it's very hard for him to break my guard i've let the shoulder take the other
punch i can get there and back faster on this video i'm going to talk about the four
different stances and guards that we see in boxing i'm also going to tell you the pros
and cons of each one and give you some tips on how to beat someone with that boxing stance
my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated professional seven
times national champion european champion and today i'm joined by my business partner
top box and fitness expert Kevan Watson so the first stance is kind like the roy jones
jr prince nazim hammed this is a stance that everyone thinks looks cool and it does look cool
and people try to do which is having their hands down so i'll be in front of my opponent I'll have
my wide stance my hands down head moving and this is a good stance
for a lot of reasons but as well it's a bad stance for a lot of reasons and the
reason why it's good is i'm in front of my opponent here i'm moving if he throws a jab
i can slip and come back with my counter punches there and it makes him really think and makes
him really wary about throwing the punches if i'm in front of him like this then he'll throw a jab
and i'll come back and he'll slip out of the way so the pros with this is your opponent doesn't
know what you're going to throw which makes it very wary for him to throw a punch because
he's going to be expecting a counter punch coming from a different sort of angle than he's used to
and as well another pro with having this style is you're staying relaxed your upper body's relaxed
you're not using too much energy compared to traditional boxing styles where you might be tight
now going on to the cons about this style is well the first one is your hands is down you're wide
open and all you're doing for defense is relying on your reaction so you've got to have very very
good reactions to have this boxing stance so if you're in the ring with an opponent like this
how would you beat them well i want to give you a couple of different ways the first thing you want
to be doing is you want to be feinting and you want to be thrown the punch because if he's feinting all
the time to me now what that does that keeps me thinking and now i'm getting aware of your throwing
punches because i don't know what's going to come back at me so yeah definitely keep feinting and
then the other way to beat someone like this is throw multiple punches if you're throwing single
punches throwing single punches i can always come back with the counters and that's what i would
want if i had that boxing stance it's my opponent to throw single punches so i can counter him fast
now what he should do is throw multiple punches moving forward now let's see if he throws multiple
punches at me and i've got my hands down now i'm here now i'm on the ropes now i'm where he wants
me to be which is on the rope so that's what you want to do you want to throw multiple punches try
and cutting the ring down getting this guy to get onto the ropes keeping them hands tight always be
wary of the counter punches coming at you number two is the peekaboo style and we see fighters
like a mike tyson with his hands up in this peekaboo style position and my favorite fighter
to have this style was ronald winky wright and i've done a full video on the tight guard the pros
and cons so click up here wherever it is and watch that full video because i'll break it down for you
telling you exactly what you need to know about that and this is called the peekaboo style because
when you've got your hands up every time you pull your hands down you've got to see a peekaboo
that's that's a joke you don't do that so with this stance you've got your hands up and you're
very tight you want to be covering your full body here so if i'm in with a traditional boxer and
i've got this peekaboo style my hands up and he throws the punches it's very hard for him
to break my guard get through and create space with these punches here it's great for not getting hit
that is the biggest pro for this is obviously the defense you've got your hands up you can't
really get hit when you're in that position now the cons for me totally outweigh the pros
the cons are even right there when he's still throwing the punches if you notice he's just
touching there but the punches are still hitting my glove against my head so i can still feel it
and as well when he is here and he's throwing the punches like my vision is very blocked it's hard
to really see and when he throws them hooks around the side i can't see these punches coming because
i'm blocking here now the other thing is when i want to throw punches my punches have got to
come all the way from here all the way out all the way back they've got that extra distance to travel
compared to the traditional style if i'm here it's got less distance to travel than here and
now the less distance it's got to travel the faster it's going to get there so there are a
couple of the cons of the peekaboo style so how to beat someone with this style i mean the the
big thing is try and keep the punches long you don't want to smooth your punches he's trying to
get in close to me so if he's in close to me now i mean he's ranged now he can throw the punches and
land them i want to try and keep the punches long keep him out the distance like this and then from
there what i want to do is try and create space so i'll hit him up to the head to try and land
our body shot hit him up with the body then try and land the head shots after that so hitting high
going low hitting low going high and as well not smothering your work not letting him dictate the
pace and put the pressure on and definitely you want to keep off the ropes when you're fighting
someone like this number three is the philly shell now this is getting very popular through
the likes of floyd mayweather also roy jones was a master at the philly shell as well and what you're
doing here you're defending your body with your lead hand here your back hands here defending the
hooks that's coming in and then your shoulder is defending the straight punches here and because your
hands are here you've got great vision to see everything else that's coming at ya so when i'm
boxing the philly shell here and he'll pull the one two i'll defend it like this one two again
so i've parried and then i've let the shoulder take the other punch okay even when he aims for
my head there i'm defending that by blocking with the shoulder which can be very effective and then
if he throws the one two hook i'll defend it with this one so he's done the one two
hook there i've defended with my back hand there again one two hook yeah so it can be very useful
for defending punches like i said with the vision open it's great because you've got great vision so
the pros with the philly shell is like i mentioned the vision is great because you've got your hands
here you're not blocking your face also you're putting yourself in a great position to counter
if he throws a right hand at me i've blocked there look i'm in that great position to come back with
a right hand of my own yes so them are some of the pros there now the cons is you've got this lead
hand down here you've got to have great reactions to be able to to defend uh the punches coming out
and as well with this you're blasting someone in the arm if you're getting blasted in the arm
all the time guess what your arm is going to be tired in round two three four five so you know
you got to think about that as well when i when i box people who did this style i used to always
throw that big right hand over the top so i fully jabbed the body that's through the right hand over
the top he's blocked it with his shoulder i would step in and throw another one and keep throwing
them punches over the top and they were kind of stuck in this position there so if you are
fighting someone with a philly shell what you need to do is work on feints and getting your
feet closer to land them punches they want to stay out of range like this you want to get your feet
closer and then throw the punches and land at the punches now moving on to number four this is the
boxing stance that i recommend this is the boxing stance that i did that i recommend everyone does
especially when you're starting out boxing before you figure out what stance you want to do and that
is the traditional boxing stance with your legs just more than shoulder width apart hands up by
the face you've got your right hand tight to your body here to defend these punches your lead hands
out a little bit now you look at someone like a triple g who's a master at this style with great
footwork and great defense hands up high now this here is solid defending the punches and if i'm in
front of an opponent my my lead hand is out just a little bit which means i can get there and back
faster than if my hand was here all the way out and all the way back and with this hand
out as well it's great to find the range triggered moving up and down keep my opponent thinking with
the feints up and down then throwing the punches so you can really find the range with this lead hand
keeping this one tight before a he comes forward with multiple punches let's block it up then i can
come back with punches of my own so some of the pros with the traditional boxing stance
is i think the first one is balance so you're in a great balanced position when you throw them
punches you can throw long combinations and keep in a great balanced position i've done a video
on keeping your balance when you're throwing a long combination so check that video out as well
so the balance is great compared to another stance where it might be here with your arm down
and your weight's kind of more on the back foot or to the first one that we did with the hands down
you've got that right guard you're kind of off balance here so the traditional boxing stance the
balance is a massive pro for that one another pro is you can work on all of your punches that you've
worked on in the past in the gym all punches work from a traditional boxing stance compared to
this stance or this stance or this stance with a traditional boxing stance you can pull off just
about any punch that you want and i guess the cons with this is it's the traditional boxing
stance 95 percent of boxers have this boxing stance so when you're in there with someone
you've got to do something special to be able to land them punches you've got to be someone
special to have success in doing this because people are used to fighting or training with
people with this boxing stance so how do you beat someone with this boxing stance well basically
it's the same way as you would beat all of the other boxing styles all combined so you've got
the feints you've got the multiple punches you've got the head body punches and it really comes
down to the opponent you're in with what their style is how good they are how good they're not
so guys but the most important thing is you practice find out what boxing stance works for you
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