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Boxing Training: How to Set Up the Body Shot

By February 9, 2014November 9th, 2021No Comments
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When you’re Boxing, you need to properly set up body shots.

A body shot is always dangerous because you can be countered by a powerful overhand punch.

Kickboxing and Boxing students typically attack the body by going directly for the target without setting it up first.

This works, but there is 3 different ways to attack the body and this is only one of them.

The first way is the aforementioned direct shot. This means that I see an opening and I drop my elevation and strike the body. Typically, you have to be very fast and explosive to execute this type of an attack.

The second way is to set it up. Divert their attention high and then go low to the body. For example, high left jab, high right hand, low jab to the body.

The third and final way to go to the body is as a counter attack.

As your training partner goes for a high jab, you slip his jab and throw a jab of your own to his rib cage.

Ritchie Yip

Ritchie Yip

Ritchie Yip is the Head Instructor for InFighting Training Centers located in Downtown Vancouver and Brentwood Burnaby. InFighting Training Centers offers programs in Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Bootcamp Conditioning Classes and Personal Training

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Ritchie Yip

Ritchie Yip is a life long martial artist, BJJ Black Belt, and the head instructor of the InFighting Martial Arts Gym in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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