Boxing movement

Basic Movement Around The Ring.

When you move around the ring, it needs to be a comfortable and slick operation, even for the ‘novice’ boxer.

You must be relaxed and comfortable and this is something you need to work on.

Basically, move the lead leg in the direction you want to move first. The lead leg is pushed forward, so the power base is the rear foot while you drive the front leg forward.

The rear leg then slides forward 6-7 cm.

You have now advanced forward and are in a balanced stance.

To move rearwards, the power driving leg is now the front foot. The rear leg slides backwards into position, then the front foot slides the 6-7cm into a balanced position.

When moving from side to side, the boxer moves the leg in the direction he wishes to move first. When you move to the left, move the left leg first and then slide the right leg back in a basic stance, and do the same thing moving to the right.

Position One – Basic Stance.

Position two. The front foot slides forwards, driven by the rear power leg.

As the footwork balance progresses, the student will start to feel more at home on the pads and in sparring.

Footwork drills are an essential part of training and must be carried out at all levels.

Relaxed and balanced footwork are both essential to enable you to get in and out of punching distance, and ultimately danger.

As the boxer develops, they will start walking around the ring, not jumping in a frenetic amateur styley (burning masses of energy), but in a stalking style, using small considered steps and maintaining the balance between the legs.

The ‘pivot’ is an advanced part of footwork where the boxer, usually up close, will spin off the lead foot around 90 degrees to start a new attack.

Up close in contact.

Spin around on the tip of the balls of the lead foot and re-engage the target.

This is useful when you are engaged up close in close quarters combat. Let two and three punch combinations go to the head and body, then spin off around to either side and start again.

The ‘Over-ride’ is a technique where the boxer stays on the periphery of the punch range and throws a jab, thrusting forward and then out of range. The opponent counters, which our attacker avoids and then counters fast and swiftly, before once again moving off the target.

This is essentially a two or even three phase attack, where the attacker is thinking punches ahead. It is important to be reactive to the other boxer and override with sharp counter punches.

1 Attacker jabs into range.

2 He pulls back out of range to

defeat the responsive counter

punch.

3 He delivers a fast over-riding right hand, defeating the opponent’s defence and then gets back out of punch range to maintain his defences.

These are also known as two and three phase attacks.where the boxer puts into play both action and reaction combinations, popping the jab whilst keeping in/out of punch range, before delivering fast and ACCURATE counters, hoping to wear down the opponent with consistent momentum of attack and defeat them by stoppage, KO or points.

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