Afraid of getting hit result is too much head movement

Try letting your friend hit you while you only cover up and parry. It will help you get used to guaging power, it will improve your blocking reflexes, and will help you keep calm under pressure.

 

Do Like SOB Ward, duck down and come up with your head, keep butting, use your elbows, hold, throw low blows to the testicles, legs, keep cheating, only use your own personal referee like SOB and don't forget to get biased judges in your favor...............

 

You don't have much of a choice other than to force yourself not to move your head. Just don't do it.

Rez gave pretty much the only solution there is. Go with his advice.

 

If you're going to box, you're going to get hit. The better the competition, the more they'll hit you. Obviously your job is to minimize how many times you get hit and maximize how many times you hit back, but if you can't make peace with getting hit you may want to consider a different sport.

That being said, you need a trainer. You need someone who can design and conduct appropriate drills to help you develop your defense and become less scared of getting hit. Perhaps the most important part of this is doing drills that start easy and get increasingly harder as your abilities progress. Strapping on gloves and telling someone to hit you in the face while you practice your defense is a bad learning model. That's a level you don't get to until you've got a lot of progressive resistance training under your belt. If you start off using a method that will get you clocked then you'll get flustered, frozen, and will want to quit, especially if you're already punch-averse. Get a trainer.

 

We used to do something in the gym which we named 'toe to toe'. Basically you and your sparring partner stand in the ring and take it in turn to throw two shots each.

So you'll throw a jab, left hook to body while your partner covers up / blocks or slips, then it's his turn to throw two shots.

Start of very light then build up the power. By two rounds in you should be throwing pretty meaty shots.

It's good for practicing in-fighting and for teaching you how to ride shots and take the sting out of them with your gloves. It's also great for picking shots like hooks to the body because in a real spar or fight it can be frantic and it's difficult to let those shots go. But that's definitely the way to gain confidence in taking shots

 

If you're afraid of getting hit you're in the wrong sport. I would think this would be obvious.