why are so many boxing coaches LAZY and ruin talent

I think because boxing coaches have limited time so they like to focus on dedicated boxers, I can see what you mean though because it is different in other combat sports.

 

Because to be a good boxing coach you need to do more then own a property and sit a two day course. All this earning attention is bollocks if someone is coached properly from the start they will have a good understanding of the basics.

I coach boxing one to one or in small groups and I've never, ever coached anyone who didn't have the capacity to improve enough to spar heavily or potentially fight. Trainers get big headed and believe they know more then they do.

I know a coach who calls himself a personal trainer who doesn't even know how to squat properly.

I know another who also calls himself a personal trainer who recommended a 9 year old swimmer not to eat any carbs for 24 hours before a swimming race then to have lucozade just before he jumped in the pool.

Another who said you should box with your feet one behind the other so that 'you stood on a skateboard' ... I could give you loads of examples of 'trainers' speaking shite and these are just things I've heard with my own ears.

All funnily enough motivated by different things, one money- he's greedy. One power - he just wants to be in charge of something. And one is just a nice guy trying to help... And people pay for their 'expertise' ... I call it fraud.

As a personal trainer or a boxing coach I will say if I don't know something. I'll might offer an opinion and then I'll research it...

 

I'd say it can be attributed quite heavily to the fact that being good or even great at something does not automatically bestow upon you the ability to teach. Coaches need to know how to cultivate people's individual styles based on their physical attributes and abilities, they also should really have some idea about nutrition and physiology too in all fairness to avoid situations like the Lucozade one above.

I injured myself to a degree that is still sometimes noticable when I first started, because when I got to the gym with no handwraps or gloves, they gave me a pair of beat-up old 14oz gloves and set me to smashing the bag for an hour and a half without any critique or assistance. Nowadays I get padwork every time I go and advice as and when I need it, but I agree, the whole "earn your coaching" thing is such bull**** it's unfathomable. A large majority of terrible habits that I had/have I've ironed out from reading and watching YouTube videos. That's not how it should be.

 

You must take responsibility for your own learning... That's the safest bet. The lads I coach are lucky in that I apply fundamentals and method to what I do... Most are not that lucky.

 

What I hate about my coaches that they force everyone into a specific style. They don't give you any freedom and will only let you do matches if you master the textbook boxing style. My achilles tendons are too short to have proper textbook footwork

 

Go on the Internet, watch some fights or find a good trainer:good

 

After years of working with different coaches of different levels, we finally had a great coach, but he'd only come in on the weekends. What made him good was his experience as a fighter, and his smaller size.

He had family and job committments and is gone now.

We have coaches teaching us things, and stuff. But its not the same.

I may never be a pro, but I definitely will work hard so I don't get beatup in sparring.

 

So make it your business to know. Go to school. Go to other gyms. Study physiology.

 

This is of course the solution, it's just a pity that for young kids it's pretty much pot luck whether they are trained well or not - they either wind up with a good coach or a bad one and there's realistically not much chance of them changing for a good few years.