Progressing The 6 Gates 1) 6 Gates By Themselves 2) Add A Offense,Defense,Feint To Gate 3) Switch Stance 4) Add 2-3 Offense,Defense, Feint To Gate 5) Shadowbox Moving With Gates 6) Put in Steps 2-4 with Shadowboxing

So a couple takeaways This is after reviewing myself in footage: Feet Got Flat Head Movement Non Existent Overextended gates Control Game Mediocre Took Too many Hits Hands down more then needed Wouldn’t be Exhausted after what is technically only 6 rounds Defense: D Jabs: D+ Gates: C- Key Combos: D NOW THIS IS TRUE! BUT IM SURE MY STUDENTS WOULD THINK OTHERWISE! Based on their performance in relation to me! So here is the issue! COMPARISON BECOMES A CRUEL MISTRESS or THE SPECIAL SAUCE TO GETTING BETTER! COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS…you lose…COMPARE YOURSELF to yourself IMPROVEMENT If this become your psyche your run the risk of destroying yourself everytime you face someone with more skills then you. BUT IF YOU ask yourself did I do better then last me you WILL IMPROVE! Now check this out with comparing myself to myself Caught myself Being More Flat Footed. Work On Gates Remind yourself to move your head to get hit less When working on Gates make them simple Work on Controls during shadowboxing Improve defense by increasing rounds of working on defense Drill high hand coverages Increase Cardio Let’s Get All C’s on Report Card This Week Notice the difference, same critic but one is under the lens of improvement not tearing down! Keep this with you and you will always grow in this sport!

Nature rewards Outcomes Not Hard Work Has this ever happen to you where you are Thinking about your opponent and what they are going to do, Then suddenly you shoot back into your brain trying to remember a combo to throw, Then your opponent decides to move in the midst of that thought, so then you have to address what they are doing By The time you figure it out you get hit! Then for whatever reason the process starts all over again! Now your left in survival mode saying Hit him now or Watch Out! Just typing this made me exhausted! Lol Truth is that is all Hard work, and as you can see it does nothing! Now on the flip side! Have you every just thrown a punch and didn’t know if it was going to land and yet it did Baffling because it felt like it wasn’t even you that threw it. If you haven’t experienced that then what about when a coach or someone tells you DO THIS! And sure enough it actually worked So let’s make sense of this conundrum. I get hit if i think too much, but i do better when I’m not thinking, but isn’t Boxing A Thinking Mans Sport! Solution: Thinking and Obsessing are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! To Think is to Ponder and to Obsess is to hold on to a particular outcome that may or may not happen. THIS GOES AGAINST NATURE!! So in boxing How not to Obsess: STRUCTURED PLAY!! Or SYSTEMATIC FUN! Notice how these Plants grow freely yet they follow a very specific system on how they develop(Phosynthesis) I.e: 16 Round system! 4 - Defense/Gates/Feints 4- Jabs/Defense/Gates/Feints 4- Key Combos and Key Concepts 4- Play(Shadowbox,Pads, Heavy Bag, Partner Drill etc) You will always resort back to the level of your training, BUT GET THIS IT GETS DEEPER! In Basketball and Football they have many different defenses and coverages. So does Boxing! BE READY FOR THIS NEXT WEEK! ITS GOING TO BE REVOLUTIONARY!

The Return of Jorge https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5p9ld1vgwh337c3c6hif8/Jorge-Back-Sparring.mp4?rlkey=4qwzemf0hz042w01cxq2jqmby&st=2i0jivvi&dl=0

Tia's First Sparring Session https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1a3wxgztfhx2rz46ltw49/Tia-1st-Time-Sparring.mp4?rlkey=ns1jb8aw70qeyvn039un4i9r8&st=ky1xio8t&dl=0