Boxing Like the Champs 2
Lessons from Boxings Greatest Fighters
Mark Hatmaker
Tracks Publishing
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Copyright 2020 by Mark Hatmaker and Doug Werner
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Hatmaker, Mark, author.
Boxing like the champs 2 : more lessons from boxings greatest fighters / Mark Hatmaker.
Ventura, California : Tracks Publishing, [2020] | An update and continuation of Boxing like the champs (Tracks Publishing, c2016). | Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-935937-80-7 (trade paper) | 978-1-935937-81-4 (epub) | 978-1-935937-82-1 (mobi) | 978-1-935937-83-8 (PDF) | LCCN: 2020938543
LCSH: Boxing. | BoxingHistory. | BoxingPsychological aspects. | Boxers (Sports)Training. | Boxers (Sports)TrainingHistory. | Boxers (Sports)Psychological aspects. | Boxers (Sports)Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies. | BISAC: SPORTS & RECREATION /Boxing.
LCC: GV1137.6 .H385 2020 | DDC: 796.83dc23
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This one is for Doug. A good man who allows me to rattle on endlessly about these combat sports that I love so well.
And to you, Dear Reader. Anyone who takes the time to read this volume, or any of the others by Yours Truly, I am deeply grateful.
This book would not have been possible without Kylie Hatmaker and Scott Bulldog Ritch.
Contents
How to use the Boxing Mastery manuals
This book and the others in this series are meant to be used in an interlocking, synergistic manner where the sum value of the manuals is greater than the individual parts. What we are striving to do with each manual is to focus on a specific aspect of the sport and give thoughtful consideration to the necessary ideas, tactics and strategies pertinent to the facet of focus.
We are aware that this piecemeal approach may seem lacking if one only consumes one or two manuals at most, but we are confident that once three or more manuals have been studied, the overall picture or method will begin to reveal itself.
Since the manuals are interlocking there is no single manual in the series that is meant to be complete in and of itself. They are all made stronger by an understanding of the material that preceded it. And so on and so forth with each manual in this series. Now, lets lace up those gloves!
A note from the deep south
You will notice in these photos that I box southpaw. Im a natural righty who retrained southpaw to put coordinated/power-side forward and to beef up my weak hand. In other words, I sincerely see power-side forward as not losing a power hand, but putting power into both hands.
Nowhere in these pages will you find me preaching to you to make the switch. I just bring up my obvious southpaw stance for the question that usually follows: Im an orthodox fighter, will this book work for me? Yep. No worries, boxing is boxing. Southpaws, follow my lead, literally. Orthodox fighters, flip the photos in your mind and were all on the same page.
Condemn yourself
Youve likely heard this quote before
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It was uttered by the Spanish philosopher George Santayana. In context, he issued it as a warning to those who seek solutions on the world stage, urging them to have a bit of longview perspective before they plunge on merrily or madly with this or that save the world scheme.
for the fighter, to be truly condemned to repeat the historic magic of these great ring men, we will have to take it to the gym
In that context Mr. Santayana was likely sage. But on this smaller stage of a canvas covered ring, bordered by ropes and turnbuckles, it is a bit of untruth. Oh, but only if it were true for we lovers of fistic mayhem.
Ponder that quote again:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
How sweet it would be to know nothing of the artistry, the craftiness, the wisdom of the past masters of the sweet science and through sheer ignorance to simply blunder into their mastery. Sounds nice, but who are we fooling? To know how these warriors did what they did, to really know, youve got to look, youve got to study, youve got to dig, youve got to work hard to know their past. In our case, it is only by knowing the past that we condemn ourselves to repeating it. No knowledge of it, well, then it simply aint gonna happen by magic.
In this follow up to the first volume, Boxing Like the Champs, we will use our definition of condemn to grab a piece of history and repeat it to the best of our ability. Contained herein are training tips, ring tactics, secret punches, strategies, and more than a few dirty tricks peppered here and there. They are offered in no particular order. In other words, dip and dive where your particular fist-waving taste swings you for that given training day.
I do offer this caveat. This book can be read as mere history or strategic maundering, but for the fighter to be truly condemned to repeat the historic magic of these great ring men, we will have to take it to the gym, to the bags, to the pads, to the sparring partners. Words on pages do not translate into ability any more than being ignorant of history condemns us to repeating it.
Read on, work hard and condemn yourself to a bit of historic mastery!
Part 1
Tactics
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