The thing I have noticed with your videos is that you are very athletic. But your ability to stun people plays against you because it feels like you have 0 patience when it comes to wanting to inflict damage. You want to hurt the guy right away and throw every shot with bad intentions. You are literally treating each round like a 1 round fight instead of slowly breaking down your opponent over the course of 3-10 rounds.(Regardless of if you are switching guys each round)
1st guy was playing defense the whole time, offense wasn't even a factor.
-When a guy is only defending, it's extremely hard to open up anything significant. So before you start throwing wild, close the range. Walk him down and feint him back into the corner. When he's finally done moving and overreacting to your feints/non commital jab, then you hit him with a hard shot when he's at the end of his bob/duck/weave. (Learning when to throw and when not to)
-Work the body. And by body I don't mean his stomach. Hit his chest or arms, not to hurt him, but to stifle him and get him thinking about other attacks besides wild shots to his head.
I don't really see anything wrong with you technique or skills, because it's much better than mine. But I can see your approach and lack of fight experience when you're just trying to brawl and swing like that. You are whiffing the majority of your shots, badly.
I feel like you do way too much hard sparring. I know a lot of training partners who are very dangerous like you, but they try to hurt the other guy with every shot because that's how they learned to train and spar. It gets them really good really fast but they quickly plateau imo.
My opinion would be to find somebody who can give you light work, so you can try out different tactics and strategies. You will find that not every sparring session is a fight and that's it's completely ok to get close to your training partner and work the closer range because he won't be trying to kill you and vice versa.
You and your opponents punch count is extremely low and there is huge periods of inactivity because both of you are swinging to win.
Real work is more punches you throw and more punches get thrown your way. Not two guys throwing and whiffing counters by a mile. Just because you managed to hurt the 2nd guy with 5 punches you landed out of 20 missed by a mile isn't a good thing.
You're really good and very dangerous. Keep up the good work.
I agree with all of your points, the first point about my ability to hurt the people I'm in there with is a big one. But it is one of those things that I am aware of, and try to consciously remember to work on being patient and not relying on power, but can't fix. It bugs the hell out of me, especially when I take unnecessary shots because of my impatience. There is no easy fix for that one for me tho, because the moment I see how they react once I can catch them clean, I get tunnel vision and the only thing in my mind is : land the straight right hand, all defensive skills leave my head and I'm left with just my offensive ones until I get reminded that this is boxing, and I need to box smart.
First guy appeared to be scared before I even did anything, even tho he badly wanted to box with me. I should have done it more often and sooner, but I did indeed put him in the corner, feinted him with a jab to the body and caught him with the right hand up top which was all she wrote.
My punch count is very low, I need to start working my combinations much better and establishing my jab, I'm aware of that. My gas tank is not all that tho because even tho I go in to spar once a week, thats the extent of my training for the most part, I'm not training right now because I got a lot of personal issues I still need to deal with. That is why I only do 3 rounds, not training my body.
Thing is, people that will give me light work will get hit by my light shots and say I'm hitting them hard, which is just not true (speed is power, just quick shots). Then they will try to swing hard, and then I will actually hit them hard. Light sparring session over and back to hard sparring lol
ycm sparring 4 you will see that I seriously took ur advice and worked on it, I will throw much more punches and I won't get impatient (I hope).
First guy didn't pose much danger. Feinting your jab more and getting him to react, and then put the shots together would have helped. As Biscuit said, you're a bit too eager and to get off balanced when throwing some of your shots. It depends on what you want to do as well. If you want to walk someone down, feint more and make him react, and use the jab to the body as well. He had a lot of head movement, so it was an easier target.
You are clearly pretty comfortable against the ropes, but again, learning to walk someone down and putting yourself in a good position is probably the key thing here. When you go in, your feet at lined up at times and you get a little off balance, like at the jab at 0:11. How comfortable are you moving to your own right btw? Seems you only move left, which makes sense as your stance is sideways, your back foot is very turned out and your feet are narrow.
I think the most important thing is to work on getting yourself in good position and cutting corners or taking angles more methodically. Using your jab more and feinting more, setting up shots without trying to make each one a finisher. You like the shell and low lead hand. Maybe try cutting off more space and having a few options to move to your right side, and using your jab actively while doing it, while having the shell ready. Not to change your style necessarily or anything, just to have more options.
Btw, most dangerous thing right now is that you drop your hands when in midrange and throwing hooks, as we talked about. At 4:50 you paid for it. I know you went to the body so there is a natural opening, but it's a tendency you do.
Yep another huge mistake, going to continue to try and be consciously aware of it. Definitely need to learn to cut the ring & need to work on my balance as u said. I'm very comfortable moving to my right, I just move to my left constantly to set up my right hand to the body/head. I definitely should switch it up though. Be nice if I had someone there to tell me these things lol. I did do that with the first guy! He was moving so damn much that I figured I'm just going to watch him and let him get tired, once I realized he was going to constantly dip low and do that I started to feint and land big shots, the first right hand I landed when he was on the ropes if u noticed was off a feint, he slipped to the left and I stuck him. The left hook to the body before I stopped him was actually meant to be for the head, I saw every time I'd feint he would dip over there so I chucked my hook in that direction. Then the finish was a feint down low come over the top and it sealed the deal. Agree 100% about cutting the ring though & movement. I definitely need to stop throwing every shot hard and use set up punches for sure.
The first fight was really frustrating for me to watch. You keep letting him circle away. Then you're circling with him. I would like to see you cut him off and corner him.
He also ducks the same way everytime you jab him. So fake jab and lead uppercut.
Not much to say about the second fight. I agree with the guys who said you back up too much and every shot is filled with bad intention. I wonder if you also make a face before you punch. Throw more feints to setup your shots.
I keep the same face 24/7, I don't box with any kind of emotion shown like some people. hit me with a big shot? no change, I could be wobbled and out and most likely they wouldn't even really know, because I'll have the same blank stare at them.
The hook to the body before the right hand that hurt him was supposed to be that lead uppercut ur looking for, I noticed where he was moving and intended for that shot to be to the head. He talked this big game and came in scared, and I knew when I hit him with a right hand to the body (it hit his arm but I still had pop on it of course), his face changed and he yelled "woo", and then my impatience kicks in because I become aware he is afraid of the punches, like a killer instinct I guess, just need to be much more smart with it.
Cutting the ring is something I badly badly badly need with the style I'm using right now. If you have followed me through my training in the past, one thing that sticks out I'm sure u'll notice is that I box nothing the way I used to, I never needed to cut the ring before. I need to get back to the good things I used to do - pull counters, set up punches, smart boxing. I don't know if its the testosterone being normal or what, but I get a reckless seek and destroy attitude at times, and causes me to do stupid shit like walking into the first guys 2 right hand counters, if he was a bigger puncher maybe he could put me out, so a mistake I really can't afford to make. Same with sano's point about getting countered with the hook cuz my rear hand is down - bigger punchers could really make me pay for that kind of stuff.
I will work on all of those things next week, thank you guys. I'm not training regularly right now so my cardio is very bad, but one thing I do know and am confident of is that (I weigh 132-135 right now), as long as I am punching, guys my weight typically they don't want to punch back. If I can get up my output up to a 24/7 100 punch a round ratio, being defensively responsible, I should be a serious force to be reckoned with. Need to get on Pacquiao level of output and swarm, but of course easier said than done when using an all time great as an example.
Next week I will aim to throw at least 60 punches a round even if it kills me because I have no gas tank lol
Seriously though, all u guys are making 100% valid points that I agree with, thank you.
Also, need to keep my head off center when jabbing!! I realized thats why I have issues establishing my jab with people, is when I jab, I'm right there to be counter jabbed.
