[1961, SI] "Fifty Percent of Harry" [Matthews]

KasimirKid · Mar 25, 2020

Well said. I'd love to see some of the fighters you taught in action. Maybe I'll get in my car and take a trip to Montana some time.

greynotsoold · Mar 25, 2020

KasimirKid said: ↑

Well said. I'd love to see some of the fighters you taught in action. Maybe I'll get in my car and take a trip to Montana some time.
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I have a couple good amateurs going here, but I'm going back to Texas pretty soon, I think.

WAR01 · Mar 25, 2020

greynotsoold said: ↑

There is now and always has been a lack of good teachers, if you understand that teaching something to someone is not the same thing as showing them how to do it. There is a lot of what goes in boxing gyms that is "training ", not teaching.
Some guys get their fighters into shape, but the fighter learns to fight by fighting. Or you can show him how throw punches and have him do ladder drills, then put him in the ring and he learns to fight by fighting. Same thing with telling him to keep his hands up and having him do endless defense drills with a partner. And then he gets in the ring and learns to fight by fighting.
Or you can take the time to get him to understand how his weight moves and from that he learns that there is a point to blocking punches correctly, to moving your feet in a particular way. That you don't just throw punches, that each punch and every movement has a purpose and leads to something else. You get him to think about what the other guy is thinking, before there is another guy in the ring, by teaching him to watch himself in the mirror and to learn from what he sees. There is a lot to it.
And that way is significantly less common than the first examples and I suspect it always has been and always will be.
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