Moving your head

[Wood23ard]

Any tips to train this at home with no-one else to help out?

Or just any tips on moving your head at all would be great, i'm new to the sport.

[We want Floyd]

Any tips to train this at home with no-one else to help out?

Or just any tips on moving your head at all would be great, i'm new to the sport.

Buy a rope and place it at your shoulder height. Shadow box, shadow box w/ lots of head movement, visualizing is very important.

Oh, and buy a slip bag, like the one Mike Tyson made popular. Or the double-end bag is great as well. But, shadow boxing is key

[Verstyle]

I work the slip bag, double in and I imagine when hitting the heavybag that I'm dodging hits. If you have a very high heavybag you could even try going underneath.

[BennyST]

Get a mirror and practice your slipping, weaving, ducking etc etc etc, in front of it. Get the movement quite exaggerated at first so it's a big, but perfect, movement and then as you speed up bring the movement down to a much smaller movement. I think this aspect is often overlooked. If you want good head movement you should do a lot of this, not only on the spot, but with all your footwork drills as well.

At first keep your hands up in your guard position and just get the head movement down so it becomes second nature. You'll find doing this will really help your core muscles and you should cross-train these as well as it will speed up your head movement, the majority of which comes from your waist, hips and legs.

I'm assuming you know all the basic head movement drills and fundamentals. Practicing with the rope helps as well, but try to get it all down perfectly with the mirror drills at home or whatever. I guarantee that you'll see huge improvement doing it this way.

Once all this is down and internal/into your muscle memory then start to slowly work it into your shadow boxing rounds. Train rounds that are spent working simple combinations, but with non-stop head movement in between everything, stepping forward, backward, lateral, pivoting, on the spot.....everything, but with non-stop movement.