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Often times I get asked is there a certain short cut a fighter and trainer can take in their training to quicken the fighter’s development… First off, To quote the great Thomas Jefferson ” There’s NO substitute for hard work ” That is certain indeed, however if there is a so called hort cut to progress, it’s called film study.

All the great fighters did it, Toney, Tyson, Hopkins, etc… By watching what other great fighters did against fellow great fighters and then heading right to the gym to practice what they saw… This quickened their progress and each of these fighters owes their own distinctive styles to this true short cut.

Pull up a chair, grab your lap top, search youtube and other outlets and find out yourself what they saw that molded them into their own championship greatness.

RIP Arturo

Everyone new what kind of fighter he was in the ring and for you young fighters and coaches out their who want to know how to REALLY define heart and grit… Watch Arturo’s fights with Rodriguez, Ruelas, and his trilogy with Mickey Ward. All of Gatti’s big fights where good but these will always stand out in my mind. RIP Champ.

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Eddie Chambers proved that last weekend. He went to Germany weighting 208lbs and dominated the physically bigger fighter in Alexander Dimitrenko.

Alexander is 6’6 and came in at 253lbs. yet Eddie owned the ring. He was the faster, more skillful fighter that night. He was strong enough to drop Alexander several times as well.

All this while weighing 208lbs. and standing 6’1. Skill rules in the ring. The ability to use your smarts with hat skill allows a fighter to dominate when they appear to be out gunned on paper.

There’s far more to boxing than the gifts of physical size and strength. Watch Eddie’s performance again on youtube.com and see for yourself.

That was a boxing lesson and that was the sweet science being displayed. Great to see that some heavyweights still know how to display it.

In fights, sparring, and working the bags I see a lot of fighters smothering their punches. They waste their energy this way by being to close to really land and they are to close you their opponents in fights creating opportunities to be easily countered.

How do you solves this then you may be thinking? I’ll tell you by using your feet. Something so simple yet overlooked and underutilized. The feet get you in position and out just like that. However fighters tend to get to close and smother any advantage they have created. So I teach my fighters to use angles and when they find them selves to close to the bags or their sparring partners in sparring to take a half step back to create a little space as well.

You need to create some space to really land. Of course in fighting is going to be a little tighter however this is where fighters smother themselves the most. I’m not saying take yourself out of range of any in fighting, again, I’m saying is just create a little space and room by using your legs.

When you use angles you turn your opponent so he can’t set down and punch and when you take a half step back your opponent will likely walk right to you and into your punches. It’s beautiful and that’s the sweet science being applied.

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