By Fox Doucette When we left off last week, I talked about how to avoid getting hit and how to hit back. But all of last week's lesson assumed that your actions existed in a vacuum and that your opponent was doing nothing to adjust his strategy on the fly---he just kept coming forward, walking into your brilliant counter-punches until you knocked him out. That may work in … [Read more...]
Boxing 101 (Lesson #2): Defense
There's an old saying in baseball that the two hardest things to do in the sport are hitting the ball...and stopping the other guy from hitting the ball. Boxing suffers no such dichotomy. Beating someone up is so easy a child can do it, as anyone who's ever seen a schoolyard bully knows. Not getting hit? Well, that's a whole different can of worms entirely. You can block, you … [Read more...]