Bouncy ball for boxing?

[AdamGB]

It all depends on where the movement begins from.

When you're firing a jab to a target you're moving first from the balls of your feet and hips.

When you're grabbing a bouncing ball... even one that's you're reaching out wards for in a frontal manner - chances are you'll just reach from the arm. Neurologically I don't know how much cross over there is.

Whatever visual stimuli you're getting, the CNS is getting trained to talk straight to your arms... which as I've said is not the beginnings of a punch.

[Gray Lion]

You got to remember in the Rocky movies, they took a lot of liberty in 'training techniques' and 'character development' to develop a movie....a fantasy movie.
That movie still comes back to bit us trainers in the ass when you get some pumped up fighter who drops his guard and sticks his face out to let someone hit him just to show how tough he is, and that he other guy cant hurt him. One of our guys got knocked out by a younger kid showing off like that.
They showed 'chasing the chicken', 'bouncing the ball ..( which does more to develop the wrist then anything else.),' tying the string to his ankles...all old techniques boxers had used, and some still use today. Some of them work..some don't. Boxing has developed through the years, and so have training techniques. Be careful what you see in a boxing movie and think it is worth using. If I saw one of my fighters bouncing a ball around, I can think of better use of his training time then that.

[Scrap]

You will notice that His Feet, Never stop moving. Its His Feet where the coordination is coming from.

[boxer777]

I trained with an international boxer a while back who had been to many international clinics and he was showing me some good drills with a tennis ball - a little like the ones in Scraps vids(which also look like great drills) he would bounce the ball at arms length and move around using boxing footwork . He would circle a lot whilst bouncing the ball it was great for hand foot coordination - he would also bounce the ball hard so it bounced up to just above head height - then use the time the ball was rising to adjust his feet so he was the correct distance then he would snatch the ball out of the air mimicking a punching motion. there were a few more drills with the tennis ball let me know if you want me to describe them. I find it great, especially if you are training alone, because its a real its more unpredictable than just working footwork drills as the ball often bounces away from you and you have to react and chase it.