Joe Louis: How to Box?

Of course you're referring to Edwin L. Haislet's, "BOXING: A Self Instruction Manual," which occasionally turns up on Amazon as well as used bookstores.

While Haislet's 1939 classic is illustrated with line drawings, rival coach John J. Walsh of Wisconsin does him one better with 1951's "BOXING SIMPLIFIED," (published by Prentice-Hall) which displays photographs of his students in the various positions, bringing flesh and blood reality to Haislet's theory. Walsh's Wisconsin teams won four unofficial and four official NCAA championships from 1939 to 1956, making him the most successful of all collegiate boxing coaches. Haislet and Walsh reinforce each other, and both manuals should be obtained if possible. (Typically, I'd opt to obtain each through an inter-library loan, photocopy them, and have them either spiral bound or velo bound before returning the original. In my library are a number of out of print rarities I've duplicated in this way.)

 

Duodenum, thanks for that more complete info on the book I mentioned and also the book by Walsh. The method you use for copying is a great idea also,,thanks!

 

thanks for the info!

 

Great thread...got all the mentioned books minus long range fighting off of scribd.

 

Try google search for "Kirk lawson lulu boxing" he has loads of old manuals that you can either buy (hard copy) or download for free in PDF. I think haislet's book is on there, if not it's on scribd and he has some of driscoll's I think, not sure which though. Kirks own book summarising the throwing methods of old school pugilism is worth checking out. Haislet's 'boxing' is a trimmed downed version of a book published by US Naval Institute just called 'boxing' (1943) it's got haislet's stuff in it and a lot more. The line drawings in haislet's are based on the photos from this book I think. I have Driscols out fighting book and I'm willing to trade scans if anyone has marcianos 'boxing and bodybuilding' (way too expensive 2nd hand!). I've been meaning to buy Joe's and Floyd Patterson has one as well.

 

Another big up for Dempsey's book. I read that online and was stunned by how scientific in his approach Dempsey was when he penned that. Very clearly written and intuitive.

Never read Louis's book, but I'm not sure how worthwhile it can be if it was ghost written (ghostwritten by whom?)