To be a gd english amatuer u need to be a head hunter?

[sterling]

I was lookin at were they score points and i saw that body shots arent really use full to be fair the most body work u can do is striaght punches to the body.
How comes body shots are so over looked? i hear cotto shud of won tons of fights but because he went to the body alot he lost them on points.

[P4PKING_2008]

I was lookin at were they score points and i saw that body shots arent really use full to be fair the most body work u can do is striaght punches to the body.
How comes body shots are so over looked? i hear cotto shud of won tons of fights but because he went to the body alot he lost them on points.

Becasue the uk amateurs are ****ed up. We need 5 rounds 10 point rounds. It would make more tactical fights, fairer results and allow for greater technique.

[sukhenkoy]

Interesting.

My trainer told me that its the complete opposite here: here in the US apparently they give you points for any type of hit, which is why my trainer kept stressing to go for the body (because apparently the amateurs here want to go for the face). Makes pretty good sense too: if you can really hurt the body, the head will slowly come down with it.

[P4PKING_2008]

Interesting.

My trainer told me that its the complete opposite here: here in the US apparently they give you points for any type of hit, which is why my trainer kept stressing to go for the body (because apparently the amateurs here want to go for the face). Makes pretty good sense too: if you can really hurt the body, the head will slowly come down with it.

Hard to do that tho with only 1min 30sec and 3 rounds to do it in.

[sukhenkoy]

True that. Although I'm not sure, but I think our rounds here are 3 minutes. Could be completely wrong though.

[Southpaw Stinger]

True that. Although I'm not sure, but I think our rounds here are 3 minutes. Could be completely wrong though.

Not 2 minutes?

[PunchDrunk]

LOL, get your facts straight. Amateur matches are four rounds of two minutes. If you're under 15, it's 1:30 rounds, but then again, you're not fighting 12 round pro fights before you turn 15, are you?

The reason you can have trouble scoring with bodyshots in am boxing is that to get a scoring shot, three of the five judges have to see the punch and score it within 1.2 seconds of each other. A left hook to the body can only be seen from one side, so chances that three judges score such a shot are slim.

They don't give you points for any kind of hit anymore, it has to have a certain weight behind it. You rarely score with a jab, even a stiff, hard one...

[sukhenkoy]

Oh ok, thanks for the info punchdrunk.

I guess I should ask my trainer where he heard that...

[Rockin']

going through as a fighter in the amatuers I seemed to find the same thing, that they rarely scored good body work. I would say its the same everywhere. In the jrs to the seniors and from the locaql tournies to the olympics, they just dont seem to score that much.

However, to any amatuer fighter out there who sees this and decides just to head hunt, dont do it. Dig that body every chance that you get. Even if they are not scoring the points that you want you will surely begin to slow your opponent down, tiring him just that bit so that you can take control of the bout and score your points to the cranium bone.

Never forget to touch that body, it can pay dividends in a war...........Rockin'

[Sadler]

when i trained we were taught to go for the body against a taller opponent to slow him down, and clean punches are clean punches.
i dunno cause i never fought in the end!