Quote Originally Posted by ThomasTabin
The first and most important law of training for boxing is that everything must always be done with an opponent in mind. Anything that is done without the opponent in your mind is not actually boxing training. Its just fitness with nothing to do with boxing at all.


Combinations for the sake of combinations are ultimately worthless. Your opponent is constantly thinking and adapting. And so to truly practice combinations one has to practice them in ways based on how your opponent will react and adapt to them. Ex: (i jab -> he slips to his right -> i throw the right -> he slips under the right to his left -> he throws a left hook -> upon completing my right i throw a left hook)

note: I didnt just make that up on the spot; thats actually a very common scenario in boxing and you watch enough boxing you will see it happening over and over. Notice how differently it is to train for combinations when you have your opponent in mind opposes to without him. You are nothing without him. Youre half a man.
You said it better than me