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Boxing 101: The Jab
Paperback
BoxingSports GeneralGeneral Fitness
Publisher Price: $33.00
Publisher: Alberto Robles
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Turn the jab from a basic range-finder into a complete tactical system for controlling distance, disrupting rhythm, creating openings, defending, and setting up the rest of your boxing game.
Boxing 101: The Jab is a practical, step-by-step guide to developing a faster, cleaner, and more purposeful lead hand. Whether you are a beginner building your foundation, an intermediate boxer sharpening your jab, or a coach looking for structured drills, this book shows you how to use boxing's most versatile lead-hand weapon with greater intention.
Inside, you will learn how to:
- Build clean jab mechanics from stance, alignment, fist path, shoulder protection, balance, and fast recovery.
- Integrate footwork with stationary, step-in, retreating, lateral, circling, and pivot jabs.
- Use the probing jab to measure distance, gather information, and identify predictable opponent reactions.
- Develop stiff and flicking jabs for different tactical purposes, ranges, and rhythms.
- Use double and triple jabs to change tempo, close distance, and keep opponents reacting.
- Attack the head, chest, and body with high-low variations that create new openings.
- Apply feints, half-jabs, and guard manipulation to draw parries, slips, and defensive reactions.
- Use the jab defensively to interrupt attacks, create space, break rhythm, and exit safely.
- Start and finish combinations with the jab while maintaining balance and defensive responsibility.
- Navigate jab battles and open-stance matchups with better foot positioning and lead-hand discipline.
- Adjust your jab against taller opponents, pressure fighters, counterpunchers, and other common styles.
- Recognize common counters to the jab and reduce your exposure through mechanics, rhythm changes, feints, and clean exits.
- Train with structured shadowboxing, bag work, partner drills, and progressive tactical exercises.
- Complete 30 structured jab rounds designed to turn isolated technique into decision-making under pressure.
- Follow a six-week development plan progressing from mechanics and movement to feints, counters, and tactical sparring.
The jab is more than a punch. It can measure range, score, interrupt rhythm, occupy the guard, create entries, defend against pressure, and reveal how an opponent reacts. When combined with footwork, timing, feints, and intelligent variation, the lead hand becomes a decision-making tool that shapes the entire exchange.
The goal is not simply to throw more jabs. It is to understand what each jab is meant to accomplish and what should happen next.
Build the mechanics. Read the reaction. Control the fight one jab at a time.
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