Coaching boxing class; what drills should we do?

[toucher]

I've been boxing at a mainly jiu jitsu gym for awhile now, about a year and a few months. Our coach was a competitive amateur boxer for a couple years and is a good guy and a good teacher, but he has gone out of town for the next month and has left me up to lead classes. We have a set couple of drills we do and it's nothing fancy but I wanted to go to you guys for some suggestions on drills I could do to help out our guys.

Usually we start off with 3-5 3 minute rounds of skipping, few rounds of shadow boxing, few rounds of the heavy bag, then i'll either start pulling guys into the ring with me to work the mitts just jabbing, double jabbing, crosses, hooks, and putting them together into combos, or i'll have them partner up for slipping/parrying drills. then we finish up with 20 and 4 drills on the heavy bag (20 fast straight punches and 4 fast hooks) for a round or two for conditioning, or finish with fast jump roping.

do you guys have any suggestions for drills we can add to our practice? most of the guys i'm training have only been boxing for 3-4 months. thanks.

edit: you guys have any good drills for working footwork/changing angles? i've been wanting to work on that with them.

 

[AllKnowing]

Possibilities are endless.

A good, basic routine that involves a bit of footwork mixed in with some combination punching goes a little something like this...(I'm sure it has a name, I just don't know it)

Line up the participants, demonstrate a punch combo (jab, cross, hook or jab, cross, hook uppercut). At the conclusion of the combo have the participants rotate to their right using proper sliding and stepping technique. Not difficult for long time practitioners but challenging to those who are relatively new.

It's good at helping to establish proper footwork when using angles and turning.

 

[Ryukyu Damashi]

Just do what he teaches. Don't try to add anything if you are not the main coach.

 

[AllKnowing]

Also, when in doubt, you can't go wrong with some mitt work and sparring, assuming you have the room.

Pair em off and have em go about 60%. It'll help them get accustomed to the contact when it's time to go 100%.

Another decent exercise (again, assuming you have the room) includes pairing everybody up, with one person wearing gloves and the other using pads. You can have them start off at two opposite ends of the room. The one wearing gloves can start by doing a certain number of push-ups. When done, they run to their partner, drop a 10 set of a certain combo and then run back to the starting position to do their push-ups again.

If you're aiming at a cardio work-out it would definitely work.

 

[toucher]

Just do what he teaches. Don't try to add anything if you are not the main coach.

I will ask him before I do anything of course, we've been exchanging phone calls about how practice is going. He trusts my judgement.