Need help for next fight

[Chris Nagel]

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Postition can beat speed .Exact ringcraft .IF you know where to be,how to get there safley and the reason you need to be at a certain position in relation to where he want you to be; then the faster isnt going to able to touch you with as much power anyway and you will have him off sided and turning to find where your at constantly, which will slow him up even if he is naturaly faster. Position/distance/engagment or disengament or control over one or the other of the two sides to a fighter.
Putting questions into a fighters head that are not there when he is having the fight his own way, by control over his balance points and gaining the advantage position will slow anyones game .Pain will slow him too if you make him pay for the time the question popped in. Key is to exploit his position and his style with your natural abilites.
You just have to know them before you can put them into practice.

Economy of movment beats a fast fighter.
Look into the footwork section.
Dont expect too muach of yourself too fast either.
control with the jab is true but he may magically come around it if he is that good.
Learn from him.

You could try being more aware of your positon in the ring and using it to an adavantage . Give yourself space to move out on the sides and away on angles so he has to change to suit you.

To change your front foot back around to the rear foot postiion can get you out of trouble too ,(it takes you out of distance fast)and practiced properly can have you out and on an angle which forces him into re-adjustment mode) you have to have both arms out in front and replace the front one with the rear one as you switch.You can do the move clean off a jab as a warning to him too!

You will find ,if you do that on the correct side as he moves at you,you end up out of range and then witha slight adjustment in your feet ,your out to the side of him in the reverse stance to what you started in.
You have created the time to attack ,switch back and retreat or switch back during attack.

Im playing here, just food for thought. Correct Movement can beat speed.

thnx
i will put this in my sparring session monday, i know it'll take some practice
so i'll practice southp on the bag tonight

Be careful doing anything I suggest straight off the bat!
Im just trying to open up your mind to the available variables here.

instead of standing your ground all the time until the best man wins ,think and move but end up in front Cause you know why and you know where your moving to.

Practice the actual moves first. Dont jump in the ring and tey something new too fast.

I would instruct a mate and have him come at me the same way(or family member) and practice doing it with them ; making sure you stay out of their range ,making sure you have control over that front hand of theirs as they come (or at least have it covered fully)and making sure you move back in (in saftey) while controlling that side of them.
Also see what different positiions you end up in (see if you can readjust when they shift to suit your new positon .
Also stop the action occasionally and see if you can arrive at your desination safley, covered from the opponents first actions and their re actions to it going down. (you dont have to stay in south either, you can readjust as he does to you throwing the rear hand and stepping through into your natural stance.

If you have room to move back you can do the retreat move twice and it takes you through south back into natural and you watch their reaction to it and catch them comming.

Practice all the variables . Know what can happen ,cover yourself fully to the unexpected.

IF you touch the ropes as your heading back for example; bend knees with one leg forward sit down then go under and out to the side; revolve under his lead arm and out the safe side etc.

You can always make a boxer come to you. thats easy .
Whats hard is to make them readjuust all the time.

Angles,
You cant do that by just going back straight or your gone.
You have to think angles;slip to the safest side ,make him turn into me,catch him as he comes.

Sometimes its as simple as going square by widening your stance! stepping out wide on an angle with the front leg which takes your head out or range and under their lead arm and it allows you to counter straight off the rear arm right at the same time ,its all one move. (but God help you if you stay there and expect miracles twice off theone move!
So what Im saying is practice them all first (please),and in doing so realize the limits and then move, again and again and keep them off their plan.