First we continued with the drill from yesterday. The duck the wide swing and pivot and hit or stay straight on and duck. This was used more of a warm up also. With these I worked on constantly protecting my chin and staying on the balls of my feet. The usual basic stuff with an advanced drill.
Next, we introduced a new punch, the cross.
This starts off like a jab but doesn't hit straight out. It comes across my center line and hit at the same level. Instead of the step for a left jab, a left cross adds a turn in of the heal and hips. The hips and heal for a right cross are similar to a jab, just with more across the body motion.
So the punch is 3/4 jab, 1/4 hook.
We worked on it, just trying to get it right. I worked hard to avoid skinning my knuckles, because coming across my body lends itself to that. The punch was hard to get the hang of after training to not let my elbow go out for the jab, but I just had to get used to both ways.