15.05.2023
As the title to this blog states, Monday’s lesson for my couple clients (hour three of their current course) confined our training to MMA boxing. So what is MMA boxing? Unlike shoot-boxing, which I have used with my clients, this is not combined boxing with clinch. Rather in this lesson we used modern boxing rule restrictions whilst wearing MMA gloves on. On the one hand this allows us to focus on the benefits of modern boxing where we might find a good basis for my clients’ adopted styles – swarmer/switch-hitter and out-boxer/southpaw. On the other hand, the size of the gloves requires very different guard adaptations from modern boxing.
After our usual warm-up I began with some simple one-on-one footwork drills. My swarmer is all about cutting off the ring, closing and making good use of angles. My out-boxer needs to work more in and out fight whilst taking advantage of the blind-side through mirror-stancing. We then did 8 x 2 minute rounds of pad-work and sparring.