Is the jab to the body the biggest nuisance punch?

**greynotsoold** · 10-31-2014 07:22 PM

page 24 if t doesn't take you there.
https://archive.org/details/Boxing

**Jimanuel Boogustus** · 10-31-2014 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by greynotsoold

page 24 if t doesn't take you there.
https://archive.org/details/Boxing

I printed a copy of this following your prior advice a good few weeks back (thank you!).

I really do like the book (particularity, with the order in which the information is given, layer by layer. Very very good book), however I struggle with the idea that blocking with a downward parry (brush-away) is fundamentally sound - plus it just plays in to the opponents hand; He can work off that reaction yet you have gained nothing.

The reason why I'm at logger heads with the punch is because (*back-story alert*) I'm currently looking/ learning about the cause and effect of each defensive manoeuvre in a way that leads me to understand more about being defensively responsible and also trying to get my head around deliberate positioning along with manoeuvring, to set up punches (I'll bring myself along to combination punching further down the road) and for example the one punch I just wouldn't want to draw from my opponent, is the jab to the body - because there is nothing to gain form it.

Keeps me at bay, allows him to reset. Nuisance.

**greynotsoold** · 10-31-2014 08:27 PM

I agree with you about the parry; it can get you into trouble. If you watch the DLH v Ruelas fight, the first knockdown comes after Ruelas reacts to a DLH feinted jab to the body with a sweep of his right hand. Personally I would just ease back, get barely out of range of his jab.
And a jab to the body is a great indicator of distance. If you are a taller fighter, getting low and jabbing to the body will keep a pressing fighter away from you. As you said earlier, you can't slip a jab to the body.