Describe your relationship with your coach/trainer?

Like an adopted dad to me.

 

punch her in the boobs.

 

There was a girl in my gym and she was good at boxing and we spared at just boxing, i didn't want to hurt her because she was a good ametur and she wanted to prove a point fighting the big guy, I thought i'd go easy on her but when i went to tap her gloves she faked a jab and led with a hook, after that i just kept my range and taged her softly and didn't snap a single punch, she went mad started to clinch and stamp on my feet and just threw down instead of using her boxing, this lasted 2 round so i thought i'd punch her in the boob instead of the solar plexis because i didnt want to mess up her face. She dropped down, she had it comming but i felt really bad then.

in short i think women in gyms have a complex, they try and win the respect of the big guys and pick on the newcommers, nothing sexist but its the way women are in the gym.

 

Not like that in my experience. THe women I've trained with were more prepared to quietly realize their mistakes and work on them, compared to the guys who always wanted to prove they were beter than others within the gym, used sparring as a bout instead of a chance to try something new etc.

On the other hand, the women always used to go full out on me, but being a heavyweight I was kind of expected to deal with it. My coach liked to put them in with me, tell them to go full out, and me to only defend and not throw punches. It was a good learning experience.

As for my relationship, when I was still training, until very recently, there was no relationship. He doesn't really have one with anyone, in fact, I don't think he gives a damn. If you win, he sucks up to you in a blatantly obvious way, but he does **** all to raise your level, messes up matching, and misses trainings while going on the ****. My previous coaches I was close to on a personal level, but as coaches, they just lacked the abilities to take you further once you've learned the basics - i.e. tactically etc. Heard some funny stuff in the corner. "Go for him, he's tired" was the favourite phrase of one of them, and he said it even after the first round, when the guy was dancing around in his corner during the break! Or "tripple up on your left hook" :-( I never noticed I was Floyd Mayweather!

 

My coach and I aren't real close, but we do joke around and such. I respect him very much. He works 1 on 1 with me and everyone else in my gym, and tries to get all of us in for atleast 2 rounds of only body sparring if we don't have a pass book.

 

No. Probably just that girl. I've never met any like that.

 

fair enough I can see how that could be patronizing, but there are women who feel they have to prove themselves more than the guys and overcompensate in strange ways.

 

I've found it to be the opposite actually. Almost every coach I've met has said they prefer training girls because they don't have anything to prove. They show up to the gym wanting to learn how to box without a lifetime of machismo before they got there.

 

Yeah your right. A lot of blokes think there the**** until they get taken down a peg or two. Doesn't really happen in my gym though, we're a close knit group, always having a laugh.

 

That's how it's suppose to be, in a gym you should be like family

 

the first ever trainer who really took me under his wing was good he showed me all the basics and tahts as far as he took me as he was never a boxer or anything, i still train with him on the pads though to improve punching power as hes good at that and we have a great laugh together


my relationship with my trainer right now is good

i respect him listen exactly to what he says and practise it even if i feel its the wrong thing but it turnms out it never is. He picks up on stuff i didnt even know existed so in terms of a tehnical coach he is perfect fro me as he sees exactly what im doing wrong and what i need to do.

In terms of phycology he know exactly what to do with me so he knows me pretty well and in corners always tell s me the right things to get me fired up and motivated. Since he is a fighter he underrstand things with me.

my relationship with him is good we speak about boxing and have a laugh but arnt like best mates as i respect him too much, i think our relationship is exactly how it has to be

 

in muay thai and kickboxing i've always been close with all my trainers, I feel they all helped me out as much as they could given the circumstances (some I wasn't with very long, some I couldn't train with regularly).

in boxing, i had one really good coach who helped me a lot at the beginning. after that, as I moved & had to change gyms, I became like evalistinho - just the guy that the trainer used as a punching bag for his favorites. Stunk too, coz most were much smaller than me and I wasn't allowed to hit back with any kind of effort.

 

there are a few coaches.one of them most people arent too fond of because he always shouts,like a drill sergeant,but he was in my corner for my 1st win and we get on well now,i listen and work hard & he teaches me alot.i hated him when i started thougth.
another trainer is really into his boxing history & fihgt films so we get on,chatting boxing & stuff.
theres not anoyone,fighter or coach that i dont get along with.