Great training tool: 3 shot drill..... Want some input and suggestions

I used to love this sort of drill and any real skill I developed when I was boxing was through the confidence and reflexes developed by this sort of drill, I reckon.
Something like slip, counter with something, or do that twice.
Body shots were ok too, hook to head hook to body.
I remember a lot of bodyshot based stuff with it, don't remember specific drills more than the above though.

 

One I've done in the past which I've found useful is to add in a counter to the three shot/two shot drill, i.e. you're not only defending but thinking about how you will come back after specific punches, positioning, balance etc. I've done this both with a one punch counter, two punch counter or three punch counter. You can build this up to a relatively fast pace where your counterpunching the counterpunch, as long as your focused on working on technique and countering as opposed to just exchanging combos. Then, at the end of the session, instead of specifying the punches thrown up front, we throw three punches of our own choice, and then the other guy counters with a fixed number of punches of his choice (or you can specify - any straight shot, any bent arm shot etc.).

Endless variations of this really. Russian school of boxing is built on effectively conditional sparring building up specific combinations, moves, with a lot less hard 'free' sparring than I've had in English gyms..

 

Good tip, going to practice this as soon as possible.

 

will do jeff.

 

My coach does that a lot with the beginners as well very helpful. Like you said it does take the edge off it. The only flaw is that you know which shots are coming.

 

Good drill, I'll try it out. I read about throwing five jabs and then switching...we'll see if anyone wants to do it for a round or two.

 

Good drill when done correctly, i personally prefer the two shot drill (we call it two for two at my gym) I am not a big fan of the three for three as I do not believe you should be letting your opponent ever get away with throwing three punches at you, if you cannot counter the first or second shot you should be getting out of their range. However, the downside to this drill is that a lot of times people on the offense completely forget about technique and throw very weird punches that open them up tremendously. Obviously they can get away with it during this drill, so it is important to have a coach watching them to make sure they aren't doing crazy **** that will get them killed in sparring or fights.

 

i like this thread

we used to do similar stuff years ago, we had a moldovan coach who was on the national team in moldova, everyday we would do school boy sparring as he called it very similar to the russian stuff avk47 is on about

it used to be 3 minutes off one guy throwing a specific combo and the other countering with a shot or two, then switching roles for the next 3 minutes

we then took it further when he left and brought in stuff like your drill jeff, it would be a random 2 punch combo decided upon by the boxer and the other guy then counters with a shot, if a counter is not thrown the attacking guy throws the same combo again just so the other guy learns the counter and performs it (good for beginners), this then can be changed to a 3 or 4 punch combo round, the counters then could be more than 1, variation and progression were key

 

We called it tennis.

No set combo, normally just a minimum of 2 or 3 shots to a combo and go one for one. Great for beginners, and good even for experienced guys. We often used to do a few rounds of tennis as a warm up before more intense sparring. Or we'd play counter-tennis. Basically tennis but you can throw a counter before you partner finishes their combo, which makes them keep their mind on defence while their throwing, but this one was for more experienced guys as it needs to be done with control

 

great drills. i think these have a lot of merit for beginners and more experienced. specifically i would set the initial combo being thrown until the counters have been got down. then start to get them to improvise and mix it up.

 

we did this exact drill last night. i suspect my trainer is reading this here haha. I enjoyed it - i like these little 'semi-sparring' drills. A few others we do is sparring a round with just the jab, or just throwing the 1,2. The other guy has to defend and counter. Or sparring a round purely in the pocket. Things like that that focus on specific aspects. Its a nice distraction and lets you work on certain things that you might be hesitant to do otherwise in a normal sparring situation.