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Boxing 101: Body Punching
Paperback
BoxingSports GeneralGeneral Fitness
Publisher Price: $32.99
Publisher: Alberto Robles
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Body punching is not about bending over and hoping for a lucky shot. Effective body work changes guard position, posture, pace, and defensive attention-without dropping your hands, telegraphing your level change, or leaving your head exposed.
Boxing 101: Body Punching teaches you how to reach legal body targets with proper mechanics, smart setups, head-to-body transitions, and safe exits. You will learn level-change discipline, target selection, combination flow, and how to use body attacks against common guards and fighting styles.
Inside this step-by-step training manual, you will learn how to:
- Understand why body punching wins fights through guard disruption and tactical pressure
- Identify legal torso targets and avoid fouls across different rule sets
- Lower your level with knees and hips-not by folding at the waist
- Land body jabs, rear straights, hooks, shovel hooks, and uppercuts with control
- Mix head-to-body and body-to-head combinations that flow naturally
- Use feints, same-side attacks, and level changes to open the midsection
- Break high guards, long guards, and tight shells with purposeful body volume
- Attack movers and pressure fighters without bending into danger
- Counter to the body after slips, parries, and opponent overreaches
- Use angles and rope awareness to expose body targets safely
- Train with bag drills, pad work, partner exercises, and progressive sparring
- Follow a six-week body-punching development plan
Whether you are a beginner-to-intermediate boxer building stronger offense, a coach teaching safer body mechanics, or a recreational fighter who wants more effective combinations, this book turns body punching from a gamble into a trained skill.
Change levels with purpose. Attack the body. Exit with your guard up.
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