25.10.2022
My clients ninth hour on his Boxing course, looked at three Cuban boxing style combinations. These combinations focus on asymmetrical delivery, an area I have been exploring a lot over the past 10 years or so, especially in Dutch Kickboxing.
After a revision warm-up, going through lateral footwork, movements from the square stance, and contralateral and ipsilateral movements, we looked at some specific Cuban punches. These consisted of the corkscrew jab, corkscrew cross, corkscrew straight arm hook and the vertical fist uppercut. We combined these with pendulum footwork. Then we moved onto the combinations.
Jab/cross/hook – Perhaps one of the most fundamental combinations in modern Boxing. However, in this context the jab and the cross are thrown as a speed combination setting up for a powerful corkscrew left hook. The punch whips round relying on a pendulum step and the pivot torque of the rear foot.
Jab/cross/jab – Here the jab, specifically the last jab, becomes the power shot whilst relying on the jab/cross combination for speed. The last jab is delivered using the corkscrew technique.
Jab/slip/lead hook/lead uppercut/cross – The cross finally gets its usual place as the power punch but only after the fighter fully engages the opponent’s blind side.