Boxing 101: Body Punching – Paperback

Description

Author(s): Alberto Robles
Publisher: Alberto Robles
Publisher Imprint: Alberto Robles
BISAC: Boxing

Body punching is not about bending over and hoping for a lucky shot. Effective body work changes guard position, posture, pace, and defensive attention-without dropping your hands, telegraphing your level change, or leaving your head exposed.

Boxing 101: Body Punching teaches you how to reach legal body targets with proper mechanics, smart setups, head-to-body transitions, and safe exits. You will learn level-change discipline, target selection, combination flow, and how to use body attacks against common guards and fighting styles.

Inside this step-by-step training manual, you will learn how to:

• Understand why body punching wins fights through guard disruption and tactical pressure
• Identify legal torso targets and avoid fouls across different rule sets
• Lower your level with knees and hips-not by folding at the waist
• Land body jabs, rear straights, hooks, shovel hooks, and uppercuts with control
• Mix head-to-body and body-to-head combinations that flow naturally
• Use feints, same-side attacks, and level changes to open the midsection
• Break high guards, long guards, and tight shells with purposeful body volume
• Attack movers and pressure fighters without bending into danger
• Counter to the body after slips, parries, and opponent overreaches
• Use angles and rope awareness to expose body targets safely
• Train with bag drills, pad work, partner exercises, and progressive sparring
• Follow a six-week body-punching development plan

Whether you are a beginner-to-intermediate boxer building stronger offense, a coach teaching safer body mechanics, or a recreational fighter who wants more effective combinations, this book turns body punching from a gamble into a trained skill.

Change levels with purpose. Attack the body. Exit with your guard up.