Hello, everytime I throw a punch on the heavybag, I suddenly stop and throw my punches, and I'm wondering if this is a bad thing to do? I've dabbled in trying to throw punches while on the run but I have no one to show me how so it's all been experimentation for me. When I work on footwork I work on not dragging my feet and not crossing them, but it seems I'm just mostly plodding, and I'd like to improve my footwork. I can fight from the outside or inside with a decent reach for my height, so how do I go about improving my footwork, with exercises and other methods?
Idk, I thought it was quite easy to do, but what my trainer does with some of the new guys is the first day he works nothing but movement and punching while moving. So go in front of a mirror and practice pushing with your back foot to move foward, push with your front foot to move back, if you move to the right move your right foot first, if you move to the left move your left foot first. Etc. Then after you have all that down, then just start adding a jab to it, then soon you'll get it down pat
I can do the footwork with throwing a jab, right hand, and foot, it's just moving around correctly to targets is what I'm lacking.
Posted this in the wrong thread accidentally. Wherever you move, the leg on that side goes first the other one follows. I you move forward the front leg goes first, if you move left the left leg goes first. Then you could try something like this. Step forward while throwing a jab, throw the right hand when the back leg follows. Do that 40.000 times. Then the same to the left, throw the jab as the left leg lands, the right as the other one follows. Then backwards and to the right. Do this very slow, because it's not about strength or speed it's about brain patterns and muscle memory.
Posted this in the wrong thread accidentally. Wherever you move, the leg on that side goes first the other one follows. I you move forward the front leg goes first, if you move left the left leg goes first. Then you could try something like this. Step forward while throwing a jab, throw the right hand when the back leg follows. Do that 40.000 times. Then the same to the left, throw the jab as the left leg lands, the right as the other one follows. Then backwards and to the right. Do this very slow, because it's not about strength or speed it's about brain patterns and muscle memory.
Punching on the move is an important progression for a fighter. Simply put, you aren't going to learn how to do this on the heavy bag. To learn to move, you need to move, and with the limited range of motion of a punchbag, you aren't required to move far to land punches. You need an experienced pad man to help with movement whilst punching. With my fighters, I have set combinations which I will call, and when they start to throw the combination, I move. I make a point of me being the one that dictates where we move, i'll move backwards, forwards and laterally, so the fighter gets used to throwing combinations on the back foot, punching their way into close range etc. A good drill for newbies is to pick a simple two punch combo, say a 1-2 for example. We'll start at one end of the room and i'll start backing up, which forces my fighter to move forwards whilst continously throwing punches. When we get to the end of the room we reverse it, so i'm now closing down and the fighter is backing up whilst punching. You can mix this drill up with various combinations, or even with single punches, jabs work very well with this drill, and will teach you to jab your way in, or maintain distance between you and your opponent.
The Rocky movies had some unrealistic parts. But the part where Rocky ties his feet with a rope, is a pretty good way to learn to move around. It works against the natural tendancy to overspread your stance. Practice moving around with your feet directly under you at 45 degree angles. http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Gans-Biography-American-Champion/dp/0786439947/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
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Paloalto you odnt have to mimic the fighters you can learn from them and incorporate stuff taht would work for you from them
That's what I meant, I see I worded myself wrong. What I was trying to say was not to mimic their "style" I suppose you could say, for you may not have the physical abilities to pull it off
You'd find out in sparring and move on to different things. Mimicking is natural behavior for humans, it's how we learn.
