In boxing, is a fighter's reach measured from under the arm or the top of the shoulder?
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For armlength, it's measured from the armpit to the end of the fist.
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Boxing.  So why is this under baseball?
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OK listen.  That area of the arm is the tricep.  The tricep makes up 75% of the upper arm.  Most guys think that working out biceps is the way to big arms, but it is the tricep.\n\nGet a chair or bench, have your legs down in front of you and scoot your butt of the bench or chair until only your arms are holding you up.  Then slowly bend at the elbows and try to touch your butt to the ground.  These are a simple form of "dips".  You can look on the internet for pictures.
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A boxer knows a lot about boxing
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why is this question in the boxing category?
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When I was in the service during the Viet Nam era, I was in Thailand for some R & R and I got hooked on the Thai kickboxing fights. Years later some one once asked who would win in a fight with a Thai kickboxer, Mohammud Ali or the kickboxer? I told the guy who asked that question if he had ever seen a real, not movie kickboxing match he wouldn't ask that question. I have seen guys that are 5 feet tall beat the hell out of guys that were over 6 feet tall. I told this guy Mohammud Ali wouldn't even last one round from a professional Thai kickboxer who was only 5 feet tall. For years he never believed me until he and his wife went to Thailand for vacation. When he came back he apologized for doubting me, because he then realized what I was talking about. And most of the kickboxers in the rest of the world would lose their a**es to a Thai kickboxer after three rounds, because they don't stop the fight because of blood unless the other guy cannot even stand up.
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Actually doing boxing... There's no better workout for the sport than actually doing it; that way, you literally "learn the ropes" (learn to distance yourself within the ring, you learn to breathe better with a mouthpiece, you leran to handle your hands and punch wearing gloves, and you learn to keep your head regardless of whether you're being punched. You get over feeling self-conscious, and you feel more comfortable.
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5N * 3 = 15N\n\nYour arm is a lever in weight training. The input force is at your shoulder, the output force is on your hand, and the fulcrum is your elbow.
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I have no clue, b/c there have been tall and short ww champs in the past.....i guess if you have some time, take the last 10 welterweight champs, and average their heights and waist and see what you come up with.....that might be the only logical way of doing this.
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Illegal hits above the chest area
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Of course, it's pathetically simple, there are many places on the human body where there is little to no muscle coverage, there are also pressure points and techniques to use a larger persons size against themselves. I am not saying that it would be an easy thing for Joe Blow off the street to just walk up to some hulking behemoth woman and knock her block off, but hey, then again in some situations it might. Along the sides of your ribcage, there is practacly no muscle coverage there, a solid hooking body blow or cut kick can inflict massive damage, and it hurts like a bitch, the treachea is completely unprotected, and breaking a persons windpipe will very likely kill them, i do not recomend this in any way shape or form though, this is highly illegal in most states. A quick jab to the jaw can disorient anybody, it doesn't take much, you don't have to knock them out, just disorient and take out her knees with a pickup or sweep, or you could tackle her down after. If you're trained in something like jujitsy, judo, or aiki do, the stupidest thing that amazon could do is try to use her weight and size to her advantage, because a simple re direction and manipulation of her force can send her crashing to the ground in a most painful way. Yeah, hurting people is really easy, size does not matter. Although it's harder to hurt a larger person, especially if they are conditioned and in shape, harder doesn't mean hard.
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"Blocking"? Well, there are ways to "block" kicks and knees, of course. For a kick, the receiving fighter would raise either leg and "block" with his shin. For knees, control in the "clinch", as well as crossing both arms in front of the face.\n\nTo a much lesser extent, some punches can be taken "on the gloves", which I suppose can count as "blocking", although standard Western "bobbing and weaving" is sparingly used. Truth be told, Muay Thai fighters take a lot of leather...\n\nThere are no "blocks" like the type you see in the "Kung Fu" movies, however, if that's what you're refering to (If there are, no one's ever showed me in 20 years of training...)
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Like someone else said, aerobic conditioning is critical to any combat sport like muay thai or boxing. You could jump rope, jog, swim, etc to build up your aerobic conditioning. Also, you could do things like push ups and light weightlifting to build up you upper body strength. You could do weight exercises to build up your leg strength also. I've heard that muay thai fighters also do a great deal of abdominal training so you could start doing lots of crunches and other ab workouts for your stomach. Core strength is important for alot of reasons, but if you plan to eventually spar it will be even more important. Getting hit in the gut hurts (regardless of the sport) and having a strong midsection will help with being able to handle punches, kicks, knees, and the like.\n\nGood Luck!
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Well it is certainly to taste. We find this in current boxing judges and judges throughout the history of the sport as some place more of an empahsis on certain elements. Of course clean effective punching is the primary factor but in close rounds it can really depend on where you are viewing the fight from, along with your preference for style. Its important to remember the compubox numbers arent available (to my understanding) for ringside judges so sometimes closer rounds are even tougher to tell. Likewise tv audiences may not get as good of a feel for who is throwing more effective punches as those who see the fight live. \n\nPersonally i like guys who dictate the pace of the fight. Sometimes this means its the fighter who makes a puncher into a boring fighter. Sometimes it means its the guy who drags the boxer into a brawl. Controlling the terms the fight is on is in my opinion a very important factor. Though sometimes this means the fighter is doing more countering if that fits the style and speed of the fight they want, it should be taken into consideration.\n\nAlso theres no crime in scoring tie rounds...
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<>Maybe this site will help:\nhttp://www.bigboxingweb.com/boxing_schools/2.htm
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Arm wrestling uses different muscles, and also involves physics (leverage, size).  Try arm wrestling strong people (dad?) at home to strengthen those muscles, and lift weights to work different muscle groups.  Also, a heavier person is pushing more weight when doing pushups.  We don't know your size or weight.
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inner thighs. Or below the armpits on the inside of the arm.