It's lovely to hear that there are still gyms where they make you drill this kind of tricks, in case you are not talking just about counter-punching in general (?)
The same chap Im talking about is head coach for National Boxing team Zaur Antia. We try bring a lot of his stuff into our own local club. Hard to implement in the ring but a lot of the older guys can do it
Analysis is class. So much ring smarts. A lot of the European fighters that have had good amateur experience hold these traits
From where are you man? Ireland? Canada? I'm asking because I just googled that trainer's name and it says he was living in Ireland but was considering to move to Canada. By the way I guess the older guys can do it cause their old coaches showed them the trick and explained to them how to excercice it the right way, than they were drilling those moves during their training sessions.
First of all, thank you! Yeah, I agree, the Eastern Europeans have a bigger pool of really experimented amateur coaches and it makes the difference when in some other parts of the world you can say there is a lot of inexperienced guys can open the gym or teach the fighters. By the way, as you said it, Kovalev has a lot of ring smarts, but is only known as a huge puncher for the most part.
Yeah 100% that's how he teaches. Skills done on the floor, then brought onto bags, pads etc. bring that skill into school combat sparring and then eventually bring it into sparring, contests etc. Yeah hes head coach now of the Irish team, I'm from Ireland here myself. He was always the technical coach of the team and coach but since Billy Walsh went to Team USA, Zaur has become head coach.
Yeah that's the right way to do it, drills can do wonders. For example I learned a couple of moves by analyzing fighters on the film, that my coaches weren't teaching us, but I studied those moves than started implementing them in my morning shadow boxing sessions in the parc, away from the gym, and on the heavybag in my basement, than later when I would go to my boxing gym and implemented them in sparring, my coaches were suprised. Zaur looks like the typical old school coach, I mean I'm only guessing cause I've never had the honor of watching him at work but going by what you are telling me he surely looks like a true boxing scholar that knows his ****. Plus he wouldn't been working with the Ireand national team and getting calls from the other national teams if it wasn't the case.
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