stance?

[cocobeware]

Why is your jab or any punch affecting your stance?

It's hard to explain but in some instances ie:throwing a stiff jab,Pivoting to the left and jabbing,Double jab or backing up with the jab i find have a tendancy to become slighlty narrower and have to reset.

I didn't really worry about it too much before as i thought a little bit of movment in the stance was inevitable at times due to the motion of the punch twisting of the hips.

[HerbM]

I think it is something you should work on IF it is not leaving you fully mobile and balanced for both follow up shots and subsequent defense.

Generally, we want to best stance always, and if we disturb that stance (e.g., simply by stepping) then we should return to that best stance at the earliest opportunity.

As to backing up: Do you have a problem when someone is pressuring you and you keep backing? If so, that might be partly due to altering you stance as you retreat OR it might be you alter your stance due to problems you have when under pressure (cause and effect might be unclear but it might be a sign of something you can improve.)

Or if you have no problems, it might not matter (for you.)

The key to improving is to first fix our glaring faults (beginner stuff), then find our biggest remaining weaknesses and locate the cause of those. Fix that until we are spending most of our training time fixing REALLY PICKY DETAILS.

What is the real difference between an expert and an intermediate? Probably the relative size of the faults they are each willing to tolerate or are working to fix.

The Japanese have a word for this process: Kai-Zen == continuous (small) improvements

Fight your strengths. Train your weaknesses.

[cocobeware]

I see what you are saying mate even though perfect form might not always be achievable 100% of the time I must strive to do so as this is how we improve.

[WayneFlint]

In general your stance isnt really the problem, you can box side on you can box someone squared up and each stance have their own advantages at times, what makes the problem is the situations and knowing what to use in which situation, break it down and at each step of the movement ask yourself can you move in all directions fast, controlled and on balance from here if need be? if you cant then there is a problem somewhere and it needs finding/correcting,

herb is spot on with what hes saying often ive had some somtimes annoying training sessions that have lasted 2 hours and have little or no fitness/strength benefits, but these sessions are dedicated to correcting the tiny little imperfections that make the world of difference when you throw the whole thing together. the more figured youve got the biomechanics, the smoother itll all be, often the little things are forgotten but its the little things that count and really make the difference in the overall quality of the end product. and its the even littler things inbetween those little things that make things really interesting or atleast for me it is, thats what i love so much about the sweet science, the attention to detail.

Sure it would be easier, less tedious and more fun to just do 6 rounds shadow boxing and 6 on the bag and 3 skipping, but no matter how annoying it may get i think this is what makes the difference between getting 100% from your training sessions and getting 30% from them like most do

[cocobeware]

Would it be fair to say that if you were only throwing the jab then you might be narrow and if you were throwing a jab,cross you might get a little wider and a for a jab cross left hook even wider still ?

[cocobeware]

If you could please watch this video,If you look at amir's feet from about 0:42 when he is shaddow boxing in the park.
It demonstrates what i was talking about quite well as he is standing directly in front of the camera and you can see the distance between his feet(width) changing from about inline and then getting much wider as he is throwing different punches/combinations.



Quite a good tune aswell i think