the job the most important punch in boxing on this video I'm going to show
you how I perfected the job to help me win an Olympic medal seven national
titles a European gold medal and become an undefeated professional boxer firstly
why is the jab the most important punch in boxing well the jab gets you in
range it's a great rangefinder to throw your other punches and get you out the
distance and get you out of danger and as well and you can set up every single
other punch that you can throw in boxing leading off with the job I had a hundred
and six fights in my career and I would see the jab as well as the left hook the
body with my favorite punches I often knew within the first forty seconds of a
fight if the fight was going to be an easy fight or not because if I could
land my job I knew that would land just about any other punch that I wanted so
it was very important to me and it should be very important to you that you
improve your job and I'm going to be totally honest with you there's not just
the secret formula do this and you're gonna have a great jab know you've got
to practice practice practice practice all the time I remember as a 14 year old
all I will be doing I will be practicing in the jab in the gym four rounds at
a time working on that job working on that jab working on that job getting
the jab as perfect as I could on the heavy bags and then from there on the
mid work then from there in a sparring so it's practice practice practice and
not just practice in any jab it's got to be perfect practice perfect partners
perfect practice perfect practice makes perfect and that's how I perfected the
jab now I want to show you what perfect practice is so we've got a few
different types of jobs we've got the speed jab which just comes from here and
then we've got the power jab where you step into it and get maximum power
behind it which looks like this you can see the power there that swings
up and down so you can practice both of them the power jab and the speed jab and
I would spend rounds at a time just working on the jab one thing which was a
blessing in disguise when I was like 13 years old I really hurt my right hand so
all I could do for a couple of weeks was throw my
left hand that helped improve my left hand so much and I got so strong with
throwing the jab and the hook as well so if this there's a few basic things for
you to remember one you want to fully extend the jab cause when you fully
extend the jab that really is setting you up for all the punches I'm here
fully extend a common mistake we see with this is here short jabs with that
you're not really getting any power in it and you're still in range if you
think this was an opponent I'm still in range right here if he was to throw
punches but long jab I'm kind of out of range and again I can set up with any
other punches with that and with the speed jab what you can do it does
enough to be from the fist all the way all the way back you can hover out a
little bit because this speed jab is great to frustrate the opponent and keep
him thinking when you pop a lot out all the time it's keeping him thinking it's
making him wary of what all the shots might come after that jab so it's great
a key pop note you can keep it out here, out of range now with that being out there
it's only got a travel half the distance rather than from here all the way out
now if it's only traveling half the distance obviously it's going to get
there faster and I've got another video on this YouTube channel how to
instantly punch faster and I talked all about that on there so check that one
out so that's one way how to throw the speed jab now the power jab you want to
step into it when you step into it the force of the step is really going to
increase the power in that punch and think about this as well at the step and
the punch lands are the exact same time it'll look like this
and again and as you can see I'm getting lots of power in the punch this is the
most basic punch in boxing practice practice practice until you get
comfortable doing it so there's two great things you can work on with the
speed jab keep it up a little bit with the power jab step and punch at the same
time the more you do this the easier it's going to get like anything in life
the more you practice the better you're going to become at it if you enjoyed
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