"Hit quickly, hit hard and keep right on hitting. Give the enemy no rest, no opportunity to consolidate his forces and hit back at you." —Holland M. Smith
When I was younger, I often imagined that being a boxer would be fun. Admittedly, I was only imagining the hitting someone part and not considering the fact that being a boxer means making yourself vulnerable to being punched back.
While my younger self was naive in its imaginations of a battle where one is allowed to unilaterally pommel an opponent with no push back, it was not a bad strategy. You must acknowledge the reality of push back and anticipate it, but if you could, wouldn't you prefer to pound without the push back? You should expect it and not imagine your enemy simply allowing you to punch them until they say, "Uncle!" but if an altercation could go that direction, wouldn't you choose it? If you could initiate in such a way as to debilitate their ability to fight back, wouldn't that be ideal?
Catch them off guard, throw them off script, confuse their efforts to recover and end the fight before they strike back. Go for a KO in the 1st round. Touch gloves and may that be the last time their gloves make contact with any part of you.
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