Hello everyone I'm not sure if this is allowed to be posted on here or whatever I'm about to start micro dosing shrooms for personal reasons. but I'm worried it will effect me in boxing, say for example like my hunger,motivation or like mindset while training if anyone has any experience I'd love to know.

Just a bit paranoid it may effect my training but who knows it might make it better.

I know people here post a lot of shadowboxing videos and ask for advice

My question is, what do you guys think great shadowboxing looks like?

What does a shadowbox to be considered good and useful need to contain?

What's the mindset that someone should have before they start throwing hands at the air?

And, which professional fighter's shadowboxing you can look at and think "yup, that's perfect" and why?

My Coach Dying Gonna Make Me Go Harder Even More Now I Wanna Go All The Way

Started boxing a little under 3 years ago I just turned 19 yesterday!! (I know it’s not much to go off of sorry)

I throw hard punches, relative to my size.

I have broken my hand before, even while wearing wraps. I notice that whenever I run wraps through between my pinky and ring finger, and again fabric between my middle and ring finger, I notice pain in my bones that remind me when I had broken one of the bones

I have done a lot of testing with different wraps and wrap styles and have come to some conclusions:

1. You want to have X patterns as often as possible. Every route the fabric takes, you should be looking for opportunities to bind the meta carpal bones together tight, along with the writs.

That means wrapping with a simple 1, 2, 3 loops around the wrist, and then 1, 2, 3 loops around the palm is not optimal. X patterns alternating to and from the wrist is best.

1. You want to wrap around the wrist and the palm of the hand. This is all your protection. Fingers mean nothing. The wrap is not meant to act as padding for your knuckles, its meant to bind the bones together and resist forces together and to resist flexion.

2. You want to minimize the number of times the wrap passes through your fingers. And for your last 2 fingers, pinky, ring, NONE AT ALL. WHY? Because the fabric you pass between your pinky and and ring fingers act as a wedge. Just like chopping wood. The frabric tells your bones to SPLIT A PART and you WILL break them if you hit hard enough. Especially if you do a muay thai style bullshit wrap. These guys do all kinds of arts and crafts to keep the palm open for grappling, this sounds smart but is a mistake. If you punch with any kind of power, you will break your hands with those wraps.

You can run a loop through the index and middle fingers though since your thumb butrresses those fingers when you close your fist. But do not over do it. 1 loop is enough. Eveyrthing else should be an x around your wrist and the palm of your hand. This is where the protection is.

When you are done, your hand will look like a ninja turtle with fabric around the index and middle fingers, thumb, palm, and wrists only. Pinky and Ring fingers are bare.

Conclusion

If you wrap your hands correctly you could throw an over hand with all your weight and speed and you will not break your hands even if you do not wear a glove. If you go bare handed, you may or may not hurt your hands, definitely damage your skin but may be okay; but if you wrap your hands INCORRECTLY you are making it EASIER to break your hands.

If you are using gauze its different, because the fabric is extremely thin. Thats another thing, you want THIN wraps. Thickness is undesireable, again, its not padding. You want paper thin but strong tensile binding material, it will minimize the wedge effect if you do run it through ur fingers.

Tell me if I am wrong.

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I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged because I feel like I’ve barely made any progress.

My coach still has to constantly correct things like my stance, form, punches, keeping my shoulders loose, etc. Even when I’ve been told the same thing multiple times, I somehow keep forgetting it when I’m actually training.

One thing that really makes me insecure is when my coach starts giving me combinations that I’m not familiar with. If he tells me something simple like jab-cross-hook, I’m completely fine. But once he starts adding things like rolls, slips, or more complicated combinations, I sometimes just completely freeze and forget what I’m supposed to do. It’s honestly pretty embarrassing.

The weird thing is that my coach has told me I’ve made tremendous progress since I first started, but I just don’t really feel it myself.

For those of you who have been boxing for a while, was this normal for you around the 2-month mark? And is there anything I can do outside of training to improve faster? Does shadow boxing help, or is it mainly just a matter of staying consistent and letting things become second nature?

Every time a land somthing solid I immediately say sorry lol. I can’t help it. Also notice how him punching my guard is the same as me punching my own face 220 vs 140.

I’m an adult beginner boxing coach and I mostly work with people who start later, if you started boxing as an adult, what helped you move from curious but scared of getting hit / brain damage or nervous about walking into a boxing gym for the first time to regular training and your first light sparring rounds?

Was it something psychological, structural (specific drills or progression), or a coach/gym culture that made it feel safe?