Agreed Phil
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A hook, a jab and upper cuts and body shots are thrown slightly differently depending on the boxers build an training...
I find lighter weight more skilled boxers tend to throw their hooks alot shorter and closer than some bigger guys with less skills. it all depends. At the boxing gym i visited there is a Small guy who has enormous power with in a close range. The way he spars with mofos is evidence of that. His body shots and hooks are pretty strong for him to be only 135lbs and 5'7" I rather fight a unskilled heavy weight for power than him.
but at the end of the day its simple
BS drills to defend against a hook or jab is just a drill...Its not gonna save you in a fight...You can drill, drill and drill something a million times,,,,until you actually try using what you drilled in sparring it will be a useless shape...
you will find sparring with different boxers of different skill levels and different sizes some drills work better than others...You must also learn to tweak the posistion and range of your techniques on the fly...learn how to adjust and adapt an change...if bridging aint working learn how to evade. If Evading is too slow learn how to control. But if your using boxing gloves, NOT mma grappling gloves the dimension of your wing chun changes significantly...
I suggest sparring and try bridging and deflecting techniques with WC gloves on while sparring an see what works for you...For me there are about three main techniques that work with Boxing Gloves the best...Most of the ish I disregard.
But the best way to defend a hook is find out what works when your sparring!!!
Even then timing, coordiation and accuracy play a big part...you aint gonna be able to defend every strike thrown at you...you may have to eat a few if you expect to land any strikes yourself!
Ahhh! the 'reality' check for anyone wishing to train Martial Arts. :D
Thing is, how do you train 'to take a hit'? Without the sparring?
I only ask because this forum is getting so lame and tiresome I thought I would go way back to the roots of our Art... which isn't western pugilism!
I disagree...
Notice I am asking how to train to be hit? Not how to fight? They are different animals from my experience, and if you train one over the other you may still be daunted by either.
Training to be hit was (and still is) a speciality of Shaolin. It's generally called 'Iron Shirt' and any well trained MMA fighter has this and gained it, not from sparring only (or any Shaolin training!) but from other complimentary body work and equipment. The medicine ball springs to mind.
Training to be hit is the first step to successful 'Self Defence' ;)
toughening the body and learning how to take a hit are two different things, i speak as someone who spent 5 years doing specific iron body training (so i understand that thank you) and as someone who has gone through MMA training, training to take a hit includes learning to roll with a strike both to the body especially to the head, something iron skills dont teach
Training to take a hit and trying HOW to take a hit are two different beast BUT should be part of the same training.
You progress from static training ( getting hit while learning how your body reacts and how to take that hit in that area) to dynamic training ( getting hit while actually fighting).
One without the other leads you to half-baked skills.
Not to pile on but if you do a google search you can find awesome boxing videos by Don Familton.