Anthony Yardes unbelievably strange Mittwork *VIDEO*

[kafkod]

issue with that is what I mentioned on the other page. Kov isn't going to be standing that close throwing shots. His trainer should be preparing him better IMO.

I'm sure they'll be doing plenty of other things, besides that. Whatever they've been doing has worked well for them so far. Whether it will work at world level remains to be seen.

[kafkod]

It's a Brit thing. Like Fielding doing that sh/t where he kept dropping to his knees.

lmfao

or Joshua putting his arms on the ropes and going deaf?

Winning the WBSS is another Brit thing. Look out for a hat -trick when Josh Taylor KO's Prograis later this year.

[jas]

Heard he got dropped hard in sparring by joe fournier so when his trainer tunde says he himself is yarde's main sparring partner i believe him

[removed]

No, thats his mit work, apparantly he doesnt spar either (presumably bcos hes packing glass)

Really?

Krusher is gonna take his head off.

[bigjavi973]

yea now i hope he just gets exposed....


wtf is this

[Mindgames]

No, thats his mit work, apparantly he doesnt spar either (presumably bcos hes packing glass)

Ive seen the video of the Mayweather gym being asked about who wins with him and Kovalev. At least one of the fighters said he did very well in sparring there, and hes definitely sparred with Eubank Jnr. Not saying if hes worth the hype but no way he doesnt spar at all.

[Scipio2009]

WTF.......

Stop looking at it as one routine, and try to look at it as basically 50 different situational routines to try and lock in the proper punch response.

Lead hook, followed by a wing block to keep range. Catch and counter, with a straight or uppercut, off the front shoulder in a crab shell defense. Long jab off of the line to reset position. Maintaining defensive awareness in the punch pocket. Etc.

It's the same teaching concept that undergirds how Roger and Big Floyd teach boxing.

Roger Mayweather wants you to be able to fire that good and clean right hand-hook-right hand, while also being able to catch-and-shoot with either hand.

Big Floyd wants you to set everything off of a nice crispy clean jab, understand your defensive awareness from range, and throw clean hard shots from range.

Just slow it down a bit

[Scipio2009]

I get that it can help hand eye coordination but so can the double end bag and speed bag which is their main purpose.

Him throwing these bizarre punches/backhands is just going to further ingrain and reinforce that weird asss technique in training and in an actual fight. It is seriously bizarre and then the fact that his trainer is cool with it is even weirder lol. Like yea, lets train our backhands today to prepare for the biggest fight of our lives next month.

That's his style though; no different than the load front leg Wincobank style from Ingle's gym, or the open shell style that sometimes makes it out of Accra, or that straight up Euro style you sometimes see mesh and come out of Japan.

You don't have to get it for it to work for him, tbh. Trust what brought you to the dance.

[Scipio2009]

... this kind of "mitt routine" is acting somehow like "Ars Memoriae"...

(in case some of you actually know what this was/is all about)...

Exactly.

If you throw a lead hook, you can expect to see 3-4 responses coming from that shot (which you should be able to see and deal with).

If you're fighting from the crab and inside, there are only a certain number of shots that you need to make sure you know how to deal with.

Resetting the angle off of a good jab is an effective way to get back to fighting range, etc.

You drill the proper response to each shot as it gets looked at, so much so that you couldn't forget the proper response in your sleep.

You've just got to make sure that the coach is plugging in the proper responses to the system (and that you've seen enough great sparring to deal with the unknown ****, like a 12-6 overhand right).

[Scipio2009]

issue with that is what I mentioned on the other page. Kov isn't going to be standing that close throwing shots. His trainer should be preparing him better IMO.

We've all seen Kovalev fight, against a good string of opponents too, regardless of the result.

Kovalev isn't going to fight all that different than he's fought already; up and down Euro style, heavy from range, aggressive from range.

Yarde needs to work on his own game, whatever that is; control/understand range, be ready to fire effectively from close range.

We'll see how the fight plays out