Nerdcore Boxing

If you read my post the other day, you should know I discovered that I don’t “open up” my hips enough (or spread my legs) when I move to the left.

I got to experiment on the bag with this tonight. Opening up did wonders for my left hook and my mobility to the left. Without opening up my hips my knee points somewhat awkwardly inward, this causes some unwanted side effects:

1. I lose some of the movement from shifting my weight over my left leg and some of the leg induced explosion that I could be putting behind my left hook. This lack of leg action causes me to overcompensate by cocking or allowing my left hook to trail my shoulder when I rotate my body.

2. I feel more comfortable throwing combos then pushing off my left leg to either lean off or step off to the right. This is a big breakthrough because I tend to circle mostly to my left in sparring, which can be good for aggressive attacking, but somewhat poor for defensive boxing.

In L.A. when you stand someone up the generic excuse is, “I flaked.”  Well, I flaked last night, I didn’t do squat but eat too much pizza. Oh the shame!

Today I woke up bright and early, got work out of the way, and hit the gym. Did 40 minutes of cardio, lifted weights and did 3 rounds of shadow boxing and 7 rounds of bag work.

After the guilt of slacking yesterday subsided I decided I’m going to become a morning person and do my cardio right after I wake up. This is going to free me up to spend some more time in the evening watching film, working on my week points, and hopefully will allow me to go to class 3 times/week consistently.