Attacking & Defending the Powerline (diary entry)

3 people sparring blog10.06.2024

Today’s two lesson brought my couple clients up to the eight and nine hour marks of their current Boxing course. The past couple of sessions have been worked around one of my client’s injuries to her thumb. With it on the mend we still have to observe reducing trauma so I brought back in the rear hand only to tag the shoulder.

The following were all 2-minute specific sparring rounds.

  • Bodyguard sparring
  • Ditto
  • Ditto
  • Tag the rear side shoulder with rear side hand vs counter/punching (objective is to escape the power line)
  • Ditto
  • Ditto
  • Same as above in southpaw
  • Ditto
  • Ditto
  • Both sides attack the shoulder (southpaw vs orthodox)
  • Ditto
  • Both sides attack the shoulder (both orthodox)

A point raise again regarding a possible weakness is specific sparring was the encouragement of potentially dangerous methods used achieve an objective. In my Submission Grappling the concern was freeing an arm from an arm-bar at the risk of volunteering a shoulder lock of triangle choke. Boxing presented the issue of a fighter “blocking” the shoulder tag with their head (!) As with the arm-bar, we had to implement new rules whereby minor points can be gained and lost if the head is tagged instead of the shoulder.

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