Dipping, Bobbing, & Weaving in Boxing

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Part of the video series: Boxing Footwork Techniques

Summary: What do boxers mean by dipping, bobbing, and weaving? Learn about the basics of boxing footwork, techniques, steps, and movements in this free training video for boxers.

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Bill Lefebvre Billy Lefebvre is the owner and head coach for Bantam Boxing. He has been involved in boxing as a successful amateur local, regional, national and inter-nati... read more

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Dipping, Bobbing, & Weaving in Boxing

In our next clip on footwork we're going to talk about some dipping, some bobbing and some weaving. There's nothing worse than moving around the ring and having good footwork, but leaving your head in the same area, on the same plateau. It's fairly easy for another boxer to literally close his eyes and say, "Okay, Jim's face was right about there a minute ago," and you're face probably was there a minute ago and it probably still is. So what we're going to try to do now is we're going to incorporate with all our side movements, our backward movements, our frontward movements, we're going to try to incorporate that with a little bit of dipping, bobbing and weaving at the same time. Whenever you step to the side, do a little dip. Whenever you're stationary, do a little bobbing, do a little weaving in preparation for your next step. When you're sliding from one side to the other, dip down a little bit. When you're going forward you can dip. When you're going backwards you can dip. And then while you're there stationary getting ready to move, you can bob and weave. Sometimes you don't even have to move. As long as you can bob and weave you can stay right there, accept a few punches, slip a few punches. You don't have to retreat as long you can bob and weave and dip. Try to do all your movements, all you?re dipping, at the knees. Try not to bend at the waist. Once you bend at the waist you're susceptible to uppercuts, you can't see what's going on. The referee's going to give you the signal, keep your face up. Thank you.

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