made a video about with some pointers when drilling and practicing shadow boxing at home, during covid.
Throw Boxing-Feints
Don’t pass out, instead twitch your shoulders as if you’re about to throw a punch. Practice shadow boxing, and ‘pretending’ to throw punches, to keep your opponent guessing.
Sometimes you just want to twitch your shoulder as if you are about to throw a punch, other times you want to extend one of your arms a little bit.
One of my favorite things to do, is throw a feint jab, and then immediately after the feint, throw my real jab. L
Don’t Set Yourself Before Throwing a Punch
Don’t pause or set yourself, before throwing a punch.
Practice throwing when you are slightly off balance, when you’re still moving or stepping. Throw from different angles and change up the pace at which you move, throw feints and actually throw a punch.
Jab With Your Head Off Centre Line
Taller guys can get away with keeping their head dead-centre all of the time, but generally speaking, if you are stepping in with a jab, put your head down to the side – or you’ll walk onto a counter
Keep Shoulders Relaxed When Throwing Punches
Keep relaxed and throw the punches from the foot, hips, shoulder and finally the hand.
I like to think of driving first from the foot, and then driving again from the elbow upon impact
Name Combinations
Give your boxing combinations names. For example, a jab-cross combination, could be called “2” and Jab, Cross, Hook combination could be called “3”.
When you are throwing combinations, merge the punches into one movement. So instead of thinking “jab”, then “cross”, then “hook” – just think “3”.
Also, don’t wait for one punch to finish, before throwing the next punch. As soon as you have started to throw the jab, then the punch should follow as soon as the jab has begun, and then the hook should be throw as soon as the cross has started.
Merge the punches of a 3 punch combination into one movement, instead of 3 separate punches.