Quote Originally Posted by Yuzo View Post
how you jab when you go to your left is you press down on your front foot and swing over the heel of your back foot and you can throw that jab forever and ever. how you jab when you go to your right is you have to stop whenever you want to throw a jab (or your feet will never really be under you) and he gets smart to it. you can't really jab and go to your right synchronously.

and by what you have described you seem to me to be going to your right not to box but to escape. you don't want him to throw his right hand. is that your philosophy? for this i may have some tips.

try to stay out on the perimeter of where his right hand can hit you. you will need to do some boxing to guess where that is.



that should look like this. stay along the perimeter that you shaped out and step back from it when you need to. a step back will create a lot of pull. essentially, whenever you step back what you are really trying to do is pull him to you.

now when you step back you can walk out to your right.



or square up your heels at the top of your step back and skip out to your right.



and you can skip around the ring a lot faster than you can walk around the ring in your stance.



these are escape moves that create more room for you than what is in your picture. and you want to have that spacing because there is still a chance that you can get hit by a right hand when you go to your right since the hip rotation to throw a right hand naturally points that punch in the same direction that you are going.



you shouldn't think that you are safe from a right hand just because you are going to your right.



you still need to have good spacing. but these are all just escape moves. you can make his right hand miss, but what you really want to do is meet his right hand. that is when you are really boxing.
Wow! I appreciate the thorough response! These are very instructive, Thank you! I will certainly be practicing these sequences, very clarifying.
In regards to your question, I was not thinking so much in terms of the escape being the goal, but more so trying to move from a position that is 50/50 to one with a more decisive angle. But yes that is true, in an attempt to secure an angle I have been first escaping with the L-step to my right, than trying to reengage at a new relative position, such that I am no longer centered between their two feet.
Aside from L-stepping out and to my right, what I will also do when I find myself in position 1 is to circle left as shown in the picture below (moving from position 1 to position 3).
https://i.postimg.cc/KYyNfxLq/boxing-1-to-3.png

However I prefer circling to the right, so I am looking to find someway to go back on offense but circling to my right, rather than seeming to have to accept circling left due to our initial position. I am just wondering how I can quickly get back on offense and circling to the right when I am starting from position 1. Another position which also try to gain , but also have trouble acquiring is shown below. In position 4, I am also circling right , but have more of an inside position.
https://i.postimg.cc/13MGGwmt/boxing-1-to-4.png
For additional context, when my opponent is standing bladed, as on a skateboard, I find it much easier to retake an angle moving right. However when my opponent is more square, I can hardly ever seem to get back on the angle moving right, I tend end up in their line of fire if I insist on trying to get back on the angle to the right.
Essentially, I am rarely able to get my opponent and I circling right. We end up circling left the majority of the time, and I am trying to explore other options for movement.

Your point demonstrated in the clip with Daniel Dubois and Antony Joshua is definitely well taken! wow, great demonstration.