Why so many so call boxers here ask questions they should be asking their coach

I ask a few questions, just to see what other people think about certain situations. Also helps that I am on deployment in the middle east, so I am a couple thousand miles away from my boxing gym, and don't have the convieniance of asking my coach questions that I normally would when I am stateside. But I am guessing you are another one of those guys who knows absolutely everything about the world on this forum huh?

 

Because 90% of the coaches nowadays dont have a clue what their doing

 

and let me guess you are Miguel Cotto...no Macho Camacho....no ummmm just because I am on deployment does not mean I don't take boxing seriously. Steve Cunningham was in the military, and actually served on the base I am stationed on. While I may not be the next Evander Holyfield, or Bernard Hopkins I am training hard to make the All-Navy Boxing team, and to win the Golden Gloves in March.

 

Maybe its called researching opinion. Do you think your trainer was born with a boxing manual glued to his umbilical cord? He gained knowledge one way, people here gain knowledge this way. Its not that hard to work out.

 

Agreed. There are such a multitude of reasons the original post is stupid it's not even funny. We don't all have the priviledge of working out 1 to 1 with Freddie Roach every day, and I doubt I'm alone in saying that often I'll have an entire workout without a great deal of help or advice from a coach.

Aside from anything else, even the best trainers have completely different standpoints on every aspect of training like roadwork, weight lifting, types of workouts that are useful and so on.

Don't be narrow minded.

 

I used to ask myself the same question until I went to a boxing gym. A coach is there to guide you in a particular way and will teach you according to what he thinks is important. You can always ask questions, but there are little things and general questions with many types of answers that he's not always going to have time to answer and walk you through, especially when it may not seem as relevant to the program he's implementing. After our 1-2 hour session, I can't always go up to him and say "can you show me every possible counter for a single jab?" But I can ask it here and get all sorts of answers.

Plus, if you want to do well, extra research and practice is required.

 

I assume your talking about my thread about a tall agressive fighter. The reason i asked it and probably people ask other questions is because:
A, There are knowledgable people on the forum with years experience such as brown bomber who can give you advice your trainer didn't give to you or forgot to mention.
B, I asked about fights to study to see it happen and to study the vids etc.

 

Trust me if you don't ask questions you won't be a good fighter. Why leave yourself completely at the mercy of someone elses knowledge - or lack of it.

 

ok cotto

 

It's known as asking for an opinion. People have different opinions on different things (strange ah?). People come here and ask for opinions on things such as what you listed in your first post. Just because somebody suggests something different it doesn't mean they're going to go running to their coach and say "xxxx said this, you're wrong! I'm doing it this way from now on!" Asking questions or for opinions is a good way of learning, try it some time.

BTW, any coach that would kick you out of a club for asking questions is a *****. Also, you're going to have to define a "real boxer". 90% of people, including pros do boxing as a hobby as it's in their spare time when they're not at their day job. I'm guessing you mean a real boxer being somebody who only boxes and makes a good living out of it. I doubt there any many if any that support themselves purely off boxing on this forum, including yourself. So I guess you're not a real boxer...

 

All that needs to be said here.