I would say the title could also be "Moving your head while dropping your hands". I have a problem with this. The problem is that I find it easier to move my head, while also moving (and sometimes lowering) my guard. I hold my guard at cheek level, so it's faily high. I know that in reality alot of head movement is accomplished by your feet. And you can basically move your head by keeping your guard up and steeping, shifting or pivioting your feet and/or knees. But it sparring I have found that sometimes I can move with less stiffness when my hands are lower. Take the pull for instance. Tough to do with a high guard. Or a deep roll or crouch (like Sweet Pea). Or is this just simply a "limitation" of a high guard. Coach likes the high guard, so I only experiment with this in light sparring. Supervised sparring stays high and tight.
I have no problem at all lowering my hands when moving my body. I'm not saying its the way to go, but I've made it work for me by using my legs a lot. In my experience, it's not bad to play with your movements and see what works for you and most importantly, in which instances you would benefit from it. Just don't assum you're mayweather or ward and protect yourself at all times with your other body attributes and skills.
I do that also sometimes.. but only when i completely figured out my opponents fightstyle.. lowering your hands and leaving them at your waist isn't good cause once you take a shot your gonna have to eat up 15 more ..
Its one of those limitations of having a high guard. I feel more comfortable slipping shots and moving my head with my hands lower then they should be. Its bad and yeah leaves you more open but its kind of common sense e.g i wouldnt drop my hands if i slipped a jab and im slipping in to the inside towards his right because im vulnerable. but if i slip the jab to my right and outside of his jab then im at less risk so if i do drop my hands it wouldnt be as dangerous.
As i said only if you know who your opponent is.. if you spar with high skilled boxers they would throw the jab waiting for you to get the right slip and snap your jaw off with a straight. Keeping your hands low is useful but don't leave them down, keep them a bit outside to prevent the other guy from easily coming in with combination after combination
Yup of course i agrree. And lol in sparring i get tagged a **** loads when my hands are down because after maybe 100 or so rounds of sparring they know the way i slip. But in fights i don't get tagged that much so its all good. + i wasnt advising it to him or any1 just saying it is easier to slip when you hands arnt in a high guard. Slipping inside the guys jab with your hands down is asking to get hurt!
Yea thats true .. Keeping your hands down works for some people who have low reaction time and are speedy and might not work as well with other fighters
That's kind of what I figured. And keeping my hands low(er), meant lowering my guard from cheek level, to right hand at jaw and left hand at chest level. I know this is a regular guard for some as well.
It is easier to get out of the way of punches when you can see them coming and it is easier to counter after getting out of the way if your hands are in a place you can punch from.
I believe it makes things difficult because it tends to mean your posture goes and then your elbows are out open to all body shots, it brings you on the front foot too much thus off balance, shoulders are already locked up and engaged which doesnt matter much because you cant really use them properly with the bad posture anyway. Drop your ass and bend your knees to keep good posture, dip and curl the shoulders when your slipping and during head movement being careful to keep your elbows by your sides not flaring out, stepping with the feet and turning the heels. the whole body should be involved in unison with any move just like when you punch.
This is something I heard Roy Jones touch on after he got sparked against Tarver, said that as soon as he started trying to keep his hands up more, he was getting hit more often (although it was more likely an excuse).
I,ve actually seen pros move their head to the outside of their guard to create movement, making a difficlut target to hit. The guard will be up, and they will move their head outside of the lead hand, and then roll or pull back, and then outside of the rear hand. All while keeping their hands up- or in punching position.
Not exactly sure what's meant here. Bend at the knees and torso, also twist. then use your feet to help move around. At my gym If you want to move head faster with your guard up then drop the lead and move your right hand in front of your face. Keep the lead shoulder on your chin pointing towards your opponents lead to make a smaller target.Keep a wider cautious stance doing that.
just do whats comfortable with you. a lot of trainers would be like this or taht is the rigth way. but the best way is most comfortable to you. Although you should work on whats BEST for you.
