Counter-Punching as a Defense in Boxing

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"Okay, one of the best ways to keep a good defense is actually being in a, what we are going to call a tight package. What I like to refer to as a tight package. What I tell a potential boxer is when they come in is don't be loose, don't be wide open. You got to be nice and tight. And the theory I use is just make believe you got a like a grand union shopping bag for instance. They are the square paper bags. They are about oh maybe this wide by about that wide by about that high. And I tell them to go ahead and open that up and put that on the floor and go ahead and get into that bag. And of course when you are stepping into the bag you step up in there and then of course the rear end is sticking out a little bit. So you got to bend at the knees a little bit and tuck down in there to get into that bag. Now you got your elbows sticking way out over the top. So you also got to bring those elbows in a little bit in order to get into that bag. And now your chin is up there at the same time up out of the bag. So you want to duck your chin a little bit bag into down into your fists. You are never going to fit into that grand union bag, okay. But the theory is there that if you try and if you try to think of yourself as a small tight package the less you are going to get hit. The less open you are going to be, the tighter you are going to be. You fire from your tight package, and then you are going to get back into your tight package. You move around in a tight package. Okay, you fire, you get back into it. The tighter you are the less you are going to get hit. The less you are going to get hit the more you are going to be able to hit and hopefully you will win some more fights."