Line of Fire

[greynotsoold]

Yeah bit like Pep, many cant see what he had got going on there cause it looks like danger and a square on mess at times. But when you see them fight off one side of themselves and allow the opposition to pass through their own center line or around them and they don't change their feet they just follow them or turn the top of their body and follow still throwing shots over the guys tailing side and then they adjust feet to where the dude lands. Sometimes their own rear arm becomes the lead they've switched without even moving their feet and they mean it cause they are in the center of the cyclone and know to turn and deal with one side when the other is spent. You can see these guys knew all the limits and exactly when to hold em and when to fold em.They knew instinctively when the power was not available in one arm for a second if a guy was moving a certain way to them.They knew the timing and moves around a spent shot. Rare you'd see them walk into anything clean or over committing themselves in a hot spot.

What this guy showed me was this...(two orthodox fighters) You can slide your left foot into his left foot, lock the insteps, more or less. You pivot off to your right with a right hand, hook and keep punching. he has to spin to his left to get out, or pick up his foot and turn.
That lead foot, how and where you place it in relation to his lead foot, you can do a lot with it. Of course, to get to that point you have to be so insanely comfortable with people punching at you that it will probably never be seen again. I'm sure that guys like ezzard charles, holman williams, those guys that had so many fights, could do it all day.

[Andre]

Yeah they would probably get in there occasionally with sheer intuition at that stage.
Like if you can pull a guys lead foot just a touch towards you as he is landing , his elbows will go out for balance on reaction, you'd have to be very comfortable to pass under the hilt to mess with them like that though and probably in something other than boxing rules too.

[greynotsoold]

Yeah they would probably get in there occasionally with sheer intuition at that stage.
Like if you can pull a guys lead foot just a touch towards you as he is landing , his elbows will go out for balance on reaction, you'd have to be very comfortable to pass under the hilt to mess with them like that though and probably in something other than boxing rules too.

If i could show you what he showed me, you'd see it in a second. He steps in, you slide your front foot tight to his and pivot around it. It traps him. he can only turn one way, and you turn him into a hook. You can play a lot of games with their feet by getting 'tangled' with them.

[Andre]

Yeah think i got it. Your foot stays and your knee goes round the outer of his leg and your instep stays on his instep,locks him in and you got only his lead arm to deal with which you are then hooking under anyway.

If thats it ,when you feel his weight come off it you can shorten your stance and drag his leg out towards you then he really has some balance problems to add to it.

[greynotsoold]

that's about it. You hook his instep and pivot, then come back over the top with a right hand. He'll either pull back or duck under. That tells you where to throw the left hand. You can slide back to draw him in, then block his left foot with your own (from the outside) and it works the same way.

[SugarBoxing]

OK, I got one idea

So when throwing the straight punches, especially the straight right hand, you MUST direct yourbody weight forward in the direction of the target. The right hand punch is thrown by quickly dropping weight from the rear to the front foot. This is why my rough model, where I monitor the line that passes from the rear foot to the front foot toe is a good estimate for the line of fire of straight punches!

[SugarBoxing]

Ok, ..itches!

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