Here’s a clip I did awhile ago and it really hits home about our training habits. Sometimes students just don’t quite get it.
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The basics win fights yet some young eager fighters overlook that trying to master everything while not achieving anything.
As dull as it may seem to some fighters, going back to the basis instills solid fundamentals that won’t let you down in the ring.
Repetition makes the master and good repetition is the mother of championship skill so get back in front of that mirror and work on your punching stance and footwork, work on your punching leverage and balance, focus on where boxing truly starts, from the ground up, then break the jab, right hand, left hook, and uppercut down again ( provided your an orthodox fighter ) work on you defense, foot and head movement.
Just go back to the basics like its the first time and then watch how much better you get and how the basics will never let you down when you need them the most.
I’ve had a couple new students start training with me recently who have previously boxed at another gym. The trainer at that gym has a deep history of boxing and I was shocked to see the lack of skills in these students.
They left because they felt neglected. They got robbed more like it! They have poor stance, square up, they don’t extend and turn their punches over, they cross their feet when they move, they over commit to their punches, they keep their chins up and exposed, they don’t know how to use the jab to set up their punches, and they have no idea how to work the body.
7 months spent at THAT gym. That gym advertises they teach boxing. Bullshit is what it was. Those students were never taught the basics and never built a base!
Many people bitch about the lack of talented pros now a days. They should, more and more slop is becoming mainstay and considered normal technique. The REAL skill and science of boxing isn’t being taught.
I’ve had a few kids leave my gym because I was taking my time, I didn’t have them sparring enough. Shit, I don’t run a gym were it’s… ok I’ll teach you the 1-2-3 and it’s time to spar. That’s normal in many gyms today. Time MUST be taken to groom fighters, teach them the TRUE skills, teach them the art. I’m a young coach and I know this because I trained at a gym like that when I was younger and it obviously sucked! I was also fortunate to find a gym with an excellent teacher who taught the old school style/skills of boxing.
Great pros are developed in the amateurs or at least that’s how it’s supposed to be done. We have to stop teaching these kids to slap and run and teach them true boxing skills. That’s why I’ll never have an interest in developing a young kid for the Olympics. I know better than that and besides… I teach boxing and what it really is. There are many others out there doing it to but we need more to get this sport flourishing with amazing and eye opening young fighters again.
Damn, I mean it all starts with the basics, why blow though them? Why over look them? What are these trainers trying to create? Do they even care? Do they just like to be around the hoopla?
My motto for us like minded trainers out there who teach real boxing skills is.. ” Bringing the sweet science back to boxing “.
Lets do it cause it sure as hell needs to be done. The business of boxing isn’t dying, never was, the TRUE skill is and that’s what’s scary!
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