Some Bag Work

[0james0]

Fuck me your hands are fast!

I'm picking up a bag tomorrow. Looking forward to getting stuck in on it!

[romebe]

Good hand speed, but technique can improve. Footwork needs help, I noticed you "hopped" and took 2 big steps to get from one side of the bag to another, a good fighter can catch you while you're doing that hop and throw you off balance easily, in a real fight you usually don't have to go from one side of an opponent to another, try turning at a 90 degree angle, throw a few punches, then go to the other side. You were also thrown off balance with your flurries, this might be cool for a bar fight but in the ring it's a different game. A bag is never gonna hit you back so for now you can do whatever you want but remember it's not gonna matter much in the ring.

[WayneFlint]

You definantly have a bit of speed but so does every fighter when they start to master their technique and they arent over thinking the movements, the less complicated the movement, the sooner you will get quicker at it but the quality of movements will be poor, thats the trade off. it takes a lot longer to speed up and master movements when being taught good quality boxing technique, theres simply a lot more to think about and to get your head around, which is exactly what you dont want to do for speed.

Your already at that stage with your 'own' technique where your not thinking about the movements now so your speeding up but you have one big problem. your technique is very poor and too basic and it ruins the quality of your shots and any movement before or after them, youve got to go back to the drawing board but your always going to be battling bad habits from now on, you will be forever conciously trying not to revert back to old styles/bad habits as your training or fighting, this distraction will cost you in speed. any thought process to counter act the old sloppy technique will slow you down but you will throw better quality shots and have better movement for it in the time being. when you dont overthink technique to go for speed instead like you do now all these old bad habits will come out here and there and you will throw fast weak shots with bad economy and poor balance like you do now. Its probably one of the most frustrating things you will have to deal with if your planning to be a boxer.

Its best to learn good technique and join a good gym from the start to avoid all this crap, i know this personally more than most. you will have a lot to think about when re-learning fine boxing technique so to start off like anybody else it will all be slow at first until you gain more co-ordination over your entire body to move it purposley in unison and then you can better feel when you might be performing the moves correctly and what body parts your involving in them, through good technique involving the whole body in the shots and movements eventually in time you'll be able to throw a quality punch or movement without thinking about it, just by feel. NOW your ready to start speeding it all up again, but this time it'll be much harder because not only have you got 101 things to do when throwing a right hand now but its also going to be very difficult to 'feel' the difference between your 'old technique' and the new improved technique when you arent able to see what your doing, this is why i think most fighters have trouble letting their hands go because their minds and messages from their eyes screw it all up, then you get these added bonuses of bad habits that busy your mind aswell as, it can be very frustrating indeed, however if you just want to hit heavy bags infront of your friends then its not really a problem you will need to worry about.

Hope this helps you in makeing a decision weather you want to join a gym and box or just to train and hit bags, Andre or scrap could tell you a lot more on how the mind can slow you down but here are what i believe are the main reasons for it that i can understand myself. There is some very good advice for fighters on these forums but for the reasons ive stated above you really do need a coach or someone with a keen eye watching over you.

[amiller]

You're fast and you look like you hit hard. You looked tired after about 30 seconds though. Might want to work on pacing.