on this video i'm going to talk all about the pivot what is the pivot
how do you do it when would you use the pivot we're going
to talk about pivoting to your left and pivoting to your right
my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated
professional and seven times national champion
welcome to my youtube channel so the pivot if you don't know what it
is i'm sure you've heard of that phrase what is it well the pivot
is a defensive footwork move where you're changing the angle and
defending at the same time it can also be used as
an offense as well you can defend and counter
with the pivot and i'm going to go over all of that with you right now
this is what the pivot would look like you're in your boxing stance
and i'll pivot it off i'll changed the angle i'll show you again
when you're pivoting to your left you're kind of bringing your back foot
around to your left side like this and if you're orthodox boxer which means
you're right-handed that right there is the simplest way to
do the pivot so i'm here in my boxing stance my front
foot doesn't lift up off the ground and
i always remember my coach used to tell me imagine that you've got a
nail through your foot right there and your foot can't
move backwards or forwards or lift all it can do
is turn around so that's what you can visualize
the foot got a nail through it into the floor and when you've got when you've
got that visualization there it makes it a lot easier to pivot
other analogies people like to use is if you're
squishing a bug you turn on your foot like that
or if you're putting a cigarette out and you're and you're twisting
and pressing into the floor it's the same sort of thing i'm going to show you
from this angle so i'm in my boxing stance
i'm gonna squish that bug and then pivot
and i've changed the angle now i'm facing this way so with this pivot it is
kind of like a 90 degree change of angle like you're doing
i'm facing forward i'm facing this way i've come around now i'm facing this way
now you might be thinking when shall i use this in a fight and one
thing i like to visualize is if you've got a shorter opponent who's coming out
here kind of like a mike tyson style opponent
he's coming at you it's great to pivot and let him go that
way changing the angle if he's flying
forward pivot go that way and one thing that you need to do when
you are doing this is keeping that lead hand up because if he's coming
forward throwing a big right hand and this hands down you're gonna get
clipped right there and you don't want to get clipped especially if you're
fighting someone like mike tyson another thing for your stance where you
should land a couple of mistakes is well that was the first big mistake
people will have that hand down and the pivot
the other thing is where your feet land when you are doing that pivot
your feet should land back in the perfect boxing stance so i'm in the
perfect boxing stance here i've pivoted i'm in the perfect boxing
stance here people will go too much and they'll come all the way
around and their feet will be off balance or they'll not go far enough
and now you're open and you're square and you're off balance again
now let's talk about countering as well or throwing that punch
as you're pivoting i love doing this as a fighter
so we've got a smaller shorter guy coming little mike tyson
and now i'm gonna as that foot moves the left hook is gonna come
boom so as he's coming i'm doing that pivot
boom and i'm throwing that punch now with this it's important that the punch
and the foot lands at the same time so i'm gonna make a sound
boom when they're both land boom they're there at the same time boom they
land at the same time the reason why it's so important to land
at the same time is you're going to keep your balance if you try and do it it's
going to be hard for me to do it where that lands there and that lands it kind
of puts you off balance it kind of slows down the rhythm and as well if
you've done that than that it's harder to get
the power behind the punch or harder to come back with more punches
so try and make sure they'll land at the same time
there now that's the pivot hook you're pivoting to your left if you're orthodox
like me right handed now let's talk about
pivoting to the right i get asked can you do this
when will you do this this is a harder pivot to do but it can definitely be
done it's the same sort of thing if you've
got that nail through your foot that's squishing that bug and you're
going to pivot to the other way right you might be thinking well when would
you ever do this because if someone's coming on you're kind of
off balance it and you're square which you are
which it's not great to do that all the time but where it is great to use this
is if i'm fighting someone and i'm working inside
i'm working inside i've pivoted i've changed that angle
so if he's on the ropes there and i'm going and he's covering up
i want to change that angle
you can pivot to your right there another thing i like to do with this
rather than the pivot i kind of prefer the step which is very similar
but your front foot leaves the floor on the pivot it doesn't leave the floor
on the step it does leave the floor reason why i like this is because it
helps with balance so let's just see after the one two i've
stepped that foot comes off the floor a tiny
little bit for a split second and i just feel more comfortable doing that so i'll
show you i'll show you the pivot
i'll show you the step so yeah i much prefer this step on that like
anything it feels awkward first you need to practice practice
practice i would recommend that you practice pivoting
to your left with the hook you can do this in the mirror
in shadow boxing you can do it on the heavy bags on mit work
in sparring but first try and practice it in the shadow boxing
position to get comfortable doing it to get used to doing it and then add it
into the other aspects of your training so i've just
broke down the pivot into your left with the hook
the pivot to your right with the combination there
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