Tips to win an Ametuer fight on points?

[Youngblood]

Be the last one throwing in exchanges. Even if you got out-pointed in it, you'll likely still get awarded the points. Judges are trained to wait for the exchange to end before registering a click, or comp. hit...and tend to award it that way.

[cnote111]

End every round strong - Don't be lazy that last 10-15 seconds no matter how tired you are...You will be tired!

[ICB]

Pay off the judges.

[God.in.my.corner]

what about slick defense? or would they rather see just a nice counter?

[porkypara]

If the judges are using the comuter system then the key is to land the cleaner shots.

I know it does not sound sporting but once you get your nose in front after the first round,if they tell you the score in between round then go on the backfoot and try not to make mistakes,hands up high and look to counter.


Good luck.

[Chris Nagel]

I've been told that it is also a good idea to be aware of where the judges are seated and then make sure that you position yourself so that the majority of the judges see your punches landing clean. This is based on the funny thing about amateur scoring in that the judges press a button for either the "blue" or "red" fighter according to the number of clean punches that they see, and later the computer tallies up the punches.

Anyways the punch you don't want to leave without is the jab. It's the punch that the judges zero in on first, and look at before any other punch. It's a low risk punch for the most part, and is something that you should be constantly trying to improve.

[God.in.my.corner]

Chris that is a very interesting point. Thanks for sharing it, I never thought about positioning, but it makes sense.