do you follow youtube influencers who give boxing tips

[mozfonky]

Yeah every fighter should have punch variety. I like when they have both variations of a shot like short & long straights/crosses. Some dorks in the comments were critiquing Laszlo Papp's punch technique? LOL. The guy's a 3x Olympic gold medalist. There's nothing 'wrong' with his left hook. YouTube is crawling with fake experts on boxing.

One thing I know, is that there are a variety of ways doing things, often contradictory. I think
Frank had a way of parrying the jab that I wasn't keen on too. And.., some of it depends on who you're fighting, some people think you can parry the jab with a flick of the wrist, turning the palm in front of the face, well, try that with a guy with a jab like a right hand and who also has a long reach and you'll see the problem with that. Either Way, Frank knows his stuff, no doubt about it. Like i always say, only way to be in 100 percent agreement with another man is to be brainwashed.

 

[mozfonky]

jeff fenech had a great series on youtube, not sure if it's still there or not, also, I think Freddie Roach had a few too, no reason to even pay attention to these young kids who want attention with some of the stuff that's out there. Anyway, the best teacher for me was to really analyze what good fighters do. I also like to seek out what goes wrong when they lose because it's often technical, sometimes physical and sometimes mental. It really is often technical which is a bitch because a fighter can't tell why what's going wrong is going wrong and they have no way of fixing it on the spot oft times.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

One thing I know, is that there are a variety of ways doing things, often contradictory. I think
Frank had a way of parrying the jab that I wasn't keen on too. And.., some of it depends on who you're fighting, some people think you can parry the jab with a flick of the wrist, turning the palm in front of the face, well, try that with a guy with a jab like a right hand and who also has a long reach and you'll see the problem with that. Either Way, Frank knows his stuff, no doubt about it. Like i always say, only way to be in 100 percent agreement with another man is to be brainwashed.

There will always be different applications of a technique, different variations, and so forth. Some more fundamentally sound than others. Tim Witherspoon was teaching an old school type of jab defense where you simply rotate the wrist outwards to catch them when they come in. It's subtle, efficient, and economical. Obviously it's just one line of defense against that particular type of punch. Defensively aside from catching punches you should still know how to properly slip/parry/block/roll. As for parrying it should be subtle. That's what I was taught. Big movements mean you have to commit more, it will leave larger openings, and will take longer to fully recover your guard.

 

[shu80]

Frank had a way of parrying the jab that I wasn't keen on too. And.., some of it depends on who you're fighting, some people think you can parry the jab with a flick of the wrist, turning the palm in front of the face, well, try that with a guy with a jab like a right hand and who also has a long reach and you'll see the problem with that.

@mozfonky this is exactly the type of idea I want to have before starting to take in person lessons. That can come from seasoned professionals on youtubem, and also pasionate fans who analyzed professional boxers and understood their weakness.

For example, this post will help me when I am starting to take lessons.

I can experiment taking and blocking jabs from a taller and a normal sized partner proactively, without having to find out my strategy has holes after a few months and then get frustrated and backtrack

 

[shu80]

Being new, my posts show later, so please accept my apologies if you expect a response