EFFECTIVE PUNCHING - the Blast Plan

[Zelley]

FEINTING - "The Big Lie" or the "Magic Trick"

One may have the four key components for effective punching
- Balance - Leverage - Accuracy - Speed - Timing -

But, to support these components of the effective punching skill
one needs a few magic tricks or in boxing lingo, the "big lie"
or the skill of "feinting" to draw punches or set-up power punches.

From experience, as I flash back to 1966 and 1968,
I can cite two examples
where in example one I was executing
the feint and in the second case
I was the recipient of the "big lie" or
the master feint and the power punch.

Case 1: I moved out in round 1, bent my knees
a started a left to the body
as the feint and then executed the right hand
that caught my foe in the side of the head.
The rest of the fight was a cake walk,
and I won the fight and the "Best Fighter" award

Case 2: Sometime in round three against Ray Lampkin in the
1968 Tacoma Golden Gloves, Ray used a perfect right hand feint
and I weaved into a left hook, it didn't end the bout but the stars were
floating around my head like a spinning halo in the sky.

In both cases the feint and follow-up punch worked and were key factors
that decided the decision on the judges score cards, but in both cases there were
two other factors - one helped in the execution, and the other
prevented a potential stoppage of the fight. Without getting into detail
those two factors were: defense and missed opportunity.