Hey guys, I am looking to join a boxing gym/ club and my long term goal is to acquire the necessary skills in order to compete at the amateur level. I have been a serious athlete in soccer/ basketball so I am very committed to my new goal and I am going to work as hard as possible to be successful in this sport.
With that said, I recently went to a boxing club last night and got my first taste of the sport. Basically the coach is someone who used to box in London (amateur i assume) and is older now(65ish). Anyways the class started with a warm up lead by him. It was pretty good and got my heart rate going, although there was no jump rope ( the room is pretty cramped as he rents from another gym). Then we did some slight shadow boxing throwing a few combos. After that people started hitting the heavy bag/sparring while the coach worked with me and another new guy showing us the basics (stance, jab, head movement etc). He did this for about 10 minutes and corrected me when he was with me. However, there are about 10-12 guys there so he would then move to the people sparring and watch them or go help someone else out. At this point, I would work on what he told me however, I would not have any feed back for a long time and I was kind of just hitting the bag by myself for awhile.
Overall, it didn't seem to be too structured and people would just be doing there own thing while coach would come around helping/ teaching. We did one other drill called "speed power" which was structured and everyone was doing it together. I have never been to a boxing club so I really don't know if this is typical or not.
The coach himself has a lot of connections with other gyms and can easily arrange amateur fights. He also said to the other new guy that he could spar maybe in a few weeks ( he has no experience prior). Is it typical to allow sparring that soon? Anyways, let me know what you guys think and if I should go look at the other boxing gym (it is huge and has top notch equipment etc BUT it is much further away from my house). And I forgot to add, the coach himself is VERY friendly and humble and he seems like he really wants to help, I just question his structure a bit.
With that said, I recently went to a boxing club last night and got my first taste of the sport. Basically the coach is someone who used to box in London (amateur i assume) and is older now(65ish). Anyways the class started with a warm up lead by him. It was pretty good and got my heart rate going, although there was no jump rope ( the room is pretty cramped as he rents from another gym). Then we did some slight shadow boxing throwing a few combos. After that people started hitting the heavy bag/sparring while the coach worked with me and another new guy showing us the basics (stance, jab, head movement etc). He did this for about 10 minutes and corrected me when he was with me. However, there are about 10-12 guys there so he would then move to the people sparring and watch them or go help someone else out. At this point, I would work on what he told me however, I would not have any feed back for a long time and I was kind of just hitting the bag by myself for awhile.
Overall, it didn't seem to be too structured and people would just be doing there own thing while coach would come around helping/ teaching. We did one other drill called "speed power" which was structured and everyone was doing it together. I have never been to a boxing club so I really don't know if this is typical or not.
The coach himself has a lot of connections with other gyms and can easily arrange amateur fights. He also said to the other new guy that he could spar maybe in a few weeks ( he has no experience prior). Is it typical to allow sparring that soon? Anyways, let me know what you guys think and if I should go look at the other boxing gym (it is huge and has top notch equipment etc BUT it is much further away from my house). And I forgot to add, the coach himself is VERY friendly and humble and he seems like he really wants to help, I just question his structure a bit.
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