IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL-HAVE TACTICS

Tactical Preparation is an integral part of sports training and competition, in boxing tactical preparation as well.
Tactics refer to a system of movement, a model, which you learn during training and applied during competition. Tactics are improving through playing training matches, fights, etc.

During the learning of tactics, elements from the sports branch, in this case, boxing are first studied. These elements represent the analysis of tactical tasks.

Tactical tasks

Tactical tasks during training first start with learning the simplest tactical tasks that are initially similar to the situations that occur during combat. After the study and improvement of the simple tactical tasks, you pass to the study of the complex tactical elements, which according to their tempo and situations are the same as the competition. When you plan training for tactical preparation, the athletes-boxers focus their attention on the development and improvement of tactical tasks and their application during the competition.

Information About The Opponent

In tactical preparation, if we want it to be successful, we need to have concrete information about the opponent. We reduce this concrete information to information about the anthropological constitution, physical and psychological readiness, the level of technical preparation, as well as the style and leadership of the fight. E.g.: left-handed or right-handed, knockout or pointer, raised or static fighter, tall or short, aggressive attack or moderate fighter, keeps a tall and covered guard or is exposed, insists on leading fighting at close range or at a greater distance. Whether it is standardized or stereotyped in the delivery of blows or is it a variety of blows.

Mini Tactic

People made all this obtained information about the opponent in written form. They created a theoretical model on the basis of this information for the future opponent. Based on this theoretical model, the so-called mini which we have outlined certain characteristics of fighting the opponent that we need to practice. Then we agree to find the ideal opponent. His characteristics will correspond to the real opponent and will imitate the real opponent. If the true opponent is low and the conditional should be low, if the true opponent is tall and the conditional should be high, if the true opponent is left-handed and the conditional should be left-handed.

If we cannot find such a condition in our environment – a sparring opponent, then we ask the remaining sparring partners to behave like the real opponent. For familiar matches, we look for a sparring partner from another environment, other clubs. For this kind of analysis, we use video footage with complete video technology that is accessible to everyone.

Sparring

If we find a sparring partner that agrees to increase, we fight in mini tactics with the aim of increasing the tactical tasks.  During the sparring match, the sparring partner must fight according to the given mini-tactics, i.e. imitate the real opponent. Characteristics of sparing are frequent interruptions and repetitions of actions, with the goal of setting automatisms, that is, patterns.
Since the individual tactical tasks set in the mini-tactics will improve, it is possible to improve the entire system of tactical tasks (maximum tactics), applying improvised combat (sparring) according to the competition rules.  Of course, even in this case, the conditional opponent should fight in a way that is identical to the way the real opponent fights.  This means that he behaves during the fight according to the tactical ideas that correspond to the real opponent.

Tactics are the decisive factor

The outcome of the boxing match depends on the tactics and that is the decisive factor. A physically and technically weaker boxer, but well tactically prepared, has the same chances of winning in a fight with a physically and technically better-built boxer. That’s why we should practice tactics during training, especially when we know well the future opponent.

All tactical tasks cannot be predicted and solved, in all cases, the future opponent is tactically prepared. During the fight, after finishing the rounds, during the minute rest, we correct and supplement the tactics. During the fight, the entire responsibility falls on the boxer in the ring. He is deprived of any help from the side. The level of fighting will depend on the level of his tactical preparation. The fight in the ring does not take place according to predetermined written scenarios. The course of the fight depends on the opponent and the possible situations in which the fight takes place, which is predictable. Because of this, during the tactical preparation of individual situations that are expected, it is necessary to partially prepare them, so that the boxer will not be surprised, but will be able to adapt and fight successfully.

 Pay Attention

Among the rest, it is necessary to pay attention to the following:
 1. The fight against a which knockout,
 2. The fight against a boxer who imposes a high tempo for the entire time of the fight,
 3. The fight against an aggressive boxer who attacks with strong blows (fighter)
 4. The fight against a boxer who strikes on the contrary, that is, a boxer who defends himself and then strikes (rarely first attack),
 5. The fight against a boxer who does not have strong punches, but is technically prepared (technician),
 6. Fight against a boxer who has an inverted fighting stance, left-handed, that is, exposed to the right,
 7. Close-range combat,
 8. Long-range combat,
 9. Corner fight,
 10. Fighting in the middle of the ring,
 11. Fight of riders,
 12. The fight against a tall opponent,
 13. The fight against a short opponent.
For all these elements, good tactical preparation is possible, through which we will enable the successful conduct of the battle.
In boxing clubs, trainers give priority to improving the strength of the blows and very little to tactical training.  Because of this, we have evident cases where a well-prepared boxer, physically and technically, who is not in a position to fight at the required level, against a left-handed opponent, an opponent who has a counter-guard,  due to the fact that during training he almost never practiced sparring with a left-handed opponent

There are collective individual tactics, attack tactics, and defense tactics, aggressive and defensive tactics.