Sparring More Boxing sparring

Trabaho said:
Looks fun, you got experienced movements but you are hitting each other unrealistically light.
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Hey thanks for feedback! Yeah we're going pretty light these days, I would be open to go a bit harder than that but the other guy is much younger, a much better boxer, and is almost too respectful so I don't wanna be the one to turn it up. overall I'm in my late 30's, won't compete, there's no point in going too hard anyway. It often happens against other guys and sometimes I'll take my beating if that's the case.
 
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UWanaPlayDaGame said:
Hey thanks for feedback! Yeah we're going pretty light these days, I would be open to go a bit harder than that but the other guy is much younger, a much better boxer, and is almost too respectable so I don't wanna be the one to turn it up. overall I'm in my late 30's, won't compete, there's no point in going too hard anyway. It often happens against other guys and sometimes I'll take my beating if that's the case.
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dont listen to trabaho you want to do light sparring
 
You are not going to compete don't spar hard with head gears and stuff.

Have fun and enjoy life, there is no need for brain damage.
 
Yeah sparring light is good and smart. Only if you wanted to compete harder sparring would be apropriate.
 
UWanaPlayDaGame said:
I posted something last week but we had a much better session last friday. I am the one wearing white.



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You are circling into his power hand the entire time, dropping your hand and then dipping into his power hand as a reaction to the body shot. You aren't actually slipping, you are just dropping your head down to the perfect spot for his overhand to come over and waiting.

Circle away from the power hand and don't dip down with the low lead hand and pause there. When he does that side to side head movement and throws the looping right, block with a high guard and throw a rear straight down the middle. Straight beats looping especially when it's so telegraphed. Just throw it at his upper chest and he will dip into it. I aim there with fighters who use heaps of head movement anyway. You got into a hook battle.

That's a good intensity to spar at if you don;t want to fight. It's hard though because nobody has to respect what is coming back at them, so they just pressure and take shots they normally wouldn't. That's what your sparring partner is doing. Nobody is going to die if you turn it up 10-20% and have to respect the shots at bit more as you get better.

Enjoy the training mate. Good little set up there and nobody seems to be going crazy and going into each others areas.
 
maximus__ said:
You are circling into his power hand the entire time, dropping your hand and then dipping into his power hand as a reaction to the body shot. You aren't actually slipping, you are just dropping your head down to the perfect spot for his overhand to come over and waiting.

Circle away from the power hand and don't dip down with the low lead hand and pause there. When he does that side to side head movement and throws the looping right, block with a high guard and throw a rear straight down the middle. Straight beats looping especially when it's so telegraphed. Just throw it at his upper chest and he will dip into it. I aim there with fighters who use heaps of head movement anyway. You got into a hook battle.

That's a good intensity to spar at if you don;t want to fight. It's hard though because nobody has to respect what is coming back at them, so they just pressure and take shots they normally wouldn't. That's what your sparring partner is doing. Nobody is going to die if you turn it up 10-20% and have to respect the shots at bit more as you get better.

Enjoy the training mate. Good little set up there and nobody seems to be going crazy and going into each others areas.
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Thanks mate that was as thorough an assessment as I would ever expect! great insight.

it was one of the first things I noticed that at the beginning I circled to my right one time then I circled left again towards the corner! a couple other times in the older video I moved to the right but it was always a big, sudden movement, iirc it felt like I was going to gas if I kept doing that. overall it's so much easier to circle left from orthodox stance, probably that's why I keep doing it. I'll make a point of circling to the other side next time.

I was going to comment on the intensity issue, light sparring only becomes a problem when you take advantage form the "lightness" to walk thru shots, creating bad habits. I always try to pretend those are punches that I shouldn't get hit with. anyway I'm willing to turn it up 10-20% from that level, sometimes it happens and I tend to do a lot worse because I don't know what to do in boxing, don't have the slightest strategy, just move and try to hit the other guy. your insight will give me something to work with from now, thanks!
 
UWanaPlayDaGame said:
Thanks mate that was as thorough an assessment as I would ever expect! great insight.

it was one of the first things I noticed that at the beginning I circled to my right one time then I circled left again towards the corner! a couple other times in the older video I moved to the right but it was always a big, sudden movement, iirc it felt like I was going to gas if I kept doing that. overall it's so much easier to circle left from orthodox stance, probably that's why I keep doing it. I'll make a point of circling to the other side next time.

I was going to comment on the intensity issue, light sparring only becomes a problem when you take advantage form the "lightness" to walk thru shots, creating bad habits. I always try to pretend those are punches that I shouldn't get hit with. anyway I'm willing to turn it up 10-20% from that level, sometimes it happens and I tend to do a lot worse because I don't know what to do in boxing, don't have the slightest strategy, just move and try to hit the other guy. your insight will give me something to work with from now, thanks!
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You don't always have to circle away from the power hand, but it would have been the right thing to do in this situation. My main training partners are south paw so i do the same as i fight for outside position.

If you both just add a touch more power you will both have to respect the other shots and won't just end up spinning around in circles.

Stand your ground more and come forward.
 
maximus__ said:
That's a good intensity to spar at if you don;t want to fight. It's hard though because nobody has to respect what is coming back at them, so they just pressure and take shots they normally wouldn't. That's what your sparring partner is doing. Nobody is going to die if you turn it up 10-20% and have to respect the shots at bit more as you get better.
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That´s my whole point. Not to hurt each other but make it realistic.

Better safe than sorry.

But you could work on making the shots slighlty uncomfortable so you have incentive to block or evade them.

Rather to light than to hard.

I used to word unrealistic.
 
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Have you guys ever sparred anybody or fought anybody? Sparring hard is something you do early in your journey to learn what getting hit is and if you even want to continue doing a striking sport. You spar light and you can do it everyday. if you dont then you wont have any training partners left that is how learning is done. You can definitely be a hands downs fighter just watch Floyd.
 
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