“Everyone can see my tactics, no one can know my strategy” (cit)

Often confuse these two terms as synonyms, actually not so.

Widely used in the military, they find expression in any situation of confrontation or clash where one of the parties must prevail over the other to win.

In boxing, and generally in combat sports, is the strategy that the tactics are important:

• The strategy is an action plan through which taking into account the rules and conditions of competition, their strengths and their weaknesses, and those opponents are predetermined and the potential decisions relating to the conduct of the race. However, it has no direct impact on the opponent’s action.
• For tactics, however, is the method used for achieving the goals, they can be technical, physical or cognitive and psychological nature required to better use the processes of perception, decision making, execution and interpretation of and in sporting competition. They are able to have a direct impact on the opponent’s actions.

Simplifying the concepts we can say that the tactic aims to influence situations through behaviours (actions/transactions) often misleading (and fake calls) that can be used to your advantage during the match.

Summing up the tactic even more represents the means by which to reach this strategic plan using as its technical tool.

In a sport like boxing situation, during the fight, the Boxer is constantly subjected to emotional and cognitive processes (pulses) that will bind a decision (tactics) and put in place, in a very short time, actions that enable him to win the match (purpose of the strategic plan). We speak in this case of theory of action.

Remember that to win a match you have to prepare a strategy with your coach and be able to implement more than a tactic during the match, relying only on their own strength is not always synonymous with victory, try to get George Foreman: