Boxing Techniques

Rebecca Brayton: And now Sylvera is going to show me the technique. Sylvera Louis: Well first off, what we will need to get your hands ready, so we will put on hard wraps. You want to secure the wrist. So we are going to do two turns around the wrist. Then we'll go upward, exactly. And now we are going to secure it to you, we are going to go protect the knuckles. This way, if you want to move your fingers, when you have your gloves on, that's how we'll be able to move them. And then you can close your fingers again. With what hand would you throw a ball? Rebecca Brayton: Right hand. Sylvera Louis: So we'll get into right-handed stance, get your right foot and bring it to the left, and that's going to be the first corner of our square. Then step shoulder width, that's the second corner, then step straight back. Cool! That's straight corner. So from this position, you want to spot that a bit on center of gravity, so you will to be more stable. You lean tall, you lean pointing towards your opponent, and that one would be at 45 degrees. So that's your basic position in terms of your legs. Now we have to define the position of your upper body, and that's going to be defined mostly by your personality. If you are aggressive when you are fighting, you'd want to fight the more battle, this way you could fight -- it's easier for you to hit with both hands. But if I get aside, you are like, hey you know what, I also like getting hit. Which happens, so you want to point it to your shoulder a bit more towards your opponent. This way you will become a smaller target. Bring down your chin and let it do a mean face, that's great. Do a mean face and then what's going to happen is that you want to bring your upper body a bit forward. So look I have a long neck, I bring my chin down and when I go down, it gives the illusion that my chin in between my shoulder so it's easier for me to defend myself. If we are boxing together, and you want to get a distance, you just start driving me like this. That's why often you'll see boxers begin to have fight and they are just like, touching you, they are not doing anything like, and people are like boo... do something, and they are like, just make me show that's the right distance. Once you have formed the distance what you want to do with your jab, you want to start off your offense, you want to start off the attack, you throw your jab in front of my left eye. So at this moment when your jab is in front of my left eye, I can see your right eye and I can see your right hand. So that's why a jab will open up your offense. Push inward then your fist will leave this position and a bit before impact, you're going to turn your wrist and you are going to turn your hips. So the punch of your -- the power of your jab, your punch is going to come to the timing, just turning your wrist and turning your hips. Okay, good, just fine. Rebecca Brayton: So what's next? Sylvera Louis: The cross. Rebecca Brayton: Okay. Sylvera Louis: When you are doing a cross, you want to feel as if you are pushing off the floor to make your knee going out again. I like to think about my feet being a screw, and my leg being a screw driver. You need to put pressure with your screwdriver for screw to go in. I am pushing off the floor and I am putting pressure in. I am pushing the floor with power to make my knee going away. Push off the floor, and everything is going to turn. And try to look forward while you do that. That's the basic in terms of shadow boxing. So now we are ready to go out, to move out into the pads and we are going to step in the ring.