Sparring/Composure

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

a lot of what this guys say make sense. just remember sparring is sparring, you see alot of fighters who are great sparring and turn to **** in fights, just sparr and try to learn most you can, follow whatever your coach tells you.

Nothing replaces sparring, nothing. You can do all the bag work, cardio, running, etc in the world but you won't be ready until you have many, many hours of sparring.

I think it takes at least 2 years to get a person set int he fundamentals of boxing and about another 2 years of training before they are ready for their first fight.

That's if you want to take the sport seriously. If you want to just do it for fun, then that's fine but as a serious trainer of fighters that want to go pro one day, we work very hard in the gym and I don't allow my guys to go out there in the world unprepared.

[Del Coqui]

Nothing replaces sparring, nothing. You can do all the bag work, cardio, running, etc in the world but you won't be ready until you have many, many hours of sparring.

I think it takes at least 2 years to get a person set int he fundamentals of boxing and about another 2 years of training before they are ready for their first fight.

That's if you want to take the sport seriously. If you want to just do it for fun, then that's fine but as a serious trainer of fighters that want to go pro one day, we work very hard in the gym and I don't allow my guys to go out there in the world unprepared.

Agreed. what u think about sparring chamionships?

[CMaines]

Juts be ready to get hit and know that's part of the game. Talk with your sparring parenter. It helps if your friends, at least then you should know that he's not going to try and take your head off.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Agreed. what u think about sparring chamionships?

Never heard of the sparring championships.....

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Juts be ready to get hit and know that's part of the game. Talk with your sparring parenter. It helps if your friends, at least then you should know that he's not going to try and take your head off.

That's for the coach to determine. When I have a fighter who is young and inexperienced and I feel that he's finally ready to spar, I never make him spar at full speed. We go 1/4 speed to 1/2 speed etc.

I also make sure to put him in there with someone who is more experienced than him so they can pull their own punches and be easy on him.

When you put in guys who are about the same level, they tend to want to kill each other no matter how light you tell them to go.

Sparring is dangerous, I have seen orbital bones broke, noses broke, teeth knocked out, concussions, broken ribs......

[bbos]

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[Dynamite Glove]

Listen to Cuau.

The way he's speaking makes me want to move to Miami and clean out the hw's in his gym

[CMaines]

That's for the coach to determine. When I have a fighter who is young and inexperienced and I feel that he's finally ready to spar, I never make him spar at full speed. We go 1/4 speed to 1/2 speed etc.

I also make sure to put him in there with someone who is more experienced than him so they can pull their own punches and be easy on him.

When you put in guys who are about the same level, they tend to want to kill each other no matter how light you tell them to go.

Sparring is dangerous, I have seen orbital bones broke, noses broke, teeth knocked out, concussions, broken ribs......

True, I've been asked to step in with new guys before and some just flip out. I'm good enough at this point to move and control myself where as another new guy may just freak out too and... well, it may get ugly, so yeah sparring can be dangerous
My thinking though is, if it's a friend of mine personally, I'd feel comfortable that he's not going to kill me. My coach is always in the ring with the new guys, for at least their first handful of times to see how it goes.