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All right, so on this video today, I'm going to talk about
three common mistakes that we see with defense, right?
When you're trying to defend punches, three things that we
see quite often that could be better.
So, number one, when you parry in the jab, right, the standard
defense of the jab, if I throw my jab, she's going to parry it
with the backhand, the right hand, right?
She's going to catch that jab in the glove and try and
deflect it, right?
Now, the common mistake we see with this is the glove coming
away from the head and trying to meet the punch too early.
The way this should be is she should let the jab travel and
catch it right in front of the face.
Boom
right there, boom.
The reason why she should let it travel and catch it in front
of the face is because the glove should never come away
from the headlights.
It should be in this zone all the time.
If she brings that glove too far out, I can easily get around.
She's creating gaps, right?
So it just takes a quick faint, and then I can land power
punches from there.
So the gloves should be by the head.
So the common mistake we see with this, as soon as she sees
the glove goal is coming all the way out to meet that jab
there.
It's too far out, right?
We don't want to see anything big.
With defensive boxing, less is more.
That's the key.
You always want small, intricate, simple movements.
That's the key to good defenses relying on the reflexes.
So let the jab travel be comfortable.
I want it to come close to the head and just meet it at the
last minute.
The key is just to concentrate.
Boom.
There, boom, boom, boom.
And then having a tight fist and just trying to deflect that
jab a little bit.
So a common mistake, number one, when parrying the jab, the
glove coming too far away from the head.
All right, let's take a second defensive move.
So we're working on head movement.
Now, if she was to slip the jab, same concept right here.
She only needs to go the width of the glow.
If I'm slipping that punch, I only need to go here.
I don't need to go super big.
And that's something we see quite a lot.
It's way too much movement, way too much energy exerted.
And it's just not an efficient movement pattern.
I'll show you in a second why it's not efficient.
If she slips this, she should be slipping it a few inches.
Do a good slip there.
Just let that jab slide over the shoulder, right?
She goes too big, boom.
Now look at that body position, right?
She's not in a position from there to throw anything, really.
She's too far loaded up on the back foot.
The upper body is out of sync.
That is not a good position to throw a counter punch.
Now, the key to good defense is you not only defending the
punch and avoiding getting hit, obviously, but you want to be
in a good position to counter punch.
That's the key to good defense.
And if she just slips slightly, six to eight inches, small
movement, boom.
Straight away, she's loaded up.
She's on balance, she's in a great position to throw
absolutely anything, and she's in a great position to move her
feet to throw a punch herself.
She can do anything from there.
And that's what we should be in every time we defend a punch.
So anytime you're slipping punches, remember, less is more.
Six to eight inches, small movements back here, right?
It doesn't have to be super big and wide like this.
You're going to waste tons of energy, and you're not going to
be in a good position to land counter punches as well.
All right, guys, so before we get to number three, the third
common mistake on defending the jab, I just want to remind you
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So the third one, probably the most important one and the most
common that people tend to forget very easily, is not
anticipating the counter punch.
So if I throw the jab, she parries the job with the back
glove, and then she throws the counter punch.
I defend that.
A lot of people think, oh, I've defended the punch, I've
countered jab's done, right?
And they kind of switch off for that split second.
So not anticipating the counter punch and not anticipating
double enough or a second punch coming in is also a common
mistake, especially with novices and beginners.
People starting to get used to defense, start thinking about
two punches, three punches, more punches coming.
The jab is not done after one jab.
So, for example, if she catches the jab and then she just kind
of relaxes for a second, doesn't anticipate the second
jab, guess what?
The second jab is going to get through.
So boom, boom, right? It's going to catch you off guard,
and then I can start throwing like a lazy jab, lazy jab fine,
and then throw the second one with a bit more force, because
I've seen that they kind of switch off after they feel like
they've got that confidence from
parrying that first jab.
Now, if she gets the confidence from parrying the jab and
decides to throw a counter boom, right, then I can let that
happen a couple of times as well.
So I'll let that happen, build that confidence up for her
because I know she's not anticipating my counter of the
counter, if that makes sense.
So throw the jab, she counters with the jab and let that
happen a couple of times.
Boom, boom.
Right
now, this time I'm like, okay, I can see that they're
switching off.
They're comfortable throwing that counter.
So I'm just going to count with the counter this time.
And nine times out of ten, if that's the way it's going with
people, that kind of switch off after that defense and get
proud of the defense, then you'll land that counter counter.
So boom, boom, boom.
There.
Kind of reel them into that again
there.
Go.
All right, so just switching off after you've defended,
never switch off.
Just because you've parried a jab doesn't mean you can be
comfortable or just because you've slipped one punch.
You can't then think, oh, slip, great, start celebrating, take
a picture, do all that stuff.
No, that's just the start of it.
You've slipped to parry it whatever it is.
Anything else can happen after that.
So always switched on.
So common mistake number three, not anticipating doubling up
the punches, not anticipating the counter punches.
Always switched on no matter what.
All right, thanks for watching this video.
Hope that helps you out with your defense.
Try it out.
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