Boxing Training - 6 Tips to Improve Your Counter Punching
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2015
- In this boxing training video you will find 6 tips that will take your counter punching ability to the next level. It's simple boxing training concepts, but this stuff works and it's carried out in boxing gyms around the World.
1. Make your jab be the best it can possibly be.
We all know the importance of your jab. Range finding, setting up combinations, controlling your space and ultimately breaking your opponent apart. Add to this list the foundation for any range of counter punching techniques. Check out the jab of Wladimir Klitschko to get a demonstration of hammering home that jab so as to make the opponent react. This reaction is then punished.
2. Don’t wait to see what happens, make something happen!
A popular misconception regarding counter punching is that it involves waiting for the opponent to do something so that we can ‘counter’ it. 90% of counter punching exchanges are initiated by the counter puncher. How is this done? A mix of punching (see tip 1) and more often feinting. Brilliance in counter punching requires a thorough understanding of feinting techniques. A great place to start (aside from the article on Feinting in Boxing) is looking at the Roberto Duran Boxing Style Analysis article and checking out his use of the jab to establish counter punching onslaughts.
3. Build pre-set counter punching passages
Drills are incredibly important in any sport, and in boxing they are even more so. If you have taken the opportunity of signing up for the free mobility drills on the site, or indeed becoming a member of the Boxing Training Foundation, then you will know how much importance I place on drills.
The fact is that certain passages of boxing work very well together. For instance, a left hook to the body will create an opening to the head. The threat of a right uppercut may lift the head perfectly for a destructive short range left hook. So, it is very much worth constructing and practising these passages in gym time. You can start off with a couple of simple combinations. The possibilities are limitless:
Counter punching with Power!
Counter punching and side stepping
4. Identify patterns in the opponent’s responses
Set passages and boxing combinations are great. But, this doesn’t mean that you should not study your opponent as you fight. Becoming skilled at spotting flaws takes time but real benefits can be gained quickly. For example, if your opponent brings their hand quite far forward when blocking your jab, this means that at the very moment that the block is taking place they are open to a left hook. It may be repetitive straight line movement, predictable attack methods or defensive frailties on the inside. All of these can be picked up and used in your counter punching strategy.
5. Adapt your counter punching to suit the opponent
This is really about whether you are counter punching on the front foot (going forward and attacking the opponent) or counter punching on the back foot. Most people consider counter punching to be a defensive type of boxing, but again it is not as straightforward as that.
Would you for instance consider Mike Tyson to be a counter punching specialist? Well, he absolutely was. All that jabbing and slipping combined with explosive foot movements and even more explosive punching was counter punching at it’s very best. Tyson never had height or reach over his opponents, so it would have been pointless trying to counter on the retreat. He adapted his boxing (and therefore counter punching) style to suit his opponents.
Not to be too simplistic, but a good general rule of thumb is that if you are facing a taller opponent then you are likely to reap more benefits from an attacking counter punching style. If you are facing a shorter opponent then you are more likely to benefit from a more conservative holding ground/retreating counter punching style.
6. Learn your hand defences and learn them well!
The 6th and final tip is in many ways the most important; make sure that all of your blocks and parries are perfectly executed. An opponent is most vulnerable when they punch. Furthermore, when you block a particular shot, the movements you have undertaken are supportive of your own follow up shot. So, if you block an incoming hook to the right side of your body, you store lots of leverage to unleash your own short range left hook.
Blocking your opponent’s jab means that you are in perfect range to land your own jab. So, a golden rule is when you block or parry, always, always throw your own shot. If you don’t then it’s an opportunity missed, and champs don’t miss opportunities. This is a simple for really effective boxing training
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you should put adverts on your videos. I wouldnt mind putting up with them you deserve to make money off the good advice you give. with 24000 plus subscribers you would make a few quid. just a thought.
Thanks Steven. I do have ads on some of them. However, I actually sell a coaching product on my website so that helps. Just about to bring my second one out too. Cheers mate.
steven halliday i agree with you
After 20 years of martial arts training and finally at 30 start to brush up my boxing, I'm having a wonderful time learning with you mr. Sands! Thank you so very much! You are the best boxing coach I've ever had!
5:51 "Write all your comments about how that's not a right hook down below". You are hilarious :D
you probably have the best community on TH-cam man no ones talking shit, everyone act mature no bs ... nice vid btw
+herb mcgruff I think so Herb, thanks for that, very nice.
thank you for taking the time and sharing
Great coaching. Thanks
Great knowledge explained very well in a really short time! Thank You for the lesson Sir!
Thank you so much!!!😄
Great video.🔥🔥🔥
Your giving away boxing gems 💎 thank you for your time you are helping me tremendously in my new boxing endeavor 🙏🏻
Great information provided coach!
Why do you keep your elbows so far from your body? My coach always insists that we keep our elbows on the body, above the abdomen, to protect it. It's especially protecting the liver and the stomach.
Top man! Clear and concise.
Thank you for the informative videos, they have made me approach boxing differently very technical
Excellent, glad it helps.
Love your videos, you've helped me out a lot with your videos, really knowledgable.
Benjamin Lim Thank you for the comment Benjamin, glad the vids help
What a wonderful coach!!!!!
Mate, you are a legend. Keep making these great and knowledgeable videos.
Aaron Singh Thanks Aaron, very kind
thank you Fran better answer then I expected and thanks for the quick response.
+joelsmusic28 Not a problem
Brilliant teacher thanks
brilliant tips and advice so clearly understandable and well put together videos thanks appreciate it
Thanks very much Paul, glad they help
Much appreciation coach!!
Loving the videos, dude. Thanks a bunch.
+Dacman767 You're welcome, thank you
fran sands your advice are really helpful and you're a very smart guy CHEERS! :)
Thank you Richard
as always a great lesson! thank-you coach
You are welcome, thanks Alessandro
Great stuff !
Very well explained. Watching several of your videos every night now.
Thanks mate, appreciate that
Great video coach!. Very informative, thanks.
ESAELD Panuntukan/JKD You're welcome, thanks
Great boxing is great boxing. Consistent theme of all your videos.
Great! Thank you Coach!
+Alessandro Friolibilherbeck Thank you for the feedback, very much appreciated
Absolutely top video's, Thank-you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
Outstanding advice!
MrJonvilla82 Cheers, glad you like it
top notch, vary good advice.
Thank you, glad you like it
Great work coach
MaurerBarros Thank you, very kind
Fantastic lesson :)
***** Thank you
+Fran Sands great points about tyson counter punching, i just wish he had had rooney and actually listened to him for many more years, cause as a shorter fighter i know how hard it is to do what he did, and th size difference he overcame all the time was amazing,
liked the last tip! always fire back after defence. so many times i find myself trying to avoid gettin hit and not throwin back
i know. It really is a great tip, i will try to do that aswell. I mean, that´s exactly the time when the opponent is most vulnerable.
I am a muay-thai fighter but I really enjoyed the video, learned a few things, also realized I was making 1-2 mistakes when it comes to counter punching but after all, we all try to improve and become better every day. Thank you for the great tips, earned yourself a new follower :)
+Ivan Ivanov Thank you very much Ivan, and welcome aboard.
top man!!!! so glad I had found u
+Jabad Ahmed Welcome, thanks a lot
Damn good advice, thank you
No worries, thanks Danny
G/day Fran,Just checking out your latest clip on counterpunching (raining here no work)You've done a great job mate that really covers it well.I love to see the various options open up for the young fellows as they learn to slip and counter etc.Anthony and I are doing alot of work on feinting and changing postion to get better angles at the moment and your clip explains it very well.(I will refer it to him as he sometimes gets sick of me harping at him I'm sure).Again,well done mate and I'll catch you down the track sometime.Regards Terry
Terry Neason Hey Pal, nice to hear from you and thanks for the comment. Tell you what, if a top trainer is encouraging his world-ranked cruiser to watch the vids that will do me :-) Hope all is well with the family and the gym, look forward to hearing progress mate. Cheers, Fran
This will help me nicely on my white collar nice one fran, surprisingly difficult to find good boxing coaches as your self on TH-cam all the best!
Cemal Gunay Cool :-)
thanx for the info!
Dave Nunez No problem
I always learn something with your videos and while something told me that rule against taller and shorter opponents I need it to hear it from someone who knows more than me. Thank´s.
Good stuff
thanks coach 👊👊👊 I'm confident because of your videos. I will win in 2 weeks time
You are welcome and best of luck :-)
thanks
thanks so much for the clarity of the appropriate use of the right hook, hahaha, thanks for the humour too!!hahaha, excellent video,
+Paul Armitage ;-)
good tutorial thanks so much
DUONG NGUYEN You're welcome, thanks.
Thanks coach great technical lessons everything made boxing common sense... what must be taught though is that the muscle memory from the drills and repetitive movements will aid in a attrition fight because constant counter punch set ups and execution drains the stamina physically and mentally your conditioning must be superb to pull it off for the duration of a tough fight.
Bonsoir coach très bonne vidéo merci yassine d Algérie
"Leonard used to faint with his eye brows!!". LOL!!! Great lesson..
Honest, he did :-) He was an absolute master
nice!!
Dave Nunez Thanks!
Nice
Frans the best out there
3:09 Damn, he is even a good dating coach :D
Awesome! I just wish I can train with you
Thanks
fran thanks for the answer to my question about counter-punching
part of the problem may be that i am seventy years old and possibly
my reflexes are not what they were and that my brain is a little slower
than it was.......i enjoy your videos........they are quite informative
+Wayne Hawkins Excellent. Your wise-head will buy you a few bits of second Wayne :-)
fran i have a bad habit of punching....singles or combos then standing there like an
idiot and getting hit by my opponents counter........do you have a video with tips
on this subject.........i have looked but may have missed it
+Wayne Hawkins Try this one Wayne th-cam.com/video/Q7GsNdvcP9A/w-d-xo.html
I rellay enjoy your videos Fran. I do have a question when you pivit left or right does it matter what punch you throw. Example (correct me please): If I pivit right am I set up for a Cross first or hook? and if I pivit left am I set up for Hook first or Cross?
+joelsmusic28 Always easier to throw lead-hand shots as a general rule. However, don't restrict your self, throw each, both, whenever! Get comfortable.
even I'm a tall guy have problems time to time hit with my jabs or combo I can't do any combos because on our gym we are not sparring in the ring so the other person have more place to move and we are switching on every minute partner that's annoying it's hard to studying some one that short time..I love to try using my combos and all the stuff but this way I can't learn anything already 6 months on the gym and like I learn more on TH-cam then gym dam:((nice video!!
Thank you. Try to make the most of the sparring, whatever form it takes.
Can you point me in the direction of some good counter fighters who "make something to happen". Thank you
How to close distance with out getting hit with jab
Hi, I would like to start boxing. Which boxing bag would you recommend me to purchase for home use? Can you also tell me the advantages and disadvantages in getting the straight boxing bag and the one which is featured in this video and the other various types ?
Cheers Jas
Conventional heavy bag Jas - check out this link on my site: www.myboxingcoach.com/boxing-punch-bag/
Thank you so much Sir :-D
hey fran question. can u make a video for weight control not like get skinnier but a better way to put more weight in ur punch
+Hood scientific It's all about technique to be honest. I coach punching to maximize power, maximise success and minimise effort. If the stance is right any of the punching vids on the channel will work. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the idea
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nutteloos99 Cheers!
Wouldn't you say that it's okay to sometimes, let your opponent tire himself out by throwing punches, while you're blocking them?
damn i wish i could train wit this guy :[
Thanks, very flattered
Do you think Terrence Crawford will conquer the 147lb division with his counter punching or does he get hit too much?
I wish I had you as my trainer. Lol
+Michael Ramos That's very flattering, thank you.
+Fran Sands I appreciate your videos man. Wasn't even trying to flatter, you know what your talking about and that's what I like! Most appreciated.
So I've been sparring this guy and Ive been having trouble landing punches on him. He's got his right hand glued to his face, moves around a lot and parry's my jab. I get tired "chasing" him around. I've been told to go to the body, which I've been trying to do with some success but how would I land a shot on the head when he parry's the jab and moves around? I've noticed he looks unbalanced and crosses his feet a lot when he backs up or moves to avoid a shot. I just feel so stiff and tired trying to chase him around and getting my jab parried.
Try feints and make him come forward...draw him in. But mostly...lots of feints!
Fran Sands I'll report back with results! Thank you!
Chopped&Screwed
if he crosses his feet put pressure on him bc he will pretty much be off blance at one point, also if he keeps blocking and then moving, u could throw half a jab which is a faint and then throw a hook to the head or to the body in which ever direction he decides to move too, or u throw a faint jab, slip to the right and land a straight right hand, or throw a jab slip left and hit the body
Chopped&Screwed
also don't chase him, be aware of the distance and cut the ring on him dont follow him around cut the ring
Sarah Al Thank you very much 😅
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Nice tips, but it’s not true that all the best counterpunches have the best jabs. Tyson and mayweather come to mind. They had jabs, but they were not among the best. And neither threw a ton of them.
That's not a right hook!!! ;)
I'm going to be honest and give my perspective as a Brit. I think British boxing is too stiff, british amateur boxing is highly based on technique but it has no rhythm, it has no soul to it and the heavy bases on technique leaves a boxer mentally and physically tired, everything is so robotic.
The best boxers use substance and style because the two empower each other, the artistic style works with the substance style but British amateur coaches do not encourage style they only encourage the robotic technique. It leaves the fighter stiff and can never produce a fighter like leonard or a mayweather or a pernel whitaker.
I think the Americas, both north and south continents and the Caribbean islands understand boxing the best, they've developed the most champions because of the mix of style and substance.
Glover dragon Thanks for your thoughts. The US boxers and the Cubans definitely have a more fluid style. To be fair though GB boxers and certainly Eastern European boxers have achieved great things. The Cubans will always be top of the shop in my book though.
***** (SORRY FOR LENGTHY READ)
Normally I would agree with a comment like this but the reality of british amateur boxing can not let me agree.
I'm speaking from experience as a current london amateur boxer, I've been around by way of sparring and competing so I've had 1st hand negative experience and good experience when it comes to amateur boxing (well at least amateur boxing from london coaches and I've also had the pleasure of sparring up north as well. All the amteur gyms i've been to teach what Fran teaches, with a heavy emphasis on straight punches, and throwing straights only, infact bent arm shots are so detested that it is only covered in the gym but never allowed in sparring. Every london amateur coach i've seen is stiff as a board and they contradict with what they want in terms of winning a bout.
They say they want clean straight punches with full technical execution and punches in bunches but if you actually watch an amateur bout this is never the case and the reason why its never the case is because it is physically impossible to throw punches in bunches with FULL TECHNICAL EXECUTION with straight punches and with speed only while at the same time being clean and crisp with how you execute the punch and at the same time being defensively aware. They favour the fighter who presses the action even when it is clear that the aggressor boxer lost to the more elusive boxer. Amateur coaches in london are also very VERY territorial and will quite happily hold back a promising young prospect of a boxer if that boxer deviates away from what they say is gods honest truth of how someone should box, they do not like any ideas that may go from what they teach even if the idea is beneficial....so MANY more vivid problems with uk OR rather london amateur boxing that i could go on about but this too long.
If you look at manny pacman, he is so fast because his punches are "technically wrong" and aren't even thrown shoulder height (most of the time) this is why he is able to flurry with such power, intensity and speed...the draw backs are that his head and chin defense is open and he could end up braking his hand.