STL Boxing Academy

The Outside Foot Lie
Southpaw vs Orthodox

The outside foot don’t save you if your chin is still wide open. 🥊

In open stance, everybody races for outside foot position but if that lead hand drops, that cross is coming straight down the pipe.

Turn the hand over, raise the shoulder, hide the chin, and keep the rear hand home.

Foot position gives you the angle.
Defense keeps you alive.

Book a session if you want to learn how to win the angle without getting cracked down the middle. 🥊

Good, Bad & Ugly

The Good:
Beautiful ring awareness. He feels the ropes, slides out, and doesn’t panic under pressure.

The Bad:
He exits with his jab hand low. That front door wide open.

The Ugly:
At this level, you don’t get a warning shot for that. You get touched, dropped, or put to sleep.

Sliding off the ropes was clean…but fundamentals still gotta leave with you.

Move your feet. Keep your hands home.
That’s how you escape and stay awake. 🥊

Save this if you want to stop escaping one problem just to run into another.

Catch ’em slipping. 🥊

When they slip inside, don’t just let them move for free.

Slide the hand over the head, pull that lead guard down, and take the lane before they can reset.

This ain’t just hand fighting — this is control.

Control the head.
Control the guard.
Control the shot after.

Small details. Big punishment.

Save this if you want to stop chasing punches and start creating openings.

Quicksand

The ropes are quicksand. 🥊💀

If you don’t feel yourself getting backed up, you’re already in trouble.

Stay calm, find the angle, and get out before the trap swallows you.

Save this before the ropes turn into quicksand. 🥊
And send it to somebody who keeps backing straight up

Ring awareness ain’t optional.

The “Home Alone” Drill 🏠🥊

This drill is for fighters who rush in thinking pressure means control.

Instead of backing up, you hold your ground and let them step into the trap.

Soon as they enter the house — shut the door with the teep.

That’s timing.
That’s distance control.
That’s making them pay for coming in without permission.

Save this if you keep backing up when pressure comes.

Next time they rush in — don’t run.
Shut the door.

I know you lying…
Jab Myth Buster 🥊

They told you to bring the jab all the way back every single time?

They told you to bring the jab all the way back every time?

Don’t just pull the jab back—use it. 🧠

​When you throw that 1-2-1, instead of resetting your hand all the way to your face, bring it back halfway to create a frame.

Block their vision, disrupt their counter, and load up your own 2 down the pipe.

​Efficiency over everything. Try this on the pads. 🥊

Save this before you keep getting countered off your own jab. 🥊

Ring Cutting Drill 🥊

This drill teaches you how to control the lead hand, take away exits, and walk somebody into the trap instead of chasing them

You’re working:

Defense — jam the jab, turn the shoulder, keep the guard tight.

Counters — overhand off the jab, double jab to 1-2.

Pressure — walk them down and trap the exits.
Ring Control — force them back where you want them.

Save this if you want to stop chasing fighters and start trapping them.