Defense is Offense!

Circular footwork takes two opposite structures that you’ll need to incorporate into your shadowboxing.
The evasive footwork structure describes an inward facing circle, while the pressure style footwork structure describes an outward facing circle.

Coordination is the work for this drill – coordinating the footwork, with the timing of blocks, parries, slips and rolls on top of pivots, shuffles, etc. As with all defense training, the idea here is to beat flinching and develop the awareness to move around the ring/cage/mat intelligently with strategy, so you can decide to pressure, evade, close or open distance. It’s not easy to develop the spatial awareness of the wall, it takes practice. Controlling the distance is the key to winning fights, and this drill structure builds the skills to control the distance in a fight.