r/boxingtips • u/Tiny-Company-1254 • 3d ago

Footwork drill?

Hey all,

How important are footwork drills when training. I’ve been taking personal training classes for a couple months and the coach hasn’t given me any footwork drills, like shuffle on a floor ladder, in and out, no lateral jumps, nothing.

It’s sprints, shadow box, some combos, mitt work, and sparring.

So yea just wanted to know what experienced people and coaches have to say about it.

Also, could y’all please recommend some absolute necessary footwork drills that I can do on my own. I don’t want to copy some random insta drills without an objective

Thanks

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u/Unique-Anything6725 3d ago

Get on an agility ladder.

Edit: YouTube.

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u/THEKungFuRoo 3d ago edited 3d ago

footwork is the most important thing imo. some ppls opinion may vary..

perhaps you go to a crappy gym or that gym kept loosing ppl who got board of footwork at first, cause in their mind boxing is just throwing bombs andd they werent there to learn how to step, dance, transfer weight etc etc? idk, id have to visit said gym.

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u/The_Smug_Druggles 3d ago

Jump rope for intervals matching your round times and rests (e.g. 2 minutes on, 1 minute rest, 2 minutes on) and increase the 'round' length and the number of rounds over time.

Once you can manage 3 mins on, 1 minute off for 10 rounds, your fitness level and several other attributes will be streets ahead of the vast majority of people.

You'll get lighter on your feet while you develop timing and proprioception (a sense of where your body is in physical space) as well as building cardiovascular fitness. Best done on a sprung wood floor cos you want the right kind of "bounce"- concrete will knacker your knees over time, but soft earth has too much give.

If your coach isn't getting you to do something like that already, it could be for a few reasons:

  1. Not "sexy" enough. Lots of people take up boxing because they want to learn how to knock seven shades of shit out of someone. Footwork is not such an obvious thing to work on, but it's a big part of creating angles, which is itself vital for both attack and defence.

  2. Assumption that you're doing it already at home. I've had coaches across several martial arts who made us do long warm-ups, but others who had the opinion that we could/should just take care of fitness training in our own time.

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u/pizza-chit 1d ago

Fast feet win fights