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The Philly shell can be great for boxing but ut is quite vulnerable to kicks.
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That's just like your opinion man.Impractical outside of boxing.
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That's just like your opinion man.
It’s overused considering how few people are actually qualified to teach it.
An active and accurate jab, slick footwork, waist movement, are still the biggest keys to effective fighting and sound defense IMO.
The philly shell as it was practiced by Floyd and James Toney were only perfected by them well into their 30s. And both of them grew up with the style.
But now you’ve got tones of young guys with no pedigree in the style just adopting it like they’re prime Floyd or the James Toney that beat Vasily Jirov when he was 3-4 weight classes above his prime and having a potbelly. No. Just no.
I definitely also think that the over reliance on padwork based training in the US nowadays does encourage lazy and flatfooted boxing. You don’t see many of these types coming out of say, Mexico or Europe
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I definitely also think that the over reliance on padwork based training in the US nowadays does encourage lazy and flatfooted boxing. You don’t see many of these types coming out of say, Mexico or Europe
Yes. I have always thought that the way that you make the philly shell look bad is not with pad work but with foot work. The philly shell invites counter straights but that gets nullified if someone is right up on you.
Big Lebowski I think.That's from a movie but I can't remember which one.
Big Lebowski I think.
well I don't agree with this. Floyd typically fought from a more traditional guard when he was up against southies especially fast southies. I think a young PAC would have seen Floyd working everything he had to eek out a decision.Watch Roy Jones Jr/James Toney to see this in practice. It’s also the reason that Mayweather avoided Pacquiao for 4-5 years until Marquez and Father Time had slowed him down. Neither Floyd nor Toney looked like killers from the philly shell besides when they were fighting guys who were as slow as molasses (Hatton, Jirov, Holyfield)
Mayweather looked like a killer plenty at super featherweight, and Toney at middleweight.Watch Roy Jones Jr/James Toney to see this in practice. It’s also the reason that Mayweather avoided Pacquiao for 4-5 years until Marquez and Father Time had slowed him down. Neither Floyd nor Toney looked like killers from the philly shell besides when they were fighting guys who were as slow as molasses (Hatton, Jirov, Holyfield)
Their sites are down for some reason, but several fragments of seminars\training sessions are available on YT:
If you do test it out for yourself, remember that your sparring partner is immediately going to try body shots and uppercuts, because they think that you're more open to uppercuts when you've got an arm blocking your chin... than you are in basic guard where you don't have your chin defended at all.
You can clamp down on the uppercut with your bottom arm and lock them into a clinch, turn them etc. and vs an active body puncher, be sure to teep and front kick to keep them at range and be ready to block body shots in a more traditional manner, don't spend all your time with your face in the cross guard, you just want to flash into it for moments, its a group of positions more than it is an actual guard