Straight punches and the shoulder

[Scrap]

Oh, what moves the right shoulder is the left shoulder, if that doesnt move the right cant.

[Fran@myboxingcoach]

Scrap. I'll give the poker a miss (already had a poker this week, and once is enough for even the greediest of us ), however, the final post on the shoulder is something that I can use. I have always coached hip and therefore upper body rotation for straight shots, and the initiator for this is as you say the back foot. One of the problems that I have encountered with boxers over the years is under-rotation when throwing the straight back hand (right cross.) The boxer under-rotates and as a consequence loses length and leverage on the shot. They lose confidence in the shot because they get caught when throwing it, and this loss of confidence causes more under-rotation and so on and so on. In the end, they can stop throwing the shot altogether.

Now, fixing this problem is where your shoulder tip comes in. I always make the boxer really focus on the drive from the back foot, but when trying to fix a problem the boxer can sometimes struggle with this. Your tip of throwing the left shoulder back in order to propel the right shoulder forward seems to me to be a useful method of emphasising that rotation, it's certainly something that I can use in the gym.

Good stuff Scrap, like that one.

[Scrap]

Also Fran by moving or driving the left shoulder back, it helps the balance of the motion. Keeping weight on the back foot. Plus the poker thing, it closes your glutes and drives the Hip Flexus in making the coxxys stable, stopping the lean forward with the shot. Elbows where they should be, gives a great following Lefthook.