the jab

[Yuzo]

do you transfer your body weight when you throw the jab?

[Master]

Yes if you want to put power into it.

The more power you put into it leaves you more open to be countered.

The jab is the most effective punch in boxing and sets everything up.

The gods of jabbing were Holmes, Ali, Louis, Hearns, McCallum and Ricardo Lopez.

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Yes if you want to put power into it.

The more power you put into it leaves you more open to be countered.

The jab is the most effective punch in boxing and sets everything up.

The gods of jabbing were Holmes, Ali, Louis, Hearns, McCallum and Ricardo Lopez.

So true.

Other underrated master jabbers, John Conteh, Bruce Seldon, Carl Williams & Mark Breland.

[Master]

Yes if you want to put power into it.

The more power you put into it leaves you more open to be countered.

The jab is the most effective punch in boxing and sets everything up.

The gods of jabbing were Holmes, Ali, Louis, Hearns, McCallum and Ricardo Lopez.

So true.

Other underrated master jabbers, John Conteh, Bruce Seldon, Carl Williams & Mark Breland.

I will raise you with the power jab of Sonny Liston, and left handers Henry Cooper, Oscar De La Hoya, Virgil Hill.

[Spicoli]

A hurtful jab is a beautiful tool. There are varying gears on them..some are flicked as 'keep away' jabs, some merely as blinders with the follow through power shot the true focus and the best are those so fluid they serve as a power punch all in one. Golovkin had that stubby hurt jab. Oscar Valdez too. Guys like Spence have mastered it as all of them. Jab then jab turned over for upper hook mid way through. Early Kovalev double-triple jab to the body-head was great.

[Spicoli]

Yes if you want to put power into it.

The more power you put into it leaves you more open to be countered.

The jab is the most effective punch in boxing and sets everything up.

The gods of jabbing were Holmes, Ali, Louis, Hearns, McCallum and Ricardo Lopez.

So true.

Other underrated master jabbers, John Conteh, Bruce Seldon, Carl Williams & Mark Breland.

Seldon had an absolute piston!

[Master]

Talking of piston jabs, that would be Ike Quartey. That was the best way to describe his jab.

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Yes if you want to put power into it.

The more power you put into it leaves you more open to be countered.

The jab is the most effective punch in boxing and sets everything up.

The gods of jabbing were Holmes, Ali, Louis, Hearns, McCallum and Ricardo Lopez.

So true.

Other underrated master jabbers, John Conteh, Bruce Seldon, Carl Williams & Mark Breland.

Seldon had an absolute piston!

He certainly did.

Seldon's jab was one of the great jabs in boxing.

His fight with Tony Tucker springs to mind; he absolutely destroyed Tucker with his jab: Tucker's eye was a mess.

[donnydarkoIRL]

do you transfer your body weight when you throw the jab?

It depends on what you are trying to achieve with your jab.
There are different types of jab which can be used to achieve different objectives.
A jab can be used as an offensive weapon to push the opponent back, in which case you probably would transfer your body weight with the punch.
However, a jab can also be used simply to draw a reaction, in which case weight would not be transferred.

There are many variables.

[Yuzo]

do you transfer your body weight when you throw the jab?

It depends on what you are trying to achieve with your jab.
There are different types of jab which can be used to achieve different objectives.
A jab can be used as an offensive weapon to push the opponent back, in which case you probably would transfer your body weight with the punch.
However, a jab can also be used simply to draw a reaction, in which case weight would not be transferred.

There are many variables.

the more i think about boxing and the more time that passes the more i think that the jab is not actually a punch at all. perhaps it was always wrong to think of punches as being punches, but i am becoming a little too abstract now. i like your thinking on the jab. only you are taught, rightly so, not to transfer your weight when you throw the jab. the thinking goes: no weight transfer when you push off the back leg to jab --> weight transfer onto your front leg when you throw the right hand --> weight transfer from your front leg back to your back leg when you throw the hook. thus completes a cycle, as each punch contributes into the next punch, and returns to its starting point: the back leg. the first combination ever thrown was this one, probably before anyone ever knew what boxing was, and probably with these very same mechanics as well.

but can you think of any reason why you will need to jab with a weight transfer?

[Master]

do you transfer your body weight when you throw the jab?

It depends on what you are trying to achieve with your jab.
There are different types of jab which can be used to achieve different objectives.
A jab can be used as an offensive weapon to push the opponent back, in which case you probably would transfer your body weight with the punch.
However, a jab can also be used simply to draw a reaction, in which case weight would not be transferred.

There are many variables.

the more i think about boxing and the more time that passes the more i think that the jab is not actually a punch at all. perhaps it was always wrong to think of punches as being punches, but i am becoming a little too abstract now. i like your thinking on the jab. only you are taught, rightly so, not to transfer your weight when you throw the jab. the thinking goes: no weight transfer when you push off the back leg to jab --> weight transfer onto your front leg when you throw the right hand --> weight transfer from your front leg back to your back leg when you throw the hook. thus completes a cycle, as each punch contributes into the next punch, and returns to its starting point: the back leg. the first combination ever thrown was this one, probably before anyone ever knew what boxing was, and probably with these very same mec mihanics as well.

but can you think of any reason why you will need to jab with a weight transfer?

I think Donny answered it when he said when you want to make an offensive move. That is the time to transfer weight to your front foot.

[Yuzo]

theres a couple of reasons why you would need to transfer your body weight when you throw the jab.

every straight right hand is connected invisibly to you on an imaginary straight line from the tip of the fist to the point of your jaw.



but jab circling to your left and you will get behind that line.



that jab circles you to your left, an act that is the cause for a feeling of anxiety in so many fighters as it will deliberately circle them into the right hand. a hairy proposition but only so until you have cleared that line which invisibly connects his right hand to you. once cleared, home free.



believe it or not, you are only standing on one leg when you throw that jab: your front leg. to throw that jab, press down on your front foot and in the same motion swing over your back foot. you are looking for a smooth, break away action as you throw that jab, as though you are trying to discretely escape through an imaginary side door. the reason that you press down and anchor the front foot is so that you are able to free up the movement of the back foot. this is what gives you that break away action you want. but to do that, your jab must have a weight transfer onto your front leg, to both anchor your front foot and free up your back foot. properly done, and you will have placed yourself just a little outside his right shoulder. finding it very difficult to hit you there, he will turn, trying to position you back in front of him like someone pressing a return lever on a typewriter to put you back where he can hit you with his punches. jab that way again, and you will turn him again.

[Master]

I love the jab in boxing. You can win a fight with that punch alone. George Groves had a beauty of a jab.