New vid on punchbag

[Karlos1991]

Advice/criticism welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPgpCA5bs3Y

[sukhenkoy]

Quality of video is pretty ****ty on my computer, so I can't tell very well.

One thing I noticed is that your punches seem to be too low. Maybe its just the height of the punch bag, but from what I'm told at my gym, your jabs should be higher than yours were unless your going for the body.

You also seem to be a little too close to the bag (which might be why your punches are so low).

One good thing I thought was you kept your elbows tight most of the time.

Keep it up, and try to get a better quality video up.

[them_apples]

you are punching the softest part of the bag, hit more near the bottom to develop your power.

[d_lyrik803]

good vid.

the height of the bag should be higher i believe, because if you hit your bag near the top the majority of the time, its gonna cause the filling to sink to the bottom of the bag making it rock hard. raise it up that way you get a full range on where you hit the bag, distributing the filling evenly. it has happened to me.

you're too square on the bag. you're giving too much of your frontal position the the bag. remember, when your hitting the heavy bag you got to visualize another person in front of you going for combinations. my advice is to have your left leg pointing the bag, and your left elbow should be in the same direction of that leg at all time. at the same time keeping your right hand nice and tight near your chin. giving your opponent an angle makes it easier for you to slip/block punches and makes it hard for them to target the body. head will be exposed so head movements should also be present.

keep your distance from the bag. most of those punches are short, i see elbows bent at impact, this significantly lowers you're ability to snap a punch. you want to be able to fully extend your elbow with your jabs and crosses. cant make too much of an analysis on your footwork, video was cut off near shins.

near the end of the video i saw that you were shuffling to the right while throw a hook... it looked like if you were a little off balance throwing those punches. my suggestion practice shuffling with a rope tied to a pole or fence, what ever.. and practice shuffling moving right leg first left leg follows, vice versa. also when moving from either side of the rope, it helps strengthen your legs due to the fact that you have to duck while shuffling. be warned tho while ducking using you're legs to duck not your hips. when you mastered this, you can go ahead and mix punches like your jabs, crosses, then hooks and uppercuts once u get the hang of shuffling.

this will help a little on the foot work and will improve your movement around the bag. ... what else, oh, bring punches back to chin immediately. saw a few go from chin to bag, back to chest level then back up to chin. need to go chin to bag back to chin.


hope this gives you a few ideas. join a gym, i know some gyms are expensive but learning boxing by yourself can lead to bad habits.

[Karlos1991]

Thanks a lot for that comment d_lyrik