Bring your hands back under your chin

Bring your hands back under your chin: how to do it

1. While you throw the right cross, keep your left hand under your chin.
2. When you finish the right, bring your right fist back under your chin by the shortest path.
3. Bring your opened-up body back into your stance and check that both hands are under your chin.

Bring your hands back under your chin: key points

• The thing to watch most is your left hand after a right cross.
• When your body opens up, your left hand drops away from your chin. That becomes your biggest opening.
• The more you overswing the right, the later it comes back. Keep the swing small as well.

Bring your hands back under your chin: common mistakes

• You drop your left hand as you throw the right cross. Then your chin is open and it's easy for them to time a return punch.
• You swing the right all the way through. Then it comes back late and both hands spend longer away from your chin.

Bring your hands back under your chin: how to practice

• In shadowboxing, keep your left hand touching your chin every time you throw a right cross, and check that it doesn't leave.
• On the heavy bag, throw right crosses with a smaller swing and check that both hands are back under your chin as you finish.

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• Right cross on the spot (freeze their feet)
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