that looked good right it was a good combination it was good speed good power perfect
technique right well it might have looked when it was fast but now i'm going to play
it in slow motion i'm going to show you this mistake that 90% of people are making right now
yeah as you just saw i was dropping my hand on this video i want to give you three tips
to be able to improve this common mistake three things that you can do next time you're in the
gym to help improve you dropping your hands and as well at the end of this video i want to show you
what old school method of keeping your hands up but it's something that i don't really recommend
but you might have seen some old-school fighters doing this so make sure you watch till the end and
see that as well my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated professional
seven times national champion european champion and on my youtube channel i give you everything
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so the first thing you've got to do is realize that you're making this mistake
i didn't realize i was doing this until i started working with tommy brooks when i
turned professional here in los angeles and he was telling me tony keep your hands up keep your hand
up and it took me six months to go from here to here yeah to move this up three or four inches and
this was probably my worst habit that i got into over all my years of boxing i would throw a jab
and bring it back down here through a jab bring it back down to here which kind of left me open for a
right over the top and sometimes i got caught with that right over the top and was a couple of times
i actually got hurt with a right hand over the top and that was because i was bringing this down here
and with tommy he used to drill it into me all the time tony keep your hand up tony keep your hand up
Tony keep your hand up and that there really helped me keep me hand up being reminded about it
all the time but you might not have someone there to remind you of your mistakes so these
three tips right here will help you get out of any of the bad habits you've got with
dropping your hands so tip number one is record yourself record yourself boxing on the heavy bags
and look for this mistake just focus on looking for this bad habit of dropping your hand and a
common mistake that i'll see is when people are throwing a jab their right hand will drop
like this and what we call that is firing a bow and arrow where you'll see people
and they'll pull it back like the firing a bow and arrow then bring it back here so
don't do that so yes get out your phone and record yourself boxing on a heavy bag and that's really
going to help you know exactly what mistake you're making and when you know what mistake
you're making guess what it's going to be better to improve that mistake and tip number two is get
a glove and put the glove by your face and hold it with your right hand and it'll look like this
so i'm there now that mistake that i just showed you with the bow and
arrow it's impossible to make that mistake now i'm just going to work on my left hand here
and not dropping this hand because if i drop this hand in the slightest
this happens and then you know you've dropped your hand so that's getting out of the habit
of dropping that hand with the punch get a glove up there that'll really help now tip
number three is probably the best tip of them all and that is think about it now you've watched your
mistakes by recording it you've worked with the glove up by your face now think about it when
you're thinking about these mistakes that's how you're going to get out of the habit constantly
thinking about not dropping your hand constantly thinking about bringing your hands back to your
face your non-punching hand should be by your face at all times no matter what
punch you're throwing the non-punching hand should always be by the face now think about that
next time you're on a bag drill it in your head hear my voice hear tony telling you that
none punching hands by your face that non-punching hand by your face keep your hands up when you hear
my voice like i heard tommy brooks's voice that right there is going to help you get out of the
bad habits of dropping your hands now i'm going to tell you about this old school method that i
don't really recommend but you'll have seen lots of old-school boxes doing this but guys before i
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this sort of content for you so what is this old school habit that i'm talking about well it is
touching your nose now you might be thinking touching your nose why would you want to touch
your nose now when i do it you might recognize it or you might have seen it before where it's this
you see fighters to get into a habit of touching the nose yeah now that might help you keep your
hands up because you're always getting into a habit of touching your nose but if i'm in the ring
with someone like that i'm going to wait for them to touch the nose and then blast them with them
two punches because i know when they touch the nose they're relaxed and that's kind of a timer
a trigger point for me they touch the nose bump throw them punches and catch them off guard guys
you've got any questions about this please leave in the comments below thank you for watching