What's shadow boxing?

What is it just punching in mid-air.|||Shadow boxing is just boxing and moving in relation to an imaginary opponent. It can be used to elevate your heart rate and warm your muscles and sometimes I have my students do a gentle, easy version of it and then stretch as opposed to doing jumping jacks and other boring exercises. This was also one of Bruce Lee%26#039;s main ideas with respect to training and developing one%26#039;s skill. He felt that it was more important to practice this than practicing the very regimented, more common types of drills and exercises that are prevalent in martial arts for developing a person%26#039;s skill.





It can also serve to help develop your balance, coordination, and muscle memory for doing difficult or complex combinations. By practicing doing combinations of three, four, or even five techniques repeatedly your body learns to gradually do them faster, more easily, with less effort and more power and not lock up. Some care has to be used at doing it at a faster, harder pace since you are not making contact with anything and so hyper extension and strains can sometime occur from it.|||Shadowboxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially, as its name implies, in boxing. It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing, only one person is required to participate; the participant throws punches at no one in particular.|||Boxing with your shadow. Pretty simple and you don%26#039;t have to worry about hurting your partner, just your hand. Hope this helps!!|||its just practicing your moves without hitting a bag or anything. its used for cardio mostly