BOXING SECRET | How Moving To Your Right Can Win You Fights

In BOXING, learning to move to your right has all but been abandoned. Very few professional boxers, MMA fighters, and the like, are able to move in the direction of their strong hand while also maintaining their stance. And those that can have difficulty initiating their offense while doing so.

The vast majority of these athletes will move toward their right/rear hand FLAT. Moving square in a shuffling motion, much like a basketball players defense, making them both a large and off balance moving target. You will often see this in footwork drills when fighters are first developing; they call this LATERAL movement.

You will most commonly see fighters move to their RIGHT/REAR HAND exclusively when trying to escape a pressuring fighter. There is no other use.

Finding angles in boxing has been a difficult task over the years, and has only been adopted on smaller scale maneuvers that are entirely situational. Fighters such as Mike Tyson, and Vasyl Lomachenko, have made some of these maneuvers famous by the use of shifting/sliding. The opportunity for this technique often requires distance to have been closed, making the angles a multi-step process. However, using correct footwork, effective movement to your right/rear hand can be used off the cuff without any prerequisites. If you find you and your opponent are in the typical stalemate, move to your right.

Being able to move in this direction enhances your ability as it creates avenues of approach that your opponent does not expect. Almost every fighter subconsciously has a "FIELD OF PLAY" in which everything that may occur in a fight will take place in this area. Being able to exploit this common instinct will give you the edge in combat sports as it allows you to stay a step ahead of your opponent.

Forcing your opponent to react to you gives you the ability to control when and where the fight takes place. Forcing them into positions that are uncommon, or unusual will keep them off balance.

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[kushagro]

Wow! I always had problems moving to my right. This is so helpful. Moving to the right cuts off the right hand instantly. So we just have to defend the left.

[mrthundaboots]

Circling away from your opponents power hand is gold. Somebody show this to Deontay Wilder..

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[stans]

I'm 53 and I'm the oldest guy in my gym that spars by about 20 years. Love this technique because it keeps my opponent off balance and allows me to control pace. When they try to "fix" their position, if they do it in the wrong part of the ring, it allows me to drive them into the corners

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I've decided that this makes too much sense for me to keep being hyper skeptical due to the novelty of this information. I've been training my jab and your footwork patterns in the true boxer's stance for about a month now and I keep getting better even in what felt like unrelated areas such as combination punching simply because I never took the time to really find my balance. Moving to the right was hard at first but now it is almost as natural. Moving from the hips too! I feel like I'm cutting away the excess crap from my movements. A lot of the techniques I had previously learned were for in-fighting because my sparring partner was taller so it's sad to see a lot of that hard work vanish from my shadowboxing but I think it will be worth it. Suggested this channel to a few friends, thanks for the content.

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[ALdragon]

Such valuable knowledge. I actually learned this playing UFC3. The practice involved to incorporate irl is incredible difficult but really rewarding. This movement pattern confuses opponents because it's so unnatural. Mix it up though to stay illusive because like all movement patterns, it can become predictable if done too often.

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I have never had anybody paint a picture so perfectly in my mind as you did here. This is just perfection. I’ve been boxing since I was 16. I let it go for some years, almost a decade I’d say. I recently picked it back up this year in January but now as a certified USA Boxing coach. And your videos have helped me in the most immense ways. Thank you Marvin.

[seniknine]

Brilliant.

I just wanna say that I applied your videos to my Muay Thai stance. During some elbow tag we did today(part of our warm-ups), I noticed it was throwing people off how I was moving and using my "rifle" to open them up. So many more targets were available to me by using your methods.

For those of you who don't think it works, try it. Drill it, use it while shadowboxing. Then, try it during some light sparring. I am fully convinced that this man's methods work - and not just for traditional boxing. I'm gonna focus on moving right in my shadowboxing to prepare for Spar Day Wednesdays at my gym! Thank you for making these videos and the old ones from 8 or so years ago!

[The.RenaissanceMan]

I’m practicing this all step by step. I’m amazed when I see some of the pros and their balance and footwork are totally off. This is just gold.