Quote Originally Posted by StrictlySP
Hi Scrap,
You wrote:
Weve seen PBF on the pads looking at the camera looks effective, and in a way it is. When hes on the flash stuff basicaly hes doing Plyometrics working on feel and touch his coach is working just as hard by hittings Floyds gloves at different distace ,feel reaction.Now the good bit, you feel that he could do it with his eyes shut, and he could. If he did thats the next step to becoming even faster Thought this would be of interest
No offense, but I disagree. When Mayweather works the pads like that with his uncle, it's simply "flash stuff" with no fight-functional application (sportive or otherwise). As far as this pad drill having any plyometric effect, there is none whatsoever. Plyometrics refers to exercise that enables a muscle to reach maximum force in the shortest possible time. Creating a plyometric contraction first involves a rapid eccentric movement (i.e. a muscle lengthening action) , followed by a short amortization phase (i.e. a brief transition period from stretching to contracting), then an explosive concentric movement (i.e. a muscle shortening action), which enables the synergistic muscles to engage in the myotatic-stretch reflex during the stretch-shortening cycle.

Two exercise examples that elicit a plyometric effect are clapping push-ups and vertical jump squats. In both these exercises, the targeted muscles are stretched before a concentric contraction thus "creating" more forceful and rapid contractions.

Anyway, take Mayweather's "no-look" pad work for what it is, a slick "parlor trick" for the cameras that's cool to watch...

Take Care,
Lito
Probably with the word polymetrics removed from the post the real intent behind it would imerge better as polymetrics may account for a snippet of what could go on.

Not that I understand all the meanings behind these new words.
do polymetrics stop when you close your eyes

I took the real issue behind the post to mean the links behind sight and reaction opposed to non -thought reactive speed and seeing -thought reactive speed; without any real mention of what can be achieved if other things are incorperated into it.

I tried to take the post one stage further into contact reflex /speed of reaction built up by taking away your sight.

Turns out I shouldnt have slipped the word Kungfu in there either