Hi there I'm Mike gales for Everlast Nutrition. Welcome to our little
video series on proper boxing technique. Let's take a look at your proper boxing stance.
How to stand? That sounds easy enough. Let's go over the basics.
You don't want to be standing all square. The first you're going to want to
angle yourself to your opponent to make yourself a smaller target. But angle
yourself which way? The question that you have to ask yourself is are you
right-handed or left-handed? You want to lead with your weaker hand and
keep your stronger hand to the rear. You may be asking yourself, why would you
want to lead with your weaker hand? Force is equal to mass times
acceleration. You want to have enough distance between your power hand and
the target so that you can properly accelerate your punch.
The more that you can accelerate that punch, the more force that punch is going to have.
A problem is that if you lead with your stronger arm, in close quarters did might get pinned up
Against your opponent. You will not have the sufficient distance to properly accelerate your punch.
That will leave you defending yourself with only punches from your weaker arm.
You can maximize the effect of your stronger arm in close quarters
by having sufficient distance between your power arm and your opponent.
You'll want to do that by keeping your powered arm and leg to the rear.
Let's take a look at your hand position. Instead of standing here all square,
I'm going to angle my lead shoulder to the center of my opponent.
Next I'm going to raise my hands up to about the level of my eyes.
It's important to note here that I didn't just bring my hands up,
I also brought my head down. My hands are also not blocking my vision.
Just as important, if not more important than my hand position, is that my shoulders are nice and high to protect my chin.
I am also not holding my hands up all the way out in front of me.
I keep them in nice and tight to protect any incoming shots.
I also keep my elbows in to protect my body but not wide open leaving my ribs exposed.
Now here you seen it from the side view, nice comfortable and compact in my boxing stance.
Why do some boxers keep their lead hand Low?
There are pros and cons to doing this. As for the pros, there is less
shoulder fatigue, better body coverage and an unhindered view. Yet this also
takes greater reflexes. As for the cons, your head is less protected and you may
get hit with a shot that you don't see. This will always be a personal
preference, but I recommend in the beginning to keep your hands up.
One thing to note is that even though the boxers hand is down, his shoulder is
still up high to protect his chin. His head is not just popping out like that.
His shoulder is up high and that chin is tucked in. You'll see from the side view,
that his face is still quite well-protected. Even though his hand is down.
Let's take a look at your foot position. Remember that you want to angle
yourself to your opponent, to make yourself a smaller target.
Yet it's important that you remain comfortable and on balance. Put your feet diagonally apart.
A little bit wider than shoulder width. Put your hands up and angle that
shoulder towards the center of your opponent. One mistake that beginners
often make when trying to angle themselves to their opponent, is that
their feet are in a straight line. That will leave you vulnerable to being
knocked off balance. Avoid having your feet in a straight line so that you
don't easily get knocked over . Remember to keep your feet diagonally apart.
A little bit wider than shoulder width. One last little thing. I'm going to keep my rear heel up.
We'll get to why I'm going to do that in just a moment.
Here we are from the side view again nice and compact in our boxing stance.
The feet diagonally apart and my rear heel is up.
Now you're comfortable with your boxing stance,
you don't want to sit there and be a punching bag. You my friend are going to
need to move. When moving your boxing stance it's very important
that your feet never cross. If your feet cross, you will have zero offense and zero defense.
You're most likely going to get knocked down. So make sure that your fee do not cross.
We're going to move in a very specific manner.
If you're going to go forward, then you're going to move your forward foot first.
If you're going to move backwards, you're going to move your backward foot first.
If you move forward, you will move your forward foot first.
If you move backwards, you move your back foot first.
The same thing when moving laterally side to side.
If you're going to the right, we'll be right foot first.
If you went to the left, move your left foot first. So let's have a quick recap.
Keep your hands up. Keep your shoulders up. Keep your chin down and most
importantly keep your eyes up. Keep your eyes on what you're doing.
Having a good boxing stance will give you a biomechanical advantage to have a good punching power.
It will also limit the exposure of soft targets like your chin and ribcage.
Remember to keep your feet wider than shoulder-width.
Keep an equal weight distribution between both of your legs. Keep your feet diagonal to each other.
Remember not to keep them in a straight
line because you'll get knocked over.
Remember to keep your rear heel up. This will make it much easier for you to move
back and forth in your boxing stance. It will also make it much easier for you
to transfer your weight to deliver hard punches. We will get to that in the next
couple of videos. Angle your lead shoulder and your lead leg towards your opponent.
Protect yourself at all times. This has been Mike gales
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