You guys are right making your legs stronger and improving coordination have nothing to do with improving power right.
Look at his movement, when going forward, if on the floor his movement would take him back. Going back his movement is going forward. lose the balance with the head, youre off. Works for most sports.
Movement is specific, skipping is not punching or really anything close to it. And it certainly doesn't make your legs stronger, it's a low level plyometric activity. It's essentially stretching the tendons of your feet, ankle and knees while muscles hold position (isometric). There is simply no muscle strengthening involved, however it can be good for connective tissue strengthening if we're talking about a cyclist/swimmer who gets very little impact.
Equal and opposite reaction. Just another simple thing that S**** tries to present as esoteric knowledge. When you move against the floor (as in boxing and other sports), you are moved. When you move against a log you're standing on you're getting a good foot massage that has no relevance or transfer to anything other than rolling on a log. It's completely different feedback in your skin, muscle, joint receptors, and your whole CNS to standing on a flat stable surface. S**** doesn't understand the basics, which is why he has pointless ideas that are poorly explained.
What moves you is your environment, and gravity. on land its the floor, in water, its water, 2,000 foot in the air its just gravity, until you reach whatever it is you hit. its nice to find different ways, of doing things that are successful and work helping the CNS finding ways to adapt, and you to think.
It's simply unnecessary and doesn't need to be replaced with anything. Whenever you're doing anything ask yourself, "What am I trying to achieve with this?". Skipping rope is a warm up tool more than anything else. I don't believe for a second that it improves boxing footwork. You can develop general cardio fitness in many ways. It's certainly not a tool for power or strength. So what's it really used for? Maybe low intensity elasticity work if you've been out of action for a long time.
You really are an idiot. Your CNS adapts EXACTLY to a demand, that's why there is no point in learning to balance on a log. It helps nothing other than balancing on a log. Complete waste of time for an increased risk of injury, just brilliant.
Couldn't just go hit the bag instead of s****'s rubber bands warm ups"? Prefer to save my energy for sparring as opposed to skipping or strength rubber bands.
If a guy is telling you that skipping is not useful for boxing, that's a guy you should just ignore. All pros/amateurs skip rope (not just boxers, but mma fighters, thai boxers etc), but no, according to the expert know-it-all dealt_with, it's pointless atsch
What is it good for then? Time spent skipping could be time doing sport-specific exercises like shadow boxing.
Okay. So your reasoning is that the pros do it so it must be good, right? Well Maywether beats women. When are you going to add that to your training, clearly it adds something to his game? Just going by your logic. Maybe instead of mindlessly following what the pros do, take a look at your training, see what needs improving and add what is best suited to your requirements.