jabbing to the body can make your opponent quickly lower his guard to his stomach which allows you to follow up with a right hook
get the Fth **** Out with your owned ****...:rofl Its kickboxing coach and theres merit to it this is an intelligent discussion:deal
I feel it's a dangerous punch best left to the extremely quick handed and even then only on rare occassions. Done consistently it can get you countered with a right and since you're coming in the counter can be dire. Sugar Ray Robinson used a slight variation where he would bend deeply at the waist and shoot a jab at the gut and roll back up in one fluid motion.
FLOYD's exceptional at it--a quick jab to the navel area has stopped a number of his lanky opponents in their tracks momentarily--turning offence into uncertain defence also winding you in varying degrees...
JAbbing to the body saps someones strength. It keeps them at range. You can feint to the head and come downstairs. Some guys carry their hands high. Floyd kd a guy with it. Your trainer is wrong.
Great discussion! Man everyone mentiones Floyd I see a valid argument though because,..Basically if youre pretty ordinary..Dont even try...
jabbing to the body is all about timing. Its sets up power shots to the head, or gets you close enough inside to throw harder shots to the body. Im not nearly as talented as Mayweather and I havent had my first official amatuer boxing match but I have success with this in my arsenal(Been training for a year and a half with plenty of sparring). I have good handspeed but its only half the battle...what it does is drop the hands which is key and feinting would help before throwing the jab to the body as well. Also dont confuse those MMA strikers to real boxers. Most the guys who are strikers were glass jawwed never-was boxers or martial artists who couldnt make it in a singular fight system
Roy Jones was also p4p #1 and there is a lot of things he did that no one should ever do, unless they are Roy Jones. Naseem Hamed was a great fighter and he did a lot of things that no one should ever do, unless they are Naseem Hamed against someone who is not Marco Antonio Barerra. Still though, a jab to the body is a legitimate punch.
Yeah, you don't want your chin up because your head is there for the taking. A good fight, like Floyd, slips to the side to avoid all incoming shots. At the same time he has his opponent at arms length. Boxers tend to do that. Brawlers like Cotto tend to throw a power jab to the body. They don't really get low and step behind it, they just punch down. I believe he was countered badly by Corley for doing this.