how not to fall for feints?

my trainer tells me just to counter all the time, so your pretty much always safe. if you're quick and you counter going forward and his feints are large then you will catch him anyway. make him respect you.

my trainer just tells me, throw all the time when you are in range, throw when he's not throwing, throw when he's feinting and when he throws, throw more that him. then move out.

 

You need to be a good liar. A lot of experience reading and predicting opponents reactions so you can exploit them. Put pressure on the opponant if you call his bluffs. Many rounds of sparring and practicing good technique. Most feints revolve around the jab, when you're shadow boxing you can practice setting up a feints by jerking your bodys movements into a punch without throwing, then add surprise punches.

Even if you train train train, the most unpredictable punches can come from wild fighters with little control, their strength is their weakness I guess so be careful trying to feint those guys.

 

Hope this helps

 

If your defence is ok then your layers will take care of any feints and shots that may come after them.

 

great post thejokerswild

 

I honestly think this is an experience thing. You spar lots and lots of rounds and you get as many contests under your belt and you start to see this beter. Difficult to explain.

 

yah i agree. i dont think there is anyway to not fall for feints at an early stage of boxing. It just comes down to experience.

 

Agreed. If there was an easy trick to figuring it out then nobody would fall for feints and they'd be completely useless, which is obviously not the case.

Maybe you could talk to your coach or more experienced guys at the gym and have them spar a few rounds with you every session for a while, focusing on different kinds of feints so you can be exposed to them and start to learn what to look for and how to properly react to them. It's an experience thing so the sooner you're exposed to them the better IMO, and it'll keep you from developing your own, potentially bad, habits and reactions to feints.

 

Feints only matter if he can reach you (range), you can't beat him to the punch (speed), or you can't counter (timing). Falling for feints is a deficiency within yourself.

If your opponent is out of range to harm you, how can he feint you? The only way he can is because you don't know when you are or aren't in danger of being reached. If you are in range? You fire. If you have no intention of firing? Be out of range. If you are biting on feints you don't know where you are.

If you know the guy is too fast for you to counter, how can he feint you? He is too fast. You shouldn't be trying to counter so therefore should be ignoring feints. Get to him and THROW. You will eat shots closing distance so if he wants to waste his time feinting? One less shot for you to take. Don't stop throwing until he escapes. Walk him down and repeat.

If you can't time the guy, how can he feint you? You know if you throw one shot he will get you. So same as above.

 

If you're new and falling for feints it can be due to being too wound up and not relaxed enough. Try and take more control your reactions.

 

You react to feints by ignoring that they exist.

A feint is just a punch your opponent didn't throw. No hurt, no points.

Anything bad that came out of falling for a feint could just as well have happened if your opponent threw an actual punch.

You have the slick counterpuncher type like Roy Jones, who is quick and crafty and tries to get a guy to commit to his feints. But as bald_head_slick correctly said, when you're outslicked, falling for feints is the least of your problems.

 

As long as your covered up and in the correct stance, a feint shouldnt bother you too much. A feint is there to gain a reaction and if you dont react then he gets nothing from it and you get a counter window, feints are always going to be oppenent based, once you've felt them out (no homo) you should know what they look like when they throw a punch and when they dont. Its all about being relaxed.

 

Learn to slip/parry/block punches at the very last instant, right before the punch is in your face. You will be able to time it better.

AND, you will have more time to find out if it's just a feint.

Another thing to do is to always practice slipping for more than just one shot. Always slip at least twice. That way, if its a feint, you are already starting to slip the second shot automatically.

And always remember to counter!!!