and i threw a jab i'm always thinking about my defense i'm here but i'm always ready the slip
lean back the duck on this video i want to give you three ways to not get hit the name
of the game in boxing is hit and don't be hit after watching this video i'm going to give you
a better understanding of how to defend punches and not get hit tip number three
is the most important one and with tip number three i'm going to give
you a drill that you can use today that's going to improve your skill on not being hit
my name is tony jeffries olympic bronze medalist former undefeated professional boxer
seven times national champion european champion and today i'm joined with my business partner
box and fitness expert kevin watson welcome to my youtube channel so how do you not
get hit in boxing that's just like saying how do i jump in a swimming pool and not get wet you will
get wet you will get hit but the least you can get hit obviously the better it's going to be
for you these three methods is really going to give you a great understanding of not being
hit and method number one tip number one is think about defense always think about something coming
back so if i'm in boxing with kev and i throw a jab i'm always thinking about my defense i'm here
but i'm always ready for something coming back and if i'm thinking about it and i'm ready for a
punch coming back guess what it's going to be way harder for him to be able to land a punch on me
moving on to tip number two is do techniques sparring every sparring doesn't have to be hard
every spar doesn't have to be a winner and a loser do technique sparring to be able to learn
how to defend and with this you can do different drills in your sparring sessions to be able to
help your defense like one will be just using your jabs only and it was bruce lee that said he's not
afraid of the man who's practiced ten thousand kicks one time he's afraid of the man who's
practiced one kick 10 000 times basically he's saying you need to practice whatever you're doing
to get better at that thing so now if i'm doing a sparring session with kev and all i'm working on
is a jabs only you know what what that's going to do with him it's going to help him improve his jab
so we can do different defenses so we can practice maybe one round all i'm doing is jabbing all he's
doing is defending so we can practice different defenses like a parry a slip a lean back a duck
yeah you can practice all them different things and then the next round we can switch where i'm
but i'm defending the jabs only then we can do different technique rounds where it can be I throw
two punches he throws two punches or let's see all he's doing is counter punching all i'm doing is
counter punching now what that's going to do there with the technique sparring is only going to help
improve us as boxers and now tip number three is with this tennis ball before we get into tip
number three this great great drill that i'm going to give you please make sure you subscribe this
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will really help the channel now tip number three is reactions get better reactions the better your
reactions are the less chance you are getting hit now how can you get better reactions well by doing
what i said in tip number two with the technique sparring that will definitely help improve the
reactions then there's drills that you can do with a tennis ball with cones with a slip ball so many
different drills that you can do on reactions that will help improve your skills of not getting hit
i've also got a full boxing drills video package click the link below check out that package where
i give you 50 of the most best boxing drills from around the world all in one package now for this
drill what we're going to do i'm going to get my boxer in front of us in his boxing stance against
the wall i'm going to throw the ball he's got to slip out the way of it before the ball hits him
in the head because he doesn't want to get hit in the head this is variation one i want to give
you a few different variations of this drill to help improve you so this is variation one
yeah and as you can see there he's slipping the ball's coming straight for his head
he's getting out of the way of it now a couple of different things i can do with this variation to
make it harder for my boxer is one i can step closer and throw the ball from here or i can
stay where i am and throw the ball even faster that's going to help him improve his reaction
now another variation of this what i like to do all the time when i'm training people is
have them slip and then throw the counters like in a in a fight you're going to slip and you're
going to come back with your counter punches so every time he slips out the way of the ball
he's going to come back and throw two counter punches and it'll look like this
and that's it there if you like this drill again check out my boxing drills
video package link below if you've got any questions about this please
let me know in the comments below and i will answer thank you for watching