as you're seeing there the side by side comparison we had the before and after and the
after definitely looked better and you might be thinking well how what were you doing differently
well i was not doing a small mistake that you probably do everyone just about does
it i still sometimes do it i wasn't making that mistake the little things in boxing make
all of the difference when it's coming to your boxing form and technique and on this video
i'm going to show you what you can be doing the very next time you're in a gym or doing
boxing training that's going to help you improve in boxing and if you're new to this channel my
name is tony jeffries i'm an olympic medalist boxer former undefeated professional seven times
national champion european champion and on this youtube channel i give you everything boxing so
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like this so what was it that i was doing well it was not bringing me feet together i'll see it all
the time people will be on the heavy bags they'll throw that one two they'll step back they'll bring
their feet together they'll dance on the spot then they'll come back forward then they'll move to the
left and they'll cross the feet around like this then they're here and you're crossing like this
so that is bad it's a common mistake like i said i still sometimes do it bringing the feet together
you know it's time to have a rest you'll switch off and you'll be on the spot but if you continue
to do that you're going to get into bad habits and if you think if i've through that one two and i've
stepped back i can't throw any punches from this position and if someone hits me when i'm in this
position i'm going to fall over so i need to keep my feet apart all the time and one person
that pops to mind when i'm thinking about this is manny pacquiao if you've ever seen manny pacquiao
the filipino legend on his feet he's always got his feet apart he's moving in and out really fast
and that's one way you can get more speed in your punches i've actually done a full video on how to
get more speed in your punches the links below you can check that out after you've watched this
one but yeah when you're moving around the bag if you're moving to your left you'll always want
to move your left foot first keeping your feet apart if you're moving to your right move your
right foot first keeping your feet apart you never want to cross your feet like this it's like i said
i put you in that position where you can't throw punches and also if you get hit in that position
you might fall over and you're off balance so i'm going to show you again the before and
after comparison so as you can see here here's the before on the screen you can see my feet's coming
together i'm crossing the feet when i'm moving left i'm crossing the feet when i'm moving right
my punches are not coming off perfectly because my feet's not in the right position to throw the
punches now moving on to the after as you can see here i've got my feet apart i'm throwing them
punches correctly i've got fast feet i've got fast hands i'm moving left left foot first i'm moving
right right foot first in the position all the time no matter where i am around the bag to throw
them punches now i'm going to show you something that you can use to get out of this bad habit
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for this well it is one of these things this is a mini band a mini resistance band and i've got to
take my gloves off to put it on so what i'm going to do i'm going to put my feet in here so i've put
this around the tops of my legs like this now what this is doing it's trying to pull me feet together
obviously like i said i don't want my feet to come together i want to keep my feet apart all the time
so with this pulling them together i can feel it as soon as they come together because it's
pulling them and this gets it gets loose so this makes me keep my feet apart now
that's exactly what we want to do we want to keep our feet apart when we're moving around the back
and that right there is helping me a lot look the footwork is perfect here working on the punches
moving the left i've got that good footwork and if i try and step to my right with me left foot first
this gets loose and it kind of gets tangled so it keeps your good form with your footwork
when you're moving left right forward and backwards so i've got to move keeping them apart
and that's it there yeah like i said this is great for you to use if you
in the bad habits of bringing your feet together if you've got any questions about this video
please let me know in the comments below i'll be reading them all thank you for watching