How many of you box?

Just messin' with ya, man.:good

 

I started young in the golden gloves, still learning and teaching at 54.

 

Buchanan practiced to perfection three forms of throwing his jab. Also you mentioned Archie's cross arm defense, years ago a frequent sparring partner literally seemed to have fists of stone and he injured a number of us with rib shots, out of needing to survive I learned this defense against him and found you can throw fast sneak right hands out of it. I'm still working on it years after my fighting days.

 

:good:good:good

So you have met the petronelli's?

I would not mind getting a painting done of Hagler some day.

You train boxers, Stonie?

 

Yep, plan on going AMA soon. My gym is all about technique and that suits me well, I love technical fighters. As soon as I get the money & get my stamina right I'm going back to my gym first thing September. Look out for me in the future, I'm Kraig Smith of Laurel,MD. I hope to make ESB proud lol.

 

Got taught the fundamentals by an ex-pro at my local gym as a 20 year old.

On further investigation it turned out the bloke who taught me was a bull**** artist and never fought at all (thankyou boxrec) which explains why my punching technique resembles effeminate flailing and why I was always open for counters,leads,jabs,uppercuts etc etc.

And to think for all those years when I just thought I was unorthodox I was in actual fact hopeless.:-(

**** it,I still love the sport though:bbb

 

I train for boxing, I've sparred in the ring, but I've never put anything "on the line" in a pro sense. I've always had the physical tools for boxing, 6'3" 160-173lb range and a 82" reach tip-to-tip, but I always thought making a serious endeavor was a little out of the question. I've got a chin like nobody's business, but I cut so damn easily. I'm still of age to say, have a local fight...

I used "Box Like the Pros" by Joe Frazier & William Dettloff initially, but I've been gleaning ideas from this board and many other books. Recently I've been reading "Boxing" by Edwin L Haislet, which actually breaks down the "old school" stance from a textbook point and talks about a lot of the stuff a guy like Charley Burley would do. Like "Drop-shifts", "deflections", "stops", etc, etc.

I competed in a white collar tourney, and well...that wasn't boxing. That and I was 12 years younger then everybody else and I seriously looked like a ringer considering I've been doing my training for about three years now. I was the only one that could jab at range and pace myself, everybody else just started slinging shots at the first bell.

However, in breaking my style down, I'd say a strong inside fighter could do me in or a cut. I cut like Henry Cooper. My hooks and uppercuts need severe work, but my straight punches are pretty damn sharp.

 

very briefly i had a nasty head injury when quite young so should not of gone anywhere near the inside of a ring but did and got found out real dumb (medically dangerous the doc said) in the past i helped train my two sons when they were young and boxing and helped out at a local gym

 

Pat is in a nursing home. I haven't met him, but Goody I know. Yes, I'm a trainer. I got into it so that I can improve the field of knowledgable fighters to beat up on.

 

You can't teach wit, my friend. Good post. Your problem isn't unusual either. Here in the Boston area, even many "experienced" trainers have zero command on the basics. They don't inspire, and they barely teach. If they were pros -they were bums. And don't even get me started on the politics here. It's like Tammany Hall all over again.

I have a dream. I was in the South End Saturday at a cafe called "The Beehive" on Tremont Street. It is only a few blocks removed from a high crime area and is easily accessible from Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury. There are no boxing gyms in these areas.

You walk in and go downstairs and sit amid brick walls and cubbies. There are two rooms and one of them is elevated. I told my date -who was barely interested- that I wish I could buy the joint. I'd make it a gym. In fact, it would be free for all young men between the ages of 10 and 22 who live in city limits. Suburban boys would pay by the month. They'd be music (-no rap, no reggae) and I'd make the elevated room a club.

Yes -a club. $7 to for "Friday Night at the Fights." And I, the boss, and my chief trainers would bring up fighters and turn them pro for these cards. I'd consider skipping the amateurs and bring 'em up the old way. I'll tell you right now, a champion would come out of the place in 5 years.

Ah, well. No capital. A dream deferred.

 

Come to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and do that. You'll have a part-time employee for life in me.

 

first i did 2 years karate then boxed for a year and a half and then kickboxed for 2 more years. i have a lot of respect for people who can do it/hold on to it.
for me it is difficult to go by the rules in every fightsport. cause i want to win no matter what (especially with a lot of people watching when there are matches) so i tend to break the rules..
so i decide that fightsports ain't my thing to do (just watch them)

 

I have trained boxing for 3,5 years. Have never competed, though, but quite often sparred with guys that do or have done.

What amazes me is that I still like Ali as much as I ever did. Probably just stubborness that sets in sometime after 30.

But I don't think I'd have the same appreciation of for example Hopkins if I hadn't boxed. 'Cause you quickly learn that economic but effective moves are the hardest to pull off. Not to avoid punches by more than absolutely necessary and always be in a position to counter when you do. Never leave yourself open when attacking, always have the balance to instantly reset.

I think you have to experience of boxing to really appreciate how hard these very basic things are to do.

And just to never be tense, because if you are your stamina will leak out of you like air out of a punctuated tyre. But while relaxed, you still have to keep your guard up and your chin down and be fully focussed on your opponent at all times.

You can use a lifetime without learning to master these things to absolute perfection. I suppose that has been the main revelation for me.

 

Not now...but started back in 1968...

 

i boxed for 5 years as an amateur, having had 37 fights.