CORRECTIONS! Somewhere around 0:45 to 1:10, at certain points, my friend is demonstrating, and is slightly lead-leg leaning and doesn't plant the feet full-heels. We acknowledge this mistake in representing the Isaev style. Refer to the other clips in the video for the correct actions.

Dmitry Bivol has one of the most aesthetic and efficient boxing styles. This is not by accident. He learned it very early on from one of his longtime coaches: Nikolai Petrovich Isaev (may he rest in peace). Isaev was a perfectionist, and he understood the laws of boxing mechanics down to the mathematical level. Today, Bivol works with coach Gennady Mashianov.

The Isaev boxing school still lives on via his son Timur Isaev. You can find him on Instagram: @isaevt

This video's sources are based on a book written by near acquaintances of Nikolai Isaev: Жить боксом. Книга о Николае Исаеве Сборник, as well as countless interviews and clips of Isaev that have been translated.

Also, an important distinction in the video. We mentioned how using the legs is more cost-efficient compared to the arms only. This is not to say that there is less work done in a strict physics sense. Rather, the workload is distributed through larger muscles (like the legs), which reduces the demand on the arms and prevents premature shoulder and arm fatigue. That's the point.

Arms like a rope, fist like a stone!

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Bro is the smoothest guy since Michael Jackson

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The best video for breaking down fundamentals of Soviet boxing

Art indeed. And anyone can practice it! Not on Bivol's level, of course, but yet to the one satisfaction.

Soviet Power Supreme

I had a Greek mma coach who taught me about the whip punch,he said think about it as when you wanna hit someone or something with a wet towel you let it loose and bring it back at the very end

Top Soviet Bivol was a boxer-PUNCHER up until after knocking out Sullivan Barrera. I believe he then evolved to a PURE Box to protect his hands. Boxers who remind me most of Top Soviet Bivol today the Uzbeks but they aren’t as conventional as Soviet proper Russians

Top Soviet Bivol is widely regarded as the proverbial Soviet style. But these other Russosphere boxers look different in the ring. Closest thing is Cossack Oleksandr

Best soviet boxing video on the internet🙌

Thank you, great effort

So many say that Dmitry has no power. These are, of course, people who have never faced him. He is a brilliant percentage fighter who never wastes energy and as the video demonstrates he uses the earth beneath his feet and his whole body. A master boxer.

Simple:

He's relaxed.
He punches with flow from his movement.
Timing of the punch technique progression.

Great video on Soviet style.

I feel like I watched your previous bivol video a million times and I will watch this a one a million times aswell

Love these types of soviet videos!! Would love a more in-depth analysis of Bivol and soviet boxing :D

Thank you

Mind blowing video