rooting is just lowering your center of gravity some one that is good at rooting has good balance. there is no such thing as chi or chakra.....
if you slip a jab and step out to your right a little [orth] but your left foot stays and you throw a cork screw p. 158 "the straight lead"[click here] with your weight planted on your back foot [[[timed the snap and the impact to when your foot hits the ground]]]..maybe you could do one of these???...:huh [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxnGjKjxoo[/ame] He pulled back instead of to the side...but you're not ali
Q: How many times did the "anchor punch" work for Ali? A: Only once; and it was a fixed fight, whether Ali knew it or not... I think you're over-analyzing. If you've been boxing long enough (or maybe some would never figure it out, I don't know), you'll figure out that by changing levels, your center of gravity lowers, making you more stable, and you generate more power... This is like analyzing Robinson's one-punch KO of Fullmer (except that was a legitimate KO)... The perfect, sharp left hook to the jaw line... Yeah, you can practice it all you want, but it was all positioning, timing, angle, commitment, and many other variables can be thrown in there as well... The fact is, a particular knockout punch isn't always a knockout punch...
anchor punch = corkscrew punch. what do you mean how many times did it work for him? nobody could know that. This thread isn't about the fu/cking ali fight, it's about throwing a different punch in my arsenal.
My answer (and a sensible, logical one) is in my post, and if you can't make sense of that, I can see why you'd have trouble adding a different punch to your arsenal. If you want to throw a corkscrew punch look no further than Hearns. He has much much more consistent results and throws it a hell of a lot more... Looking at Ali's one-time corkscrew punch knockout (over a guy who decided that was the best time to dive) is a bad plan for study.
thanks..but wtf is "i can see why you'd have trouble adding a different punch bull****?..." where and how could you see something like that? You don't know how fast I progress, or how often I train or even how smart I train....no seriously, comments like that set me off more than anything...
I was equating your reading comprehension with your potential for learning new things... I was being a dick, to be honest- Had a bad morning, so my apollogies... Anyway, just take my advice and leave studying that Ali film alone and go to something more practical. Noone I've seen consistently launched that punch faster, better, more correctly, or more often than Hearns. The more you practice and the more natural punching becomes for you, the more variety you'll have. I always liked to study Walcott and Charles... Very technically correct and worthy of study. Also, I don't know your dimensions, but I happen to be the exact frame of Felix Trinidad. Same height, same reach, same build (I've got more weight, but due to not being a disciplined pro athlete). I found I'm better able to replicate fighters that are roughly the same dimensions, at the same time, a style I find effective or aesthetically pleasing or whatever... Most people would tell you not to study Ali for technique, anyway... He got away with alot based on physical gifts, and didn't have good fundamentals...
Gatto theres a few ways, you are moving usualy of centre line with a little sit on the back knee. So the Fist is above knee by lifting the front heel and turning it slightly out, both knees same bend. As Dave says Charles was brilliant at it, as with most things until M/S took its toll, shame.
A way I think of it and explain while training others is to think of weight distribution and shifting as a door slamming. A door slamming shut is on a hinge; a fulcrum at the end. When you throw the left hook, your left knee shifts from about the 1 or 2 o'clock position to 3 o'clock... Same thing with the right- your regular stance has your right knee at about 1 or 2 o'clock, but then you throw it, your knee will shift to about the 12 or 11 o'clock position... You can drop a level with your head and throw it straight, corking your fist from thumb up all the way to thumb down, or any range in between, depending on how long the stroke ends up being and/or where the target is... Or you can lean out to the your left as you throw it in anticipation of a right coming back and countering simultaneously with your own... Your head will be way off the center line in this case. Like I said, it's a matter of experience, being comfortable, and punching being natural enough to improvise.
So I'm the one just wanting to raise my post numbers? You're starting a whole thread about a pretty ordinary punch that pretty much anyone who has ever boxed will have thrown at some point. More than anything, the punch that caught Liston looked reactive, not planned. Try all you want to attach some mystic bull**** that'll make you the next world champ.. but in reality you should be in the gym learning to punch normally.