When you retract the jab...

[The_Sandman]

What are the techniques involved in bringing the jab to your face? This is a school project for me. I don't want to have a power point page with just "Bring the hand back to your face quickly. Otherwise it leaves you open for counters."

[Rockin']

You simply bring it back to gaurd the exact oppisite way that it went out, fist turning and everything. It's as simple as that............... Rockin'

[J.Dempsey]

With some one, practice jabbing pad. While they try right hooking you. As soon as you hit pad. (Orthodox)

[SlySlickSmooth]

So you have ya jab, you can see ya fist wit ya eyes. Ya shoot da jab. Ya bring da jab back to where u saw it.

not higher. not lower. not further. nor closer.

[SplitSecond]

what's this presentation on? boxing, punches or just the jab itself?

[Augustane]

I like using something called the 'cheek check', where if one hand is out, the other is always touching the opposite cheek. For example, if you throw your right cross, then your left hand is protecting your left cheek.

Also using resistance bands when shadow boxing would help pulling your arms back to correct position, so that muscle memory will remind you to always retract your hands back to your face.

[Larry the boss]

A good trick to learn to bring your hands back is to train with resistant weights, bands ,it adds strength, speed and you have to bring it back

[The_Sandman]

what's this presentation on? boxing, punches or just the jab itself?

The basic jab.

[billeau2]

The basic jab.

wow how cool a presentation! There is a wealth of historical information you can play with at will as well as technical. The jab as we think of it in its first version derives from a fencing foward thrust. In this technique the sword and body would not always fully extend because this left you open to counters.

When James Figg the father of prizefighting taught the jab from this background it became more prominant in boxing as a foward right hand lead. Originally the hand was held palm up, straight, and the body and arm extended at the same time. The hand at this time did not turn. The punch worked because gloves were smaller and power transferred better through the arm and hand which was designed to land on the chin....At this time this was a KO punch. When hit on the button (think of a Wing Chun Punch) the brain would rapidly hit the front and then the back for a ko.

Gradually as fighting distance became closer, as weight became more foward centered and as guys squared up more and gloves got bigger in an effort to make the right hand lead more in line with these changes the arm began to pump out the punch, the hand gradually started to turn and thus the hand had to be rapidly contracted and you had....from the right hand lead, vis a vis the foward lunge, the jab!!

Even in Dempsey's time some guys threw a jab more like a right hand lead. In his book on boxing (google Dempsey boxing book) Dempsey advocates more of a right hand lead type punch than what he calls a lack of power in throwing punches.

Great topic

[KingTito]

Double and triple that fuckin' jab.