i have been training in boxing  off and on for two years.my defense isnt that great.what can i do?
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What style of defense are you focusing on? Try working more with the double end bag and see what kind of exercises your trainer would recommend for your style.\n\nYou will probably have to do quite a bit of sparring, focusing on defense and without hitting your opponent. If you can do that then you will be better able to put it together with your offense later.
946586
here is a hint: DONT!!!!!!!! boxing is a dying sport and in five years will have as much notice as the professional rugby league does... none instead take tae kwon do for the next ten years and try yer luck with ultimate fighting
870401
Fighting is like everything else man. It takes practice. Go to a boxingg gym and watch people. Punch the bag around. Get stronger and quicker.
174618
Watch more fighting movies and learn by yourself.I also did that and became quite good.
52387
Why do you keep asking the same question? I don't box. I just spar with my husband sometimes. It's great exercise and it helps me appreciate actual boxers more because it takes so much skill and dedication. Hit you up for some cash? Sure, give me twenty bucks.
747083
Don't skimp when buying gloves. Try hitting someone on the forehead with cheap boxing gloves on. You will pay for it later with arthritis and other nagging injuries to your hands. Peace
332609
Play more competitive competition with better teamates\n\nIdentify your weaknesses and construct strategies in improving your play in those areas\n\nIdentify oppononents main weakness and focus your training on those areas
1109889
Box, stick and jab, move keep your distance and use angles.  Never get trapped into a corner or a brawl.  Be patient and calm, don't let the crowd get to you when they boo, hoping you will change and make it exciting.  Fighting according to what they want is not want you necessarily want.  Up the tempo and fall into the wrong option. Listen to your trainer and follow instructions.
314503
buy a punching bag.do the basic every day or every morning.you can descover a new style or strategy in your own.warm up first.
652971
Boxing is an excellent workout because it works all muscles in the body.  If you aren't interested in sparring, search for an aerobic boxing class or a boxing gym that does not expect people to spar if they don't want to.  Steer clear of any class or gym that appears to be too quick to throw people in the ring before they are ready.  If you want to spar, don't let anyone tell you that women can't.  Women can spar with the proper equipment: headgear, mouth guard, chest protector, and groin protector.  You can practice it for years.  Many people, including myself, took up boxing late in life, well after the age of 35.
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You have several points that can be improved on: \n\nBefore fight starts, always hold your arms and hands up in front of you like you are waving him off. Does two things, one, it puts you in advantage point as you are already positioned to block a punch, or to go offensive. \n\nSecond, it will momentarly distract him from thinking clearly. \n\nThird, never focus on his eyes, they can mislead you, instead focus on a point in the middle of his chest. That way, you can see clearly, his arms, his legs, and keep an eye on his shoulders, as just before he starts a punch with the right hand, his right shoulder will move back in cocking for the punch. Gives you advance warning.\n\nMost fights end up on the ground in grappling. When your opponent moves forward in a crouched position, to grab you and take you down, you step back quickly, and place your hands on the back of his head and push down, and down he goes. Side step and spin around and drop down on his back. Grap his head and neck and pull back in a semi choke hold. At this point, he cannot move. If you are serious about doing some damage, start hammering away at his head, and it will scare the hell out of him.\n\nIf your opponent winds up on top of you, having you pinned down, raise your legs up and start hammering into his kidneys with the heels of your shoes. He will be scrambling to get away from you. Kidney punches hurt like hell! \n\nIf you decide to do any kicking, never kick with your foot, as you can very easily sprain an ankle. If you want to do a groin shot, just swing the lower portion of your leg between his thighs, and he will go down screaming and moaning. \n\nIf you want to end the fight very quickly, when you are standing close to him, always be sure you hit him first, and hit him hard. Hit him in the solar plexis, this is just below the center bones of the rib cage. Hit him as hard as you can, and it will knock the breath out of him, and he will go down like a sack of rocks and probably vomit, and will be out of the fight with one punch. \n\nActually, fighting is not good, . . . . . . . . someone always gets hurt, . . . .just make sure it is not you. \n\nIf I could spend about one week with you, I could make you one lean mean fighting machine, and you would never be defeated. \n\nGo get em tiger!\n\nDarryl S.
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Well the best thing you can do is use as much of your opponents tequnique against him through superior technique and by being fast, being a faster combatanant throughout any match will cause your opponent to wear himself out against himself, depending on how many years you've been fighting you will understand that this is all too true. If your opponent pushes you, pull him, don't push back, that is a waste of energy and is most likely the reaction that he/she wants, they come high, get low, they get low, move around, never fight yourself, do your best to avoid situations in heavy clinching where you are fighting entierly with strength, in most of these cases you can use a minimal amount of effort yet still foil your opponent. All of this just comes in time and slowly begins to feel natural. Also, a key point on conditioning, because if these matches are not immenent and you still have some time to train, think about what muscles you use while fighting, at the end of a hard day of wrestling, which muscles are tired and sore? find workouts that are dedicated to those muscles groups and pound the hell out of them until they are in mind condition and will not tire as easily, you cannot afford to have the muscles you need the most to fight crapping out of you in the middle of your fourth match, that is just unacceptable. I am not in wrestling, i am in judo, so still a grappling art and i respect wrestling, there are a lot of practical techniques. Hmm, now more advice that will help you. End your matches quickley obviously, attack immidietly, if you make your matches only last a minute each, that is only five minutes of fighting, which should hardly make you break a sweat. i have had tournaments of up to eight people where i have followed the basically the same advice i just gave you, which was given to me by others, such as my teachers and other judoka, and i literally have walked out of my gold metal match without breathing hard, while all of my opponents are shaking and having difficulty standing. Oh, and take up jogging, skipping, and cycling if you havn't done so, it won't seem to do much good but when you increase your cardio your recovery time increases drastically, when i train for tournament, i train by fighting twenty five two minute matches as hard as i can with a fifteen second break in between each match. I'm sure that in wrestling you must do similar excersises and such, i am just saying do them more often, my favorite way of training my body is through technique, i am not going to kick my opponents ass by out push-uping him. I'll stop talking now.
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Take some boxing and/or martial arts lessons.  Fighting is a science; a trained person is generally far superior to most non-trained persons (the exceptions are for naturally gifted athletes and people who are much larger and/or stronger).  Assuming that you and your brother are about the same size, a little training should go a long way.  Even if he is still better, a few well placed blocks and strikes should convince him that you are no longer easy prey.
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You need to find a boxing gym in your area. Try looking through the list on the link below. Any good trainer will show you the basics and get you started on a regular program. \n\nAnd watch Ricardo Lopez fights. He was a near perfect textbook fighter. :)
748040
Most street fighters swing wildly, which doesn't work against a trained fighter. Learn basic boxing skills because a boxer will KO a brawler almost every time.
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Well the first thing you'd need to do is to ask yourself why are you doing this. If it's for the love of the sport then read on, if it's because your brother called you chikensh!t and you want some revenge then just hit him with a 2x4. First and foremost it would be advisable to ask your doctor to perform a full physical on you and afterwards ask him if you are physically healthy enough to take on the challenge that this sort of sport brings on. If you are cleared then the easy part is over. Next find youself a good agent and start training in the technique of your choosing(gecko-roman wrestling, boxing, etc...) until you are at the peak of physical fitness(that means no more jelly donuts)and well educated in your technique. Before doing anything else goto your doctor again for another complete physical re-evaluation and then buy alot of medical insurance because it's like then say, bones are made to be broken. If your agent comes through then s/he should be able to get you some amatuer fights to test your ability. Follow up from there and if you are serious about this good luck and have a nice few hospital visits.
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I know USA Boxing holds clinics.  Usually my dad teaches the clinics.  I would ask him, but he is out of town right now.  I know you have to take a test after the clinic. Go to www.usaboxing.org   Click on "membership".