Need help on ducking and weaving etc.

[nwtogame]

Hey P don't worry about it. Idon't know about everyone else but I've been boxing on and off for a few years now. It still sometimes gets to me when I step into the ring. That first hit you kinda wait for with anxiety. I don't know why but then I catch those first body shots and then hook to head or something of that nature and its like a pheeeww now I can breath a sigh of relief then its just me and him in the ring and all my focus seems to come right to at that point. I have no idea why or if its common but its not that I fear getting hit at all I dunno really.......don't worry about the anxiety once you get hit you forget about everything around you kinda and feel at home and can concentrate on what your doing. Getting hit.......no big deal you'll get used to that quick. When I first started just messing around with boxing (i alwaysd had descent hand speed) but I would do the backyard thing with friends. Well it got to the point where my friends wouldn't spar with me anymore cause I was better. So I we would both glove up(me still wanting to practice) since I didn't have money to join a gym at the time. I would just move around (with mouthpice of course) and let them throw shots and I would not swing back, just moving around and getting used to defending and getting hit. I don't know if it was the best thing to do but at the time it was fun and I know when I got into the ring for real I wasn't worried about getting hit.

[shuyun]

if you can't get a good coach. research and observe boxers that do it. You have to be very observant. Then try it out on a a length of rope at shoulder to neck level and bob and weave alternately while countering with a hook or upper cut on your way up.

If you can uppercut well (includes the knees as well as the torso) then the bob and weave is nearly there.

[Phorce]

if you can't get a good coach. research and observe boxers that do it. You have to be very observant. Then try it out on a a length of rope at shoulder to neck level and bob and weave alternately while countering with a hook or upper cut on your way up.

If you can uppercut well (includes the knees as well as the torso) then the bob and weave is nearly there.

yea id consider my uppercuts as good.

[MrPARaNoiD]

hi
At wat stage should bobin n weaving be incorporated into training?
as i have only been training for bout 5 weeks.

[shuyun]

hi
At wat stage should bobin n weaving be incorporated into training?
as i have only been training for bout 5 weeks.

ASAP.

I know it's not considered a serious martial art but you can get into it via TAE BO. They bob and weave but with rhythm. Then you should train on your own until you can confidently use it in sparring.

But ASAP really because you wouldn't want your face to be a stationary target .

[HtTKar]

Its easier to practice bobbing/weaving/slipping with a double-end bag, than with your heavybag. Or putting a speedbag in a doorframe works pretty well also.
The goal is to move just enough that they miss you by only an inch or two. No more than that; just enought to not get hit.

[shuyun]

Its easier to practice bobbing/weaving/slipping with a double-end bag, than with your heavybag. Or putting a speedbag in a doorframe works pretty well also.
The goal is to move just enough that they miss you by only an inch or two. No more than that; just enought to not get hit.

true.

butyou can also improvise with a length of rope set at about armpit to waist high.

then bob and weave alternately and finishing of with a counter. my friend does it under a badminton net as a part of his warm up to his badminton game. but he too is a martial artist. he uses badminton as a cardio. crosstrain for his stick fighting.

[Tim3]

Work on the bobing and weaving or ducing and weaving in the mirror first then have someone swing a stick (slowly at first) at your head, then thrust the stick at you, them have your partner put on some gloves and swing and punch at you progressively faster ( standing still and while moving). The next step is the most important. When you go to spar tell yourself that you will bob and weave punches. You will feel unconfident at first and scared but you have to "dive into the pool" sometime. Eventually it will become a reflex and you will just do it when the time is right. I won my last fight ducking and weaving under a right hook and coming up with a left hook right cross combo that floored the guy. I didn't even know what happened afterward, it was just reaction from training this move constatly. Just my 2 cents.