Training boxing technique on your own...

[Wuckoo]

God I wish I could box in a club 4 days a week. That would be great.

I think it's a universal thing, clubs up in the North of England (Manchester) wouldn't even take me at 23 because I wasn't 16 and thus had a low chance of making them money. So what I'm getting in London isn't bad.

Biolink, thanks for those I will check them out.

That's wierd man. It's a shame that clubs have that mentality. In Scotland you get what you put in. Provided you are legally able to compete and you put the work in they will try to help. Unless you're a lefty and your coach has never taught southpaws. Like my old gym.

And I'm really looking forward to going 4 days at the new gym. My old gym was only open 3 times a week

[koolio]

Some of those vids are quite good. Good enough for me to study form and practice with.

The Russ Anber one's are good not too sure about the other title ones, the rest of them don't seem convincing.. The superior ones aren't bad either.

I've already learned a fair amount. Just need to implement it and make it muscular memory.

[mdef303]

I study the sweet science from the the naval boxing book. It's a reprint of the original back in 1943 of the manual for boxing for world war 2. It is textbook, old school. They put together world champions and the top trainers from that time to put together a manual of boxing so the navy instructors could teach the cadets to defend themselves. It's priceless for a pugilist. Search on amazon "navy boxing book".

[Biolink]

The Title Freddie Roach one's suck. Lack of indepth passionate instruction. Just seems like a quick money grab for Roach.

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Another thing that has not been mentioned here is how much equipment do you have and how much are you willing to invest for more? If you absorb as much as you can from the gyms you go twice a week to and study film and videos, I think that would quicken your progress if you train at home what you're learning. See, a lot of this is really learned through practice and repetition, of coarse you need to learn proper fundamentals to not develop bad habits but you need to train, train and train. 10,000+ hours to achieve mastery as they say. Do you have a anywhere you can hang a punching bag? What about a speed bag? Double end bag? Things like a maizebag are easy to install and of coarse shadow boxing can be done practically anywhere.

[Facade]

I don't know how it works in England, but don't you pay your boxing school and doesn't a normal boxing school provide the service of teaching you how to box in return? In the whole city of London surely there must be 1 school that works by that principle? If all schools in London apparently only train people that are highly talented or under 16 more than once a week, then it's a miracle they haven't all gone out of business.

[Wuckoo]

I don't know how it works in England, but don't you pay your boxing school and doesn't a normal boxing school provide the service of teaching you how to box in return? In the whole city of London surely there must be 1 school that works by that principle? If all schools in London apparently only train people that are highly talented or under 16 more than once a week, then it's a miracle they haven't all gone out of business.

It struck me as wierd. I know for sure that in England that's not how it works as a whole but it's even stranger when it's in a city like London. Tom stalker didn't start until he was 18 but that was elsewhere in england

[Facade]

I googled 'London boxing clubs' and the first result immediately offered 7 days a week so I have no clue where topicstarter has been looking, but it hasn't been in the right place. The club in question was also connected to ABA.

[Wuckoo]

I googled 'London boxing clubs' and the first result immediately offered 7 days a week so I have no clue where topicstarter has been looking, but it hasn't been in the right place. The club in question was also connected to ABA.

Damn I wish mine was open 7 days a week

[koolio]

I googled 'London boxing clubs' and the first result immediately offered 7 days a week so I have no clue where topicstarter has been looking, but it hasn't been in the right place. The club in question was also connected to ABA.

Which club?

I have found some clubs that have times online all week, but when it comes to it they will not take beginners on more than once a week or at all if you are too old. This was the case up North for sure. So those are the times you can potentially train if they take you on.

In both clubs I train with a load of teenagers and only a few guys in their 20s to illustrate the point. I am south London