Video of me shadowboxing

Your hands are off.

You need to have your rear hand alternating between touching your cheek bone (offensive) and your temple (defensive). Your lead hand should be extended a bit along the same plane. Your hands are just on your chin. Your head is wide open to be cracked. Side, front, neck, where ever.

Second, looks like all of your punches are coming from your arms and waist. You are "slinging" your arms around. That "cocking/winding" motion you do before you sling an arm punch will be a tell and you won't land anything. Jabs should be direct and fast corkscrew motions coupled with a step in and out at ~15 degree angle. Straights should be in conjunction with the jab or the lead step. Hooks should come from the floor swinging your upper body like a door on a hinge NOT twisting your shoulders/waist.

Keep training. You will get it.

 

Regardless what his purpose is he should be doing it properly. He needs a coach to correct things, ylems point was useless because I can clearly see that his balance and footwork is wrong.... And I can't even see his legs or feet.

Feet first always, thus correcting your jab while your feet are wrong is pointless because once the feet are corrected the jab will be wrong again.

My advice might not always be what people want to hear but that's the truth- if you want to see what an idiot looks,like who doesn't take on board advice watch ylems videos

 

Devon wasn'tt been harsh , if you take the time train properly you will look back at these videos and cringe. Slow things right down master movement and balance first.

 

slow down, slow down everything, your punches, footwork, everything. Your too focused on being fast and looking fancy with your footwork. Just stick to the basics first. Do everything slowly, your hands are too low, you punch chest height all the time, your using arm punches all the time when your supposed to punch using your body weight. Your not gonna hurt anyone with the punches you were throwing.

Do you go to a boxing gym? Its hard to tell between newbies who just joined a month ago and people who've never trained at all

 

Honestly? Get a coach. It's not what you want to hear... but it's the truth.

But if you insist learning via the internet...... well...... start by watching Bernard Hopkins shadowbox and compare it to yours.

 

With his responses, I would say it's obvious he is a coach.

 

make plans just incase he doesnt. check out some gyms and see what you think. they sometimes will let u work out for free the first time. if you like it join, if not dont.

 

this, i waited 2 months waiting for my trainer only to find out he had to move because of his other job.

Since you dont have a coach right now the best you can do if you plan on waiting for your old one is to follow what people are saying here. We told you to slow down you continued to make a new video with the exact same speed and trying to fancy your footwork. Slow down practice technique, theres no hip rotation, your punches are telegraphed and have no power because your not putting your body weight into your punches.

 

are you really saying that you NEVER teach your students anything other then foot work till they have perfect foot work?

i can jab sitting down, foot work has nothing to do with the jab aside from stepping with it and even then wheter or not you step with it depends on the situation and how your using the jab, its just an arm punch....that just so happens to be the most important punch in boxing.

to offer advice to improve a jab is infiantly better then "get to a gym, you suck" if you actually wanted to give advice you should have told him his foot work is wrong because he appears off balance, and then posted a youtube video sho proper foot work and advised him to get a ball put it in the middle of a room and circle it to the left and to the right, slowly, to pratice foot work.

 

Yes I do not teach my guys anything until they have good balance and can move around the ring correctly obeying the fundamentals laid out by those before us.

Thats what you should have learned too and you wouldn't look quite so ridiculous.