Ways to improve BALANCE?

[QQQQQQQ]

I LOVE GGGs balance.

Balance is one of the few things only hardcore fans notice and aprpeciate.

It plays a major part in ones power.

Any1 know any good techniques to improve balance?

[Haroldas]

I LOVE GGGs balance.

Balance is one of the few things only hardcore fans notice and aprpeciate.

It plays a major part in ones power.

Any1 know any good techniques to improve balance?

You can increase balance in boxing if you drop your hips. You need to drop your hips if you want to throw more powerful punches. Dropping the hips will ground you, giving you more balance and power. Dropping your hips while moving will make you more grounded, allowing you to move with more balance and control.

[greynotsoold]

You can increase balance in boxing if you drop your hips. You need to drop your hips if you want to throw more powerful punches. Dropping the hips will ground you, giving you more balance and power. Dropping your hips while moving will make you more grounded, allowing you to move with more balance and control.

How do you drop your hips?

[Prince Mongo]

Good footwork is key,getting your feet set right to support whichever punch you are throwing. You will see boxers getting out of balance when attacking ,lunging in where the upper body is doing it's own thing and the legs another.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Work your thighs, not with weights or anything. Do wall sits. The thighs play an important role, it's like a shock absorber as well with the rest of your legs.

When you shadowbox, I'd suggest that you can feel that you're "sitting down" while you're in stance. Bend those knees and when you turn over for the right, really sink down and sit down on your punches.

You'll know it when you shift your weight correctly because you can feel it shift and retract.

Shadow boxing will be very important to keeping posture.

[QQQQQQQ]

You can increase balance in boxing if you drop your hips. You need to drop your hips if you want to throw more powerful punches. Dropping the hips will ground you, giving you more balance and power. Dropping your hips while moving will make you more grounded, allowing you to move with more balance and control.

yea what do you mean drop your hips? you mean bend your knees?

[sugar555]

Guys like donaire they work on stuff like ladders and boxes this improves footwork weight shift and reaction in the legs all leading to better balance. Like one of the posters said sitting down as in bending your knees a bit to feel the power in your legs makes for better balance as well as being able to throw harder shots.

[SophiaColls]

Thanks for these suggestions what you think this strategy will work with the old guys too or it's just for trainers? My colleague in the old age home is facing the balancing problem i wanted to try this on him.

[Haroldas]

How do you drop your hips?

Okay, gonna do some copy pasting

"The proper way to drop the hips:
1. First release the hips

Relax your hip muscles the same way that you relax your arm at the initial phase of a punch.
The hips are being relaxed as you exhale during the movement (for a punch, block, or footwork).


2. Catch the hips

“Catching the hips” means to tighten your hips for a split second right at the end of the release.
You tighten your hip muscles for just a split second right at the moment of impact (the same way you tighten your fist at impact).


3. Use very little energy and very little movement

It’s about relaxing and releasing more so than it is about tensing and tightening.
The hip drops maybe an inch or a centimeter at most, it shouldn’t be an actual “drop” that you can see.
The moment of tension is only for a split second.

Common mistakes

Many people think dropping the hips should mean to feel as much weight as possible in their hips. This visualization can be incorrect as they relax the hips too much that it shakes around and doesn’t connect to the core. Or that the hip becomes too loose that it’s always tilted forward, backwards, or sideways, which reduces balance and power.

You should also be careful that the “drop” is simply the release of the hips. It doesn’t mean to actually try and lower your hips to the ground or to walk around with constantly bent knees. Your knees should be slightly flexed but not bent to the point that it’s tiring to stand."

[alembic]

There are basically two types of balance: static and dynamic.

Most athletes including boxers are concerned with the latter. No matter which direction the body is moving, a well-balanced boxer constantly keeps his center of gravity inside an imaginary boundary formed by the outside edges of the feet, the toes of the lead foot and heel of the back foot.

Guys like GGG derive their power not from massive upper body musculature, but by delivering their punches with high leverage gained from a balanced stance, even when they're moving. You rarely see them lunging forward with their power shots. Their footwork brings them within proper distance and then the punch is initiated from a state of balance.

Great balance requires solid fundamentals in footwork. There's no substitute for it. Your trainer should be able to help you resolve any faults in technique.