Sparring Sessions Analyses

You're counterpunching with arm punches, you need to start from scratch and learn to punch with proper technique. Punching like that is putting you at a level below a complete beginner. Yeah your head movement looked okay but without knowing how to punch correctly from each position you find yourself in it's largely pointless.

 

anyways by watching that video i see you need quiet alot of work

you stick your chin out while punching, you throw alot of arm punches, your head movement is decent but your footwork sucks, you should have been taught these things before sparring, you need to learn to move around and punch properly, both of you guys were reaching with your straight right/lefts while having your chin up in the air.

 

You seem to have everything in place, like you know how to move your head, throw a punch, defend yourself, etc. The difference between a beginner and a very good boxer is largely practice and experience. Once you get more rounds under your belt everything'll start coming together. Just don't try to push yourself too fast in sparring.

You might benefit from more sparring drills where your opponent is limited to throwing a certain punch for a round and you have to defend and counter. This way it cuts down on the amount of thought you have to put into it and allows you to do a lot more rounds. You'll get some good muscle memory and be able to defend yourself MUCH better (which will translate to better offense as well).

You're moving your head and countering, but typically you use the wrong movement or wrong counter. If you drill it and drill it, you'll get where you automatically do the right thing in full sparring.

How many months have you been training?

 

practicing something wrong over and over again isn't going to make it right, practicing something wrong will get him into a habit and will be hard to correct later.

 

Ah nice, you look pretty far along for only 7 months. Biggest thing that happens with guys that get deployed is they tend to gain weight. Long as you're keeping in shape over there you should be fine when you get back.

 

Nah dude the point of a drill is to practice it right. Like he works for a round on catching the jab and countering with a jab, or slipping it and coming over the top with a right, or slipping it and jabbing to the body.

The coach usually sets the pattern up and as they get more advanced he lets them choose their counter and so on. The coach should be correcting things when they're wrong.

 

thats all good but he must learn the basics first, he's coach should have picked up all those things before letting him spar.

 

there lies the problem:yep

 

I thought you looked good for 7 months too and everybody seems to like your head movement, however, I think its a little exaggerated. You dont need to lean so far over, especially when dodging one punch, you do however slip quite well but its more movement than you need. How far your leaning makes it harder to successfully counter a slipped shot as Im sure you know. However if your leaned so far over and you want to counter a jab to the body and immediately to the head works well for me when I find myself too far over to counter to the head right away. Or jab body, left upper head I like as well.

 

i would've thought lifting for power would be more constructive than lifting for endurance.