So I spar this GUY after My routine yesterday.

[PunchDrunk]

A video might help... Hard to give advice beating a fighter we haven't seen... Having said that, I think it's quite obvious that someone with a lot of experience would be able to beat you quite easily. I've seen a bunch of your stuff, including the latest sparring video, and I honestly think your inexperience shines through. You're very raw and make a lot of beginner mistakes still. Patience, humility and hard work will get you a long way, cause you've got the physical tool needed. Just hang in there and take your time.

[DA1CATAS]

A video might help... Hard to give advice beating a fighter we haven't seen... Having said that, I think it's quite obvious that someone with a lot of experience would be able to beat you quite easily. I've seen a bunch of your stuff, including the latest sparring video, and I honestly think your inexperience shines through. You're very raw and make a lot of beginner mistakes still. Patience, humility and hard work will get you a long way, cause you've got the physical tool needed. Just hang in there and take your time.

hey if ya have the time could you name a few of them?

I know i drop my right hand sometimes when i jab/hook..Not as much as I use to.. but i still find myself doing it.

I know you could probably find alot.. but can ya name a few for me to think of?

Thanks in advance if you get the chance.

[PunchDrunk]

hey if ya have the time could you name a few of them?

I know i drop my right hand sometimes when i jab/hook..Not as much as I use to.. but i still find myself doing it.

I know you could probably find alot.. but can ya name a few for me to think of?

Thanks in advance if you get the chance.

Sure. Just remember, I'm not shooting you down, so don't get defensive. If you want to be a better fighter, don't come back with an answer for each thing I mention, just take it to heart and work on it.

1. When you jab, you tend to drop your right hand. Especially when you throw double jabs, which is also the time where it is the most dangerous. If the opponent taps away your first jab, and your right is low, you have no way of blocking a counter right. So get you right hand up, ready to block, when you throw double jabs. (being tired is no excuse to be doing this by the way, because keeping your hands in close, and thereby your movements smaller actually takes less energy)EDIT: ARH, forgot you mentioned that one yourself! :*(

2. You tend to stand still on your feet, and wait for the other guy. Even if you want to counter the guy, and feel you're faster than him, you need to move your feet, shifting around, finding a position where you're better off than him. If you stand still, you're giving away initiative, and he'll be the one finding the better position for punching. Standing still only works when you're in there with someone so much worse than you that he shouldn't be in there. Never stand still, it's a bad, bad habit.

3. You sometimes push your punches. I understand that the guy in that video is heavier, and therefore you want to keep him off, but all you're doing is tiring yourself, and leaving yourself open for him to counter. Your punches should go back in as fast as you put them out there.

4. You tend to get on your back foot and lean to the right when you get rushed. This is a big mistake, because there's nowhere to go, but back into his right hand. Keep your weight over your front foot, and either slip his punches coming in, by which you get close enough to counter with hooks or uppercuts, or move backwards/sideways, which allows you to control the distance and throw straight counters when his punches fall short.

I'd also like to see you using more feints to set up your offence, instead of just standing there and picking a random moment to charge in with a bunch of shots. Work the guy with movement and feints until he makes a mistake or positions himself wrong, and then attack. This is something your coach will have to work on with you though, because it's very hard to pick up on your own...

these are just a few things, based on looking at one round, there's tons more to improve, which is the beauty of boxing. The more you learn about it, the more you realize you don't know.

Edit: I realize you're getting away with a lot of this in the video. Just remember that the other guy is also inexperienced, and makes just as many mistakes. That will not always be the case.

[DA1CATAS]

I'm gonna print ya response.. thanks alot...


And lol I wouldn't have asked if i thought I'd have a answer for everything..

But yea all jokes aside thanks..i'm gonna beat this into my head.

[meanmoe]

I don't know if it has been said, but experience is nothing more then reaction vs. thinking. The more you spar, and train, the more you react and think less. Speed has alot to with reacting, as well, being able to put punches together instinctivly. Practice is the key, keep challenging yourself.

[PunchDrunk]

I don't know if it has been said, but experience is nothing more then reaction vs. thinking. The more you spar, and train, the more you react and think less. Speed has alot to with reacting, as well, being able to put punches together instinctivly. Practice is the key, keep challenging yourself.

The thing is that if you spar without working on certain things, and just go in there to try and win the round, you're just repeating your mistakes and the things you already know how to do. Therefore it is extremely important to have specific things you want to do in there, and work on them even if that means losing the round. I don't see many people doing that...

[PunchDrunk]

I'm gonna print ya response.. thanks alot...


And lol I wouldn't have asked if i thought I'd have a answer for everything..

But yea all jokes aside thanks..i'm gonna beat this into my head.

Hehe, I wasn't sure which you Iwould be responding to; the ****y knowitall, or the student of the game. Thankfully it was the latter

[DA1CATAS]

Hehe, I wasn't sure which you Iwould be responding to; the ****y knowitall, or the student of the game. Thankfully it was the latter

lol. yea that guys on vacation for a while.

[Stormin' Norman]

just wanted to say that I respect DA1CITAS for coming online and posting about a defeat in sparring.

most guys wouldn't do that.

respek.


I have been a fan of the sport for about ten years and training to be a professional for a pretty short amount of time, I'm 25 years old.

a guy like you're talking about, to beat, you gotta fight dirty man. I'd do stuff like clinch, push him off, try to get a hook in. clinch, hit that ****er behind the head. he's probably smart after you do that and will just duck low low and spin behind you if he's more agile than you which is what it sounds like. perfect a liver blow. guys who are difficult to touch upstairs are always vulnerable to the body ive found. try to corner him before you do this, if he keeps stepping away and using straight shots, put both gloves in front of your face and walk forward,(dont dash) he'll have to throw a hook at some point in time...exchange with him when he does, get in a left hook to his mid section and hope it lands on the sweet spot. after you land it, or miss it, clinch and do it all over again. tie that ****er up over and over again. sounds like you're shorter and he's taller. so you need to be controlling the tempo via clinches and working within the clinch to land punches if he's adept at straight shots,staying away, and guarding his chin.

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stormin norman shouldn't be encoraging you to cheat..

but like Freddy Roach says.. "**** it, this is a fight!!!"

Sometimes you've gotta BEAT the man, to be the man. No matter what it takes. Get ****ing nasty.