Fix Your Jab - 90 Second Boxing Tips

If you want your jab to be effective, that is to be accurate, powerful, fast and reliable in terms of success rate you must take time to ensure excellence of execution.

In my experience the flaring elbow is one of the if not the most common faults with the jab.

So what is the flaring elbow when using the jab?

It's simple really.

When a jab is executed correctly the elbow follows the line of the fist towards the target.

In the case of the 'flaring elbow', as the jab is initiated the elbow lifts laterally as the fist is moving toward the target. This is bad for 2 main reasons:

The opponent will find it much easier to spot the punch coming. The human eye is excellent at seeing lateral movement, less excellent at spotting movement towards and away. If they see the punch coming it will be blocked and you will get punched in the mouth!
The integrity of the punch is lost, reducing power and efficiency.

Boxing Tips - The Solution

So some practical steps to use this most practical of boxing tips:

Find a wall that will be to your lead hand side.
With your front foot at 45 degrees and in your boxing stance, begin the process of throwing your jab.
If your arm DOES NOT hit the wall your are not flaring your elbow.
If your arm DOES hit the wall, you are flaring your elbow...so stop it!

This is a really helpful boxing tip. Be sure to revisit this every now and again to keep checking that bad habits are not creeping in to your boxing style.

95% of what the great boxers do are the basics, they just do them exceptionally well.

The boxing jab is the ultimate in basics so please do everything you can to make it excellent.

Any questions, observations and challenges then please leave them below.

Cheers

Fran

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[jubitolik]

Oldschool technique. My coach, former champion of ex Yugoslavia tought me to jab at same exact way. Good work mr. Sands!

[kingof]

I'm not a pro boxer or even an amateur but I box at home when I can just because I like the sport of boxing.. These videos are really helpful

[Wlifeend]

I learned to jab with an elastic band around my arm. If your elbow was to far out the band would fall off.

[maximisatwat]

0:20 Not sure you "losing power" if you naturally just hit bag hard as possible, you find the you naturally start raising elbows out
The downards thing is to hide it from the opp, not because it hits harder.

Experiment to find just the most powerful strike you can deliver on bag, and I guarantee you will put elbows outwards by the end

[yonjoalgar]

Very good drill to throw the jab in the right way, I have never seen it before. Thank you very much,

[duke]

nobody else does these perfect little tips. thanks again.

[IanFerguson-fw]

Great tips easy to understand & put into practice.
Just getting the basics right makes all the difference

[tarek]

You have a so good clarifications coach for techniques, keep it up and wish you all the best 👍

[yovanni]

I needed to watch this my jab used to be so snappy and powerful I stopped training for like a year I tried to get back and I started doing that flaring elbow jab

[chreyzor]

I remember having to do this as a kid when I first started of. Top video

[brandonmatabadal]

U could also not rotate ur wrist, keep it straight, meaning punching with your 4 knuckles. I have seen ggg do this and i also realised it a while back and it is very effective in the sense that it is very difficult to see it coming, its also a faster jab

[TheLockon]

Learned the same wall trick for throwing non-telegraphed punches and kicks in Karate. Good stuff!

[pbyrne]

Thanks man that was some great tips and pointers to help my jab my coach is always telling me I’m flaring my elbows and this helped a lot, thanks fran

[Christian-Rankin]

Felt weird at first but now I'm glad that I worked on this, thanks.

[TheEdwardNigma]

Just found your channel and it's amazing. Thank you for uploading these videos! Just subscribed and looking forward to seeing more videos.

[carnivalwrestler]

Nice exercise for correcting that fault.

[pierrebridenne]

Thanks coach, your Channel is a boxing treasure

[aeortiz]

Boxing and any MA need this approching point of view to improve

[marcellismadness]

Great tip thx I've been searching for a video that would really help my jab this was it👍🏾

[nicocontreras]

Perfect for thse days of lonely training, thank you and can´t believe some people gave a dislike.