How do y'all jab? What style do you use? Check out the below, credit to my man Yuzo they have a move in the cuban system that they named el paso pendulo. you push off of your back foot to transfer your body weight over to your front foot and then you push off of your front foot to transfer your body weight back over to your back foot and then you repeat it like a pendulum. heres teofilo stevenson doing it This content is protected you throw your jab with it in the same motion and therefore every time you do it you are inherently feinting a jab. it camouflages your jab and makes it hard to counter. the advantage of pushing off of your back foot is that you can adjust just how hard you want to push off of it to change how long or short you want your jab. you can push off hard and throw long or you can push off weak and throw short. This content is protected you force a guy to guess what kind of jab you are going to throw, a long jab or a short jab, every time you push off of your back foot. when you throw a short jab it doesnt pass through slip space like a long jab and therefore you force a counter puncher to guess what he can counter and what he cant every time you push off of your back foot to throw a jab. the advantage of pushing off of your front foot is that you can push off of it to suddenly move back and away from punches. it can be used to reset your body weight back over to your back foot to throw more long or short jabs and it can be used as a defensive move because it gives you the ability to bail out in a hurry. heres sergey kovalev pushing off of his back foot to transfer his body weight over to his front foot and jab in the same motion and then pushing off of his front foot to transfer his body weight back over to his back foot and move back from a counter right hand in the same motion. This content is protected when a fighter is trying to come over your jab with a right hand you can push off of your back foot and then push off of your front foot to get you in and out quick. or you can jab from a front foot pivot. when floyd mayweather beat andre berto he said that most of these fighters dont have a pivot. he said a fighter must have a pivot. fighters like floyd mayweather, archie moore, and niccolino locche fight from a front foot pivot. you have a front foot pivot whenever you have your body weight over your front foot. having your body weight over your front foot and using a front foot pivot gives you the ability to press down and push off of it to get away from any punch at any time. thats what makes fighters that fight from a front foot pivot hard to hit. This content is protected heres floyd leaning in from a front foot pivot and hanging out a few feeling out jabs This content is protected every jab doesnt have to be a bullet. by leaning in from a front foot pivot and feeling out with your jab you can read body language with it better and it gives you the ability to press down and push off of your pivot to bail out of your jab at any time and get out safely. you can press down and push off of your pivot to bail out of your jab early. This content is protected or you can press down and push off of your pivot to bail out of your jab late. This content is protected when you are feeling out with your jab and you feel a right hand coming over it just press down and push off of your pivot and bail out of your jab safely.
If my opponent is flat footed I use el paso pendulo so I can avoid an unnecessary brawl, measure the distance and his reaction time. However my opponent has a longer reach I can't use it to create distance but rather to get in quickly but using a short and fast step forward. There is always a price to pay: If you do use too much weight in your step-jab you will gain power and distance but you lose explosiveness and the option to create a combination from it (one punch and out). Light step-jabs are ideal to keep someone guessing, outside, move around and keep your breath, but it gives you less power, step-back distance and those are easy to counterpunch. As I usually fight taller people I only use the jab once I'm inside with a short step to get the distance and force him to cover up OR once I'm inside I land fast light jabs without any step to follow it with any quick power shot or combination. In resume: The jab you use must be different depending in what you want/need to do in a fight.
