Source of this article: Boxing Era
Air strike is a very important part of boxing training, many friends of the air strike, just look at the specific action is in place, but in the eyes of the contemptible, but lack of the most important understanding of air strike, that is, air strike is training what ability of boxers.
The following is the author's own insights, for reference only.
An air strike is not hitting an air sandbag. Some friends have a heavy force when they hit the air, but there is nowhere to be forced, and they can only use their own muscles to withstand the force and consume the power inside their own bodies. This situation is very different from actual combat, and actual combat requires more external release of strength.
When playing sandbags, you can use sandbags to absorb the power of external release, the body adapts to this mode, then when the air strikes, there is no force object, in order not to let the muscles consume power, it is necessary to have a sense of power and power intention, only to do the rotation of the body to the crotch to send these actions, but the muscles do not send full strength, to have a conscious incomplete force, only in the start of the punch stage to do the start action, muscle depth force This step to remove, it looks very easy, because there is no need for intramuscular consumption to consume power.
Why is it so light? Because the significance of air strikes lies in the series of basic actions, the coordination of psychological consciousness and actions, not in how fast and multiple punches are played, the focus is on the series consciousness, intention.
Imagine an enemy, as smart as you, you will, he will, you think he has a prejudgment, will fight back against you, and then you go to hone your movement series fluency. Because the enemy will always make various reactions according to your movements, standing in place, and continuously punching a series of heavy and fast punches, in this case, your opponent uses to hit you, what will you do? You'll take a step back, right, then this string of fast punches will have no empty punch soul.
Air strike is to simulate the actual battle as much as possible, your attack, the opponent must react, what is your response reaction? Think of it and connect it. One step is thought out, the practice is coordinated, and two more steps are thought.
To give you an example, how would you react if your opponent hit you with a stab punch? You can have a retreat step, a clap block, a slight side flash backhand to meet, you also stab back, and so many kinds of responses, then after you punch, you have to think of the above situations, and then pick one to come up with a specific response, such as the opponent will directly backhand counterattack you, what do you do?
You'll throw back to avoid his backhand, and then swing forward to fight back against his backhand, OK! Then your air strikes will become like this - stabbing, back, forward swing. If your opponent dodges your front swing with a dive and then counters your front swing with a backhand flat hook, then you may use the dive to dodge his backhand flat hook. Then your air strikes will become —stabbing, leaning back, swinging forward, diving. Both the punch and the defensive moves are mutually restrained and interconnected.
Air strike is to constantly simulate these various mutual restraints in the mind, and then use the smooth connection to fight out, like fighting with your own shadow. Shadow boxing, as the name suggests, is just that.
If playing sandbags is more about practicing force, then air strike is to practice thinking, practice consciousness, and practice various movements to connect and coordinate. That is to say, in the slow improvement of boxing quotient, through air strike training, in the mind to simulate all the basic possible situations, and the connection is smooth, the actual combat is confident, the heart is not panicked.
The various trainings of boxers are like a tower that spirals upwards, through air strikes, actual combat, sandbags, physical fitness training, multiple combinations like a circle, let their ability to turn a circle to improve a little, from the actual combat to accumulate awareness, from the consciousness feedback to actual combat, and finally use physical fitness training to achieve the complementarity of theory and practice, accumulated over time, the strength will also be improved!
This article is reproduced from: The Age of Boxing
Author: Thick Past Thin Present
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