not at all. it's not about NOT getting hit at all. It's about getting as many strikes in on the legal targets as you can.
It's not about avoiding being hit, it's about how many times you can hit...
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not at all. it's not about NOT getting hit at all. It's about getting as many strikes in on the legal targets as you can.
It's not about avoiding being hit, it's about how many times you can hit...
There's also quite a lot of training that revolves around taking a strike and recovering,how to position yourself to do that and how to condition yourself to do that.
bobbing and weaving and...
You did ask how someone would explain it to a southern stylist.
Why?
why would a southern kungfu stylist explain what boxing is?
that would be like asking a boxer to explain what wrestling is?
southern kungfu practice is not limited to tactics in a ring.
it...
uh listen chang style, whenever you actually find the time to actually go out and actually box with someone, then please feel free to enter back into the debate.
you guys that haven't been in a...
dragonzrage-
if you are boxing an opponent who is larger than you and of equal or greater skill, you are done, that is all.
on the street...well whatever, I am pretty sure that most of the...
bite me father dog, I have forgotten more about boxing than you will ever know, so you can stfu on the subject.
and st00 you are so full fo sh.it your eyes are brown.
I have a juvenile boxing...
oh sorry st00, maybe i should've said boxing is the ancient battlefield art designed to allow smaller opponents destroy larger heavier opponents of equal or greater skill.
peh!:rolleyes:
look,...
boxing is a sport. there are height and weight ranges that you fall into.
generally, when boxing, you don't box someone that is grossly larger or heavier than yourself.
having said that, do...
serp-
a spinning backfist is probably not an very effective attack in boxing.
It involves turning your back on your opponent.
I don't think it is illegal, it's just not used.
But as new...
jd-
it's hard to do a palm strike with boxing mitts on, but...there is often times a palm shoved at the forehead to target a strike for instance.
The rules of boxing are interesting that way if...
There are 2 accepted sets of rules for modern boxing.
Those are the rules of the WBC (world boxing commision) and the WBA (world boxing association). The rules as applied by each of these...