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I want to train something specific. I have no clue how to explain it well.
So I renewed my boxing training this week. I will go twice per week. We spar a lot and I have noted before I had problems with being gun shy and had some troubles actually fighting. I received a good advice and I have been working on it.
Anyway today I got a realization that I am gunshy mostly because I have not developed habits on what to do when being attacked. So there are no reflexes, no actual habits on how to react in different situations.
For example today I get attacked and I block a right hook and there is a huge opening in front of me. I trow my left hook and then I stop. I could have launched a serious attack in that situation.
Another problem is that my guard sux in a real fight. On the bag it may look okay ... for awhile, but I get punched a lot on the heat of a fight. I have added today a lot of head movement, slips, ducks, in order to compensate for the bad guard and it worked okay. This actually got me in new situations I have no experience with. Somehow I managed to get in close distance after a duck... and then again I had no clue what to do, although I was seeing I could attack.
I was thinking - man I have to create some habits and drill some punches or combos. So my body learns how to react to these situations. I need to create these habits.
Another problem I ve got is that I am not confident in my attacking. On the heavy bag and the pads my combos look okay, but when sparring I really do not feel like attacking much. I am going forward and not really afraid to get hit, yet I rather stand there and try to counter incomming shots than attack myself.
So I ve got a heavy bag acces and obviously I can shadow box on my own. Any advice what to do to deal with this problem.
So I renewed my boxing training this week. I will go twice per week. We spar a lot and I have noted before I had problems with being gun shy and had some troubles actually fighting. I received a good advice and I have been working on it.
Anyway today I got a realization that I am gunshy mostly because I have not developed habits on what to do when being attacked. So there are no reflexes, no actual habits on how to react in different situations.
For example today I get attacked and I block a right hook and there is a huge opening in front of me. I trow my left hook and then I stop. I could have launched a serious attack in that situation.
Another problem is that my guard sux in a real fight. On the bag it may look okay ... for awhile, but I get punched a lot on the heat of a fight. I have added today a lot of head movement, slips, ducks, in order to compensate for the bad guard and it worked okay. This actually got me in new situations I have no experience with. Somehow I managed to get in close distance after a duck... and then again I had no clue what to do, although I was seeing I could attack.
I was thinking - man I have to create some habits and drill some punches or combos. So my body learns how to react to these situations. I need to create these habits.
Another problem I ve got is that I am not confident in my attacking. On the heavy bag and the pads my combos look okay, but when sparring I really do not feel like attacking much. I am going forward and not really afraid to get hit, yet I rather stand there and try to counter incomming shots than attack myself.
So I ve got a heavy bag acces and obviously I can shadow box on my own. Any advice what to do to deal with this problem.