Page 11 - Frank Sasso Boxing Footwork

Chapter 1 Summary

Perfect your boxing footwork and it will become your primary defense
– it’s far better to use your feet to escape on unconventional angles
than it is to have to cover up and attempt to block, parry or weave
through your opponent’s punches.

Great footwork creates angles, great angles create opportunities to

land round winning and fight finishing combos.

Learning to sit down on your punches and remaining balanced while
striking both forwards and backwards will ensure you are able to
place as much power behind your punches as possible.

When your opponent can’t catch you due to the evasive nation of your
footwork it begins to fatigue them both physically and mentally as the
rounds go on.

Good footwork will allow you to optimize the expenditure of your
energy. Fighting off the back foot is exhausting, using great footwork to

pivot away and cut angles is not.

Upper body endurance is often stressed and worked on, leg endurance
is generally neglected and can be the decider between whether you get
your hand raised or not.