Stupid things people do at the boxing gym

Oh ok I thought u meant wearing MMA gloves regardless of the form at a combat sports gym. Your not helping yourself doing any boxing at a fitness gym cause you know obviously people at them places ****ing hog up machines and other equipment for 10 minutes atleast doing make 2 sets of like 6 with low weights. If your not training for a fighting career you may wanna get your own home bags.

 

I'm with you. Been a while. I hate the guys who are 'doing circuits' so you walk up to a seemingly idle piece of equipment and the next minute the dude who was at the other side of the room a minute ago is breathing down your neck asking you how much longer you'll be because he is currently trying to monopolize 3 stations although he can only work at one station at a time.

(My answer to the 'How long will you be?" question is invariably "As long as I f*****g want.")

 

I don't wear shirts either. Or pants. Hang on my boss here - wants to talk to me about something...

 

Usually I let these guys share the equipment if they are respectful but ive had the type you are talking about. Im doing Upright Rows one day (I do circuits at home I dont like doing it in a gym cause im respectful and dont wanna rush anyone its just not the right place to do circuits unless its fairly empty) but im doing it and I feel a dude behind me I finish my set look behind and hes like "ARE YOU DONE YET" im like :huh "actually no im not I like to rest for only only 15 secounds and im working on 8 sets I just finished the first" mother****er walks away all pissed off and eyes me up later from across the gym grunting while working his legs :-(

 

Well story goes like this -

I started kung fu in 94, boxing around 01, and muay thai around 02; so I've got pretty decent form & can give myself a lot to work on without a coach around.

I got laid off from a job in Fort Worth and moved down to San Antonio to start a new life. Money was a bit tight so i was reluctant to pay the $85 a month for the muay thai gym, plus my old gym was still charging me.

Boxing woulda been nice, but all the boxing gyms on the north side of town are over $100 a month. Don't ask me why it's so expensive down here...

So i was trying to get my workouts in at Gold's, which is open 24 hours (and $34 a month), while I figured out what to do about money. A lot of the silly stuff I saw on bags happened at Gold's.

I finally broke down and joined the muay thai gym but i still go to Gold's for my fitness & occasionally will put in work on their cr@ppy bags.

 

Gyms are ****ing expensive these days bro. I go to a MMA one its 125 bucks a month.

 

Actually, we probably know some of the same people...
Do you go to Ground Control in Baltimore?
Or the new one that just opened up recently?
Rahsaan Kimbrow's a good friend of mine.
I also know Coach Hunter, Binky Jones' manager.
When I lived in Baltimore, the only gym I paid for was BXF (Club One fitness in millersville), at around 59 a month.
Oh yeah, paid for baltimore boxing for a few months.
Stuff's gotten super expensive lately.

 

Yup I go to ground control. Im not sure what the new one is unless you mean then new ground control they are moving close to the Travel Plaza in B-More.

 

I hate ****ing wannabe's who don't like being hit. It kind of makes me wonder what they're even doing wasting everyone's time. Theres this one kid at my gym that just runs away in sparring because he's
afraid of "getting his jaw broke". I told him if he keeps running it'll happen for sure.

 

:good

There's one in every crowd!

 

We have a kid at out gym that never puts forth any sort of effort. He never even breaks a sweat. And without fail every night he's gulping down one of those large size gatorades. :-(

 

I have a friend who is like that. He loves combat sports so much. Problem is, he is so heavy so the trainers want him to lose weight. After 2-3 rounds of doing everything, from mitts to punching bag, he would take a very long break. He also smokes cigarettes before the start of his training session. And he wants to take this seriously.atsch

 

Not sure, that's probably it though, Kimbrow was telling me about it when i was visiting bmore the other week.
Think he and some other san shou guys were working out down there for a bit, but didn't get along with some of the people so they stopped going & went back to doing their own thing.

 

happened to me earlier this week in sparring.

Thai sparring's a lil different than boxing - gotta go lighter coz it's a little easier to get banged up when kicks & knees are involved.

Traditional Muay Thai spends a lot more time on simple defensive counters than boxing does usually; at least in a sparring type scenario, because there are more choices. More options = slower reactions, so we need to make those options flow easily.

Anyway, i'm paired up with a kid who's coming back off of a long lay off, he might have come from an mma gym. He doesn't really know me, but he's known people at this particular gym since before I started coming so he treats me like a noob - eventhough I been doing this stuff for 6+ years.

I try to patiently work with him, but a lot of mma guys like to go all out all the time.
Some also tend to assume they know muay thai when they barely train it, under people teaching that have no credentials or true understanding of the stuff.

The purpose of the spar was to freestyle the single step drills, with a little variation thrown in - slowly, so when we speed it up it's more fluid.

The kid - 100 pounds less than me & wearing mma gloves, which shoulda been cool given that it was supposed to be no contact - starts trying to run me over with flurries.

First time he tried to run me over, he pushed me off balance and i clocked him in the jaw with an elbow just trying to catch my balance.
Second time, i secured a dominant position in the clinch to neutralize him and he started targeting my nuts & my thighs.
Third time, I shielded up till i saw my opening and fired an uppercut right down the middle in slow-motion, but with follow through, that d@mn near took his head off.

Next, I feed him a certain kick so he can counter a certain way - going slowly so we can build the reaction more naturally - and he starts speeding up while i'm in slow-mo-mode, pulling off some unrealistic cr@p; telling me that i'm open. Of course I took the opportunity to show him the counter to his counter and hooked him in the temple in slow-mo.

Then he tells me he doesn't even know the standard counters to the 6 basic lines of attack in muay thai.
So, more than half way through the drill, i'm thinking:
"wtf was up with all that crazy mess then?
why act like *I'M* the noob?
why not listen when i ran it down from the beginning?
or why not listen when I was telling you to slow down and keep it simple?"

After that, he got a bit better.

Newbs....

Almost as bad as the pad holder who'd smack me with the counter to a technique that he was calling.... ie he shows a cross and mid cross he's nailing me in the eyebrow with the pad that's not catching with. same for uppercuts - call a rear uppercut and bean me on the rear (uncoverable) side with the opposite mitt while i'm mid-uppercut.

Think I have a lot of bad luck at gyms coz I'm not an intimidating guy.
The worste part is that i have a really bad temper, so one of these days I'm gonna snap on one of these jokers and put someone in the hospital.