Boxing advice for friend and me.

[Perfme]

Hi there.

I've been boxing for about 6 months (Training, haven't gotten into any spars or fights yet)

My friend wants me to train him and while I know the basics there's not much else I know without winging it.

Theres a weight class and height difference im 6 foot in heavyweight and hes 5' 8 in super middleweight.

I have a little gym in my basement. Speed bag(for my height), Weights, Punching bag, and some mittts.

Is there any forum post or website that can help with this, or even just some advice from some of you guys?

[Richard P]

Be honest with him, don't try to blag it (lie your way through) explain you know basics but it will be fun to work with each other. jab, cross, lead and rear hook and lead and rear uppercuts should be simple enough. Shadow box, skipping and basic circuit training like press ups/burpees/sit-ups for now.

With novices I try to keep things slow, work on slowing your punches down and with perfect technique, hands covering the cheeks, chin tucked in and as your punch extends making it snappy. Rotating through the hips on the punches and really planting your feet (on the balls) as you throw

The worst mistake a lot of beginners make is trying to throw too complex combinations and have fast hands. 90% of the time forms starts to go out window as speed increases and although you may feel slick, in reality your punches have no power behind them and you tend to leave yourself open to the counter.

An old coach always used to shout at me saying 1 punch a second (basically I had to slow right down and really think about perfect technique on each throw)

I would recommend taking your friend to your gym, a proper class and maybe do your training at home on the side, as an additional training method.

[Richard P]

Sneak Punch and JT Van V (that's their YouTube profiles) are both very good in breaking things down into simple easy to follow steps and are approx 15 second drills that you can perfect with repetition