You can't hit what isn't there!

 Seems obvious doesn't it?  Yet so many martial artists neglect their footwork, they rather spend their time training all kinds of fancy kicks and acrobatics, than endlessly working on their mobility, footwork. 

Yet footwork is the engine of a good fighter.  Footwork get's you in the right position to strike, it get's you out of range when attacked, it helps tremendously in the powerful delivery of your blows, so why don't you work on it, it should be part of every training you do!  You don't even have to do it hours on end, a  couple of minutes daily, just focus on your feet, go through the basic steps, move backward/forward, left right, pivoting etc. you should 'glide' effortlessly, not stomping like a heard of elephants.Your head should also remain 'level' , no hopping up and down with each step (unless you are shoulder rolling/ bobbing & weaving). 5-15 minutes, that's all! 

Move your upper body loosely, move your lead and rear hand / arm slightly but never deviating too far from your on guard so that you remain well covered, but at the same time are elusive, and learn to strike from these motions and where the 'tools' are, never first reset to your 'perfect' on guard and strike from there, strike from where the tools are, and they become much harder to read by your opponent.  But don't always practice footwork including strikes (so you'd be shadowboxing), sometimes just focus on just your feet (whilst keeping a good on guard of course), move from the balls of your feet, rear heel raised slightly higher than your front one when in motion, so you can burst fwd at a moments notice and propel all that body weight forward and into your attacks. 

Again, you can't hit what isn't there! Foot work, foot work, foot work!

Walk On!