What's the role of feints and fakes in boxing?
intro
Boxing is a mind game, it always has been, Mike Tyson once said “Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.”
In boxing you have to use your head in order to think a couple of steps forward, you have to strategize and experience scenarios in the ring to develop what is called boxing IQ.
Feints and fakes are crucially needed for a boxer in order to be better, develop boxing IQ, setting up upcoming shots and combinations and occupy the opponent's attention.
What are feints and fakes?
Feinting and faking comes together, in boxing it is an act that a boxer uses his hands and sometimes his body to make a move like a jab, cross, hook
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This makes the opponent think and occupy his attention, so now you can do it once again but in the third time you will really make the move you intended.
Your opponent will be forced to consider your fakes and think, this might frighten him from making moves and consider his next moves more carefully.
common feint:
Jab feint: many professional and amateur boxers alike feint the jab. Feinting the jab is considered a common feint and is intended to set-up a proper combination or shot in the future of the fight.
study case of a professional fake:
A beautiful fake we can see is by floyd “money” mayweather by analyzing his fighting style. In some of his fights, he fakes a jab to his opponent's body at least three or more times, he is landing them on the opponent's body and occupying the opponents attention on this move. When he decides to execute his game plan, he quickly changes the jab to the body with a cross to the head. The opponent is completely surprised and caught off guard, the cross landing almost clean on the chin.
Dealing with fakes and