head movement

[Nekota G]

is it good to have fast head movement like side to side movement to doge punches.

[Scrap]

You cant move your head, Its the body you move and feet.

[Andre]

is it good to have fast head movement like side to side movement to doge punches.

Yeah it is good ,a moving target is harder to hit.
Although it is leg,knee bends and ankle lifts and lowers or hip bends that move the head most.
Watch in shock just how many boxers even professionals that continue to throw straight shots at someone who is doing this ... U pattern with their head !
You should move to the side and follow the path of target with your fist,then you'll catch it on the way back!

[fungabhai]

get a rope tie it somewhere horizontally make sure it comes up to your shoulders and bob and weave while walking through it

[AdamGB]

You cant move your head, Its the body you move and feet.

listen to scrap...

Its mostly the shoulders and knees which you move, thats how you generate power in counters with out having to telegraph it.

[MichaelJA]

Another thing that wasnt mechioned that I want to add is getting timed. You have to have head movement and constantly be moving or your opponenet is going to time you and clock you. A smart boxer sees this things, like when you drop that certain hand when you do this or just a pattern you do, and he will time you, use his mind to set you up the way he wants you to be, and just knock you out. So you always want to be moving you head so he cant time you.

[ThomasTabin]

A constantly moving head not only can be timed, but it also wastes your energy and clutters your mind making it harder for you to think because of those frantic movements your being busy with. This is bad because over time it slows your reaction time and ability to think on your feet; all that frantic motion. How soon then before you start eating punches you shouldn't even be eating in the first place>?

[AdamGB]

You don't have to be frantic for constant head movement. But your right, its a waste of energy doing in when your not even in range or fighting off the back foot. Its pretty easy to change your timing as you move your head though. Its a good way to trick a guy if he thinks he has you timed then you change it.

[Lionheart Lacy]

when you bob and weave, you dont bend from the knees, you bend from the waist.
My trainer is teaching me the bobbing and weaving style.

when your in the straight punching range, its best to use the side to side head movement. but when he gets closer, then u start bobbing in a "U" kind of movement.

If your also a bob n weave kind of fighter then you should always try staying in close to your opponent, parry his shots and quickly close the gap and work the body/head....etc

[Andre]

ITs never cut and dry nothing ever is.
Body lean ,neck bend,a leg drop ,a step ,or even an outside ankle shifting through a turn effects your head ,which direction it faces and what part of it is open or closed off to attack.

There are a number of situations that allow all different ways that you can note head movment being in effect.
Dont be fixed in your attitude stay open.
ITs not just waggling your head around so someone cant hit it.
IT is combining your footwork into evasion with head movment doing loops around and under there guard or there attack and being in the spot backed by your footwork to be able to utilize your gain like a coiled spring.
Even your ankles going up and down from your toe grip while being square shouldered and ducking under and comming up with counter shots effects head movment (here you have to time your head moving to where his intention isnt and exploiting the opening he leaves at the start of his movment).You go to where he began.
Knowing what does effect even slight head movment ,why it does,how it does, and the limits , dangers or the added power or visual oppertunity gained allows you to conform it to your style in that fight or not.
Every step you take places your head somewhere.
Its true that the most head movment your going to see is when someone bends at the waist and waverers low and around ,to go out of range, but if you can stay mobile and bring your knees into play and start doing it while you are moving moving back or forwards you have alot more options than standing and bending and alot more power opperutunites in weight transferance so as to be able to blast up the openings you create; while they are head hunting you.

[Binks]

didn't tyson bend from the knees?

[Scrap]

Heres something to think about, in any sport the body moves, to give the eyes balance in vision and neurophsyical adaptabilaty If the eyes arnt in the plain they should be youve got problems. tell me that again Stanley

[Ali_UK]

Scrap, guess whos feeling better, and those little weights on the shoulders, i feel i got my shoulders back. wooohooo!!!

Left hip is a bit dodge from running on grass everyday, so i cycle now, doing the stretches you showed me.

I feel like i can realese a combo again .... muhahaha

listen to scrap, he speakth the truth!!

ps, its Usmann, if u didnt recognize the username.

[Lords Gym]

[quote=Mr.Talent ]
didn't tyson bend from the knees?

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You are correct sir, he would bend at the knees and fire off using great leverage.

[AdamGB]

didn't tyson bend from the knees?

yeah, you're ment to. If one guy's coach says to bend from the waste, let him listen to his coach... I was taught to move the knees and shoulders, keeps you braced, balanced and weighted and loaded for counters...

you get much more fluent movement than twisting your spine, much slower and more limited, but that's just my experience...