I met a guy who's a trainer for a boxing gym near my house this morning on the bus. I had no idea it was there. He was giving this girl his card and trying to mack on her. I felt bad c0ck-blocking by asking for a card, too, but I figure if I show up for a training session he'll have plenty of chance to take it out on me.
It's certainly something worth considering. I usually have one hand up and one hand down when I approach an opponent, and try to keep my elbows in to cover my ribs. But that's because I'm used to being able to grab and be grabbed as well as punch and be punched (although I'm a LOT more used to the grabbing.) I suppose it's concievable that a karateka ready stance might have some grappling applications in mind as well, while there's no reason a boxer's ready stance would account for such a thing.
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.