My senior client entered the sixth hour of his current boxing course. We are going through the finer details of basic punches. Last week we covered the jab; this week it made sense to look at the next straight punch: the cross.

My clients from Hostlebro Taekwondo Klub, Denmark (chief instructor and instructor), joined me for the third their current course of boxing lessons. We moved more onto some specialised footwork - shift steps, mainly from the peek-a-boo style and v-steps - to switch stances and take angles. After a specific warm-up and shadow boxing, we moved back onto the specific (constraints-led approach) sparring methods.