Rough Kids in Gyms

[SquareCircle]

my advice is to just never show any fear, regardless of who asks you to spar. Remember, it's only sparring. i remember the first time i got asked to spar someone that could potentially take me out with 1 or 2 shots. a guy whos 30-6 challenged me and while I was really afraid inside, I just said 'Looks like I won't be looking my best for my date tonight'with a smile and him and his boy chuckled. They were gettin ready as I began warming up shadowboxing throwin 3-4 punch combinations beside the ring, lookin at them thru a mirror lookin at me and they almost looked suprised that i didnt seem afraid at all.. I got in there and dominated that boy with nothin else but the jab, a couple feingts and a big right hand to his body which landed on his lead hand effectively disabling it for our sparring session, and didnt get hit in the face once, so just be humble, go in there, and remember, if you don't dedicate yourself 100% to learning everything you can, you dont belong in this sport. if u dont show up every day, regardless of how you feel, you dont belong in a sparring match with any kind of decent opposition. thats just my opinion.

[jumpman_jones]

you get to choose when you spar?

[NJFighter91]

^^^Haha. I wish.

[boxing4ever]

Welcome to my world, mother****er. Some of the guys in my gym have diamonds in their teeth and gang tattoos. One guy wears a house arrest bracelet on his ankle -- they only let him out one night a week and he uses it to come beat the **** out of someone. I live uptown and drive a Saturn. Six months ago I'd have crossed the street to get away from these guys.

But you know what I've found? These are some fundamentally good guys. The serious ones, anyway. After a few months of showing up and working hard, I was blown away when some of the "hom33z" invited me out to a neighborhood bar.

Someone else here said it: "Show them you're strong on the inside and they'll show you how to be strong on the outside."

lmfao thats gotta be the funnies gym story ive heard in my life lmfao you think thats bad to work out with try going to a alternative school we have mother****ers like that all over the place **** we even had a kid that claimed he was a ********* and told us we were all goona die because of him **** you wana hear something dumb one of the kids thats in my class asked one of the lunch moms when they were selling bagels are lunch if they had a menthol flavord one now thats bad right there lmfao

[me2007]

you will learn a hell of a lot more in this so called rough gym than you will hanging out with in that other gym...

its no co incidence that all the champions i know of come from a poor background... they are hungry for success and to learn to box

[Bear4228]

This is just my personal opinion but even middle class and/or upper class people are still hungry for success. "Rough Gym" or a not so "Rough" gym, he won't know wats best until he trys out both to see what both gyms have to offer. Perhaps the training is acutally twice as hard at the not so rough one, who knows? When it comes to learning a new craft, you gotta be open to all possiblablies. But then again, this is just my opinion.

[j]

well, you may have already decided, but if not, here's food for thought.

an unstructured gym with wild "boys" may only help you if you think you need to feel tough.


look for a gym that will help you learn the art of boxing. anybody can fight, not just anybody can box.


i've found the real badasses never really act like badasses.

[Evil_Meat]

im from the north end in my city and the gym i goto is in the rough east part of town. Many sell weed and ****, but in my experience as soon as they saw i had some skill in the ring they respect me like im one of them. I just see em as regular people and show no fear. It doesent matter where ur from, u share the same interest as them

[lapo]

I live in mexico and in a middle-upper class area, i'm a lawyer and have a similar issue, i was training at a white-collar boxing gym, and it was a boxing class with a lot of other people and we don't have the same level and i think it's a little lo light for my taste, i'm going to change to a rough gym and see what happens.

[giantsbran1227]

Lol thats boxing bud. If you cant take that then dont join the sport.