stance for close range fighting

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How are you supposed to get any weight into your punches with both feet parallel? I don't understand any of that business.

Thats exactly what i thought!
If your feet are parallel your only giving yoru oponent a larger area to hit. liek for example if you feet are parallel your whole chest is square on with your opponent. My trainer tells me that everytime you punch try to leave as least amount of body area as possible for them to hit. so instead of punchign with just your arms you put yoru whole shoulder and hip into it. This gives you more power and gives yoru opponent a smaller target to hit. this facing them straight on stuff isn't right. i think if you were stanced like that and punched you would only be moving yoru arms whereas you get more power from twisting your whole body into yoru shots.

Also you can't get nearly as much power and reach if your stanced like that. just now throw yoru hand otu liek a punch without moving your body whatsoever. now put your whole shoulder into yoru punch and twist. so like if you were throwing your left hand out yoru chest should be facing right to where yoru chest was originally facing. which one got the most reach? try this on a punxhign bag and see which one has more power to

How do you think the arms should be held?

In my own humble opinion .. i beleive the right hand should be held on your cheek just under your eye as to protect you from left hooks and also acts as a parry. it can easily be held up to cover teh side of yoru head from hooks and brought down to parry the jab and your left hand should be held out infront of you not touching your face ( it acts as a block ) so you can just see over the glove aswell. notice if you bring your elbow out your hand lowers hence leavign a bigger target. the reason you dont hold your jab hand really close to yoru face is cause this gives your jab less distance to reach your opponent then if you had it touching your face. also when your opponent throws a punch you can just block it rather than holding your hands against your face and let him hit you that way ( i find it still hurts the face even if yoru hands are there ). i beleive your body should be facing diagonally to your right ( or left if yoru a southpaw ) as to leaving not as much target as you would give your opponent facing him square on. but your head should be facing your opponent kind of tucked down into your shoulder. kind of like bernard hopkins.

all in my own opinion of course