Boxing Gyms

[NJFighter91]

How are your boxing gyms? Do you guys go to one that's big with lots of equipment and you pay for you're trainer?

Or is it like mine: A room with a few equipment where the fighters rotate and the trainer is free and always tell's us what to do; but doesn't teach you directly unless you're sparring.

[Nacho_Analstain]

my gym dont have boxing equipment

but its a good gym in terms of gettin toned up and fitness and all that

http://www.boltonarena.com/

[Nacho_Analstain]

i spose that post was pointless sein as ur talkin about boxin gyms haha sorry lol

[fraidycat]

Mine's kinda weird. It's a bit run-down -- some equipment is held together with duct tape and it smells pretty bad inside, and in that way it's like a "real" boxing gym. It's also in a pretty bad neighborhood. But it's sort of white-collar in that there are classes that we go to -- it's 90 minutes of calisthenics and contact sparring, and then open sparring after that if you want to stick around. When you get further along, the coaches & trainers pretty much let you work on what you want to work on after you're warmed up. The mandatory calisthenics also keeps the street riffraff down. I've seen a few gangsta-thugs call bull**** and walk out after fifteen minutes of jumping rope and burpees.

I wasn't hip to the class concept at first -- I had a bad experience with "boxing fitness" bull**** at my weightlifting gym -- but the guys I train with are some serious dudes -- considerable amounts of gold teeth, prison tattoos, hard-core "extreme athlete" types, etc. And there's plenty of dried blood on the canvas. I think the classes concept is the gym's way of keeping afloat; there are "boxing fitness" and aerobics-types non-contact classes in the early evenings, and then "boxing lessons" -- with contact sparring -- starts after the yuppies clear out. The gym also has a team that has more leeway in training during the day, the way I understand it.

[NJFighter91]

Sounds like you have a good gym there fraidycat.

This is my gym and how things go.

Full size ring
2 heavybags
Jumpropes
3 Speedbag stations

We all take turns using the equipment. Like if one person is doing speed bag and none are open, you just jump rope until someone's done. There's not a lot of equipment but enough to get the job done. And the trainer helps anyone with any experience. And it's not like those fancy places where you pay for him.

Plus, I just found out the ring we have is the same one that Dempsey vs. Carpentier fought in.

[cybernica]

Here is my gym:

http://www.thirdstreetgym.com/

They do the classes here too and boot camp, its good to get ready for a fight and get into condition but I think they mainly do it to draw in the regular person who may never fight but wants to get in shape and they make their $$ off of them. The neighborhood is kinda bad, we have two rings and alot of bags and equipment, nice place to train and you get peeps from all walks of life...today aka Fridays is sparing night, always look forward too Fridays

[Nacho_Analstain]

looks very gud that m8

[tekniq]

the boxing gym i go to is run-down. everything is beat up. looks like apollo's gym in rocky, i guess thats good, means hard work i guess. only down side is that every one in the gym is black, and me being the only asian guy there, it's kind of intimidating!

[Allen_Poe]

www.barrysboxingcenter.com

we got 2 full sized rings (one elevated, the other is maybe a foot off the ground), 2 heavy bags, 2 uppercut bags, 2 speed bag stations, 2 end to end bags, 4 treadmills, and theres a weight lifting area with all kinds of eqipment (which I dont really use, I havent liftend weights since my first day at the gym).

[mgkirkpatrick]

my gym is kinda prissy

we got 3 heavy bags
2 floor to ceilings
2 speed bags
1 uppercut bag

it starts off as a sort of one hour fitness class where he teaches technique and u do a circuit of the stuff i just mentioned with the trainer in the middle as one station with focus pads. after the hour all the chicken ****s piss off and the serious people stick around for sparring.