I keep eating jabs!!!

[Verstyle]

Timing and countering is the key.

[!! Shawn]

Timing and countering is the key.

Are you still fighting?

[Danny Gunz]

In my experience the best way to eliminate the jab is to smother it, if he is too fast and keeps hitting you with it get in as close as you can in front of his jab hand and try to eliminate it.

And also the best defense for me i have found is alot of head movement and constantly moving around the ring, as soon as your movements get predictable its makes the fight alot easier for the other guy.

good luck

[THe TRiNiTY]

The best way to avoid a jab is use more lateral movement. Head movement would enhance your chance to dodge some, but moving from side to side enables you to counter the jabs, even if you get hit with one or two. Whereas, head movement can leave some in bad positions, especially if it's something they are just trying to learn.

Also, time the jab, feint to throw his timing off. Move in and out a bit, and when he swings and misses, counter. Against the type of fighters who love to jab, you have to be willing to counter. It's risky, but keep your hands up and counter. Once you've done that, start jabbing yourself, to enforce your will.

[KostyaTszyu44]

stay moving at all times, move side to side, bob your head etc

i find a standard catch his left jab in your right glove is very easy and effective also

[KnuckleUp]

haha goddamn bro, we get it, you've had alot of fights, you dont have to say it everytime you post

200 amateur fights is something to be proud of ,dont hate id mention that **** too

[phillkickbox]

As you are a beginner, i would advice you try and keep your gloves up near your face but crouch slightly so u do not take alot of body punches when sparring especially if you are taller. When keeping your guard up try and use the inside curve of your gloves as a binocular looking through them but keeping them tight. This will allow u to block any jabs on the glove and you wont get hit in the face. Start to slip jabs as well and counter. The binocular method has helped me over the past few weeks training.

[Hagler★]

the key is to relax, that is the hardest thing to learn in boxing. but when you learn to relax then you will see the jab coming, now mind you will not be able to get away from every jab but you will see them coming so you can try to time it with a counter or so you can jab with him which sometimes takes your opponents jab away from him. (i had well over 200 am fights, born in Cuba and that is me in my av)

damn you look mean as a mutha****er

[Del Coqui]

I am 41 and took up boxing to get in shape, which I did. Now I am sparring more and more but I am not getting better. Well, i am getting better at offense but my defense sucks. No matter how much I move my head I get hit with jabs and it backs me up. Last night I sparred a big strong 20 year old and his jabs were killing me.

I feel like I'm not getting the right training, I'm just getting thrown in there to get hit and learn by trial and error, but as a 41 year old father of two, there might be a better way to learn.

Pleas help.


Mike

are they too fast for you or you see them coming? If they too fast for you just keep you hand high, if you see them coming, faint and come over them or slip them and throw left hook.

[potatoes]

I am 41 and took up boxing to get in shape, which I did. Now I am sparring more and more but I am not getting better. Well, i am getting better at offense but my defense sucks. No matter how much I move my head I get hit with jabs and it backs me up. Last night I sparred a big strong 20 year old and his jabs were killing me.

I feel like I'm not getting the right training, I'm just getting thrown in there to get hit and learn by trial and error, but as a 41 year old father of two, there might be a better way to learn.

Pleas help.


Mike

If you are moving your head but continue to be easily hit by the jab, then it is obvious that you have not learned elementary defense. Before you had been allowed to spar you should have been put through a series of defensive drills. It is the drills that teach you the right moves, and once the right moves become instinctive then you will not be easy to hit. You need to stop sparring and go back to the fundamentals.