Re: seeing the hooks coming
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Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Third, and this is the best advice I can give and I don't know if I can explain it properly.
See, a human can only throw one punch at a time. Can't throw the left while the right is still out, and the opposite is true as well. You anticipate...if he throws a right you expect a hook behind it. The glove should be up, and you turn in putting the weight on your left leg. This turns you inside his hook and puts you in place to counter with your own.
If this makes sense to anybody, please explain it. I'm going to have to try again to get at what I'm trying to convey.
I think I get what you are saying CC greynosoold. I think you mean that you actually turn your right shoulder in to brace your right hand against it with elbow tucked in as a response to their last punch coming from the opposite direction. Sort of turn into where the last punch came from and use that motion to load up your own punch. I think it's good advice - i think I'll need to be fairly fluent at it to avoid getting grounded and to take advantage of the way it would put my momentum into my next punch. A good strategy for times when i need to hold my ground or push foreward which is helpful for me since I tend to fight off of the back foot predominantly.
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Originally Posted by Lords Gym
Your with the head gear on.. Its a nightmare everything that comes wide , the vision gets obstructed.
Watch the shoulders and body movement of opponent. His or her posture will tell you the whole story once you learn the language .
CC lords - I still haven't learnt to be very observant in the ring of indicators of things to come. I know I rely too much on reacting to things and don't predict enough so I can see your point here!
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Originally Posted by Andre
My stuff isnt really for messing around and trying out at a clean distance unless your really fast or you know their timing down pat.
You need to practice it in a controlled situation first or not be worried at all by the other guys power ,maybe in the last rounds or nose to nose caught with your back on the ropes and getting hooked and controlled by him; so you really havent anything to lose by turning into the next hook that you know is comming and walking out through it.
Facing the point of contact :
Imagine if you put up your left glove to the top of your head, arm out about a hand span in front of your face so you expected your forearm could block a hook !
(the hook would come around your arm and you get hit hard wouldnt you.
So if you put it up as you turned your shoulders or your feet (which takes your shoulders around) towards the direction that the hook was comming from ,it changes the rules totally ,it cant come around any more (becuase you faced the point of contact)
Then you have stopped it dead in its tracks.
It works great to throw a straight punch off your right hand as you turn to your left to stop his right hook in those situations, as it covers your tracks with an attack.
ITs a dual handed operation that you use when you know that right hook is comming and your trapped anyway.
That is what I said you can do if caught on the ropes etc you can turn to face it ,stop it dead and actaully "walk out " that same side which opens up the opposition as you push his arm that is now spent out wards and you could either keep on walking to freedom OR even launch your own hook off the inside of his spent arm as go out ,so you then pivotback in and catch him as he reacts to you leaving !
This is a great end shot cause his automatic reaction brings his head into your next shot as you unexpectantly turn back in to him leading with your left hook and throw that massive hook shot off the inside of his arm as you turn.(you've already made the space for your right leg to be able to go around the back of you which not only re-aligns your feet for the power but it gets your right side further out of his contact range via his free left arm.
The other thing mentioned was ,if you've stopped an inside up close hook by putting the guard up or by covering with your glove close to your head ,as you move with the blow you can drop that guard as soon as his hooks power has disipated and you come with your reply off the same side witha left hook of your own around the back of his spent arm as your still moving with the inital impact.
So you have ,put up your left and right each side of your head in full protection,you feel the right hook and you go with the flow and lean with it, this time you let the momentum go through as you drop your left glove and come around or even over the top to hook him as you right leg pulls back wards for all the power.
His momentum of realizing the miss will usually have him comming up bodily in correction as you land so it all adds to the finish like a head on impact again.
Those sort of things can finish a fight,.becuase you know from proir rounds or from what he just did when he had you there,so its actually a set up to finish him with power from shifting correctly next time he does it or at least make him rethink that he isnt all he thinks he is in that situation which gives you back your fight while he picks up the pieces.
Heaps here to work on and think about CC Andre - I'll have to read through it a few more times to make sure I understand you and pester you again if I don't :)
