Quote Originally Posted by sourpuss View Post
Good point everyone.

On the slow starting thing, I was talking to a coach from another gym and he said a lot of his guys have the same problem. His theory was that we're always sparring at the end of the night after we've done a workout and all the drills and we're good and warmed up....and tired. So our bodies are conditioned to think that you go hard when you've been sweating and working for two hours prior.

So now he and his son warm up really hard on the mitts about an hour before the bout for 15-20 minutes and then just stay warm and move until the bout to try to get started earlier. So far it's been working pretty good for him.
Yeah having thought about again after reading your log I do remember starting a thread on this.

I'm thinking that because Donny's suggestion of starting with a jab helped mentally and technically but i guess i still didn't get into the full swing of throwing hard punches that perhaps this problem can sometimes be multifaceted.

Perhaps it is the mental thing of knowing how to start without overcommiting to a potentially risky flight plan and having time to observe your opponent as Donny has explained to me and also about the correct physical warm up like you've described above.

Heres a link to the thread:
http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...pressions.html