Elijah Bryant teaches defensive footwork by showing how to attack an opponent's hip during slides, force it open, and use a tap-back motion to dictate play. He breaks down how foot placement and hip control create openings that static defense misses.
Look, are you paying attention? Are you paying attention, Mom? Are you paying attention? Yeah. So when you're doing your moves, all this stuff, you're doing this, you're going this way. You need to go downhill when you're, when you're doing your moves. But so if he has somebody in front of you, in front of him, like in front of you, watch, you're attacking that hip. You're making them do this. When— listen, listen, when they do this, when you're, when you're guarding them, what do you do? Going back tap. So you're trying to make them open that hip up. You see what I'm saying? You attack the open hip? No, you're trying to make them— you're trying to attack, do a move and attack a hip and make them open, open their hip up. So when you're doing this, they're just doing this, moving their feet side to side. So when I do a move, I'm making you move these hips like this, move them like this. Once you open them up, then it's a playground for me. I can go whatever way I want. But if I'm just like this the whole time, then they can't do anything, or you can't do anything.
