Gents, I am new on here so here is my introduction. Still new to sparring and to be honest, I am struggling! I must be a registered member for at least 60 days in order to post links so just GOOGLE SEARCH this: This content is protected A bit of info: The lad I am sparring with has boxed for 11 years in the past so much more experienced. He is also roughly 18kg heavier. I just need some advice/tips from a few of the veterans on here on how I can get a bladddddyyyy punch off and feel solid with it. I always feel out of range and struggle to even get a decent jab in. It's starting to get on my t*ts now! :twisted: I also have quite a bit of footage that I might share at some point too if peeps are interested. A few rounds which are slightly more intense.. I haven't done any training at all in the last 4 months (was abroad) so my fitness was shot after the first round, hence why I slowed down massively. And yes, I know I know.... My legs are TINY. I welcome any jokes!!! :good :smooch LG Tickler
Ok, to save you from being ridiculed: If your winded after 1 round of a sparring session that the other guy is not even really trying to hit you... you shouldn't be making videos and be posting here. You should be getting in shape. Any technique advice you get its not gonna matter its all gonna disappear after fatigue.. capish? And technically.. it looks like you have some basic schooling which is good. But your still not all the way comfortable moving around the ring properly. You should be balanced at all times. Not 50 percent of the time. While punching. While on defense and while moving. One thing I will go over with you. When you jab whats supposed to happen? Your right hand stays up at your chin and your left hand comes back to your nice tight guard elbows tucked.............right? Right. Thats what supposed to happen. Whats happening with you? It looks like the wicked witch of the west from Wizard of Oz taught you how to jab... because your boxing stance and technique melts into a puddle on the ground. You drop your right guard hand, you stick your chin out, you stand straight up, and you bring your left hand back somwhere between your chest and your hip. To sum it up you pretty much break every single rule of boxing 101. Get in boxing shape, do a lot of shadowboxing keeping your guard tight elbows up chin tucked at all times, get comfortable moving around in your boxing stance and keeping balance at all times, then come back. Good luck
You have some nice fundamentals. I'd say your biggest problem is that you telegraph. Not from poor punching form but overly deliberate movements. You should pop out the punches more, and feint before you do so. When you step in with the jab slowly it's not hard to anticipate. Same thing when you go to the body; there's no feint or jab before it, so when you bend down and lunge forward it isn't hard to predict. Head-body and body-head attacks would work wonders for you, as would a De La Hoya like pumping jab that sets other things up. You seem to stop after the first one misses. Hope that helps.
You guard your head for a few seconds and then immediately drop your hands. Keep them up. Your head is seriously exposed. Also, when you're moving around the ring, don't go from corner to corner. Avoid corners, you don't want to settle into a corner where you're easy prey.
no problem. You have a good jab I would mix it up more confuse him jab to the mid section. You would suit being a outside fighter due to your longer reach, dont let the guy come inside jab him out I would keep your hands up you drop them on occasions.
When you go into that peekabo stance, your head movement isn't fast enough. It seems that if the other lad wanted to, he could've landed some mean uppercuts. Other than that just work on fundamentals, jab, move, footwork and narrow your stance a bit its too wide.
Really appreciate the feedback all. I can see in the videos my jab is too telegraphed. I know he knows it is coming.. Need to relax more too
you need to relax more and also you need to more shadow boxing. This will help see and it will put you in a habit of keeping your hands up. I would also recommend you do some more conditioning work.
Way too flat footed. You keep backing yourself into a corner each time, that's dangerous. When you punch, it looks to me like your leaning back also cause your probably cautious about being hit. If he's guarding his head, aim for the gut. Don't just punch at his gloves.
If you copy and paste this into the google search bar, it pop up at the top of the page: /watch?v=Ea3dIOh3YMU Thanks again for all the feedback. Edit: Skip the first round as it's just a warm up round!!! :nut
alright so ill start with the good, you know how to throw a punch and you dont seem to be trigger shy so great job on that now for the needs improvment, your left hands dropping every time you jab which is a common problem in begining boxers another thing is your attacks are straight on you need to come in at angles also when your bobbing and weaving your hands are way to low leaving your head wide open. Keep at it!
