Biggiebrother**
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Just interested in how everyone executes a long range hook when required. Video would be appreciated.
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Just interested in how everyone executes a long range hook when required. Video would be appreciated.
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Just interested in how everyone executes a long range hook when required. Video would be appreciated.
Thanks
I'm going to be in a minority here and will probably get flamed a little, but I don't throw long-range hooks. The long-range hook is a punch that has to travel a relatively long distance to reach it's target, and takes an indirect route to get there. In other words, it's just plain slow. I've found long-range hooks (or roundhouse punches) easy to block or duck. Now I'm working on learning to counter them with fast straight punches.
This philosophy I learned from Jack Dempsey in his book, Championship Fighting.
Yup I use it in that way. Throw a few jabs, then when he thinks another jab is coming, loop around his guard, land, then follow up with a cross and jab out. I like to use it moving backward and to the left as a counter as well, then follow up with a round kick to the body, jab then reset.True, but most of us who use it are either throwing it as:
- a fake off of a jab (jab and you see the the guy parries too far, next time fake the jab and hook)
- throwing it in a fairly straight trajectory like a slapping jab when there's not a clear opening for a jab, to set up a second shot
Tunney said that he was ashamed of himself when he let Dempsey knock him down with a simple lead left hook. No set-up, no nothing: just a simple lead left hook. The point being is that no one should get hit with a shot like that.