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I seen in the rocky movies how hes always bouncing that ball. Im guessing it helps your hand eye coordination and reflexes? i dont think you can do that with a regular reaction ball because they go crazy but would a regular bouncey ball like little kids use work too? i mean would it give me a benefit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rA5z92M28E Good routine
this is good but i was talking about a tennis ball sized ball, havent you ever watched rocky and all the time he is bouncing a ball? i think it helps with your hand eye coordination because i heard somewhere that a lot of the real old school guys used to do stuff like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Scrap
I think it's just Rocky mate...
You can get 'reaction balls' which are meant to help with proprioception and reactions etc... but Rocky... along with his fingerless gloves, jacket, bouncy ball etc is all just part of the character.
You could chase chickens? ;)
Don't forget to make all your work-out seems like a training montage! :P
And yeah I would be surprise if the bouncy ball thingy would actually helpful since he just always make it bounce.
The Guy doing the Bouncing is working on Touch and Feel. As you will notice the Balls are a different size.Ive noticed on my Travels that there is a connection, between certain Ball games and other Sports, that there is a Crossover. Plus Boxers seem to enjoy it. ;D
Some fellow boxers at my gym usually do that with a tennis ball...i never tried it but they say it helps with footwork and eye hand coordenation.
I find the small Balls,slow them down.
yeah, i knew some boxers out there do it. i read about it somewhere that old time boxers from the joe louis era would do it. i wouldnt actually go to the gym and bounce a tennis ball lol, i meant like when im out at the mall or shopping i could just bounce a bouncy ball to work on my hand eye coordination when im not even training, just something else to do out of the gym.
because i think just the constant keeping your eyes on a little target while having to grab it with your hands would help, idk if it directly translates to more fights won or anything but i dont see how that couldnt help you hit a target on someones face better
It all depends on where the movement begins from.
When you're firing a jab to a target you're moving first from the balls of your feet and hips.
When you're grabbing a bouncing ball... even one that's you're reaching out wards for in a frontal manner - chances are you'll just reach from the arm. Neurologically I don't know how much cross over there is.
Whatever visual stimuli you're getting, the CNS is getting trained to talk straight to your arms... which as I've said is not the beginnings of a punch.
You got to remember in the Rocky movies, they took a lot of liberty in 'training techniques' and 'character development' to develop a movie....a fantasy movie.
That movie still comes back to bit us trainers in the ass when you get some pumped up fighter who drops his guard and sticks his face out to let someone hit him just to show how tough he is, and that he other guy cant hurt him. One of our guys got knocked out by a younger kid showing off like that.
They showed 'chasing the chicken', 'bouncing the ball ..( which does more to develop the wrist then anything else.),' tying the string to his ankles...all old techniques boxers had used, and some still use today. Some of them work..some don't. Boxing has developed through the years, and so have training techniques. Be careful what you see in a boxing movie and think it is worth using. If I saw one of my fighters bouncing a ball around, I can think of better use of his training time then that.
You will notice that His Feet, Never stop moving. Its His Feet where the coordination is coming from.
I trained with an international boxer a while back who had been to many international clinics and he was showing me some good drills with a tennis ball - a little like the ones in Scraps vids(which also look like great drills) he would bounce the ball at arms length and move around using boxing footwork . He would circle a lot whilst bouncing the ball it was great for hand foot coordination - he would also bounce the ball hard so it bounced up to just above head height - then use the time the ball was rising to adjust his feet so he was the correct distance then he would snatch the ball out of the air mimicking a punching motion. there were a few more drills with the tennis ball let me know if you want me to describe them. I find it great, especially if you are training alone, because its a real its more unpredictable than just working footwork drills as the ball often bounces away from you and you have to react and chase it.