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    Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science
    Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science
    Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science
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    Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science

    By Alan Lachica and Doug Werner

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    This boxing handbook provides up-to-date, in-depth coaching for serious contenders. Weaving fundamental skills into a progression of drills that hone technique in increasingly complex, demanding, and realistic fighting situations, the handbook aids fighters in developing the reflexes of a complete boxer and teaches the move from a process-and-react mentality to one of seeing-and-reacting. Hundreds of sequential images illustrate vital steps in the progressionfrom proper stance, effective footwork, and range to defense and counters, the importance of angles, and creating winning strategies.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherchristine+tracks
    Release dateJun 1, 2007
    ISBN9781935937234
    Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science

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      Clear and simple . Is nice to discover the beauty and efficacy of this fighting art after years of practicing oriental martial arts . I like that is a system proposed to learn faster , clear and efficient.

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    Boxing's Ten Commandments - Alan Lachica

    Index

    Introduction

    This boxing guide sorts and explains essential technique and knowledge that every boxer should know. This information is distilled into ten major points or commandments. Vital points are illustrated with hundreds of sequential images. Furthermore, fundamental skills are woven into a progression of drills that hone technique in increasingly complex, demanding and realistic fighting situations. A major goal of this book is to help readers grow from a process and react mentality to seeing and reacting — developing the reflexes of a complete boxer.

    Why the book is different

    This is a serious boxer’s guide. Not to be confused with boxing for fitness or boxing for fans. Boxing’s Ten Commandments lays out and knits together major areas of boxing training that are either briefly noted, poorly explained or overlooked in other guides. The reader will find up to date information regarding boxing essentials such as stance, footwork and punching. Knowledge about counterpunching and creating angles may be old hat to insiders at the gym, but has never been documented page by page like this. It is assumed that readers are familiar with basic boxing technique and training. Our first two boxing books, Boxer’s Start-Up and Fighting Fit, cover beginning and intermediate boxing and we recommend that those new to the game start there.

    Special note

    This guide is about boxing related workout plans. Weight training, stretching, running and nutrition — all vital to success — are not mentioned. This book deals exclusively with the Sweet Science.

    1Stance and rhythm

    First Commandment:

    Fight from the boxer’s stance with rhythm

    A classic on guard stance is the foundation upon which everything is built.

    Even the great Roy Jones Jr. learned how to keep his hands up and elbows in before gravitating to his famous left arm down style. A classic on guard stance gives you the ability to punch and defend at the same time. And in a nutshell, that’s boxing! — being able to throw and defend simultaneously.

    Your stance should allow for a sideways facing upper body (shows less target with more rotational power) and a slightly open lower body with your front toes in line with your back heel. This allows for a quicker and longer right hand and better balance.

    The spine should be angled a little forward. This activates the core muscles of your trunk. This is the ideal ready and athletic stance to be in. Look at top tennis, football and baseball players at the moment before they react. You will see that they assume this posture. Boxers should do the same!

    It goes like this:

    Align the toe of your lead foot with the heel of your back foot. Angle your spine slightly forward. Position your head behind your lead foot. Bring your hands up with the lead hand a bit in front of your lead shoulder. The back hand should be slightly in front of, or next to, the chin. Place your elbows in front of your body pointing down with forearms parallel. Your chin is down as if you’re holding a tennis ball between it and your chest.

    Good and bad — An upright stance with a narrow base (right) is unstable.

    A good way to build your stance is in front of a mirror. Begin with your feet together, then step with your lead foot slightly more than a regular step toward the mirror. This should pull your back heel off the ground. Next, turn your shoulders so that they’re square to the side wall. Turn your head so that you’re looking at the mirror. Bring your arms around until they rest in front of you. Note that your shoulders remain turned. Slightly tilt your spine toward the mirror. Keep your head behind your front foot. Your weight should be equally distributed over each foot.

    There’s some disagreement regarding fist clinching. Some coaches say a hand should be loose and made into a fist only before impact. Others say hands should stay fisted from bell to bell. I believe they should be

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