Thanks a lot Mike. I'm still absorbing everything, and some of it I'll just have to wait until later this week, but I was curious about this:
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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer  Next, you need to be very skilled with using your shoulders to block. If you screw up slipping, ducking, bobbing, and weaving, your shoulders are supposed to take over for your gloves and protect your chin. Learn how to keep your chin tucked. |
When I'm throwing the basic punches and moving around the ring, where should I be moving my chin/head? Is there some applicable theory of where my head should rock regarding a cross, versus a hook? Also, when looking to deflect a punch and let it roll off of my shoulder, what sort of good, complete motion should I have? I get out of punches fine with a bob and weave, and can slip through a few punches if I'm seeing them often, both of which involve lowering my chin, but the only conscious part of lowing my chin has simply been that: I don't think about its position so long as it's 'low'.
To give you a better idea of what I'm wondering about, say I'm dealing with a incoming hook from the right arm of a southpaw (I'm not southpaw here); should I tuck my chin into my right shoulder as I evade, or does it matter upon which side I'm slipping towards/dipping from?
I'm guessing I should always tuck my chin towards the side I'm moving, and keep my head dynamically shifting throughout further combinations, all depending on the way I choose to move my body (which would mean a jab-cross would have my head bobble one side to the next). If that's true, then there should never be a moment where I have to split the coordination of a body-movement with where I should intelligently place my head.
Am I right here? If so, what sort of physiological repercussions are we looking at as we dip our head towards/away from the momentum of an arriving punch? I assume that 'away' always wins?