For those here who box...A CHALLENGE!

I'd be game to give it a try, but it would be difficult under fire to maintain the kind of discipline to use methods I am not conditioned for... I fear I am too old to change now.

However, Achilles' offer sounds like it work better for your experiment.

 

Is the entire book there? I can read just about every other book, but not that one.

 

All I can get up is 2 lines at a time by using the search button.

 

Still no good.

How would i download it in pdf?

 

Are you signed into google when you do it?

 

CT, you want me to get someone to try the the stance and guard - up on their toes, straight up, low hands?

 

Regarding the stance, let's not confuse a still photo with of the times with the way the fighters stood and put their guard up in the filmed fights. They are only somewhat similar. Many of the outside of the ring photo shots are glamour shots only.

A few of Fitz’s old skills would defiantly work in modern times. Fitz was a master at feinting to set up his shot. We can see this on film, Fitz feinted high to get Corbett’s guard high, and then struck like lighting to the body. The result was one of the most famous body punch KO’s of all time. Simply brilliant. I own a version of Fitz vs Corbett where the camera gives you a few seconds of close up action before the knockout. The speed and furry can be seen here. It was an eye opener.

The other part of Fitzsimmons that will work in modern times is the leverage and shifting he did when he punched. Fitzsimmons had whip cord like muscles and great driving force in his blows which was developed from manual labor. Delivering a hook in boxing is somewhat similar to swinging a baseball bat in my opinion. To hit your weight in baseball, you have to turn your hips / legs, and drive your body into the ball. In boxing, to add power to you hook, you need to do the same from your legs, hips, and shift your weight into the punch.

Finally, Fitzsimmons a master of the anatomy. He knew where to strike. The temple, chin, solar plexus, bottom ribs, neck, and heart are vulnerable areas for boxer. As I said before, many of the neck and hart punches are nearly extinct from the game.

As for the lower guard, I would not recommend it, unless the fighter doesn’t mind taking a punch to land one!

 

I would really like to help you out here Cross, but the only boxing I do is when I am boxing up returned merchandise for shipping back to the manufactuer. That is, when I am not cleaning out Porta Johns