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Strength matters, always has always will.

Think of being weak as a long cold winter, and how that makes you feel. Physical, mentally, etc..

Think of late spring and early summer as developing max strength and the late summer sun as having a max strength base.

How does late spring, early summer, and the late summer sun make you feel compared to that long cold winter? Obviously you know and feel the stark contrast between the two.

This is the feeling of possessing strength compared to a weak body and under developed nervous system.

When an athlete is strong, everything improves and can fall into place in spp training (skill)

Mentally the athletes grow in profound ways.

To say strength doesn’t help all and everyone is different is like saying speed doesn’t improve all and everyone is different.

Does speed matter?

Does speed often decide who the winner and loser is?

Does speed leave your competition in the dust and clueless?

So get strong.

Enlightened coaches know this truth through education & experience.

Everyone IS different, yes! So the Law of Individuality is applied by experience coaches to address this.

So, individual differences are addressed. What’s the problem then?

Or are some coaches trying to create one out of their sheer ignorance of failing to understand this?

It’s amazing what education and experience allow a coach to do for a fighter.

To break away from the pack and clueless herd

Strength matters, always will, lack of strength limits, always will. This is a physiological law.

For those of you coaches who think strength and lean muscle mass do not matter, go lie in bed for 3 weeks and do nothing, eat of course but lie there.

Then get up and try to function in a deteriorated weak body. You won’t function like you wish.

This is similar to shrinking and starving fighters down and expecting them to perform optimally. In a weak deprived state lacking strength and lean muscle mass.

Where is the rational to support that? Think before you speak.

Strength matters, always has, always will.

If you disagree, you are entitled to that. However, please explain & support why, while making complete sense with your comments.

That is all….

Here is a clip I did with Louie at our old gym about 3 years ago on gpp & spp training for fighters. Enjoy and comment below with any questions or comments.

Sparring: Everyone watches & learns. Total focus while lessons are being taught.

There are no liars in the ring, only truth, as the truth is always revealed here.

I believe in one voice while conducting a sparring session. Too many voices drown out what really needs to be down, too many voices leads to a fighter not able to fully absorb the instruction at hand. Too many voices is chaos.

During a fight, a great corner is a non chaotic one, one voice, firm, excites, and calm instruction, all that matters is there is clear instruction not madness of many voices. The fighter must be able to pick up on their trainer’s voice from the crowd and outside noises during the fight.

The team learns to do this in the gym when their is one voice, two sets of eyes communicating with each other, but one voice with clear instruction.

Training is more than the time you put in the gym with the fighter. As a fighter it is the same, the learning doesn’t stop at the gym. The teaching doesn’t stop there never has. In my opinion, one area where many trainers are weak is in film study.

Trainers don’t use it enough. That’s a huge mistake. Film study of great fighters can jump start growth in a fighter, motivate, and inspire a fighter to new heights in their development.

Mike Tyson was one of those fighters who used film study to mold his style.

At that time, the late Bill Cayton had the largest library of fight films available. He later sold it to ESPN and what you see on ESPN Classic, was once his.

Tyson had access to those films and would devour them. He is, one of the best living historians today because of that vast film study. Tyson can articulately break down fights and fighters beautifully well.

Why do you think Tyson wore no robe, socks, and black trunks into the ring? Who was he honoring? What fighter inspired him to be such a ruthless puncher & finisher?

Jack Dempsey.

Dempsey was a savage puncher & finisher. Youtube his famed fight with the Argentinian Giant – The Wild Bull of The Pampas Luis Firpo. Dempsey dropped Firpo 7 times in the firsr round! Dempsey was knocked clean out of the ring and was pushed back into the ring by sports writers and drops Firpo knocking him out in the 2nd. Argued as one of the best fights ever!

This motivated Mike. He mimicked Demsey’s savageness and raw aggression.

Look at what Dempsey wore in the wore in the ring. Black trunk, no robe, no socks.

Tyson studied all the greats, Dempsey, Marciano, Jack Johnson, Sonny Liston, Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, etc. He studied boxing well out side his style as well.

Tyson was educated and motivated by these fight films he studied up in the lonely Catskill mountains of NY. Who he was in the ring was due as much to film study as it was to Cus D’Amato’s teaching style.

James Toney had a unique old school style that was in a league of it’s own during his prime of the early to mid 90′s. That style allowed him to have short term success at heavyweight beating Evander Holyfield, and John Ruiz for the heavyweight title he should have kept.

The late GREAT Bill Miller was a profound teacher. He understood boxing & understood what it would do for James’ development. They sat down together and broke old fight films down. To this day, Toney himself is a astute historian.

James dissected film of Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, and more.

His unique old school style was born from these film study sessions. Miller taught James in the gym and out. He taught James what to look for and teach himself as he often rushed home after being inspired by how Ezzard Charles would roll with punches & practice it in front of the mirror.

James saw how the greats honed and took great pride in their crafty skills and he took pride in developing his one while testing them against the best.

Tyson took pride in being a savagely brutal finisher. Both born from film study.

Film study also serves as a learning & growth tool for we trainers.

It is priceless.

It is also hilarious to me on how I see how some of these quasi trainers taut themselves on facebook yet never even heard of the truly great practitioners such as Burley, Pep, Ike Williams, Joe Ganns, etc.

They only go back so far and little, reflecting their true training knowledge.

Look, boxing is in BIG trouble these days. There is a HUGE lack of quality trainers & real teachers.

Many trainers get into boxing not even knowing what it truly is.

I will never forget the time I was at a re certification clinic in Orlando Florida back in 2005. I was sitting there as the instructor asked the new coaches who where becoming certified for the first time to define boxing. All i heard was crickets!! They could NOT define it!

Boxing…. To hit & NOT be hit, to evade a punch yet be in POSITION to land a punch.

This is the art of boxing, the science.

If you can’t define it, stay the fuck out.

As far as some of these amateur coaches who tout that they are level 3 or 4 coaches through USA boxing, playing the political game.

Many of them can shove them certificates up their ass cause quite frankly, they stink as coaches & teachers.

They fail to learn outside the box of what USA boxing gives them. Many have never fought, (which isn’t a true must to be a good teacher, but it really does help), or have had mentors with tons of successful experience, OR do any film study.

The great fighters of the past have left us GREAT knowledge of the sweet science in their recorded historic fights & greatest moments. The knowledge is there! The science is there!

In my opinion, It is negligence for a trainer to ignore this. To only learn so much. To rest of a level of quasi boxing knowledge through certification.

They suffer and ultimately their fighters do.

Please comment below if you have any thoughts on this message.