improve your boxing ability

The following are some tips that will help you improve your boxing ability.

(1) Stance

Chin tucked. Lead shoulder slightly shrugged (though not unnaturally). Elbows in. Hands up
(measure your eyebrows with your fists now and then). Knees slightly bent. Feet shoulder width
apart, nearly parallel. Groin not open.

(2) Range

Learn to become really comfortable standing just out of reach of your opponant. Develop the sensitivity to gauge
people’s reach, and allow them to just barely miss. This will give you two valuable things: The
ability to not freak out because things are flying at your face and barely missing, and the posture
and positioning to hit your opponant with little adjustment.

Everything “defensive” is really a matter of doing AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE to make your opponent miss while not messing up your alignment to hit him
back. This is why multi-step blocking and highly eccentric movements (literally, “far from center”)
are not practiced in boxing.

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Pad drills

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There are loads. The only limit is your imagination

Here are some good ones

You have basic jab, cross, hook, uppercut combinations. The basic combos can be extended by what ever you like.

I would call basic
1 Jab, cross.
2 Jab, cross, hook.
3 Jab, cross, uppercut.
4 Jab, cross, hook, uppercut.
5 Jab, cross, uppercut, hook.

Then you can think of extending these outside (ie at long range) combinations.

Each time you finish a combo with (assuming authordox) with your left hand, think about putting a cross on the end.

Each time you finish a combo with your right hand, think about putting a hook or uppercut on the end.

If you have finished with a hook, try an uppercut; if you finished with an uppercut, try a hook.

It should flow and will usually alternate sides with each punch.
But remember to drill your double and triple jabs into your combos.

The whole point is the flow of punches so in the end you can start drills that have lots of moves-
double jab, cross, hook, uppercut, hook, cross, uppercut and then slip to the side out of harms way.

Although some people may say that there is little point in doing over X amount of moves in a combination, and they are right.

But thats for them and you asked about fun drills.

For the inside (ie so close to your opponent you can smell his/her breath) there are a few.

(when I say body, I mean “hook to the body”, head means “hook to head.” When “body” is followed by “head” it means same side because you are getting the guy to drop his guard on that side exposing his head)

1 Body, head
2 Body, head, cross
3 Body, cross, head
4 Body, cross, head, uppercut

And start mixing it up and getting it to follow. Although as they develop, you can think about the issue of cadence (another issue that will hopefully come up at some point )

Then you can drill uppercuts and hooks from the inside position-
1 Uppercut, hook
2 Hook, uppercut.

Then add crosses/hooks/uppercuts on the end.

Also make it more interesting by throwing shots back at him/her, and force them to bob/weave/slip/salute/parry/catch you shots so its increasing their awareness of defence as well as offence.

Much fun to be had, the only limit is your imagination.

Also having a good pad man is very important. With pad drills, (although the hitter can work his weaves/slips/footwork/headmovement etc etc) sometimes you are only as good as the person who is pushing you and giving you the targets to hit and letting you know when you are uncovered (by hitting you back) etc.

Whats great about pad drills is that the HOLDER of the pads gains a lot of essential skills. The holder develops as a pad man and learns how to get the best out people.

Yukimushu adds

The Jab

Some Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Considerations For The Jab

–Closing the Distance–

One of the most important skills in all of martial art is the ability to land a lead weapon attack on the opponent, initiating it from outside of his reach. This is the beginning of any heavier attack — the mobility, ranging, and timing of the lead.

Always train the quick shuffle from out of the opponent’s reach (even when shadowboxing or working the bag) to get into the habit of closing distance quickly and properly when setting up your combinations. Too often, fighters and martial artists will train their technique from a standstill, throwing punch after punch, angle after angle. I always tell my students, if he’s close enough for you to do that, HE’S HITTING YOU TOO.

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Techinques on the speed bag are created by joining the fists and elbows together in one smooth motion to contact the bag with one rebound in between the parts. Since we have two fists and two elbows, a single technique may have one, two, three or four parts involved.

There are “single punches”, which are techniques where just a single fist hits the bag, such as the Front Straight Punch (FSP)], Front Circle Punch (FCP), Side Single Punch (SSP), Reverse Single PUnch (RSP) and the Hook Punch (HP )….also the “hammer Fist” (HF).

The technique name tells you how many fist(s) are used and where on the bag it hits. So, The “Reverse Single Punch” (RSP) has a single fist hitting the reverse ( back ) of the bag. The Front Straight Punch (FSP)is a single fist hitting the front of the bag in the straight punch position.

There are “Double Punch” techniques, which have both fists (key: DOUBLE = two parts) hitting the front of the bag with one rebound inbetween fists. There is the Front Double Punch (FDP), Reverse Double Punch ( RDP) and Side Double Punch (SDP). There are also “Double Elbow Strikes”, which have an Elbow and Fist hit the bag with one rebound inbetween.

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