Recently at my gym..i was shadowboxing and i heard two guys talking about shadowboxing wiht your eyes closed.. so you can imagine punches better, and you can also work on your balance.

i tried it and it seems reasonable...its easier to imagine punches coming at your wiht less distracitons. and you can also work on your balance.. the only thing is.... is it true?? it works for me but i wnana know if it works for you??/

tell me wsup?

Just don't make a habit out of keeping your eyes closed during a REAL fight. :cool:

EDIT: I should try that sometime though

Try shadow boxing in a totally dark room. There are different dimensions to balance. On the one hand, the inner ear tells you whether you are upright or not, but also your vision is constantly orienting you to everything around you, so a person with inner ear problems can learn to walk practicing special exercises for better orientation to his surroundings. Same idea.

I have done that for years, it is a great way to work inside of your mind. Imaging the punches coming and such helps alot and ofcourse countering back is good with it.

I found it a way to tune everything out that is around you and straight out focus on whats happening, or supposed to be happening.

Moving around the ring has become easy and routine even though I am not looking. At any time you could ask me where I was in the ring and I could pretty much tell you. This I found helps with knowing exactly where the ropes are and when you have to pivot or turn out of the corner.

I highly recommend trying it.

Rockin' :boxing:

haha great.. now i know someone who fights at your level does it...know proiblem..im gonna be doing that for now on..i sort fo have been...but today at my gym, i also tripped because the ring at our gym has a softspot, so that was kind of dangerous...

I would highly recommend getting that ring fixed. Liability charges aside, what if your fighting, step in the spot and stumble. And what if your opponent wacks you square in the jaw as your regaining your balance. Saftey first man.

Rockin' :boxing:

yeh. at my gym, we're moving the ring back inside the main floor..itcause rent or something.. so when we take apart the ring were gonna fix the soft spot...are gym is pretty decent tho...i jsut found out recently we had some pros trainign at our gym...have you heard of paul spadafora??? al gonzalez? lamon brewster?

Ya, I know spad and brewster but have not seen the other guy. Is your gym in Pennsylvania?

Rockin'

nah, its in california.
there was alot of trouble i guess that ahppened at my gym. their trianer jesse reid, trained people at the gym i go to but i think he left.

then the owner of my gym got pissed and so forht...

kidna like the shit you see in movies...

so basically, the owner of my gym and jesse reid were partners,

jesse reid left, and the fighters followed him..

sounds good, i will try this, thanks.

yeh. at my gym, we're moving the ring back inside the main floor..itcause rent or something.. so when we take apart the ring were gonna fix the soft spot...are gym is pretty decent tho...i jsut found out recently we had some pros trainign at our gym...have you heard of paul spadafora??? al gonzalez? lamon brewster?
Lol you speak of them, like you expect them to be unknowns. Lamon Brewster is widely known and I have heard of Paul Spadafora before... thats pretty neat that you train at the same gym as them. :cool:

they used to train at my gym..they left with their trainer jesse reid.

lots of drama...wish they were still around

Its the first time I ever heard of this but I could see how that can help. But I don't like the idea of closing your eyes and shadow boxing, it could become a very bad habit in fights, it like when some fighters close their eyes when a punch is coming their way. You want to have your eyes open,to know which way to move or counter punch or both.

About knowing where the ring is. Isn't that what shadow boxing is for too? Of course their differnt ways of shadow boxing. I know the times I've boxed I have always felt I knew where the ring ropes were and where I was in the ring without paying attenion - becomes second nature. After shadow boxing for a long period of time knowing your surrounding will become second nature. But that is very interesting method.

Dude, what person in their right mind would box with their eyes closed in an actual fight or even a sparring session for that matter, that is a ridiculous thought man.

There are alot of runners who train with weights on their ankles to build strength and endurance, I would never imagine them to do it in an actual race.

Its a training technique to get your mind working abit.

And it does help with knowing where you are in a ring, I know this from experience. Dont knock it until youve tried it.

Rockin' :boxing:

Im not talking about boxing with your eyes closed in competition at all times. But im saying when a punch is being delivered some boxers have a tendacy to close their eyes for half a second. Practicing to shadow box with your eyes closed and being comfortable doing this may lead to doing that in a real boxing competition. Or maybe not just my opinion.

I could understand doing that routine till you have good balance but I wouldn't include it in my everyday shadow boxing. But that me and I havn't tried shadow boxiing like that so who know, their may be no ill effects of this.

It may be a good idea not to do this too much as u may get into a habit, another good way of getting the same effects are standing on tennis balls as you train, at first this is near impossible but after a while it gets a lot easier and your balance will improve dramatically, as for visualising punches i find that a floor to cieling ball is ideal as there is no need to visualise you just have to react, dodge and block the movement of the ball, hope this is useful!!

Interesting idea.

How often does everyone shadowbox? I've heard at least ten minutes twice a day.

It may be a good idea not to do this too much as u may get into a habit, another good way of getting the same effects are standing on tennis balls as you train, at first this is near impossible but after a while it gets a lot easier and your balance will improve dramatically, as for visualising punches i find that a floor to cieling ball is ideal as there is no need to visualise you just have to react, dodge and block the movement of the ball, hope this is useful!!


Reading your post I just remember that for balence you can also use rubber ball, and move around the floor bouncing the ball with one hand then the over, over and over while bouncing on your legs in boxing stance, move left, right, forward, back, and so on.