ok i've been training since about 10 months and i haven't fought yet so i don't actually know what its like to be in a fight. however one thing that has always kinda confused me when i watch fights by big name pro's they often seem to have very mediocre technique. some flaws like weird punching (hitting with the palm towards the adversary, etc.) i'm sure can be put down to 'they are fighting other really skilled dudes' but still some other stuff like freakishly wide punches :yikes, always dropping or lazy guard :nono, constantly dropping one hand when throwing a punch with the other atsch, i don't understand how they get away with this. It just kindof confuses me when i spend hours on the heavy bag trying to get perfect punching technique and all and then i try to study the big champs' technique and its just awful. Its not really a question, I was just hoping some other guys with lots of experience would have a word or two to say.
When you gain more experience you tend to become more relaxed, in no way would I recommend dropping your guard; but you don't always have to have your earmuffs on
so you mean that most conventional techinuqe you learn as a newbie becomes aberrant as you become more skilled and fight better opposition?
Who cares what the pros are doing? You aint them. You should be attempting perfection, that way you might make a half-decent scrappy mess when you actually get in there. As for studying the pros, take the good stuff and ignore the bad. Nobody would suggest copying the technique of someone who punches like that.
keep working on perfecting technique particularly on the basics, it may only take about three months to look slick with the basic skills, but it takes a good year or two, and thousands of repetitions of the perfected techniques to be able to reproduce them under pressure and under attack.
yah i know i was just wondering how they get away with it when they face such skilled opponents. i repeat every shot many times every day, its so ****ing boring like homework, but my trainer is impressed.
Some guys are much better in the gym. I'm alot more comfortable in the gym and therefore a better fighter than I am in comptetitions and shows, but that will go away with experience.
If you haven't fough yet, it's hard to imagine what it's actually like.....On bags and mittwork, many people's technique is near flawless. When you introduce an actual opponent, it's very, very different.
Every new boxer should learn the basics to begin with. To understand the fundamentals and to practice them. It is from there, and with time, that a person starts to develop a style/form based on their particular set of personal skills and attributes, both physical and mental. Which sort of defense, which kind of attack, inside fighter, outside, all sorts of things, guard, high, low etc. so so many things. The great part of it is, even after the many years, which begins with learning the most basis of principles and standard form, after it evolves and becomes their own unique and personal style at the very top of their/your game and a signature of who you are, and a now much changed creature...even then, you will still and forever be finding your way back to the basics to continue the work needed to improve. You will start a career learning the very basic jab. You could end up the best on the planet, and still find yourself in the gym many years later, preparing for the match of your lifetime, and once again, be back at square one working on that same very basic jab where you once began. And that is the beauty of our sport. Of our sweet science.
yes i have sparred and i know how messy it gets. but the point is i know what i do wrong and when i do it wrong i get hit, and after i try to correct it.
What looks sloppy to you may actually be well thought out by the fighter in the ring. Certain things that they do are actually on purpose to "draw" their opponent in with something. For example, you may see someone drag his jab down on the way back instead of bringing it straight back, then you think "hes completely open for a right hand counter", which is exactly what he wants you to think. At such an advanced level, a boxer cannot afford to be predictable.
