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Glad I stumbled upon this thread. Lots to read.
fantastic collection of jabs! Thank you very much for the succinct and knowledgeable archive.
I'm a bigger fan of UFC than I am of boxing, so please forgive my ignorance, but in UFC sometimes a fighter will be right handed, but fight as a southpaw (as did Bruce Lee), does this happen in boxing?
If so, do they ever throw cross step punches
MMA made EASY: Cross-step punch - YouTube
or vertical jabs
MMA made EASY: Vertical Jab How to Tutorial - YouTube
to exploit that power?
(and if so, is it legal for them to do so?)
Also, is the switchfoot jab done in boxing?
MMA made EASY: Switchfoot Jab - Part 1 - YouTube
The video quality of Mohammed Ali isn't the best, but it looks similar?
In former mma fighter Jeff Joslin
Who do you guys think have the best jab in boxing today (active fighters)?
Usually in Boxing if a guy is fighting with the hand he writes with forward, the dominant hand, it's because of how well he throws a hook. Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, guys like that. Not because of how well they throw straight punches. Their right hands are thought of as relatively weak. Though they always have respectable ones due to technique.
We also try to avoid crossing our feet, as it's not an optimal position for dissipating force. In other words, if you get countered, you're just kind of left floating. Whereas keeping the feet lined with the shoulders, and proportionate to the hips, allows for defensive liability. The vertical-fist jab is only displayed in the trip-hammer version thrown by Felix Trinidad. Though he did not turn his hip for the reason that if he turns that hip, there's no motion left for a hook, and he was one of those guys with a MONSTER left hook.
As for the switch-foot jab, in your video when you initiate the motion with the slight pull back, I like that a lot. I often have students do a similar motion, but then they just give a slight step, pressing the weight into the front toe, and launching the jab at the same time while simultaneously pushing the chest back/upward. This adds a lot of pressure and power. Now, if they want to move forward, we employ the hop-step, which moves forward similarly but does not sacrifice positioning.
I'm not sure how this looks, but if it's a forward lunge type motion then no. I'm not an advocate of bringing the head forward on a jab unless it's to bait a specific reaction and even then, not putting a lot of weight on it.
Have you ever considered putting something up for the corkscrew? I love punching that way at times to vary things up a bit.
In an earlier post I think you said the knees slightly point away from each other when jabbing.
How about in the power jab?
What about this thing my coach taught me today: it was an excercise where my partner threw a 1-2 and I had to either block or parry the jab, shoulder-parry the straight then step forward with my right leg while throwing a left and then a right.
He told me that yes, it's more intuitive to throw the right after but the left is so unexpected from that position.
I had a lot of trouble getting the movement down but when I did it right I almost always caught him (not like I was hitting him on the button hard, just coach pointed it out).
Told me he learned it from an old-school russian boxing coach.
Yo Sinister,
Thanks for education in jabs. Didn't know there's more than one.
Are there any youtube vids you reccomend for beginners regarding jabs? I watched several on youtube but don't know which ones are good because the comments always have haters.
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First there's the "King All" of jabs. "Bazooka" Ike Quartey. Most of youse have seen this before, but it doesn't get much better than this when it comes to the standard jab:
YouTube - Ike Quartey Prepares For Vernon Forrest
It's just perfect. Shuck of the shoulder, flex of the knees, a tiny step when he wants to add power, and the cross follows beautifully. Ike's basic jab was hardly ever matched in the Sport. So when you practice your basic jab, that's what you're aiming for.