Improving Your Street Boxing

Improving Your Street Boxing 


Be thankful for your street boxing skills now, but don’t stop there and maintain status quo. Each
morning, go out and train. Try to beat your all-time highest record. Yesterday was yesterday.
Today is a different day. Yesterday’s achievement was good only for the past. Today, you need a
fresh round of achievements to last another 24 hours.

Room for improvement is often said to be the need of poor fighters, but it is not only
for mediocre boxers. This phrase of encouragement is also for top fighters. You may be doing
excellently today, but there’s still room for improvement to do much better tomorrow. This push
to do a bit more each day instills in the top fighter the:

1. Humility to accept his weaknesses – This frame of mind reminds the boxer to
avoid having a swell of pride and thinking too highly of himself—and not
being able to see his other needs and weaknesses. He is lured into believing in
his “perfection.” Pride can often spoil a performance, especially on the Day.

Yes, he needs to boost his confidence; but he must be reminded that, like all
the others, he needs to push himself a little bit more forward to do much
better. Nobody is good enough to ignore more improvement. This also
prevents him from the pitfall of complacency that often attacks many
achievers who tend to rest on their pedestals too long and be side tracked by
blinding accolades. Yes, triumph must be celebrated, but it never equates to
perfection. Victory does not eliminate weaknesses when boxing for the street. After a short party, the
street boxer must go back to fight sculpturing to weed out whatever weakness
needs to be (or could be) discarded.

In the 1970s, world-renowned boxer Muhammad Ali once had a weak jaw
from a smash and fatal jab of Ken Norton. He worked out the weakness, and
soon became invincible once again, especially when contenders found that the
frail jaw was weak no more.

But a more apt example is the boxing champ Manny Pacquiao who, though champion in the super feather weight division, and famous for his south paw (devastating left punch), worked hard on his right punch so that both his left and right punches are explosive like dynamites!