How do you go in for a body shot?

Question

How do you hit someones body without throwing any other type of punch? Just going straight for it.

How can you go in for a body shot?

Answer 1

Slip their left jab and you are right there to hook the body. You can also do this off your own jab, roll under and BANG!!!

A good one is to double up the hook, first one to the body and then the head followed by a solid straight right

Answer 2

Obviously if you're bobbing and weaving properly a body shot will present it's self basically any time you feel the need to throw one.  You'll be looking to confuse your opponent with hooks, bolos, under cuts, upper cuts, crosses, overhands and jabs up stairs all the time and in this you'll see your oportunity for body shots as your opponent reacts to your every flurry.  

Whether you throw a straight shot or a hook to the body is your own choice.  It's not complicated man.  Slipping punch after punch and countering is the name of the game bro.  "Working the body" is where it's at so why limit your punching to just straight shots to the body?   In boxing the punch is coming from the hip and shoulder simultaneously even when your digging into your opponent's body.  "Key Rule" here ok.....There's the hard head soft body type of fighter then there's the strengthened mid section "glass jaw" fighter and the badest of the bad the "rock solid" fighter that you can't get around throwing every kind of punch against including body shots.

If you limit your shots to just straight shots to the body during any of your training you're leading your self down a dead end road my friend.  If you're already in "boxing" then you already know the rules of distance out in the ring as far as the type of punch dictated by that distance.

I wish there were a "magical" answer to your question, but there isn't dude.  Your own speed and agility in the ring is what's going to get you to a position to "Work the body" the only fomula for that is found in your training if you're in "boxing" that is.  Sparring is the only way of finding out dude in that case.  Will it come natural or should you be washing dishes some where and just forgetting about "boxing" all together?

Answer 3

Maybe work a little more on becoming a pressure boxer or an inside fighter. Stay close to your opponent and try to get them in the corner and work on the inside. Feints to the head are also good ideas as well.

Answer 4

Straights to the solar plexus is the quickest punches to your targets.  Hooks are also a good way to get around the defense.  Without throwing feints, the best way is to probably counter the opposing fighter.  Catch them while their guard is high, or while they're throwing or coming back from a punch.

I still think setting it up is the best way to go.  If they think you're head hunting, they'll keep their guards up, and their bodies are exposed.  If you hit the body, they'll drop their guard and expose their head.

As an orthodox/conventional stanced fighter, the best way for me is to feint a one-two combo to the head, then as my body is naturally leaned towards the left from a right cross position, i step in slightly and bend my knees, and do a left hook to the liver.

KILL THE BODY, AND THE HEAD WILL DIE...