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I don't know if I can explain this...your right foot is where you really are. You can cheat close with your left foot and leave your right foot behind- get a wide stance-and you will be short with your right hand. To hook to the chin (you can push off the left foot to hit the body, not so much up top) you will pull back to your right foot.
We talked above about how Floyd and Archie Moore created distance by stepping or leaning forward but came back to the right foot to land blows.
And I'm not sure planted is the right word. In boxing your weight is constantly shifting from foot to foot. That is the essence of balance and the source of power and force.
Last edited by red fox; 09-21-2015 at 01:18 AM.
What I am saying is this...your right foot determines your real distance. I know I'm not explaining this well; I could show you in a second and I'm pretty sure we have a lot of common ground here. I think we are missing one another in the typing.
You can step forward with your left foot, or lean over that foot, to draw a punch. Or, as was mentioned above, to confuse the distance...because the left foot is illusory. The real distance, where you need to be to effectively land each and every punch, is judged by your right foot.
In your last post, I don't know what you meant by move from 2 to 3.
Pivoting, or circling to either side, is a good way to cut distance. And you can use it to focus your weight to land hard punches.
i don't know how true that is. roy jones fought from his front foot a lot. he pushed off of it to throw a left hook, or a jump hook as he called it, or he pushed off of it to move back from your right hand to throw a check hook over it in the same motion. he even threw his right hand from it because he liked to use it to square his hips to throw a clean up left hook. he threw jabs from his front foot because he needed his body weight to be over his front foot for this style to work. that check hook over a right hand you can't even throw without pushing off of your front foot. i think jones only used his back foot to get body weight over it when he would slip a jab through the space that he has next to his left ear and over his left shoulder to come back over it with a counter right hand. you look at the stance that jones had and its very front foot dominant. there were very few things a guy like jones was doing from his back foot and why is that so wrong. you look at a guy like muhammad ali. a guy like pernell whitaker. a guy like floyd mayweather. its front foot. its not about back foot. i don't understand this bias against guys who do things from the front foot.
Even if you're falling back into the heel one can easly do it off the front foot Lamon Brewster did this as well as Tommy Morrison and George Foreman. If you look at big George hitting the heavy bag the rear heel was up but he pushed off the front foot. Floyd Patterson,SRR,Lamotta, et all did this off the front foot.
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