Feint Boxing – Build pressure and gain control with feints

Boxing is a pressure business, if you are not punching you should be feinting and if you are not feinting you should be punching. In this video we are going to think about building our boxing style around the art of feints…’feint boxing’ if you will.

Using feints in any form of combat is fundamental in achieving a successful outcome. Diversionary attacks and deceptions ensure that the opponents confusion in their defences. I have always felt that when a boxer really understands the concept of ‘feint boxing’ and how they need to incorporate the feint skill set in the technique, then they are well on their way to fulfilling their potential.

There are 3 basic type of boxing feints – hand feint, body feints and foot feint. The feint in boxing, certainly the ones I cover in the video, are most effectively used at long and mid range. Think of the opponent as two targets (head and body) and three trajectories to those targets (centreline, left flank and right flank).

When you attack (or feint an attack) to a target along a trajectory, often an opening will be created elsewhere…and this is at the core of using the boxing feint to achieve the outcome of landing a shot on the opponent.

Feint boxing is all about selling the feint, convincing the opponent that you are going to execute the attack…and then changing the attack to totally bamboozle them. Remember…boxing is a pressure business, if you are not punching you should be feinting and if you are not feinting you should be punching.

Thoughts and comments very welcome below.

Cheers

Fran

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