All right, the four most common mistakes that I see with
beginners?
Number one is getting too square to the target. With boxing
we want to be rotating with those power punches with the
cross, with the hook, with the upper cuts with the body shots.
Those power punches require a lot of rotation, right?
Now imagine if a baseball player was on the mound, and he
was trying to throw a pitch from a square position right
here.
It's impossible to generate force and speed and power.
So you see a pitcher the completely side on like this.
Then they can really whip and rotate through that shot.
I threw that pitch the same with the batting side too.
Their side on
then they can rotate through the power.
Exactly
the same principle applies to boxing.
If I'm square like this, I can't rotate my core or my hips
or generate power through the lower body that way.
So we got to be kind of side on like this.
Obviously, we don't want to be baseball style, where we
completely side on, because then if we try and throw a
punch right here, then we're easily off balance.
So, kind of like that quarter side on right here.
Left shoulder is always forward facing the target common
mistake I see with beginners.
They start to kind of peel that front shoulder back, because
they feel like they need to get power in that jab.
So they'll start off like this.
Then as the session goes on and gets more and more like this,
and the shoulders will end up square.
Sometimes the hips will be pretty side on, but the
shoulders get peeled back and end up throwing the punches
like this.
And again, there's no rotation through the shoulders.
The shoulders, the hips, the feet, everything is one unit.
It's all got to go together.
So if we concentrate as a beginner if you're a beginner
boxer, and you want to get better at rotating through your
punches and develop more power then think about keeping that
lead shoulder, facing your target the whole time, and your
back shoulder back and away from you.
Then you can whip it through with your punches, and with
that front shoulder through with your hooks.
So think about shoulders side on, hips side on, feet side on
that way
we can rotate the minute that you get this going on, that
rotation's gone power's not happening.
So just watch out for getting too square. The other thing as
well
if we apply that to boxing,
if I was boxing against Mark right here, if I'm siding on
right here, I can create traffic.
So it's harder for each punch is to get through the minute
that I'm kind of Squirt.
Even if my feet are in a good position.
But my body's square,
I'm a huge target.
It's easy for him to hit that.
I might as well be a punching bag right. Side on right here,
my target, the target you've got to hit is a lot narrower,
and I can get that traffic in front there if it's harder for
him to get those punches through.
So it always avoids getting the shoulders squared and getting
into a square of a position.
That's the common mistake I see with a lot of people new to
boxing.
Second, one is a footwork issue.
So we tend to see people get comfortable with the movement,
and they'll move the front foot first correctly like this,
right?
And they'll move the back foot first going backwards like this.
So the footwork movement isn't too bad.
But what they'll tend to get into the habit of is landing on
the heel on the front foot.
And we'll see this.
Heel to toe, bring it up, heel to toe, bring it up.
Now, the last thing we want to do in boxing is beyond that
heel right.
Now the whole foot can be on the floor.
But the weight should be right here in the ball of the foot.
We're on the toes all the time on the balls of the feet.
That's where the weight should be.
We got a grip that floor.
Then we've got the power in the feet.
So whenever you come in forwards, try and avoid landing
that heel first, the minute that the heel lands, right?
And the weight in that heel, I can't get out from there and
push off back.
It's harder.
It's going to stop you from doing what you want to do with
your feet.
You should be able to do anything and go in any
direction at any time you want
when you're in your boxing stance.
So right here on that front foot, we need to be landing on
the ball of the foot on the ball of the foot coming back.
So always on those toes forward, back.
Okay, so just watch out for that
heel common mistake
I see with beginners, they get comfortable on that heel and
kind of step in it like this.
So really stay out of those heels when we're traveling as
well.
Number three is not fully extended on your punches.
And most of the time, it's due to doing too much mitt work and
not enough
not enough shadow boxing.
So beginners who kind of get used to heavy bags and mitt
work a lot, they'll stand too close on the heavy bag and
start lifting the elbows and shorten it up, throwing punches,
and then they'll get coaches
who can I do a lot of work for them, and they'll catch the
punches right here and shorten up the straight shot by
slamming the mitts
too far into the gloves.
And the 1-2 becomes like half punches where the elbows are
flowing as well.
That's the last thing we want to do.
The whole benefit of that 1-2, or those straight punches, is
that long arm, the power and the rotation through the body
should be right at the end of that fist.
That jab is there to create that range.
And then when he throws that 2, boom! It's right where the jab
was right now is fully extended.
He's fully rotated.
The weight come through the power that's generated through
that rotation, right at the end of the fist.
If it's short and the elbows bent, it's a half punch, or
we're going to even fall short.
So if you're a coach watching this when you're catching that
2, make sure your boxer can fully extend that arm,
encourage them to rotate with it by rotating yourself.
So, go back in 2.
Good, through.
Good, fully extend.
You can hear that snap now for shorten that up.
And I do too much work and meet the punch too much.
It shortens up the right hand, 2.
And you can hear the difference in the sound, right?
Hopefully that's coming through on the camera.
The difference in the sound is huge.
Now, fully extend punch through.
Again.
There.
Hear that pop, right?
I'm just standing my ground and just kind of half move in with
him and allowing him to drive right through the pad and fully
extend the arm.
Now think of this as well, in terms of
how solid that punch is.
If you think here
right now,
don't let me push you off balance.
Right?
So we've got all that weight there's about 60 percent weight
transferred to that front leg, I'm going to try to push him back
using a solid position, he's braced right there right now,
bending on,
yeah,
noodley, nowhere near as strong, right?
So think of that
force is at the end of the fist.
So much stronger position where more unbalanced, the weight
transferred its way
I wanted to be pushed off balance from there.
I'm bent, you're not as solid.
Okay.
So think of that.
That's another benefit to fully extending the arm, engaging
that core, the legs, everything that shoulders behind the punch.
And the full force of that rotation is right at the end of
the fist.
So if you're new to boxing anytime you're throwing a 1 or
a 2 lost point, she's make sure those arms are fully extended.
And the way you're going to do that is by giving yourself the
right correct amount of range when you're punching the heavy
bag by doing plenty of shadow boxing, and really
concentrating on long arms
every time you throw the straight punches. If you're a
coach and you're teaching somebody new to boxing, allow
them to fully extend, please allow them to fully extend on
that one, and that two by standing your ground, don't go
start doing the work for them.
All right.
So before I get to number four, probably the most common
mistake I see with beginners.
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Alright.
So number four, I probably the most common one that we see a
lot of with people new to boxing, simply holding the
breath, right.
Everyone's like, oh, boxing's really hard, and they're making
it ten times out of himself than it would normally would be
by not exhaling with the punches if he throws for
straight punches and holds his breath.
So hold your breath and throw four straight punches.
right?
Sounds pretty good.
Now if he exhales
breathes out on all four punches, do it again.
Good.
That force is coming out, is allowing the breath, the force
to go into the shots, too.
So it allows him to get the
air out and then breathe again.
And then he's fresh to go again, right?
If he held his breath for every single punch in a two-minute
round, right?
The heart rates going to skyrocket.
It's the kind of that feeling of being underwater.
You're holding your breath, holding your breath.
You've got to come up for air at some point.
So it's all about the efficiency.
If we're exhaling with every single punch and then a lot of
people new to boxing, think they've got to kind of tie it
open,
hold that breath, and to get the force, it's actually the
complete opposite, soon as that fish lands exhale.
And then we're right back to relaxing and breathing again,
right?
So it's an explosive burst without breath 1 2 1 2,
nice.
And now we're relaxing again.
We're not tight again.
1 2 1 2
relaxing and breathing.
Okay, now, if you hold his breath, hold your breath,
the timing's harder.
Everything's kind of forced, right?
It's inefficient.
There's nowhere we can last a long time if we're, if we're
doing that.
So you're going to die quickly.
And, you know, the heart rates going to skyrocket, your
session's not going to last very long.
And your fitness isn't going to improve.
So always every single punch exhale, if you need to make a
sound, do it.
But yeah, exhaling and holding the breath.
Huge issue we see with beginner boxers.
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