fighting tall question

[knocktown]

A question that has been around for ages but never seems to get a "right" anwser because some things work for some people and for other it wont work at all due to height,speed,experience,athleticism,etc etc but I really want to see peoples input on the fighting tall topic. btw Im tall for more weight class that's why I want to put this topic out.

There's generally 2 approaches to this
1-keep your height ie dont give it up
2-get eye level,lower your center of gravity
Heres a vid of kenny weldon teaching to get eye level which a lot of people disagree with


how would you compare the 2? your opinion?


---And my real concern is today I heard from a trainer that comes around once in a while (retired from training fighters,older guy) that I never heard before is that you can keep your height but match where the hands are. And that kind of opened my eyes to where I never heard of that and for sure would like to see more input.

For ex he showed me a video of this concept of fighting
-Notice vitali in this highlight, he's not doing some crazy leaning low legs way out stuff, he's in his comfortable strong stance, another thing you'll notice in all his fights including this one, his hands are at the same height his opponent's hands are at, specially his back hand.


What are your thoughts on this? the pros and cons to instead of worrying about height elevation but the concern is matching your opponents glove height?

[Domiko]

Vitali fights like this as he comes from a kickboxing background, they mostly hold hands low to get a full view of there opponents gloves and movements. Hes taken this into boxing.

[greynotsoold]

One thing you do not want to do is punch down at a shorter opponent; that doesn't keep him at the end of your reach, it shortens your reach and gives him opportunity to punch over the top. If you watch Bob Foster in the video, you'll see how he does a bit of both things mentioned. He lowers himself by widening his stance, and he jabs from where you should be jabbing from, about chest level.

For some inane reason, the trend in today's version of boxing his too hold your hands far too high. Your lead hand should be chest level to keep it out of the way so you can counter with it. Your rear hand should be responsible for 80% of your defensive work and your lead shoulder should take up the bulk of the rest.

[cambay411]

I think you already answered your question in your first sentence op.

It would have to depend on the fighters style.

If you have a tall outside fighter hes not going to want to lower his head and put it in closer range to a shorter inside fighter.

If you have a tall natural inside fighter then he would want to lower his center of gravity and work on the inside.

[soren321r]

I always go to the body on tall guys