Training Tips
How to Counter a Long Guard in Boxing
Use feints, body-line touches and patient footwork to answer a long guard without chasing the lead hand or reaching.
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Training Tips
High Guard Boxing: Stay Covered Without Freezing
Use a high guard that protects your head while your feet, eyes and next decision stay active under pressure.
Training Tips
Post-Natal Fitness and Boxing: When to Start and What to Avoid
Returning to exercise after having a baby requires specific consideration. Here is when boxing training is appropriate post-natally and what the return to training should look like.
Training Tips
How to Cut Off the Ring in Boxing
Learn to close an opponent's exits with patient feet, a working guard and a simple jab, without following them around the ring.
Training Tips
Do You Need to Be Aggressive to Start Boxing?
You do not need an aggressive personality to start boxing. You need patience, coachability and a class that teaches control first.
Community
De La Hoya’s Garcia-Benn response: the promoter’s stake
Oscar De La Hoya speaking during fight week offers a distinct business angle: what Garcia-Benn means for the promoter, the fighter’s next leverage point and the welterweight market if Garcia wins.
Training Tips
Outside Slip to Rear Body Shot: Boxing Drill
Use a compact outside slip to move off the jab line, then return a rear body shot without reaching or losing your guard.
Training Tips
Can You Box With Hearing Aids?
Yes, for plenty of non-contact training. Learn what to tell the coach, when to remove them, and how to protect them.
Events
Canelo vs Christian Mbilli: What the Face-Off Sets Up
A focused preview of the announced October 31 bout: whether Mbilli’s pressure can force Canelo into a sustained, high-output fight rather than a controlled counterpunching contest.
Training Tips
Long-Range Rear Body Cross: Boxing Drill
Use a small step, level change and guarded exit to land a rear body cross without reaching or getting stuck at close range.
Community
What Boxing Taught Me About Discipline
Discipline is discussed constantly in fitness culture and almost always described incorrectly. Boxing teaches it in a specific way that transfers to every other area of life.
Training Tips
Opposite-Shoulder Turn: Stop Arm Punching
Use a small turn from the non-punching shoulder to stop reaching with the arm and keep your balance after straight punches.
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