thehairyfairy
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So I do Muay Thai and Boxing separately, whilst preparing for my first upcoming MMA fight which will happen at the start of February, I was at my boxing gym sparring with the coach (neither of us wearing headgear) and got completely outworked, the first few minutes I was doing well, landing shots, working the jab etc.. then when he worked out my rhythm, he started picking me apart, but my biggest problem was when I ate a nice uppercut, whenever I'd come in range to land my shots I'd be worried about eating a shot on the way out and became a lot more erratic with my strikes and kept my hands up a lot more and was just more anticipative about his strikes, covering up a lot more than I normally do etc.. which has never been a problem sparring with any of the other guys at the gym. The only positive I took from this session was I can safely say I can take a beating and stay on my feet.
I've seen videos of Tyrone Spong, Jerome Le Banner, Alistair Overeem and several professional boxers and all their sparring partners cover up exactly the same way during hard sparring and fight a lot more erratically, is there any way to counteract this during sparring, I asked my coach and he kept reinforcing the ideas of angles but it would be appreciated if anyone here could give me a couple of pointers or useful tips.
Thanks in advance, The Hairy Fairy.
I've seen videos of Tyrone Spong, Jerome Le Banner, Alistair Overeem and several professional boxers and all their sparring partners cover up exactly the same way during hard sparring and fight a lot more erratically, is there any way to counteract this during sparring, I asked my coach and he kept reinforcing the ideas of angles but it would be appreciated if anyone here could give me a couple of pointers or useful tips.
Thanks in advance, The Hairy Fairy.