Body Sparring Tips

[remac]

Glad it went better. Mix up your tempo a little; pop, pop, pop, bang, pop, bang. It makes it harder to time you. Keep your elbows tight when you fight inside, don't wing (that right hook injury usually happens when you flare your elbow with the right). As you mentioned, use your feet to improve your position and angle, fractionally, constantly but keep them under you, don't get too wide with your feet or you will have to shift your weight before you move. When you feint, try feinting and coming back with the same hand. When you counter, try countering from the same side of the body that you catch on.

Interesting point about elbow flare. Having read up on it I’m pretty sure I do that with my straight right and I didn’t used to when I trained 7-8 years ago. I need to stamp that out but I’m not quite sure if I’m doing it with hooks yet. I’ll have to check in the mirror. I’ve had different advice about positioning the elbow when throwing hooks and I’m not sure what I’m doing instinctively. It would be great if boxing gyms made more use of video cameras so you can check back on your own mistakes. Suppose I could shadow box and film it on my mobile.

My shoulder’s healing quicker than expected. Next week I’ll try the off-beat tempo more, the feigning, and the catching and countering with the same hand.

Thanks Gocougars

EDIT: I'll have a go at eric's point about hitting the arms too. I've not tried that yet.