The Basic Stance Used in Boxing

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Marvin McDowell, USA Boxing certified boxing trainer. On behalf of Expert Village, I want to show you a boxing technique that everyone needs when you start off in boxing and is called a boxing stance. First of all, you get into position. One foot behind the other, chin down, hands up, elbows lay on your body, chin down, and protect your chin in between your hands. This is how it should look forward, this is how it should look on the left and this is how it should look on the right. Chin down, protect it. This is the first important stance that you need to be a boxer. You have got to have the correct stance. If you don’t have the correct stance; you have your head up, have your chin out, you’ll get hurt. This is how you protect yourself. Chin down, hands up. This is forward, right side, left side. This is the proper stance. One foot out from the other, chin down. My name is Marvin McDowell, founder and president of UMAR Boxing. “No Hooks Before Books.” Thank you for watching."