how many fights have you had now? It can take a while for your style to pop out. dont look for it, just fight and see what happens, your style will eventually shine through, youll then recognize it. Once thats done, youll know your strengths, I would suggest then working on your weakness. For myself personally, my style is muay khao, lots of knees, and lets bring the fight......so I have been working on the outside game and my boxing to be more well rounded.
3 amateur fights in 2013 and since then I've been on a lay off in actual competition due to life problems
Yep I already know thats how it is going to go. I'll see what has the most success for me and be molded around that as I get more experience. Right now I'm not looking for any kind of style, I try to remind myself to box on my toes regularly but I always end up putting pressure and coming forward unless my corner keeps me focused on what I've been taught to do.
It's 2 things as to why I'm like this now ( I wasn't at all before, I used to be a counter puncher who boxed off the back foot and would look for pot shots )
1: My life experiences have made me know for certain I've endured tougher than anything I can in the boxing ring, and I almost subconsciously put that energy in there, they feel every bit of what I've endured in the form of my style. ( I always think to myself, go back 2 years and realize how much of a cakewalk all this is compared to that in terms of pain and suffering, and mental destruction ). My body didn't quit on me in ways that it could have so I know it won't quit on me when things get rough in there. Boxing is 90% mental, and knowing what actual suffering is like, this is nothing. I think this translated a lot into my style.
2: I see how people react to my punches when they get hit. If I see they are very uncomfortable getting hit by me, and start disengaging or showing any signs of fear/breaking down, a predatory switch kicks in where I abuse the gifts I've been given. Even when I'm just working with ppl, I'll throw medium but still if I see they are afraid of what is coming, I won't stop making them uncomfortable by never taking a step back and giving the sense of danger they are showing signs of fearing.
Next vid I'm going to make a point to box on my toes though and outbox thoroughly - its sadly somehow becoming a weakness of mine and I need to get sharp again with being slick and using my footwork for when I need to use it
I thought you looked sharp. He was pushing the pace but you weather the storm. Came on in the second.
I'd like more uppercuts I know that's not really your mo but adding a lead uppercut after the cross or hook works great on tight guard fighters.
After seeing the vid, I was kicking myself for not throwing more uppercuts. They were there all day against that type of guard, and I was missing my overhand and even my straight a few times cuz he would duck straight down. I should have been through the hook to the body left uppercut, then the right uppercut to head to the hook to the body, and repeating. uppercuts all day against that type of guard.
In the 1st round I was thinking this was still sparring and was trying to warm up lol ( I don't warm up before sparring I always do it in the ring to force myself to not go try and blitz whoever my sparring partner is ), 2nd round I was laughing in my head a bit because I was thinking, will this guy keep this aggressive energy when he feels my own punch? I'm not someone to just run over I don't believe, and obviously we see the result once I started throwing heat back. Boy was trying to put me out in the beginning of the 2nd, to which I was thinking as well, U can only do this for so long, u better pray u hurt me to the point where I can't continue because all my good conscious and nice guy stuff and the proper "its just sparring" mentality just became obsolete after u tried to come at me like that and typically I put guys out with the types of shots I was hitting him with - so mad respect to his toughness. Granted, if u noticed, I never really did get to land one of my shots proper on his chin and was taking a decent amount of steam off of them with his guard and subtle rolling with the punches movement. As well as going under some sleeper overhand rights I tried to land.
I didn't realize this was considered a fight and not sparring until the beginning of the 2nd round. Otherwise I thought it was gonna be some good hard work but no all out try and put the other guy out type of stuff.
I didn't really talk to anybody there at all, my buddy that I work with down here took me there and told me not to talk to anybody or be friendly cuz we are just here for work. I know the crowd of ppl, the ppl cheering with beers and all that and all the phones threw me off, then I had guys over here talking about fights and I'm just like ?? Right, if u call sparring fights then more power to ya. It's not on my book so this is just sparring to me.
Not to mention, even if a guy does want to fight like that in sparring, it's not often someone is strong like that and can actually do some damage to me. Caught me off guard with how much experience he has. + had 12lbs on me at the time which for a "fight" isn't the most fair thing.
Nice. You showed him who is the boss. He did not like it when you came out ready to trade in the 2nd round.
Most guys who are used to being the more talented individual with power and strength typically don't take well to a guy who is willing to challenge that aspect of their game I've noticed. As soon as he felt my first hook I threw for real I saw his whole mentality change - aswell as his coaches and the crowd cheering for him.
Still gonna get a vid for u to try and show u what I can for ur own hook
