Drop to get pop on you jab...

Hey all--here is a quick tip. I see plenty of coaches emphasize pushing off with the back foot, which is fine, but if you push off and lift your body up, you are going to push that jab instead of shoot it. So if you are having trouble getting a crisp jab, try dropping your body (falling into your front foot) when you push off the back foot. (And you don't even have to push, as that drop will get you pop). Little jab steps will dropping will also enable you to double the jab, and by dropping your body level you will get more reach (even if it seems like you wouldn't).

[@user-xp2ot1nz5e]

Listen man you must keep doing videos, this great tips makes a bigger understanding for all of us and is great for specifically us that are training others…! Thanks!

[@gogboxing5655]

Much appreciated. I unfort dealt with health probs for quite a while--I'm not a young guy. Finally, I'm healthy, but I'm in the process of relocating so I'll need to cut a deal with a gym or get on as a trainer (and politics always play a role in these kinds of things). But we'll see.

[@jabonly009]

great tips

[@gogboxing5655]

appreciated.

[@kashmirirose3733]

White Gold brotha!

[@gogboxing5655]

thanks!

[@Cente_Bui]

Nice lesson for greenies! When I’d originally learned “drive from the back leg” I figured it meant to rotate your hips clockwise, in orthodox, while dropping forward. Pure push jabs are useful and the most intuitive. But should only be one of the many jabs fighters should learn

[@gogboxing5655]

Thanks and agreed. The prob I see is that guys are learning from vids (including some young coaches, IMO) and they are literally pushing off the back leg so it's like a jump up and forward. You see these front knees coming up even, but at any rate, that all ends up in a push jab and also it makes new guys "leap" into an awful position (and they get frustrated on not being able to do double jabs at all).

[@Cente_Bui]

@@gogboxing5655 Lol sounds like a bastardization of that drop-step jab Jack Dempsey wrote about. Idk if I’m picturing that dilemma accurately. But isn’t that sorta something that Shakur Stevenson uses occasionally, while hopping into range? Used intentionally; he’s a pretty mechanically solid boxer imo. Edit: 😂 after checking the Valdez fight: it’s the thing he’ll do to finish a 2x-3x jab to take the weak side. High knee and all

[@gogboxing5655]

@@Cente_Bui I haven't noticed it with Shakur, but I'm curious. I'll watch the Valdez fight again. That one I remember more for him not jabbing as much as I would expect, but still turning in a great performance.