Boxing_-How-To-Slip-Punches-with-Kerry-Pharr
Kerry Pharr: OK, folks.
The next thing weíre going to show you is
some defensive drills, how to slip a punch,
how to parry a punch, how to block a bunch,
different techniques.
So weíve got Brian in the stance.
Now the first punch that a boxer is generally
going to throw at you is going to be his jab.
So heís going to stick the jab and if I just
tilt my head this way, this is called a slip.
It slides right over my shoulder.
Now how do I know thatís coming?
What I normally do is Iím watching a guyís
chest and Iím watching his shoulders.
If he turns his shoulder this way, I know
that a hook is coming.
Now he might feign something.
Now I know I can watch by his shoulders and
tell what heís going to throw but anyway,
heís going to throw a jab and Iím going
to slip.
Iím just going to turn, basically turn this
shoulder, this way and bend.
Thatís all Iím doing, just slipping that
punch.
So thatís how you slip the left jab.
Slip.
Now I have my hands up, slip, and I will move
this hand as I slip to cover my face just
in case I donít get it.
OK, then a puncher, if heís a right hand
fighter, heís going to throw a combination.
Left jab, right hand, left hook, right hand.
So it only stands to reason after he throws
the jab, heís going to throw the jab and
I will slip that.
The right hand is coming right behind us.
So heís going to throw a jab, right hand.
So I want to go slip here, slip outside.
Slip here, slip outside.
Another thing that I used to do when I was
a young man was boxing.
Because I was so short, when he threw the
jab, I would slip.
You see Iím slipping here.
Iím over here.
Then I would roll.
I would roll and I would come back with my
hook.
So Iím going to slip.
Iím going to slip this shot here.
Iím going to roll it inside and Iím going
to throw my hook.
Slip and Iím going to roll inside and Iím
inside for the shot but slipping, slip, and
then the right hand comes.
Iím slipping out here.
All right.
So thatís how you slip a punch.
He might throw a right hand and I slip out
here but you basically got to have the head
ready to go and move the torso left to right.
Now, I call this a pick.
Itís really called the parry.
This is how you parry a punch.
Heís going to stick his left jab.
Now when he sticks that left jab, if I do
not slip that jab, Iím going to get him full
in the face with that jab.
If I donít slip it, heís going to hit me
right in the face.
So Iíve either got to slip that jab or I
can parry that jab.
Now stick the jab and the parry ñ move a
little closer to me, Brian.
The parry just means that I push his ñ when
he sticks his left hand out there, I just
reach ever so slightly and push his left hand
off so that it doesnít hit me in the face.
Now let me show you how not to parry.
If he starts to jab and I reach here ñ come
on over and hook behind that Brian.
Hook.
No, no.
Iím going to stick out there.
Now hook off of that.
If I stick my hand out here, all he has to
do is hook.
You do not want to reach out here with the
parry.
When you parry a punch, when he throws a jab,
you push the jab right here.
OK, put a little weave on it.
You push it just an inch or two over here
because what happens, anytime you reach out
here, the fighter can pull the hand short,
come around and hit you with the hook.
We can just go over this.
So you want to parry this hand here, bring
the right hand back here.
So the same thing.
If he throws the right hand, I can pick it
here.
I can catch it here.
I can also catch it here, here.
Another way is I can even catch it with my
right hand.
So thereís a lot of ways you can do it.
Now, when he throws the right hand and if
I move this hand here, Iíve got to be careful
because heís going to come with the hook.
When he comes with the hook, what I want to
do is I can catch it here or I can ñ go ahead
ñ turn into the shot and then come out and
throw a right hand.
I can catch the hook, turn my weight into
him, boom!
Catch it here.
Do the same thing if he throws me a right
hand and go back here and turn and go with
it.
All right.
Now as heís moving, letís say that Brian
is moving to his left and all of a sudden
his opponent throws a right hand.
Come to the left.
All he has to do is drop his hips and duck
underneath that punch.
Just duck underneath it and notice how he
did a very good professional move there.
Notice that when he ducks underneath my right
hand, heís going to pivot out so that heís
in a position to throw a right hand or left
hook.
So here we go.
Heís going to move to the left.
I throw a right hand.
He goes underneath it and comes back with
the right hand.
Same thing.
If heís moving this way, all he has to do
is dip underneath and he can get his right
hand.
Go again.
See?
Just duck underneath.
Duck underneath.
Now come back in the way.
Duck underneath.
Duck underneath.
Now that is called bobbing and weaving.
So what you can do as you slip, you slip this
way.
You slip this way.
If I slip to the right, Iím going outside
the jab.
If I slip to the left, Iím going outside
the right hand.
But I can also, once I slip ñ this is bobbing
and then I come around and Iím weaving.
So slip and come on through, Brian.
Go ahead and slip yourself, like slip outside
my jab and then come on.
Weíre going to talk about slip, roll, slip
and roll.
Slip and roll through.
Slip and roll through.
Thatís kind of bobbing and weaving.
Bobbing is here, moving your head side to
side and then rolling.
Moving here, moving here, up and down.
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Male Speaker: Brought it back [Phonetic].
Kerry Pharr: OK.
One of the things that Muhammad Ali was so
great at was he was tall and Iím going to
have Brian throw a jab and he would ñ Muhammad
Ali would just kind of rock back.
As he would move his punch, he would rock
away from the punch and have the ability to
come right back and throw something.
If he throws a right hand, I can rock back.
But if I rock back, now watch.
Heís going to throw a right hand and Iím
going to rock back and not roll my shoulder
and he will hit me with that right hand.
See?
Now what I want to do when I rock back, I
want to roll that shoulder so that Iím protecting
myself from that there.
So I can rock back from the jab, the right
hand, either one, and it puts you in the position.
You rock back and when you rock back ñ Diamond
Jim MacDonald, a fighter that I used to work
with who fought Michael Spinks for the light
heavyweight championship of the world was
fantastic at this.
He would stick his jab.
He would rock back, boom!
Come on the top of the right hand.
He knocked out a bunch of fighters with that
and had Michael Spinks hurt in the world championship
fight just by rocking back and throwing that
right hand.
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