Looking To Adopt Method With Limited Movement

I'll certainly be talking with the coach(s) about a game plan, but I wanted to be a bit more educated before doing so in order to interact on a more intelligent level. I'm +1 over where I was before I started this thread, and have many pluses to go.

 

Today I plan on filming my session to get a starting point and to SEE what I'm doing. Though it will be painful to do so, I'll post the results for constructive criticism. If I film myself weekly and see progress, it will have been worth it.

 

I do think I'll be able to use SOME movement for defense and offense. What will be restrictive by my calf thing is the training I'll do, specifically being in much better shape.

 

Excellent advice and I appreciate it.

This DOES work very well with what I'm experiencing now, and from my past. I've never been fast. In baseball, it was all power. Football I was a receiver, but a tight end and short yardage blocker. For baskeball in the military a guy once told me he was unable to shake me. I told him that as he had his back to me and faked and then came back I was still there from before the first fake. I hadn't gone anywhere! He thought I was that quick! Nope. We laughed. I like to hit, and as odd as it may sound, to get hit (to a degree).

I also just read your other post about working the jab as a beginner in their first fight. What I took out of that in my situation was to focus hardcore on the basics and control my space. I then read your post on this thread and it was an advanced version of that.

I am going to re-read your post, as well as the others in this thread. I'm also going to give an update based on the conversation I just had with a very thoughtful boxing instructor at the gym I go to.

Thanks for the post.

 

I spoke to my gym (people, not the gym itself) and they let me know on these fight nights their main focus was the safety of the participants. In order for me to participate, I'd have to be in "enough" shape to make it through the rounds and not just bending over holding my shorts by the middle of the 2nd. That would set me up as an easy target and would not bode well for my skull. I know they also want to make sure the fights are "fair" and represent the facility well and all that but they focused solely on safety. I appreciate that.

We spoke about how much work I'm going to have to do in order to have the stamina needed. They let me know they feel there is a difference between "conditioning" and "stamina". Though people could argue those terms all day I'm going to have to drill myself into shape and look at some alternative methods to pushing that even further. For example the use of the battle rope to a mind-numbing degree to finish my workouts three times a week. Plenty of core work to be able to take extra shots. Small space defensive work to not make myself a stand-there target.

I let them know it all sounded fun and I would enjoy the results.

Add to that all the advice I've received in this post on things in general, Joe Louis, and the approach @unitas laid out.

I'm also going to order some high-top wrestling shoes to wear over this ankle brace thing I have. I'll use them to minimize ankle flexation. The combination may help, who knows?

 

Will do, thanks!