What drill would you give a fighter who won't let his hands go

Whats His muscle Flexability like, has He had a long time injury in the past. Is his temperament good, his pscyhcodinamics might need tweeking lots of reasons out there. Conciousness is a big player .

 

Does he understand the importance of doing this? Watching tape of high-level amateurs, and even low-level open class fighters has helped me tremendously with that problem. Watching JMM is cool too.

My theory is that if he's reasonably smart, and you can make him understand the importance of letting his hands go, he'll start to make himself do it. Might want to explain to him that he's bound to take some counterpunches while he's getting good at it and it's only natural.

 

He probably has the same issue that I do, I don't want to get countered. I think you if you make him more comfortable and confident with his defense, then he'll feel better about throwing more punches because he won't have to worry about getting smacked back

 

yeah same here. I look good when I throw combos but dont a lot of the time because I hate getting caught with stupid punches while I'm throwing

 

3 shot drill both stand in punching range and take turns to throw three shots- this encourages good defence as well as helping a fighter gain range judgement I find

 

I'd say it's more a mental thing, lack of confidence in his body and/or conditioning

 

Id get a real big guy that wants to work defense to spar him and have the big guy only work defense no throwing back.

the big guy gets the advantage of blocking against some one faster then some one his own weight while the little guy can open up and get used to letting his hands go with out worrying about getting hit back.