Amateur Boxing: Starting Out

Every trainer has different ways of teaching, same as in anything else.

I'd leave it till later for punches, and first focus on getting you comftorble, moving around, changing direction, and I'd also take the time to show you basic blocks etc before punching. It's important that you're taught how to walk out of that gym looking the same as when you walked in.

Like anything, the key to being comftorble is to practice. It sounds like you're taking this sport seriously which is fantastic. You understand that you need to master the very basics. Your footwork, which provides you with both an offensive and defensive base.

Skip, it'll improve your co-ordination. Don't try and be Floyd Mayweather. Keep a solid and steady rythm and get used to having your legs move to the melody of a gym beat.

Cones. Am I the only guy in the world who used cones?! Little round plastic sports cones. Set five of them out in a straight line, each one about 8 inches infront of the other. Stand at one end do excercises like weaving in and out of the cones in a Boxing stance, keep your hands up. When you reach the end, do the same thing while moving backwards. This should get you comftorble moving backwards and forwards. Repeat the excercises when you're comftorble, but throw combinations. First just jabs, and then combinations once you're finding it simpler. Also implement other things like blocks and lateral movement. Slipping and slidding or as Nazzim would say 'Swimming without getting wet.'

Shadow Box. Alot of trainers don't put their guy in an actual ring to do this, which I totally disagree with. Get in the ring, we're trying to make you feel comftroble and like any other mammal, we acclimatise to our surroundings. Shadow box three rounds just using your legs, keep your hands up but don't throw a punch. Focus on learning the paramaters of the ring, and where each specific foot movement or change of direction will take you. If you get sub conciously comftorble in a Boxing ring, then your mind is free to focus on other things. Then Box an additional three rounds, just jabbing. Single jabs, double and tripples, keep moving, keep blocking and slipping. We're adding to what you can do. Giving you a tool belt to work with.

3 more rounds, this time throw combinations, try to imagine someone punching back, you can't be still, you have to move. Have to block, have to fight.

Train and repeat. It won't feel right over time, but it will when you get used to it. Just like typing on a key board, it becomes natrual. Muscle memory is an amazing thing.

Good luck.

 

All good points. Just like every trainer is different. Every trainee is different. We have up to 60 boxers at our gym at one time. We now only have three trainers down from 5. So we do alot of group conditioning and skill drills. When I do get one on one time with a boxer I work on what I feel is their main weaknesses. A normal training session is 15 minutes of running, followed by 15 minutes of skipping/shadow boxing. Then we do 30 minutes of conditioning training/mitts. The last hour is either sparring or drills mixed with one on one training. It has been very successful to have all our new and young boxers watch the experienced and older boxers spar. You can learn a lot just by watching someone skilled do their thing. Keep punching and be patient. It takes time to become a good boxer. It oft times takes half a lifetime to become a great one.

 

Do you have a Glass Jaw?

 

Balance > Movement > Punches

Pucnhes is the easiest thing to learn how to throw. However to throw them with balance and movement is another thing.

 

You may get better responses by posting this in the Training forum mate. Do you know if the gym your at is highly regarded in your local boxing community?
I spent a year at a poor gym when starting out. It all seemed very proffessional to me at the time but after leaving and training elsewhere I realised it was a poor gym. Go around and try about 5 gyms, you'll get a good Idea of which one's best. Good luck mate.

 

atsch

 

don't quit after getting a beating
this happens to a lot of people that try boxing
at 1st your gonna do bad but just learn from that and make the adjustment

 

advice? stop paying the dude ur working with and find a real trainer.

 

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If u want to be good learn how to/practice throwing lead power shots followed by jab and move

 

Just stay dedicated and listen to everything your coach tells you, just because Floyd Mayweather can drop his hands or whatever doesn't mean you can. Keep the correct form at all times if you're just starting out, bad habits are harder to shake off than to pick them up.