THURSDAY AND FRIDAY SPARRING
I did a total of 16 rounds of sparring last week. Six on Thursday and 10 on Friday.
Martin hit me in the kidney with a nice right hook. Not unlike three weeks ago when Dave hit me with an awesome liver shot.
Yes. I need to work on body defence.
I have been concentrating recently on offence. The main problem I have had in the past was that I was not aggressive enough, so for the past few months, I have been working on offensive techniques. "Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy".
Since I have been working so hard on aggressiveness my defence has been lacking.
Although I have never had the best body defence.
I tend to use "lazy" defensive techniques for head defence. I like to block or parry. I would rather not have to slip or roll. Although, I need to start using more different techniques to defend.
Now that I have offence done, next I am going to start working on a good defence platform. I will focus on the body but also use more slips and rolls.
There is a club card coming soon and I want to be on it, so I need to be prepared. I have to impress the coaches.
I won't be registering for the Bronze Gloves this year. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I am going to be cutting 'way back on tournaments and concentrating on the local club events.
"YOUR OTHER RIGHT"
I did a few rounds of target pad work with Coach Johnny last week.
In one session he asked me to do something odd. He said, 'Slip the left and come back with a left hook'. I was confused because that is not something that you would ever do.
You can't throw a left hook off of a left slip unless you reset first.
I questioned, "Left hook? Are you sure?"
He then said, "Slip the RIGHT and then a left hook! You will get knocked out doing it the other way!"
Oh, yeah that makes sense. I have no idea why I was thinking to slip the left.
Likely because on the rare occasion that I actually slip, it is a left slip, so I was thinking that and actually tried it.
Here I am with over six years experience in boxing and I went and made an idiot mistake like that right in front of the coach.
I'm an idiot.
BOXING GYM GUIDE OUT SOON
Just a reminder that the next edition of "The Brick's Guide To Boxing In Toronto" is due out by the end of May.
If you have any additions or edit suggestions, PM me.
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