Dayne Williams
Boxing101.nz second ’16 Week Beginners Fight Training Program’ has successfully trained new beginners once again with more wins in the ring. During Program 2 we had a lot of beginners give up on boxing and so we decided not to host a fight night with the fewer numbers. Instead we placed the remaining beginners into other … Read more
While comparatively low risk compared to many other contact sports, a few injuries have made it into the media spotlight recently; with several boxing gyms pulling out of corporate fight night events making headlines. Corporate boxing makes for a great experience and boxing can certainly be a safe hobby. However, much of the risk in competition … Read more
Boxing101.nz successfully launches Program 2 just 16 days after Program 1 successful fight night. Now the boxing program is expanding into South Auckland.
A very successful first fight night for #BOXING101NZ – the venue was full of people and everyone’s expectations was exceeded. 16 competitors fought for the first time after just 16 weeks training with the beginners program.
Check this. In January I had 0 members enrolled in the program. Now on July 14 – Boxing101.nz will host its first fight night that will have an 8 Man Eliminator Tournament, a 4 Man Eliminator Tournament and additional fights too. All on the same night. Most gym’s fight nights do not have tournaments. So for a new … Read more
In the previous tutorial you learnt how to evade a straight punch by slipping, now you will learn how to evade hooks by weaving aka rolling. As with slips you will also learn with weaves to evade to the left and the right followed with a retaliation. Because as you evade your body is positioned for certain strikes and new opportunities will present themselves.
Slipping is a boxing defense technique used to evade straight punches like the jab. When you are in striking range of your opponent its best to use evasion techniques to avoid any impact by either moving out of range, weaving or as this tutorial teaches – slipping. You will learn how to slip and follow on with strikes.
A versatile combo that changes the attackers angle with agile footwork to strike an opponent from a different angle after the initial strike. The attacker next moves out of range before re-engaging for a final strike. In this tutorial you will learn how to pivot to quickly change angle when in firing range.
https://youtu.be/Wcsaagybyx0 After throwing the jab and straight right punch your opponent may try and counter punch you. In this situation we are not blocking the punch nor slipping it – we are quickly stepping back out of the way to dodge their counter punch and in doing so we are using the momentum from the back … Read more
We will use the jab and straight right punches to close the distance and setup our body shots which come in at 45 degree angles smashing into our opponents floating ribs. A good body shot can stun your opponent especially when they are already tired. Once we learn the body shots we can add on a left hook and straight right to keep the combination flowing.