Rule Of Three

On patterns, boxing and banana peels. With some book recommendations at the end.

A few weeks ago, my boxing coach had me doing combos on the pad. He’d shout out sequences (double jab, cross), or combos (body) and hold the pads in position for me to strike, and hear the satisfied slap of my blows landing in the centre of his palms. We were into a session where he had me doing the same rhythm pattern, again and again. It went jab, jab…