Me sparring - technique advise please (not filmed in a 2ftx2ft cella)

I am actually a kickboxer so my boxing is novice at best, please remember this when criticising me

Basically the guy I am sparring is a very good boxer and I find it hard to spar him because he has a lot more reach than me and seems to see my shots coming. Obviously we are sparring without headguards, so are not getting as stuck in as we would or throwing as hard as we would if it was a real fight.

I know I lean back to much and I do not throw enough right hands, I am looking for combination and movement advice really. Again... I'm a kickboxer so I expect stick

The first round is K-1 sparring, but the next 4 rounds are boxing. The boxing starts at 2.5 minutes in

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNyorF5WBo

 

He is a lot more experienced than me, so it might be because he is a bit relaxed. I have only been training about a year and he has been training about 7/8 years, maybe more... lol. Maybe you could name some of these bad habbits? I wish I could land more!

Thanks, I was actually gonna PM just you this as I knew you'd be constructive But then I thought it would be unfair to assume you would have a spare 10 minutes to watch the video, etc!

Can you explain what you mean by lateral movement? I probably have it in my brain as something else, it sounds like a boxing term

 

bahahaha, yes I am the one with the nasty habbits I was gonna say!

Although to be honest, I prefer that because obviously you are going to have a lot more comments for me to work on... Where as what you said above was not so much to go with

I always find it better to be told you are terrible and given a list of 50 things to work on than someone saying you are great and given nothing you know?

 

Kade is actually a boxer of about 9 years compared to me who is a kickboxer of a year, so I think it is a good way to have my weakness' exposed. One thing I know I do is leave my hands down too much, I've never been rocked or KO'ed, so it is a bit of a stupid over confidence thing... I am trying to overcome that >.< I lean back too much and obviously get caught (this can be seen numerous times in this video) and against Kadeth I rarely risk combo's... so advice on getting in range would be good

 

Good advice, thanks man. I think with Kade (guy in black shirt) I am a bit nervous because I know how good he is, you know the old phrase about giving people too much respect? I know that if I throw one punch, he is likely to hit me with 4, which mentally is not a good thing I guess. The left hand thing is something I found works in kickboxing, but I agree, in boxing I get caught a lot because of it and I should cut it out for sure.

I tell you what I will do, we spar every Friday for 5 rounds x 2 minutes boxing and 5 rounds x 3 minutes kickboxing. I will take your advice, keep my hands up the whole 5 rounds and work purely on getting in close by slipping (Pacquiao style!) then I will post a new video up and we can go from there?

I really appriciate the advice RDJ!

 

Judging by your avatar I was close to taking it as an order and saying "YES SIR!!!" hahaha.

 

K-1/Muaythai, so yes we do lean back more to avoid high kicks (we don't block high kicks like they do in kickboxing with our arms because most Thai/K-1 kickers could break your arm with their shin)!!! That's probably where leaning back as much as I do comes from

Looking forward to another sparring session now