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Is this strictly boxing or kickboxing as well? - I'm a southpaw and spar with former UFC fighters weekly, I usually get caught a lot by the left overhand, straight right cross and left outside low kick. But other than that my advise to you is to just bite down on your mouthpiece and slug it out if the SP is giving you to much trouble from the outside. That's the way I get beat up in the gym lol. But being a southpaw is awesome I confuse everybody the first couple of rounds I spar them.
Are you not actually being taught any of these things you need to add?
what do you think makes this transition difficult for some fighters, these days? could it be excessive pad work with insufficient sparing, or not enough defensive drills for fighters to be comfortable using the techniques sparring?That's because when you're doing pads no one is ACTUALLY trying to hurt you. If you understand slips and rolls and whatnot, you need to trust them and just give them a shot, because it sounds like you don't. There's a missing step between the pad work and the sparring where the moves aren't translating, but that's pretty common nowadays.
what do you think makes this transition difficult for some fighters, these days? could it be excessive pad work with insufficient sparing, or not enough defensive drills for fighters to be comfortable using the techniques sparring?
this is kinda my thoughts as well. too much pad work with inexperienced holders is a pet hate of mine. you can usually tell when someone has done to much pad work and not enough sparring, they expect their opponents to stay there to be hit and throw a lot of air combinations.Im interested as well. I think it maybe unrealistically hitting pads, like just smashing upon smashing. Pretty rare you will get to unload like that without taking an angle or moving somehow.
Forget where i hear this but most prospects (at least in mma) lack ingrained defense that usually comes later. Maybe from more padwork than actual experience?
drilling imowhat do you think makes this transition difficult for some fighters, these days? could it be excessive pad work with insufficient sparing, or not enough defensive drills for fighters to be comfortable using the techniques sparring?
that's basically how i learnt as a kid. with a old dude dancing round slapping me with the pads on, still to this day some of the best boxing training i have done.drilling imo
Also lame pad work, I see alot of times when padwork just becomes almost like a repetition exercise like hammering out pushups. Its not dynamic, yes there should be a combo the hitter (for a lack of better work) needs to do, but for the most part it should be "freestyled" with the holder making the hitter work on their movement, ring cuts, etc. Really drills and padwork should end up being similar to sparring in some way.
that's basically how i learnt as a kid. with a old dude dancing round slapping me with the pads on, still to this day some of the best boxing training i have done.
193cm so like around 6,4 I guess?@Mad Dollar how tall are you?
Good stuff dude, every time the dude is giving you too much trouble do what you just did and give him hell, and don't let him dictate where the fight takes places, you put the pressure on him and make him feel your presence in the sparring session.!Strictly boxing. Well I get a beat down in Thursday again from the same SP. And in the end this is what I did - got in and swingged. Other people also recommended the left over hand hookish and I cough him once with a good hook.
I am looking more into a head movement now. Head movement and footwork and to improve on this aspect. I am noticing bad patterns such as moving only backwards and etc. Honestly the moment I went inside, while having no experience or knowledge how to in fight and started swinging I started giving him troubles. So I tough as long as I add some nice head movement with footwork going in I should do way better.