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Combat at FitXR builds on the blueprint of our flagship Box studio. Alongside the shadowboxing elements that you'll find familiar from Box, we've also introduced other martial arts flavors to provide a more rounded exercise experience.

As with Box, cues of different varieties will approach you from the front - with each cue type having a set movement to break it. In each case, you're aiming to strike the white or illuminated section of each coloured cue. Cues will be colour coordinated, aligning to the colour of your gloves - your right hand will be Yellow, and your left hand will be Blue.

We've created a quick rundown of all the key features of Combat in the video below, but the guide will talk about each element too.

In Combat classes, at the beginning of each round of movements, you'll be indicated on how to position your feet. There will be a visual indicator on screen, and your coach will also let you know what stance you're gonna be using.

We use two stance types here, which will determine how you position your body and strike the cues.

This is your traditional boxing stance, where you'll have one foot in front of you pointing forward, and the other foot slightly back and pointing outward. Your shoulders should align with your feet here, so either your left or right arm will be up front (your jabbing hand) and the other will be trailing behind you a little (your crossing hand).

You'll see an on screen indicator showing you which of your feet should be in front.

This may more traditionally be called a "Horse Stance", but in FitXR we call it a front stance. For this, you'll be bringing your feet in line with one another, facing directly forward to the cues. Your knees will be slightly bent, hips and shoulders back, with a straight back. Your hands are going to be brought to your waist, with your palms facing upward - like in the image below.

The stance aims to work your legs and core as you hold the position, so don't get discouraged if you find it difficult at first. Over time, you'll build up that endurance, and learn to generate power in your strikes from this stance.

As well as the familiar moves from our Box classes, when you're in the Front stance you'll find a series of new movements exclusive to the Combat studio. We'll give a quick rundown of each below.

With this movement, starting from the Front stance with your palms facing up, you're looking to extend both arms out in front of you together. As you do that, you'll be rotating your fists inward so that by the time you connect with the target both arms are fully extended and your fists are facing down. Then, you return your arms to their original position - hands at your hips, palms up.

Here, you'll first be drawing the forearm of your striking arm up in line with your collar bones (for a blue cue this would be your left arm, and a yellow cue this would be your right). Like in the image to the left, you'll find that bringing your non-striking arm up across your stomach at the same time will help you balance - and generate more power.

Then, as the cue approaches, you'll be thrusting your striking elbow outward in a straight like - so that your elbow pushes through the illuminated area in the centre of the cue.

As you do this, bring your non-striking arm back around to your side at the same time for stability.

Similar movement to the elbow strike here, but this time you're attacking with the outside of your hand rather than your elbow. As the cue approaches, you'll be bringing your striking hand up and across your body - ready to thrust outwards to hit the illuminated white area of the cue. Again, raising your non-striking hand up in front of your chest will add stability to your position, giving your a better base for power.

Then as the target reaches you, you're thrust your striking hand outward and through the cue. You're looking to connect using the outside of your hand here (along the line of your pinky), rather than the knuckles or the top.

And just like with the elbows, your non-striking hand will move in sync to return to your side.

Last but not least we have the high block. As the block cues approach you, you're bringing your striking arm up - keeping your elbow bent at 90 degrees.

With these, you'll want to bring the block up as the cue is approaching so that you still have some outward momentum. If you just raise your arm up ahead of time to catch the cue, it might not count.

Scoring is easy - the more cues your break, the more you score.

You can build bonus point by breaking consecutive cues, this will add to your Streak. At the end of a class, we take your longest streak and multiply it by 100 to add a bonus on top of your score.

Those are power strikes. Here, it's all about digging deep to find that extra 10% - breaking these cues with power will give you extra points too.