Getting the Footwork Right in Boxing

22.08.2025

The tenth and final hour of my senior client's Boxing course continued our footwork focused training.

We went through the pendulum, V, L and shift steps individually on the focus mitts and heavy bag before integrating them into sparring. As per our previous lesson, I took into consideration this is a heavier and older fighter, but we were able to adapt these movements for him. The outside boxing of the L-step allowed him to take advantage of his long reach, where we used Lennox Lewis style balanced attack and defence. The shift step became an extension of his natural bullish forward pressure style.

These were then integrated in sparring by using attack vs defence, attack vs counter-attack and outside vs inside boxing constraints.

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