Mayweather skipping

Im pretty good myself but not as slick with the footwork as you, but one thing I have noticed the more I practise the more balanced and stable I get so maybe it is just the number of hours he has put in vs the number you have put in that make him look a little more balanced?

Skipping is such an underated exercise though! how often do you jump rope?

 

Emeritus:

Every day for at least 10 years now - I think my natural technique, never really "trying" to look smooth, will prevent me from ever really BEING smooth. I think its just the way I do the exercise, my sparring is the same way: quick and awkward, easy to critique from the outside, but if you actually try to beat me to the punch its hard to do, it just LOOKS off balance and weird. Some people just have strange body mechanics.

Against somebody as coordinated as Floyd, he would exploit that imprecise muscle coordination with ease. He is just extremely extremely coordinated in terms of his entire body, and conditioned and athletic to boot (if I had to say he had a weakness, I would say he isn't physically quite as strong as some his size, but he is strong enough to get the job done).

 

gotta give props on where its due...I like that man!:good

 

:huh hell you talking about, I can do that. He looks very light on his feet though

 

How long can you skip for ?

I know my best is about 12 minutes , I know that doesnt sound too great , but hey I am honest.

I have heard Clottey skips for 45 minutes . I guess thats what makes a world class athlete.

 

:goodnice video man, careful with jumproping on concrete. I used to do that and got some of the worse shin splints in the world

 

When I was fighting in college I would go for 15 to 18 minutes BUT the pace you see at the end of the video I posted would be 2 or 3 minutes MAX at that speed, then slower, then 1 minute fast, etc. like wind sprints, so the 18 minutes was like fast/slow/fast/slow, etc. That's always the way I run, too.

 

Thanks, that makes sense.

Can you believe Clottey can go for 45 minutes at a steady pace??? It sounds incredible.

 

Well, knowing that the guys who win the chicago marathon are running like 5 minute miles the WHOLE way ... yeah, some guys are better at keeping a pace for a long time. I was never a distance guy, ALWAYS a sprinter naturally, but this is the thing: it sounds like Clottey IS a distance guy, because he is not a very explosive fast twitch performer with his punches.

I actually am, but I will get weaker as the fight goes on, almost never sharper. Judah is, I think, wired like me, I would be shocked if you told me Judah skipped for 45 minutes. It seems to me as if Clottey is entirely that slow and steady type of turtle who never gets tired but is never absolutely explosive, just consistent. I don't think he has a lot of those fast twitch sprinting type muscle fibers, even though he is ridiculously cardiovascularly conditioned. If I were him I would try to get more explosive and up my pace instead of just kind of keeping the same pace for an eternity, but no doubt in my mind he is that slow twitch dude who is not extremely fast but never really seems to tire out.

 

Could you imagine the kind of whupping he would put on opponents if they allowed him to bring a jump rope into the ring?

 

Not bad I been jumping rope for about 8 years but on and off!

I have never ever skipped every day though the most was 4 days per week when I needed to drop weight. But on average I would do a 3 days per week.

I think you are right Floyd is no where NEAR the strongest or biggest hitter especially at WW. But he is very very Efficient and accurate and so the effect is he is a very damaging fighter.

I remember Ricky Hatton saying that he wasnt the biggest WW he had been in with but he hits harder than you think!

 

What is amazing about Pac to me is that he is CLEARLY a fast twitch puncher, the speed and spasticity and force he employs, he isn't just arm punching, he is recruiting every fiber in his arms, shoulder, and lat when he throws those super quick punches, but he DOESN'T get tired.

Baby Bull Diaz could do it without getting tired because a lot of his punches lacked mustard, as could someone like Meldrick Taylor. When I think of sprinters with that kind of long distance endurance, there is only a few that come to mind (Mayweather is not one of them - he NEVER overexerts himself, his punch is a quick powerful sprint like motion, then back to full relaxation, never exerting more energy than necessary or fatiguing himself). Maybe only Aaron Pryor besides Pac, because Hearns seemed to tire out a lot and lose his legs even though he had that kind of quick rapid attack, and Leonard was not quite as relentlessly aggressive as Pac.

 

I like Brian Vilioria's tricks better:

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Yes they are definitely better tricks. The kind little girls and girley boys like to do.