Don't really know how to ask this

[Yuzo]

everything you can do in the gym you can do in your garage, but one thing, and that is having a body in front of you. in all of your training, as much as you can, you will want to have another human body in front of you. you will want to feel punches coming at you. you will want to feel the way a punch enters into your slip space, the space next to your ear and over your shoulder, and comes back out. when emanuel steward worked the pads he said he liked to catch your jab and then return a jab. that teaches you not just how to throw a punch, but how to think about the way all punches interact as a whole. many new fighters, concerned with only how to throw punches, will beat themselves up about not being able to land their first punch, not realizing that the first punch is what sets up the second or third punch. what is not being understood is that all punches are important, not just the ones you throw, and especially not just the ones you land. sandy koufax said that he became a good pitcher when he stopped trying to make hitters miss the ball and started trying to make hitters hit the ball. the same principle is true in boxing. when you think about boxing, try not to think about what you are doing, but how what you are doing, and how what the other guy is doing, all come together to form something larger than both of you. if you can see that, then you can start to manipulate the entire process as it is as a whole, and use it to produce the effect you want.