A Hundred Feints or a Hundred Jabs?

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  • asgarth
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    #11
    feinting the whole rounds is ridiculous, but a boxer with feints in his arsenal has more tools of course than the one without.

    Feints keep the opponent from walking in punching distance too easily for defense.
    Feints are creating openings to land punches for the offense.

    There are many pressure fighter, who have a hard time landing, because they get predictable with their offense. Every motion with the glove is a punch and is easily read by a good defensive boxer.
    Mixing your offense with feints, allows you to move the opponents guard/awareness to another spot, thereby creating openings for your real punches.

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    • Tony Trick-Pony
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      #12
      Originally posted by asgarth
      feinting the whole rounds is ridiculous, but a boxer with feints in his arsenal has more tools of course than the one without.

      Feints keep the opponent from walking in punching distance too easily for defense.
      Feints are creating openings to land punches for the offense.

      There are many pressure fighter, who have a hard time landing, because they get predictable with their offense. Every motion with the glove is a punch and is easily read by a good defensive boxer.
      Mixing your offense with feints, allows you to move the opponents guard/awareness to another spot, thereby creating openings for your real punches.
      Oh no doubt. I'm not knocking feints at all. They are highly beneficial. All the greats use feints to one degree or another.

      I was specially talking about the point in your opening line. Subtle jabs and other punches can be used to opponent an opponent up as well.

      You're right though. Some pressure guys do use the same offense over and over and become way too predictable which gets them caught more than they should be.

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