Boxer's Bible of Counterpunching: The Killer Response to Any Attack
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All the tools necessary to build a powerful defensive base for boxing—every defense for every punch from every angle—are included in this manual. Punching prowess has become equated with boxing, but what is done in response to that incoming flurry makes a truly good boxer: how to make an opponent miss, how to easily defend, and, most importantly, how to counterattack. Building on that defensive base, this book explores natural punching triggers, or logical counterpunching sequences, that move past the beginner’s realm of being a mere puncher into the upper echelons of crafty counter boxing. With encyclopedic boxing defensive drills bolstered by numerous illustrative photographs, this is a one-stop resource for learning the art of counterpunching.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really enjoyed this book. Nice breakdown of both simple and more advanced countering techniques.
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Boxer's Bible of Counterpunching - Mark Hatmaker
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Introduction
Boxers get hit; good boxers don’t get hit as much.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Epigraphs
Epigraphs are those cherry-picked quotations that authors use at the beginning of a book to set the stage for what is to come. I often miss the link between the epigraph and what follows, but if I do say so myself, the following two quotes sum up the mental stance I prescribe in approaching these pages. And keep in mind, these two giants of the game damn well know what they’re talking about.
Boxers get hit; good boxers don’t get hit as much.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes — that means your [preparation].That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you’re going to get found out now, under the bright lights.
— Joe Frazier
… there is, indeed, a wide gulf between being a puncher and being a boxer.
How to use our boxing manuals
This book and the others in this series (Boxing Mastery and Boxer’s Book of Conditioning & Drilling) are meant to be used in an interlocking synergistic manner where the sum value of the manuals is greater than the individual parts. What we are striving to do with each manual is to focus on a specific aspect of the sweet science and give thoughtful consideration to the necessary ideas, tactics and strategies pertinent to the facet of focus. We are aware that this piecemeal approach may seem lacking if one consumes only one or two manuals at most, but we are confident that once several manuals have been studied, the overall picture or method will begin to reveal itself.
Since the manuals are interlocking, there is no single manual in the series that is meant to be complete in and of itself; instead, we think of each manual as an individual piece or section of a comprehensive master manual. With this volume, the Boxing Master Manual clocks in at over 600 pages. Although Boxing Mastery is a thorough overview on boxing, it is bolstered with side-by-side study of Boxer’s Book of Conditioning & Drilling, which details how to train the concepts found in the first book.
The volume you hold in your hands now presumes that you have got the basics down, have honed your conditioning and are ready for the truly fun stuff — the actual science of the sweet science.
To our MMA brethren
Mixed Martial Artists you have not been forgotten! You will find much (if not all) of the material contained within of value to your game. Admittedly, we provide only encyclopedic counters for boxing attacks, but by paying attention to how we structure the drills and the tactical explanations of why we approach the drills the way we do, you should have no problem at all extrapolating to the MMA environment.
Punching v boxing
Punching versus boxing? They’re the same thing, right? Or is this me asking a trick question that winds up with there being a distinction without a difference? Maybe this is one of those long-winded metaphors offered to pad pages rather than get to the meat of the topic.
I don’t think so. And if I can keep your attention for a few pages, I think there’s a good possibility that you’ll see that there is, indeed, a wide gulf between being a puncher and being a boxer.
To highlight the differences between punching and boxing, I want you to think about the athlete who looks mighty good on the heavy bag. He’s got heavy hands that give solid resounding slaps with each impact. The fighter who works a steady beat on the bag so tight that the local club could stage a rave to his beat. No bag sway, which we all know is a sign of pushing punches rather than popping punches. No sway for this guy, he’s all leather impact craters. Good stuff.
You have this athlete in mind? OK, let me ask you a question: Is this athlete a good boxer? Huh? Now, I think you probably see where I’m going. There’s no way to tell whether or not this guy is a good boxer without actually seeing him box.
That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you’re going to get found out …
— Joe Frazier
At this point you might be thinking, OK, training on gear or training solo is not boxing training — it’s punching training.
You’d be close with this estimation, but there’s a little