Critique my sparring please?

You took it completely the wrong way. He was responding to the people who were acting as though it was impossible for him to be at that level from only boxing for 9 months.

 

yeah fair enough then, I thought those people were just being nice.

 

Ha ha i read it totally different. And for me he's absolutely right. Anyone can be good at boxing if they put the work in

 

It was because i didn't really read the first few posts and thought they were saying he'd been boxing for longer than 9 months as a joke.

My apologies. :good

 

Well of course you still need a degree of natural talent to begin with but only to a certain extent. You can still improve on what you've got if, ike you say, you put the work in.

 

Natraul Talent is over-rated pal. Believe me....

I've seen people who are terribly uncoordinated become good fighters.

How old are you matty?

 

I am 16. 17 in a few months.

 

Read a book called bounce by Mathew Syed... its a great book and will serve you well :good

 

£4.99 on Amazon, I'll see about getting it for my Kindle. :good

 

You seem to have decent fundamentals. You competed well considering he's much better and more experienced. The biggest issue I see is consistency, and the fact he knows where you're going to be always. There are times you're controlling the center, and then you give it up by just hanging out on the outside instead of trying to cut the exits off. That last part of the round was good because you closed the distance and got in some body work, but mixing the punches up a bit more would have been better. More consistent jabs and some feints wouldn't hurt either.

 

He's good - so are you keep working hard dude

 

your opponent is sharp. nice, crisp left hook.

 

I know what you mean. Getting comfortable moving your upper body in range will help make sure you don't leap backwards every time a rangier opponent feints or throws at a distance.