03.07.2024
Hour three of my client’s course on Boxing brought us onto close range defence and purposeful head movement.
We covered the material using the following games run on 2-minute rounds (with one minute rest or a lengthier interval for more advice on techniques):
- Jabs only sparring
- Attack versus defence – straight punches versus catches, parries and blocks
- Ditto
- Ditto but with the Philly shell layered into the defence for closer range attacks
- Ditto
- Straight punches versus slipping to the outside/counter-punching
- Ditto
Philly shell was first taught untimed as just a shoulder roll. Here the fighter deflected punches with just the shoulder and hid their jaw.
The lesson finished with a tabata-timed burnout (8 x 20 seconds with 10 second rest)
- Straight speed punching
- Power single rear hand punch
- Speed punching to the body
- Power punching to the body
- Speed jabs
- Power jabs
- Speed straights on the move
- Power straights (alternate hands)