Jabbing Mistakes.

[Yuzo]

Isn't that the basics of Philly shell fighting with the weight over the lead foot then pushing backwards and rolling the left shoulder towards the rear foot. Roy Jones was a master of this technique with his weight over his right leg allowed him to throw a solid right hand and transferring his weight over his left foot gave leverage for a big left hook. Also hitting with movement is done off the front foot what Moore called the locks. moore circled left simultaneously as he threw the LH and circled right as he threw the right uppercut. Moore later taught George Foreman to hit with movement later George said never to stand in front of the puncher. George threw thunderous body shots off the left foot. The sequence went two body's hots off the front foot followed by the weight going over the right foot to throw a right handed body shot then casting the weight over the left foot. This couldn't have been accomplished off the back foot. Ali threw his famous right handed jab off the left foot. Like Moore, Ali said that everything originates from the front foot. Dempsey was adamant that footwork start with the weight over the front foot and Dempsey like Ali had great mobility see his book. Mike MacCullum another fast footed fighter stole with his weight over the front foot. He later taught coach Louie Raposo that inorder to move in all 4 positions one's body weight must over the front foot.

i think what you need to think about when you try to take a right hand on your shoulder is getting hit high on your head because you can twist your hips and bring your shoulder out in front of your jaw but you can't twist your hips and cover your head anywhere above that. thats why you don't just twist your hips you lean back and away which is going to naturally send your body weight over your back foot. that is to say that you twist your hips to bring your shoulder out in front of your jaw and you lean back and away to take away right hands high on your head. you combine these two. archie moore fought from a stance where he would be leaning in, and when he would take a right hand on his shoulder, the right hand would miss bad because by leaning in he could shorten where a punch was going to go, and he would just lean back and away from it. i think thats pretty smart.

a lot of fighters throw left hooks from the front foot. i think thats a good way to do it because you can push off of your front foot. but i think you should try to send that body weight from front foot to back foot, or from left foot to right foot. you get good follow through that way. a lot of fighters throw a left hook from the front/left foot, but not a lot of fighters end a left hook on the back/right foot, and because they don't, they don't get good follow through.

i don't think everything should be done from the front foot. but i can understand why some fighters try to do some things from it.