Boxing tactics is the boxer's combat thinking, his ability to quickly and accurately perceive the combat situation in the ring, make the right decisions and skillfully implement them.
The ability to think tactically in a fight is a boxer's most valuable quality. It brings organization and helps a boxer to overcome difficulties on his way to victory.
High sport achievements of the outstanding ring masters were always accompanied by smart tactics which combined with their physical and willful qualities was the basis of their success.
The sporting activities of the famous boxers left many tactical techniques and positions created by them, which brought them victory. These techniques, given by the fighting individuality of every outstanding boxer, enrich the arsenal of boxing techniques every year.
Combat tactics is one of the most important branches of boxing skill and it is not enough to study it only theoretically. Finches that reveal the opponent's defense, challenges the opponent to attack and other tactics that induce the opponent to act according to his desire must be mastered by the boxer in sparring, and only then they will be realistic in use.
These tactical actions, mastered by a boxer in his own manner of fighting, acquire naturalness and ease, bordering on automatism. Having mastered them, the boxer is able to use them easily in a fast paced fight. These tactical positions and techniques are not stereotypical. The boxer must quickly orient himself in changing situations and apply appropriate tactics.
This book is tactics in examples. It describes techniques that have been observed in the fighting practice of outstanding masters of the professional ring from 1800 to 1940. The techniques are arranged in the book in chronological order of their use by individual masters. All of these masters lived in different times, in different countries, and reflected the individual styles and schools that shaped them as boxers.
Many of the techniques described in the book have long ago become boxing classics that every beginning boxer knows.
