How to Eliminate Street Boxing Weaknesses

How to Eliminate Street Boxing Weaknesses

Drive to conquer street boxing weaknesses – Acknowledging your weaknesses is just one
side of the story. You don’t stop there. It’s no use to be humble and then let it
stay at that. Next step to humility is the practicality to launch forward to turn your boxing for the street
weaknesses into strengths. Some fighters try to hide their weaknesses from
their opponents. This is effective for a time. But it will soon be found out.
Many contenders are hell-bent on defeating you. They will carefully take note
of your preferred moves. These boxing moves are usually your strengths, and moves
you seldom do are usually your weaknesses.

Example: A) Some Chess players are so obvious when they, for instance,
are willing to sacrifice other pieces to save their queen and perhaps a rook or
knight. They play well using these. Some opponents might counter such
strength by devising strategies to trap the queen and other relevant pieces. A
good attitude is to either:

1) Learn strong strategies using different pieces other than the queen.

2) Hide such strength by putting equal emphasis on all pieces to divert
your opponent’s attention. But make sure that you train yourself to be
good with all pieces. Such camouflage tactic is only temporary.

Example: B) It is easy to spot whether you are a forehand or backhand
tennis player. When you often use a right forehand to return a ball, your
opponent will easily concoct a plan to fire all his shots to your left side,
sometimes to your extreme left where your right forehand becomes unusable.
When he sees this, he takes delight in his discovery and gives you a rapid
succession of returns to your weak side. Or say, he tries a super top spin
against you several times, and you fail terribly to return each time. Or, after a
succession of his powerful swings that send the ball far to the back of your
court, he notices that you have become comfortably settled there, just waiting
for a fast ball, and very far from the net. For sure, his next stroke will be a
very slight swing to send the ball just inches beyond the net, and that will send
you scampering in vain to return to the ball.

Example: C) No matter how good you are, if you use only your right or
only your left hand to dribble and shoot the ball, you can’t be a basketball
champion for long. Foes will easily take notice and be able to accurately guess
your next move and intercept or interrupt whatever you are up to with the ball
in hand. The best thing is to train both your right and left hand in handling the
ball.

Thus, a great fighter will never be caught resting on his laurels. He always sees a level
higher than where he is standing, and he will always go for that extra mile.