THIS is how a trainer should work the mitts!!!!

I know its relative to the size of his trainer, but Walters does look like quite a big strong FW.

Donaire isnt a big FW

 

Look how many times they don't connect. Never seen that many misses on the mitts from a pro... This is an amateur hour mitt session.

 

Some of you need to read what Emmanuel Steward said about mitt work like this. :roflatsch

This isn't preparing him for anything.

 

There was a recent post showing Walters trainer doing mitt work really aggressively. See below

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=519781

Just want to know what views people have on mitt work.

Why do they do it?
Effectiveness?
Is too much a bad thing?
Unusual techniques?

Examples where mitt work has been effective on fight night? (Example Hatton vs Pacman, KD's)

 

what did he say?

 

Mitts were invented for the dressing room for the fighter to warm up before the fight.

You would have never seen Robinson, duran, ali, foreman, hearns,hagler, chavez or anybody of the greats training on mitts during camp. They all worked the heavy bag.

They had better form, more power, and attacked the body with more commitment and ferocity.

Trainers justify it for timing and accuracy, but this is what the double end bag was created for. Honestly i think group think is mostly responsible for it's popularity.

 

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@retrofreddy

 

You sound like you're upset that nobody agrees with you.

 

mitt work should be for practicing punching precision

 

Mitt work is taxing/exhausting (in a good way).

Unlike sparring you can isolate very specific movements without getting hit but you also get feedback from a moving/adapting/thinking person on the other end (unlike a heavybag).

In that way it's very much in the middle between bag work and sparring. Bag work also tends to keep you more stationary than the pads. Even if you move with the bag as it swings (which you absolutely should do) it's less movement than you would get with good mitt work.

More movement means you learn how to set up your feet and balance and practice throwing punches with the kind of angles and movement that you'll get in sparring/fighting.

This is a decent example of what I consider (for whatever that's worth) to be good pad work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dti8u0vxQi0

You can tell they're working on specific things, good energy and intensity without losing form or technique.

 

From what I can see Freddie roach does a lot of mitt work.

Focusing on Amir Khan, was the mitt work he did his downfall. Doing his same combinations (flurries) then out of range, same combinations and out of range. I feel like he didn't use his brain in there and just fought like he was on the mitts.

Then we all know the story with Garcia timing him because he became so predictable.

 

I recall watching an old Will Grisgby fight & the announcers were talking about how his first scheduled opponent got injured when the trainer cut him with the punch mitt. Fighter received numerous stitches & had to pull out of a PPV show...!!!


Anyone recall the original opponent...??? I'm stumped

 

I don't know mitt work is to blame for that.

Khan got caught in the middle of an exchange with a guy that has a wicked left hook, the chin to take the chance and the timing to land it. It's not like Khan was going to get away the entire fight without getting hit. And while Khan is a bit predictable he does have fairly wide punch variety/output.

Plus, mitt work is one of those things that makes you think, you don't go on auto-pilot (at least from what I can tell). That's why during the pad work you always see the coach talking to the fighter. The coach calls out the combos and the fighter processes the info and then acts -- versus acting out of instinct in sparring.

Maybe one of the pro or am fighters on this board can correct me if I'm wrong.

 

That was nice. **** axe man looking like a beast. Donaire in for a long night.