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Show 1 uu SHADOW BOXING AID pp Dempsey Will Modify Style in His Future Training for Big Scraps Jack Dempsey, champion heavyweight heavy-weight boxer, is investigating the various va-rious phases of his trade nowadays, and as a result he Is about to revolutionize revo-lutionize the shadow boxing stunt: which every boxer has used in the pastl decade Dempsey says shadow boxing, has Its good points, but that It also had lt bad points, and in the future he will modify It greatly, as far as his own work is concerned To loosen up the leg muscles, Strengthen the hip muscles and knee muscles, the ehaniplon declares there is nothing to compare with shadow boxing, but when it conies to the use of the arnio, a boxer has to be mighty careful or he will ruin his style and his punching power by Jabbing, hooking hook-ing and sv.inulng at an Imaginary enemy. en-emy. He thinks the punching business should be confined entirely to the sparring spar-ring matches or when facing tho bag or boxing dummy. I find that it is positively dangerous danger-ous to cut loose with a pum h at the atmosphere," said Dempsey bei iuse If ou put all your weight behind it, you are o.ulte apt lo strain yourself, and if you don't put all tho weight behind it. you are apt to get into the dangerous habit of pulling your blows and thus killing your hitting power. L.OOSK VS MUSCLES Dempsey believes there Is nothing better to loosen the muscles of the arms anel shoulders than to dance about and work the arms, but he adds that experience has taught him it Is no, . s-.try to strike blows in order to the benefit of this exercise. Dempsey Demp-sey is using his new system in his work for the Mlske bout Labor Day. 11 would appear the champion has diagnos-d the ills of the shadow box-Ing box-Ing .stunt In much the samo way that n fi ,v other trainers have diagnosed it Wiljard, when training for his match with Dempsc, used to punch uHii all his vim In shadow boxing, and several trainers prophesied he was hurting his hitting ability. Jess admitted after the Dempsey bout thai his punching power seemed to be on ! the wane in the very first round of ths big fight. Ills shadow boxing work i mod to have had the effect of mak- ing him muscle bound, and it Is just 'his condition which Dempsey desires I to escape The champion, however. says shadow boxing is wonderful stuff I for the legs and hips, but it needs' some perfection. |