There are a lot of shadow boxing styles.
Mainly the styles depend on what kind of boxer you are an infighters shadow boxing is different from an outfighers shadow boxing and a slugger shadow boxes different to.
Many people only think about people floating around the canvas, well let me tell you that's not the only style out there.
And you can train all kinds of things with shadow boxing like: Punches (Normal, speed, power punches and for power punches I'd advice to get the kinetic chain and timing right), footwork and movement, evading, tight high guard, guard styles and blocking and diverding. You can train one, a couple or all the above trainings with shadow boxing.
If you have trouble holding the tight high guard up with the under arms close to each other and with the underarms and hands protecting the face. You can do certain arm stretches. And you can just hold the position and maybe move around. And maybe even do some evading. The more muscled you are the more likely it is hard to hold the tight high guard.
For the tight high guard to be effective you also need to do hook blocks.
And you need a strong abdominal area.
With the tight high guard you can also hone in on your opponent and knock him out.
Hold the line with sparring.
Moving sideways and punching.
Moving backwards and punching.
Pivotting and punching.
Circling and punching.
Moving forwards and punching.
And moving in angles and punching.
Power punches from around waist hight.
There's a punch called the kangaroo punch or the gazelle punch. Search it up if you want. It's a jumping punch.
A harder punch by putting the back foot forward and then the front foot forward. With the right timing.
Another power punch: Making oneself big, standing on the balls of the feet and then explode down with a downward direct punch or a downward hook.
By Jeffrey Koelewijn from Holland
04-04-2018
