Quote Originally Posted by Chris N.

On another note, how do you work these stratagems into shadowboxing. Say you're shadowboxing a guy like Pernell Whitaker, or Bernard Hopkins for matter. Would you approach it the same way you would if you were fighting them. I guess then I'd work on circling, feinting and drawing them in. I'd have to watch their fights again so I can see what other tendencies they have so I can also prepare for them.
In shadowboxing just remember that no boxer fights out a fixed strategy. Fighters (any fighter of any worth at least) will constantly be adapting as needed. So remember that any strategy you practice against an imagined opponent is more like reference material. For example you can imagine a scenario where pernell whitaker is doing x which can be answered by y. By rehearsing this in your mind, you can pick up on it in the real fight as you see it happen and you will know how you should react to it as though you've done it a thousand times before. The more you know about a fighter the better you will be at fighting him.

As far as shadowboxing goes this is as far as you can take it, since you cant create a thinking and adapting opponent in your head.