Thread: is this good?

Is this good technique on the right cross? Sometimes I feel like im leaning and reaching in too much, but other times i feel like I am too tall when i throw it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PLRRXxxH6A

Not bad, except He is reaching and His Head isnt where it should be, in relation to His Feet after executing the movement.

certainly better than a lot of the shit you see on youtube, but as scrap said he's leaning. that takes you out of a position for your next punch. he's also got no body in his 1-2 on the mitts.

Maybe I'm an optimistic viewer. First thing I notice in videos are things they are generally doing right and I am usually doing wrong. In this instance, he is focusing on getting back to guard...and that is something that I need to work on.

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Maybe I'm an optimistic viewer. First thing I notice in videos are things they are generally doing right and I am usually doing wrong. In this instance, he is focusing on getting back to guard...and that is something that I need to work on.

Do you have access to dyna bands?

Yea...oh it isn't anything too bad. Always have to work on something. I am usually a lot faster then anyone I step in the ring with...and it tends to make my hands lazy for guard. So every now and again I need to refocus. The reminder usually comes in the form of a left hook.

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Yea...oh it isn't anything too bad. Always have to work on something. I am usually a lot faster then anyone I step in the ring with...and it tends to make my hands lazy for guard. So every now and again I need to refocus. The reminder usually comes in the form of a left hook.

Do your shadow boxing with a dyna band,it'll just train you to snap your hands back in to guard,muscle memory counts for alot

Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Yea...oh it isn't anything too bad. Always have to work on something. I am usually a lot faster then anyone I step in the ring with...and it tends to make my hands lazy for guard. So every now and again I need to refocus. The reminder usually comes in the form of a left hook.

Do your shadow boxing with a dyna band,it'll just train you to snap your hands back in to guard,muscle memory counts for alot

Yea, but I haven't used it a lot. I will likely give it a go after Nov. 22, our club show, as for now I am working on other stuff...switching stances and such, and have 2 fights and a tour by then. Not really wanting to mess with my mechanics a lot, but I do know for sure it is something I have to work on.

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Maybe I'm an optimistic viewer. First thing I notice in videos are things they are generally doing right and I am usually doing wrong. In this instance, he is focusing on getting back to guard...and that is something that I need to work on.

EVERYBODY struggles with this at some point.. usually in the beginning. A nice little drill is to do 1-2s...hundreds of them...and every time you throw a punch, you concentrate on touching your eyebrow on the way back.

1-2-touch
1-2-touch

over and over and over.....

Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Yea...oh it isn't anything too bad. Always have to work on something. I am usually a lot faster then anyone I step in the ring with...and it tends to make my hands lazy for guard. So every now and again I need to refocus. The reminder usually comes in the form of a left hook.

Do your shadow boxing with a dyna band,it'll just train you to snap your hands back in to guard,muscle memory counts for alot

No. It counts for EVERYTHING.

Originally Posted by Von Milash

Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey

Originally Posted by Youngblood

Yea...oh it isn't anything too bad. Always have to work on something. I am usually a lot faster then anyone I step in the ring with...and it tends to make my hands lazy for guard. So every now and again I need to refocus. The reminder usually comes in the form of a left hook.

Do your shadow boxing with a dyna band,it'll just train you to snap your hands back in to guard,muscle memory counts for alot

No. It counts for EVERYTHING.

That might be the most contradictory agreement Ive ever received on this board

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...ast-hands.html

Would you use the first band exercise you have on the first vid in your fast hands thread (useful Ask the Trainer Section) to help correct the posture here Scrap?

Also the wobble board also perhaps?

Obviously these are not my babies - they're Scrap's babies - but I'd like to see if I'm right in understanding what I've learnt from him about what would be beneficial here.

I know I can lean forward a little without neccessarily realizing it and I guess these tools are an easier way to teach yourself to identify and feel whether or not you're doing it correctly?

Sharla I would, plus a upper back stretches.

Thanks Scrap

I'm thinking by upper back you mean something like the stick stretch you have posted with your other stretches in the Useful posts board or something similar using a rope or band.

Maybe the one with a circular band you showed me too.

I guess it makes sense that if your back is hunched a bit you're more likely to overbalance forwards.

I'd rep you for replying but I have to spread it!

It's good to know I'm beginning to understand how a few things work!