fighter using it is not trying to hurt you — they are trying to control where you stand.
This means the solution is not about the teep at all. It is about understanding what makes the teep work, and removing that condition.
Why the teep keeps landing
The teep works because you are moving in a straight line directly toward the person throwing it. You are walking onto it. The taller fighter just extends their leg into the space you are moving into, and your own forward momentum does most of the work.
They do not need to generate power. They just need you to move forward at the right moment.
What to change
Stop moving straight in. The teep needs a straight line to work. When you approach at an angle — even a slight one — the teep has to travel sideways to reach you, which is much harder to land with commitment.
But the angle alone is not enough. You also need to time your entry with their teep extension. When they throw the teep, their weight is briefly loaded onto their rear leg as the front leg extends. In that moment, they cannot generate another teep. They cannot step forward. They are committed.
That is your entry point. Move on the extension, not before it, not after it.
The specific drill
Ask the same training partner to slow the teep down to 50%. You are not trying to avoid it anymore — you are trying to walk in during the extension. Feel what that timing is like. Feel the window.
Then bring it back to full speed. You are not looking for the teep with your eyes. You are looking for the body weight shift that comes just before it — the hip loading, the rear leg bending slightly. That is what tells you the teep is coming.
The thing most fighters miss
A taller fighter with good teep control has trained you to respect the distance. Every time you came forward and got teeped, your brain learned: that distance is dangerous. After enough reps, you hesitate before entering — and that hesitation is what makes the teep easy to land.
Your Turn is partly designed to break this pattern. Three rounds of deliberate entry attempts retrains the instinct from avoid the teep range to move inside it. The physical discomfort is part of what it is for.
Did you try Your Turn?
The solution lands differently after you have felt the problem in your own body.
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