Footwork, Distance, And Timing. . .

You're right, you do widen your stance. I'll get you some visuals to show what I mean better:



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You do widen your stance, but you need to do that in order to move. So you would widen your stance using the half step, this can mean multiple things:

1. You're going to step
2. You're going to jab
3. You're going to pivot out

So either way your opponent is expecting you to move. Now all you have to do is be comfortable taking a half step forward, only to pull your foot back to your original stance. Now you know that you can threaten your opponent with any of those things, but not actually do them, all from that half step.

The half step backwards your describing is kind of like a pull counter, and its quite an advanced tactic so I wouldn't straight up recommend it because I don't know what your level is.

I'd strongly recommend my other thread:
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/cuban-boxing-fundamentals.3780639/

This bad boy will cover a lot of what you're looking for in terms of boxing form and footwork, a lot of good videos get posted there fairly often.


that was good stuff, saved it.
 
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