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That was a good read Chris, made my day. cc
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Excellent post. I had posted a question on another forum stating that I found shadow boxing boring and unhelpful and was I doing something wrong but did not get much response. Your post has given me plenty to think about and work on. Thank you.
Perhaps this should be made sticky?
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great stuff.
Imagery is the key to everything.
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Going through this post of mine I saw a lot of errors and a lot of nonsense that I just didn't like, so I decided to go back and revise it.
I may add more to it and and edit it later on. If anybody's interested I'll write more things that you can work on in shadow boxing, and I might make a topic on how to shadow box for beginners.
Right now I'm more interested in writing an article about the art of the speed bag that will shed more light to this often overlooked training aid. Also something about applications of the heavybag, the double end bag, and some of my own training ideas that I'd like to share with you all. If you have any questions in particular I'll try to answer them on the board, or you contact me by pm/email.
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Question, does anybody use a partner when shadow Boxing. I find it unbeleiveable that this technique is never mentioned, and its a lot of fun. I learned so much using it with great fighters never got hurt once, learned so much.
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I've practiced different techniques with a partner, but I haven't really taken it to the extent of that of shadow boxing. I'd think that controlled sparring would be better, otherwise I don't see how you can work on timing and proper distance. Scrap, do you have any ideas on how to go about shadow boxing with a partner?
You've mentioned this before. Here's what you said:
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Another little game you can have a lot of fun with,You with a partner. Put a rope across the Ring below ear hight, stand facing each other. Moving along the rope shadowboxing each other,try kidding each other to try and get the opposite side of the rope from your partner. Two evenly matched fighters can learn the mechanics of movement,distance,levels and laterel movement, take it in turnto try and bluff each other.Good fun ,gets you fit
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A little game we play could help. Get a line acrossthe ring thick elastic preferd, get a partner about the same size on the same side as yourself then take it in turns trying to get the other side of the line from where your partner is by feinting by using your feet with head movement to con the other guy into moving the wrong way its a lot of fun and works
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I went of mirrors some time back very restritive unless youre fighting a southpaw, even if you are still restrictive against opposite movement and is one dimentionable you are looking at the past as regards motion youve thought of it before doing. Better of with your eyes shut and feel what youre doing it will make the senses which give you speed and motion more responsive to your aims. Two people shadow boxing together even with half a brain will pick up more learning movement and shifts or cons by doing this than looking in a mirror and posing theres to many distractions going on in there head been there done it. The thing is when people play at something theres improvement, call it work it restricfs them, you can be serious even when playing.
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You make a good point Scrap. I never looked at it that way.
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Question, does anybody use a partner when shadow Boxing. I find it unbeleiveable that this technique is never mentioned, and its a lot of fun. I learned so much using it with great fighters never got hurt once, learned so much.
Scrap yes I was going to make a topic about it someday. Its incredibly useful. In particular learning how to get the feel of when punches get thrown at you and how to respond with fists coming at you. Its great because you get the feel of a real person's body: not a bag, not the mitts, not an imagined person but a real person. Practice all the counters nice and slow to get the feel of how the counter must be thrown. Get a feel for distance and each person's unique individual reach in relation to your own. Get a sense of knowing the visual cues of a person getting ready to punch and when he isnt. Its great.
going a little off topic its in keeping with what I think training for boxing should be all about: keeping your opponent in mind with everything bag, shadowboxing etc. You never do anything in boxing by yourself, its always in response to what an opponent is doing to you and what you are doing with an opponent. Your opponent is just as much a part of you as you are -- he should then always be with you in training in some way or another. It goes against everything anyone ever said about boxing but I think that boxing shouldn't be viewed as a thing where its me vs you. It makes it real nasty and mean spirited and it doesnt have to be. Your opponent shouldnt be seen as the enemy but as your other half. he works off of you and you work off of him.
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In that case it ought to be called 'shadow sparring.' :) Thinking about it now for the last couple of days I've come believe that you can work on just about anything, + nothing beats getting feedback from an opponent just like what you'd get out of sparring without all the hard knocks that comes with it.
I think it would be great to work on specific things, but I think that eventually when both of the trainees have gotten to the point where they know how to handle a great many different situations then 'shadow sparring' should almost become like 'free sparring.' I don't mean that it be uncontrolled, it would become more like a real fight in the sense that each fighter would try to better their opponent by adopting the right tactic at the right time. You can still spend additional time fine-tuning new techniques, but like Thomas said you'd be working off of your opponent and vice-versa.
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