Training your eyes

[Andre]

Ping pong.

[Gocougars3]

We use a thing that fires balls at our gym, you stand ten feet away and slip or parry the balls which shoot at random heights and intervals. I have never seen anyone else use it but it works pretty well. It's not that hard to dodge the balls but it is hard if you try to stay in a balanced position from which you can counter (which is the same as boxing). The balls are like hard ping pong balls.

I think a big part of defense is anticipation based on where your opponent moves his weight and how he coils or steps. Most experienced boxers can figure out what is coming from where his opponent starts. It takes a better boxer to know what is coming next, in combinations, and so on. It's like anything else, you need experience to see the patterns as they become more complex. It takes a very rare boxer to produce a punch that has anything on it without preparation. Pacquiao used to do it (I am not sure he still can) and Donaire can do it. Even so, all boxers get hit so I would focus more on pattern searching based on positions than visual acuity unless you are very advanced.

[BTF]

We use a thing that fires balls at our gym, you stand ten feet away and slip or parry the balls which shoot at random heights and intervals. I have never seen anyone else use it but it works pretty well. It's not that hard to dodge the balls but it is hard if you try to stay in a balanced position from which you can counter (which is the same as boxing). The balls are like hard ping pong balls.

I actually really like that, it sounds incredibly beneficial, but also something that you could really enjoy, and want to keep coming back to.

[Gocougars3]

We use a thing that fires balls at our gym, you stand ten feet away and slip or parry the balls which shoot at random heights and intervals. I have never seen anyone else use it but it works pretty well. It's not that hard to dodge the balls but it is hard if you try to stay in a balanced position from which you can counter (which is the same as boxing). The balls are like hard ping pong balls.

I actually really like that, it sounds incredibly beneficial, but also something that you could really enjoy, and want to keep coming back to.

You are right, the guys do come back to it. It's a little similar to this.

http://www.coolthings.com/wp-content.../09/ipong1.jpg