http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAoSMBoYK9Q A quick video of me shadow boxing. Please leave any professional advice; I honestly need it.
Try to have more body in your punches. It appears you have speed but you'll have alot more behind the punches if you sit into them and have more body in them. For example when you threw your right straight. You just kind of threw it out there with all arm. Try to sit into it turn your shoulders so they're square with the opponent on impact and turn you right knee forward a bit. You had a decent jab too but when you throw it, try to have it so your shoulder is closer to your chin. So if they throw say a counter right hook at ya, it can glance off of ya and wont get as clean a hit on your left cheek or chin. Try to remember left body should move forward with your jab, right side of your body should move with your straight. Its similiar with your hooks and uppercuts. I also liked how you stepped forward or to the side a little with each jab. That something not not alot of people do that they should. Otherwise, you looked a ton better than some of the videos posted up here. Keep at it bro.
Good work. I'm not big on giving video feedback as it's difficult to gauge a fighter until you see them in the ring, but i'll give you a couple of pointers: Check your stance. You are quite square on, so there is quite a big target for your opponent to aim at. Just bring your right shoulder back slightly and turn your left shoulder to cover your chin - you will find that you will be able to put a bit more on your right hand if you do this. Left hook - make sure that you are transfering weight. As you are coming the final position of your hook, your weight is still on your left foot. As a rule of thumb, your weight should transfer onto your rear foot as you throw the hook - this will give you more power in the hook, and will also set up the right hand. As your weight would be on your rear foot, you will also be better able to avoid the straight right counter by simply slipping/stepping to your left off your right foot. People who don't transfer their weight have a tendency to move straight back to avoid the counter right hand - this can put you in a world of trouble. Straight right - as you throw the right hand, your right foot is moving backwards at one point - your right foot must drive the punch, not the other way round. I always tell my fighters "dog wags the tail, not the other way round". Your footwork needs to drive everything that you do in boxing. If you don't drive off the right foot, you will never have any power in your right hand. To remedy this, bring your feet slightly closer together and step off to the left slightly with your left foot as you throw the right hand - this will also give you a better angle should you choose to re-engage your opponent quickly, or will give you more distance if you choose to pivot and jab away. Other than that, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the feedback guys. You guys must know that my shoes have little traction with the floor, therefore it limits my footwork a lot. Normally, I would put more emphasis on pivoting, but I would lose balance on this floor. When I made this video yesterday, I was pretty tense and out of it. Also, I was never able to go to a boxing gym, so I questioned if I my technique was correct and if I should continue boxing. Maybe I should have post a video of slow technique rather than speed.
that looked pretty good but try to swing your hip a little more when you throw your right and keep your hands up and also extend your jab further.
gud jab,, gud speed to, but u jab while moving to our left quite alot,, i used to do that alot do, ur opponents coach will eventually figure this out and tell him him to chance his luck with whipping overhand rights,, all this moving to the left means u walk into that right hand when you go for the jab, so in a fight an opponent with less skill can get lucky with the overhand right, so try moving to the right also with your jab,, its difficult to do at the start but it adds a different dimension to your attack so stick at it,, gud skills tho
Buakaw, I'm very impressed by your video, and just wanted to know how long have you been boxing, and since you were unable to hit a boxing gym, what methods did you use to learn about technique (ie. instructional videos, books etc.)?
Awesome shadow boxing if you've never been to a gym. I would recomend you go you might like it. As far as I know most the points have been said. basically you need to put more body into the punches, not be so square on, turn the jab around at the elbow(look in the mirror to check this) and biggest thing i saw was no weight in the left hook or uppercut. This might be obvious but no ones said it, you were very tense in the clip. Thats why after 30 seconds you look like you needed some oxygen. My advice is to take it slow, pracise those things calmly and you'll learn how to sync your oxygen intake with the combos. Oh and if i can point out one more thing regarding footwork. Step in and out when doing those combos. I don't think you were imagining your imaginary opponants range enough. Keep up the good work
the only thing i saw was that you were uppercutting without putting any weight behind it but overall it looked good to me.you weren't over-extending your arms like a lot of novices do. you didn't need your gloves on though
I've only been into boxing for a year. As for training, it's really on and off. In fact, I used to spar more than I trained but it was more like street boxing. Anyway, I watched Don Familton, Freddie Roach, and Kenny Weldon's instructional videos. Then I would watch and observe the techniques implemented by amateurs and professionals. I compared the videos and get an understanding of how, why, and when to execute the technique. Sometimes, for fun mostly, I would evaluate others who don't have a good technique and ask myself what was wrong with what they were doing. This way, if I can determine what was wrong and find a remedy for it, I would know that I actually understand the basics. Using logic and common sense, everything came naturally to me. For an example, throwing a shot will get you in a position to throw the next. Most importantly, I had to take the initiative and time to actually practice these techniques. I can't really explain it. Unfortunately, I can't join a gym at the moment, but I will.
Thanks again for the comments and advices guys. I've been taking these advices - especially on Bodi's about my footwork driving everything. I feel more smooth and light on my feet. I've also been working on being more explosive and retaining my center of gravity as I throw fast and hard punches. I'll make much better video of me shadowboxing and possible a compliation of my training. That's if I'm not lazy.
