Cuban style of training...

[BrooklynBomber]

What was the soviet style of training like?

There were different types of training, on the usual non sparring day we would have very long and exhausting warmups where would work on body weight exercises, combined bodyweight exercises(where I would work in pair with someone else), medball exercises and same weight training, but the point of the warm up would be to exhaust us so much that by the time I would work with the trainer or in a pair, I would be dripping sweat all over and be barely able to keep myself up. At that point we would be "ready" for the actual boxing practice where we would work be doing the usual boxing drills and exercises. We would also receive all sorts of motivational speeches from out trainers and older kids.

On the days when we would spar we would have much shorter warm up and minimum of stretching and then actual sparring.

But before are sort of training we would do at least 20-30 minutes of shadowboxing. We would also do at least 30 minutes of shadow boxing every day at home as a homework.

[Scipio]

bump. does the cuban boxer still post around here? wisdom

[sugersean15]

hope so.......

[terriblegabe]

good read.....

[Vitez]

Here's the original thread of dchampishere.

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=247043

I totally didn't get it at first!

But then I started to feel my shots getting much more accelerated. Like really snappy shots with minimum effort. It's just something that I could not develop on a heavy bag.

So thank you dchampishere!

[frosty-g]

it was an hounor to be a boxer in my country, no one forced anyone to box. and you say we starved to make weight no we didnt. you do not know what we did throug some program on pbs. being a cuban am boxer is the greatest thing i have ever done and i am hounored to say i was in that system. the brotherhood, the pride, the sorrow, the pain and the sacrifice i made there has made me the person that i am. i see some of these rich kids other places with no drive or self respect and they have the world at thier feet and do nothing because they never had to truly find themselves through adversity

glad to read your post- one thing that drives me mad is how everybody is an "expert" on things to do with cuba yet most have never even been to cuba. it is not a place you can easily understand or know without spending a lot of time there.

yeah the documentary is interesting but the director doesn't know a great deal about boxing. i went to the london premiere of the "sons of cuba" feature version and he gave a Q&A session and it was obvious he had little idea about the actual boxing side of things. good film otherwise though.

i have spent quite a bit of time in cuba training and have a diploma in coaching boxing from havana cuba (yes it is "havana" in english and "la habana" in spanish seeing as some people were confused).

i don't believe the kids are exploited and being a boxer in cuba is a great honour. cuba has an amazing system and the prowess in international competition doesn't just come from hard work but also intelligence and understanding as well as rhythm, passion and other ingredients.

it's not very long and is all in spanish but here's a little documentary about a mate of mine over in havana:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC7gNf216D8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxy3...eature=related

"decimos que somos un grupo de amigos que practicamos boxeo"
"we say that we're a group of friends that practice boxing"
in the national teams it's more serious of course (though the lad here was meant to be fighting in the torneo por equipos/team tournament which is a nationwide tournament) but people should be aware that it's certainly not a system that is oppressive and grim.

[dchampishere]

glad to read your post- one thing that drives me mad is how everybody is an "expert" on things to do with cuba yet most have never even been to cuba. it is not a place you can easily understand or know without spending a lot of time there.

yeah the documentary is interesting but the director doesn't know a great deal about boxing. i went to the london premiere of the "sons of cuba" feature version and he gave a Q&A session and it was obvious he had little idea about the actual boxing side of things. good film otherwise though.

i have spent quite a bit of time in cuba training and have a diploma in coaching boxing from havana cuba (yes it is "havana" in english and "la habana" in spanish seeing as some people were confused).

i don't believe the kids are exploited and being a boxer in cuba is a great honour. cuba has an amazing system and the prowess in international competition doesn't just come from hard work but also intelligence and understanding as well as rhythm, passion and other ingredients.

it's not very long and is all in spanish but here's a little documentary about a mate of mine over in havana:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC7gNf216D8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxy3...eature=related

"decimos que somos un grupo de amigos que practicamos boxeo"
"we say that we're a group of friends that practice boxing"
in the national teams it's more serious of course (though the lad here was meant to be fighting in the torneo por equipos/team tournament which is a nationwide tournament) but people should be aware that it's certainly not a system that is oppressive and grim.

very well said

[any craic lad?]

Seen an interview once where Kostya Tsyzu said how the night before an amateur fight (not sure if it was national or international) is trainer took him to a night club and made him stay up all night.The purpose Tszyu said was that if ever things did not go to plan before a fight not sleeping the night before etc he would not worry and he would stay calm.Always found it funny

[UglyPug]

intense. . . hard. . . brutal. . . unforgiving. . . mix of old school fail proof methods, coupled with new school scientifically supported aspects. . .

[phillybrinks]

two things my trainer always tells me to do outside of the gym religiously: shadowboxing and situps/crunches

+1 me too !!!!