The power of being unpredictable in your boxing sparring.

I constantly teach my boxers that predictability gets you beat easy every time. One of things that drives me absolutely crazy when I train my boxers is when they continue to throw one jab or throw the same combo repeatedly. For instance, jab move and jab again is what my new fighters will do at times. My fighters don't do that long at all because I teach them how easily another fighter will time their jab and quickly come over it since they know how many jabs will be thrown at them. They know obviously because the fighter is making it far more easier by being so predictable.

The true power and fight controlling power is in being unpredictable. I'll stay with the jab here in my example here. Changing up the speed of the jab and how many jabs you throw and where exactly you throw them are awesome ways to keep the other fighter guessing and off their fight plan. If you keep the other fighter guessing you keep them over thinking and reacting. If the other fighter is over thinking he will begin to hesitate and doubt himself. If the fighter hesitates that quickly this creates great opportunities for you to capitalize and score at will because he will be over thinking and confused.

You also keep the fighter out of rhythm, off his fight plan, while you're in his head. Here's another example. Watch the Pavlik-Hopkins fight. Bernard understands boxing like no other pro fighting today. That fight will be a fight to study for years to come.

Hopkins did the unthinkable in that fight. He was the aggressor and lead the whole fight. Pavlik was totally expecting a low punch output, grappling, fouling, and slower Hopkins. He couldn't adjust and was never allowed to get into his fight rhythm because Hopkins fought totally opposite of the way he usually does. Pavlik was simply unprepared for the Hopkins that fought that night.

Sensing and observing that Pavlik was thrown off by this early on, Bernard continued his constant attack and built on it round by round until everyone saw him going for the KO in the 12th round! No one really expected to see that! Nobody would have been so bold to predict that Hopkins would fight that way and look that perfect.

Bernard of course created that awesome win by fighting unpredictable while earning himself the performance of a life time. Kelly and all of us watching were taught many lessons that night, one that we never thought possible. Bernard displayed that youth and power are but tools and experience with fighting know how trumps all.

In this article I'm going to discuss why you must change up your attack in boxing training technique workouts! and what it allows you to do.

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