Both are pretty awful in my opinion. I find it hard to take advice from DVDs where the instructors / students showing the technique is incredibly poor / robotic. --- Getz: Probably the better of the two. Mainly focuses on basic techniques McCan: The one thing I liked about this was the huge array of combinations that he gives on one of the disks. --- Have you looked at Kenny Weldon's work? His is SO, SO much better than either of these two. Sadly, there hasn't been a decent boxing DVD released since Weldon's. Steve "Action" Hurley is probably tied with Don Familton in a distant second place. Again, just my opinion. --- You can look up Youtube videos of Russ Anber (he did a good series for rival) and Fran Sands. Sands did the 'Boxing Training Foundation' and although it is aimed at novice fighters, in my opinion, if you watch the videos there is a lot to learn and take away from this guy.
Anyone else on Weldon? Some of these ****ing DVDs I dont want to take the risk because they are so expensive
Kenny Weldon Coach Weldon isnt just some guy who got lucky and ended up riding the coattails of a world-class athlete. Some boxing coaches are one hit wonders, but not Kenny Weldon. Here are his bona fides: Trainer of 26 national amateur boxing champions (14 from scratch) Technique coach for Evander Holyfield Part of Mike McCallums training team under head trainer Lou Duva Coached Vinny Pazienza along with Lou Duva Coached Sergei Liacholvich Trained 3 USA Olympians Coaches committee chairman for USA boxing --- All that said, not sure I'd pay for the DVDs, really. The stuff he teaches is available on Youtube... As I said, boxing DVDs don't tend to be brilliant. It's hard to teach technique in such a short amount of time. Where Weldon's stands out is that he covers a lot of training methods in addition to techniques. I.e. evaluation lines, rhythmic movement, weight distribution drills and so on before moving onto ring craft and different methods of fighting different kinds of fighters. I.e. how to fight a slugger, how to attack someone when they are on the ropes, etc. Most DVDs don't do that. They say: A jab is done with your left hand. You throw it straight. Look. Hopefully, you already know that kind of thing
His resume is awesome, hopefully the production quality of the videos is to. what series of his do you reccomend to someone who already knows the basics? I am looking to learn mittwork from 0 and better footwork drills
Hmm, if you want to learn mitt work and footwork I'd probably look into some of these: http://www.precisionstriking.ca/shop/ The good thing about the above is that you can watch trailers and samples, so you can judge before you buy. The quality is HD, so no worries there As I said above, Weldon's stuff is good, but it is based on 'Solid Fundamentals', i.e. perfecting the mechanics of every single punch and having a game plan for each situation in the ring. It doesn't cover mitt work and the footwork drills covered are fundamental movement patterns and speed/stamina based drills.
