Questions about chaining

[DzankoBosnia]

Hey guys so I'm fairly new to the sport, I've been training for about a year now. Anyhow whenever we do sparring sessions i either focus hard on the boxing part or the leg-kick part, how can I be sure to chain these two together and learn to use them both to my advantage, I'm about 6 foot 2 and 170 lbs, and I would say that my kicks are way more powerful than the boxing part. Thanks in advance.

[Tyler Byers]

More drills or heavy bag work would be my recommendation. Get it flowing well outside of sparring before you try and take it into sparring.

[Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu]

16 hours ago, DzankoBosnia said:

Hey guys so I'm fairly new to the sport, I've been training for about a year now. Anyhow whenever we do sparring sessions i either focus hard on the boxing part or the leg-kick part, how can I be sure to chain these two together and learn to use them both to my advantage, I'm about 6 foot 2 and 170 lbs, and I would say that my kicks are way more powerful than the boxing part. Thanks in advance.

Shadowboxing. Lots and lots and lots of shadowboxing. That's what Yodkhunpon always tells me. You train the muscle memory of lower body working with the upperbody and landing off of kicks into upperbody techniques, etc. It's like dancing, but practicing the transitions between the upper and lower body as a way to create balance. If you go against a sparring partner who is pretty good at combining their punches and kicks, literally copy everything they do, strike for strike, for a couple of rounds. It's like the "repeat after me" game of learning a language in school. Worth a try.

[DzankoBosnia]

5 hours ago, Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu said:

Shadowboxing. Lots and lots and lots of shadowboxing. That's what Yodkhunpon always tells me. You train the muscle memory of lower body working with the upperbody and landing off of kicks into upperbody techniques, etc. It's like dancing, but practicing the transitions between the upper and lower body as a way to create balance. If you go against a sparring partner who is pretty good at combining their punches and kicks, literally copy everything they do, strike for strike, for a couple of rounds. It's like the "repeat after me" game of learning a language in school. Worth a try.

 

8 hours ago, Tyler Byers said:

More drills or heavy bag work would be my recommendation. Get it flowing well outside of sparring before you try and take it into sparring.

Thank you guys so much.