18 - Various Tips

- Not For Starbuck's Managers

Breath only through your nose as you fight. Only when very tired breath with your mouth.

Choreograph your hits. Breath out with every punch, when retreating breath in.

Condition your knuckles by doing push-up on your knuckles and with long times set for sparring with a heavy punching bag.

Often a fighter will punch into stone and concrete in order to bruise their knuckles. As they cuts and bruises heal the knuckles will become bigger and stronger every time.

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17 - Buying a Punching Bag

- Not including your wife

First get yourself lightweight gloves for sparring, no need for a set of real boxing gloves to use. A large punching bag will be over 6 feet usually so you must have a lot of head space. Set the punching bag in a larger room because you'll want to maneuver around it as you punch it.

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16 - Losing Weight to Make The Cut

- Trimspa Baby!

When you are making the cut for a bowing match you WILL feel like absolute crap, cutting weight is very hard work.

Only drink water or drinks with zero calories. You total caloric intake should only be around 1500. On the day of the weight-in do not eat at all and only drink water. You should head to a sauna for 10 minutes and the weight will simply evaporate because all you'll have in you is a lot of water.

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15 - Sparring an Opponent

- Practice makes Perfect

Sparring is the act of mock fighting a real fight. In a sparring session you don't hit your hardest. You want your hits to be loose and light, but faster than a real fight. You only work on becoming a better fighter with footwork, dodge work, jabs, hooks, uppercut, blocking, combinations, your fighting stance and everything else.

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14 - What is Shadow Boxing?

- making the groundhog scared

Shadow boxing is sparring without an opponent. You are pretending to fight an opponent. Using technique of ducking, dodging, blocking, footwork.

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13 - Performing a Combination

- No, not on a pizza

Make an invisible mark in the center of your opponent. You'll want to attack with every short punch directed in that mark. Your forearms should immediately guard your face if your opponent comes in to attack.

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12 - Basic Body Blow

- go for the chest not the ears

Never use only your arm strength. When you go in to punch you should rely more on your shoulder and leg strength. On impact make sure your knuckles lay straight with all four pointed at your opponent and they must be lined perpendicular to the ground and not sideways.

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11- Throwing an uppercut

- without scissors

Get into your fighting stance. Use your front leg to move forward with the punch. Swing upward with the punch very close to your body. Your palm should face your face as you punch.

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10 - Throwing a Jab

- It's like stealing candy from a baby

A jab is a punch the goes out very quickly and retreats just as quick. You'll want to use your back leg as the anchor of your punch. Duck your chin to your body. With elbows sunk into your sides, go forward extending your arms at the same time. Let your palm face the ground. The moment your foot touches the ground should be the same time you make impact.

Now bring you hand back into position quickly and guard yourself with your forearms. If done successfully the punch should "snap" on the target and retreat back quickly.

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9 - Throwing a Hook

- Without a fishing rod

Point your feet in the direction of your opponent. Using the side opposite of your writing hand, swing. Bury your chin into this sides shoulder. On the moment of impact your palm should face the ground

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8 - How to make a Boxing Fist

- why I oughta...

First clench your fists as you would do normally with thumb and fingers curled in. Take your thumb from inside the fist and put it over your index and middle fingers. You thumb should be pointing down.

When you engage your fists must be loose until the moment of impact, then you tighten your fist. As soon as you pull back, relax your fist.

The reason this is done is to conserve energy for a long match.

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7 - Footwork

- What size shoe sir?

Always keep your weight balanced no matter where you step. Make a habit of reversing your body stance very quickly. Move front to back, side to side and diagonally. Never get your legs crossed in front of each other. Always move in the direction away from your opponents dominate fighting hand so they will have to reach in farther to hit you thus making them more vulnerable form a counter attack by you.

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6 - Developing A Boxing Stance

- Be Cool Like The Fonz

Stand with your the shoulder opposite of your writing hand. Also, take a step forward with the foot opposite of your writing hand. Put your other foot directly behind this foot with toes touching the heel of the first foot and the back heel of the second foot should be raised a couple inches. Your feet should face your opponent at 45 degrees. With a straight back, bend your knees slightly. Let your arms tuck into your sides, raise them up so they protect the front of your body. Your hand should be in front of your face.

Although you are slightly crouched into a position you must stay loose at all times and only get tense on impact. With each hit you must turn your feet into the direction of your opponent. When you hit with the hand opposite of your writing hand, lean in with leg so that this forces you to have extra strength in your punch.

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5 - Putting On Boxing Gloves

- If it doesn't fit. You must acquit

First you must wrap a "hand wrap" around the base of your thumb and palm and then extend it out and wrap it around your wrist about three times. Open your hand extended your finger and then wrap it around your knuckles three times. Extended your thumb and wrap around the base of the thumb twice and then across the whole hand twice diagonally.

Fasten it or if not included on the hand wrap, tie the end where your wrist is. Now you can place your hands inside the gloves and fasten or lace the straps.

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4 - No Nos

- Nag Nag Nag

Do not ever turn your back. In boxing if you turn your back on an opponent you're fair game and can be knocked out in an instant.

Do not become a sitting duck. Be loose and only become tense on the impact of a punch. Use your footwork through the whole match. Duck and dodge attacks coming your way while guarding yourself.

Do not ever put your hands down. Always guard yourself no matter what. It may seem awkward at first but you must always guard your face.

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3 - Boxing Wear

- Just Do it

A boxer basic set of tools are the following:

a set of jump ropes
a couple handwraps
a couple good fitting mouth pieces
groin protector for men
chest protector for women
a pair of boxing shoe to only be worn in boxing matches.

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2 - The Boxer Workout

- Kick, Punch, Squat. Double time now!

A boxer's daily routine will consist of 20 minutes of basic sit-up and push-ups. 20 minutes of bike riding to build stamina, 30 minutes jogging to build endurance, ending with a 10 minute jump roping to build calf strength. They will then do a 10 minute sparring with a punching bag or go to a gym and spar someone for live practice.

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1 - First things First

- Sign up for a local boxing club

Become a member of a local boxing club, you can check local newspapers or online for any boxing places around you locally.

When you sign-up, you'll learn the basic fundamentals like combos, defense, offense and rules. You'll often be paired to fight someone of a similar physical frame as yourself. This is called sparring and is not a real match, but more to hone your skills.

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