"the clinch" help

[stacatto99]

New to the site. great stuff all around. I am having trouble clinching. i was wondering if anyone had any tips or sites to check out to perfect my clinching. what is a more effective grabbing technique?

[peewee1460]

this old conjur manages to sum it up fairly well. what he talks about are just some basic things but it'll give you the general idea.



only thing about his method is you've got to worry about taking uppercuts, aside from that it's pretty respectable.

[stacatto99]

Thanks I have seen that already though. I guess i am just going to have to work with the trainer and practice more. appreciate it!

[punchDrUnK MONK]

yo

first of all id recommend avoiding clinching, if ur inside and dont wanna punch just try to get back on the outside. holding is soemthing judges and refs dont like to see. also the crowd..

its kinda a hard thing to practice in sparring, i always use to try to work on it early on, but never could so gave up on it, but in my last fight i found the guy grabbed me a few times and was there to be grabbed so i used it when i was tired... some guys are grabbable, most not. clinching is something that coems with experience id say. keep sparring and fighting bro

[JayCoe]

When I used to get into a clinch i'd be the gentleman boxer and would pull away even before the Ref' called it. One time I sparred a guy and we got into a clinch, I went to pull away and he just attacked me while still in the clinch, first time I realised a very important rule in boxing do not stop fighting until you're stopped. If you're like me and not really that strong, don't get locked into a wrestling match with them, this saps your energy in seconds. A tough clinch for a few seconds is way more tiring than 30 seconds of pure action. If you are strong however, it may work in your advantage to direct them, and yourself, into positions which will help when the clinch is broken. So, the best advice I can offer is to try and keep your weight balanced, get an arm free and punch until the clinch is broken, an easy move is to twist them down to the left and right hook them with their newly opened up guard. It's not a full power hook because it's mostly arm movement because its hard to transfer weight across in a clinch. You use your right because your left hook, without transferring the weight right across to your back leg again, can be pretty feeble.

[potatoes]

New to the site. great stuff all around. I am having trouble clinching. i was wondering if anyone had any tips or sites to check out to perfect my clinching. what is a more effective grabbing technique?

Get some vidoes of Bernard Hopkins. He will demonstrate how to clinch, fight on the inside and give you a few pointers on dirty boxing.

[MarkScott]

Watch Ali in the second half of his career. In the second Spinks fight he wrote the book on clinching!

[Journeyman]

lol i used to clinch a lot when i first started to build a little bit of experience...especially againt this one fast kid who always throws swarming punches as comes in. i learned something real slick from bernard hopkins though- sometimes i get close like im about to clinch or grab my opponent/partner's arms but at the very very last moment i sneak in a punch down the middle, THEN clinch. drives everyone crazy.

[whitealexander]

nice vid thanks..

[lilevil]

I use the clinch all the time. If i dont want to be on the inside i clinch