Looking for any tips, advice on vid

[Salty]

From what i could see you looked pretty good especially for a 13 year old, most kids ive seen around that age go berserk for the first round and then die pretty much. You did well, sometimes you kept your face completely unguarded in your flurries where you could have been countered easily, and it looked in the angle like your feet crossed over a few times which should never happen in the ring. But the guy didn't make you pay and you won easily, maybe up the frequency of your attacks?

Other than that looking good and good luck in the fight, (get the second person to video it next time the first guy was terrible haha)

[Youngblood]

Yea thanks Salty, I think it has been helpful to watch it because it is the first time I have actually seen what I look like fighting. I do need to work on defence as you say, for counter attacks and can see that now as you suggest. Part of the problem I have is getting good sparring and I don't get hit much, so I think that makes me less guarded. I'm wondering if there are ways to work on it outside of sparring?

As far as stepping up the attacks I certainly plan to on Saturday. For this fight/spar I realized soon into it that I could take him out, so I tried to make it last plus he is my own club member and we need to raise the moola to run and the crowd needed to see a match so we could get them back.

For the crossed feet thing, I hope I don't do that for I know it is bad and it'll get my ass sent to the mat. I was playin a bit in the 3rd round and dancing stupidly lol, I know...and my feet were close together as a result. I have no intention of anything like that for any santioned bouts. I'm guessing it is probably a bad thing to do tho, as in can cause bad habits to form? The dancing and playing stuff for spars?

I really appreciate the insights and the good luck for Saturday.

[Youngblood]

Won my 3rd fight and have some questions regarding it.

Firstly, is it usual for me to be fighting outside of my category? For eg. I should be fighting now in 13-14 but found myself up against a 15 turning 16 yr old. My first 2 fights I had when I was 12 years old and in grade 7 and both of those in Michigan I fought people in grade 10, or 15-16 years old. I don't mind it, because just finding a fight is hard for me. I am tall 6' and weighed in for this fight at 152 lbs. I am thinking or guessing it is my size as to why I keep getting matched up out of my age category? Even so, the person I fought this last match was even taller, at 6'3" or 6'4" and had 5 or more pounds on me. It was the first fight I have seen this, and it did challenge me.

Moreso what challenged me this last fight were 2 things in particular. The first was I hurt my lower back quite badly on Friday night at my club doing one of the longest glove workouts I have EVER done. Not sure why we worked so hard, because my trainer said he wanted me to rest and go easy 2 days before. I never realized how much I hurt myself until yesterday morning when I woke and could hardly bend down to pick things up. No way I wasn't going to fight, so tried to relax and stretch lots before the fight, right. But then about 15-20 minutes before the fight, my trainer wanted to warm me up and had me doing glove work really hard once again ....and I felt this just sapped me of atleast my best round of energy. I'm still not sure why I got worked so hard up right until I stepped in the ring. Is this normal? I only wanted to reserve my energy and stretch properly. I've never question my new trainer up until now.

Anyways, I got a good win as best I could given my limited power and what seemed like complete lack of the ability to move like I normally would. Any time i tried to move to my right I either couldn't properly or it just fricken hurt. I also got caught some hard shots, harder then ever before as I just couldn't seem to get away quick enough.

my first split decision.

[Youngblood]

here's another thing, not that anyone fookin replies.

I think I had a hard time focusing this last fight on top of other things i think because of the lighting. I've only fought santioned up till yest. in a casino type darkened situation where it was easy to find a focus. Hit the dude all lit up in front of you! Yest we fought in the hosts gym with lights all on. Meh, I could see stuff going on and hear stuff yest. and was trying to not see it as i fought, but gawdammit i couldn't seem to.

[El Kabong]

Focus is easy to lose....which is why when you're tired you have to force yourself to focus even more and when you do that, the easier it is to focus when you're not tired and when you're actually fighting in a real fight

[:::PSL:::]

Ask your camera man to bring tri-pod this saturday.

[Salty]

congrats on the win, but yeah seems weird to work that hard the night before and just before a fight.