Boxing Footwork for Beginners - Micro Movements
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Published 2024-04-21
If you cannot master the simple boxing footwork patterns that I demonstrate in this video, then you can't control yourself. If you can't control yourself, how do you hope to control an opponent? The really big factor in nailing boxing footwork as a beginner is to aim for micro movements and avoiding the common beginner boxer faults.
The boxing drill pattern I use is about as simple as it gets. A simple cross can be laid out in duct tape and this will give you the perfect template to execute controlled boxing footwork movements. The boxing drill pattern gives you a fixed point of reference, and that is the power of these types of beginner boxing drills.
The 4 sets of boxing footwork movements are:
Movement in and out
Lateral movement
Diagonal movement (lead foot side)
Diagonal movement (rear foot side)
Once you master these boxing footwork directions of movement, you can evolve to layering other skills. You can add straight punches, hooks and uppercuts. You can also add in head movements, like the duck or the slip.
If you are a boxing beginner, layering on those additional skills will be a challenge. So, ensure that you master the simple boxing footwork for beginners elements of the micro movements. Only once you are comfortable with those skills, and you are avoiding the beginner faults, should you add in the other boxing skills.
Cheers
Fran
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All Comments (17)
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Every punch tells a story. Its tells how the fighter is skilled or not, it tells if there is power, speed, accuracy, does it follow through, is it snappy, is it forced with over-tightened muscles, is it relaxed until the end, does the punch properly gauge distance, etc. The story of each punch is held in the fist coming at you. When we slip and/or move we want to move just enough to hear that story whispered in our ear.
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Thanks coach , great content for free.
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True gold nuggets!
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Fran the gym is looking spectacular
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Looks like a new gym you're in. I have to really concentrate hard to calm my feet down. This kind of exercise certainly seems like it will help. Thank you! 🥊
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You're the best, Fran. No mater the discipline, it's the fundamentals that matter the most.
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Thank you sir!
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Great video Fran. Very versatile drills for all.
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I swear on my life I thought I was possibly clicking on a Maynard James Keenan video.
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Thank you Fran for this awesome content. Going to drill these in my kitchen.
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Good stuff. You don't need to make your opponent miss by a mile. But just an inch so you can counter
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✅👍
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😎 I love the new gym renovations Coach.🔥🔥 I'd definitely love to come work out and get some sparring in the future. Inshallah
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The stance feels so unnatural to me! I find my feet crossing the line thats supposed to be between em. Is that fairly common?
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If you watch Juan Manuel Marquez’s first 30 fights he always stepped forward onto his heel. I don’t know how he got away with it. But I don’t know why it took Nacho over 30 fights to fix him 😂
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What’s more astonishing me, is how much human being are struggling to move like a cat or a dog or a monkey…. simply watch like a cat or a leopard fight, and they look to know perfectly all this stuff, and they never went to a gym! 😂
