less and less boxing gyms...why??? here is the reason

A big commercial gym should be ran by 3 coaches, 1 main 2 assistants would be enough, even amateur boxers as volunteer coaches would be fine. Groups split into 3, 1 for cardio guys, 2nd group for the learners that actually want to learn to box and compete 1 day and 3rd for serious guys. Main coach with the serious guys and assistants able to teach basics to the learners and get the cardio people going.

 

Guess im realy lucky with my gym, it might be because Im in Edmonton and the boxing sceen here is still doing well.

My gym has 2 classes one for people who compete and then one for hobbiest/fitness, but even in the hobbiest/fitness class skills at still worked on and coachs watch to correct you, but that might be because the classes never get bigger then 30 people and even though you might never punch more then just a heavy bag they dont want you doing it wrong. The staff will come by to help correct your fourm even when you working out on your own. Only a hand full of pros there on a regular basis but lots of amatur boxers who have been dominating the local compitions.

 

You're very lucky to have him Amy! he's a rarity.

 

I know! I'm so grateful.

 

Lack of funding. Lack of interest. Boxing is one of those strage sports where interest is dependant on season or fighter in the headlines. Interest comes and goes seasonally/yearly.

 

sorry for the delayed response dude... havent been on the forum the last few days. you may never read this response, but oh well...

I went there for about 8 months and worked alone most of the time. I was only able to get someone to hold the mitts for me a few times....maybe 3 or 4. All I was really able to do was jump rope, speed bag, and heavy bag. I even taught myself to use the speed bag. They wanted kids who really wanted to fight.. I just wanted to work out. It was too bar cause I liked working out there.

 

Maybe boxing coaches should be paid like MMA coaches ,which would solve the problem.

 

I doubt it. Just because someone charges for coaching doesn't mean that they know what they are doing or that they are a good, positive, motivating coach.

 

It's mostly the coaches who DON'T charge that are the good ones.

 

Well. this is an interesting thread. I have just started a new gym after leaving another.
When I started boxing 25 years ago the training I had was so bad that I as a newbeginner knew more than the coach did. So I changed club, obviously. The training was, warm up for 20 minutes, then skip for 3 rounds, then shadowbox for 3 rounds, then hit the bags for 6 rounds, then use the medecineball for three rounds, then do some sit-ups and push-ups.
I also was told, "don´t look at the pro´s they don´t know what they are doing.
You understand why I left.

After a while in another club, similar trainig but with a coach that tried to show you the basics, but not good enough, I had the opportunity to train with a proboxer as a personal trainer.
Now I really was learned the craft and that was an eyeopener. He was a pro and he did know what he was doing.
Funny enough a couple of years ago I was hired by the gym I first started at to help out with the training, I had not been there in 25 years and I was chocked that the training they did was the same as when I came in there as a young kid.
The chieftrainer there was so bad I wondered what he was doing in the gym. I told him what to do and he said no, that don´t work, you can´t throw an upercut with your jab arm.
I helped out and soon the boys and girls really wanted my training, making the old man even more grumpy, I used a lot of teqniqual training that I used a lot my self.
We could not stay in that gym for long and started a new one recently.
Here we train with a lot of teqniqual traning and a lot of drills man to man.
Sparring where you use everything but go very light (around 30%) so you dare to try out those new things, very important. Then some days in week you go harder.
In my opinion you need to learn the move on an actual oponent before you can do it in a fight, doesn´t matter if you practice it on the pads for 100 hours, you still need to do it against an oponent and if you never get the opportunity to practice it you will never do it in a fight.
A lot of different things make boxing lose prospects to other martial arts and yes the coaches are definetly one of those things.
Hope i didn´t bore you out with my little story.
And yes, I just hired my old personal trainer as a trainer at my gym, now we really teach the guys and girls to box, probably making the old grumpy guy at the other gym even more grumpy and that IS fun.
Cheers
the predator

 

exactly

 

Try coaching 30 screaming kids. Then ask yourself why not give them 5 rounds on the pads each?

 

Haha! No kidding.

 

Man i agree with all this... i have found a good old skool gym (was at cadio box sorta gym before) but its the young fellas that get all the atttention, ive been there for a year and I take it pretty seriously and train every day. Only thing is there are no other heavyweights to spar with (or that want to spar), and without sparring my trainer wont put me in for a fight.

This is another reason why fewer people are boxing because it is just about ****ing impossible to do anyway, no matterr how hard you try

 

atsch I blame the school system...