
Originally Posted by
greynotsoold
Ringside has a pretty good video; shows some good stuff but a lot of crap as well. I have seen a lot of trainers make a fighter look gooood with the mitts when the reality is very different...I like to use them in two ways. The first is for accuracy of position/reaction, etc... By that I mean that I try to be very precise in explaining that the punch is slipped here, your left foot goes there and so on, and if a finishing punch in a sequence should come from a place where the target can't see it coming from, we do it that way, plus I'm real big on "exit strategies" off of particular sequences. The other way I like to work them is as much like 'boxing' as we can make it w/o me getting hit too much! Lots of movement and different scenarios, so far as who is the aggressor, what each is trying to accomplish and so on. I don't believe defense can ever be ignored, not any more than footwork and being aware of where you are in the ring and what is going on around you.
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