Originally posted by Devil
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It's a matter of developing a general type of coordination versus specific. Soccer involves running, jumping, cutting, turning, hopping, and manipulating an object with your feet/lower body (which is furthest from the brain and hence the hardest to develop). Those are all GENERAL types of human locomotion, whether you are boxing or chasing down a rabbit by foot to keep from starving to death.
Jumping, hopping, rolling, skipping, running, crawling, walking, etc. are all things that need to be developed. First, alone, and then paired with a partner. It's non-sport specific.
Of course, learning to box is fine if done safely and properly for the age and ability (and interest) of the kid involved. Boxing footwork is it's own peculiar thing, but it's built on the basic forms of human locomotion. Just like "judo" footwork. If a boxing program follows guidelines similar to what is in the Judo LTAD stuff I've posted, a lot of time will be spend on general types of movement and coordination, not on specific boxing footwork.
Kids learn by playing. The more different things they can play at, the better. Boxing can be one of those things, easily. Just like Judo or BJJ.
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