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After watching that I realise my pad holding is Ajhan Gae level
Is that a good or bad thing???
After watching that I realise my pad holding is Ajhan Gae level
Training for teh streetzAlso, the way he's using pads makes it so there's "two heads" of your opponent;
Off topic, but if you don't mind me asking. In your opinion, what is the role of mitwork in striking arts?A lot of trainers in boxing use mitts for little more than ego-stroking. In other words, they make their fighters feel good, and feel like work is being done even if it's not. After all, for most of them, the goal is to sustain a living, not necessarily do amazing things.
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Rockstars on the padsin the gym I've seen often perform nearly opposite when it comes time to put it to use.
Pads are like the board-breaking of boxing, makes people feel look and feel cool and ehh not completely useless but deceptively MUCH less applicable than anyone would be willing to admit.
There are two in there doing a very advanced drill. The kids with the white shirt, and red shirt. One of them recently started sparring, and of course everyone in our gym near his weight has much more experience. So I was nervous at first as to how he'd do because he'd only done restricted (we call it "structured") sparring, where it's particular moves at a time. But he'd been doing very well with that. Well, this is how his first session went (white headgear):
Oscar has done mitts MAYBE 5 times...ever. Chino does them about 2-4 times a week. His trainer is a good trainer who I respect a lot, though.
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Rockstars on the pads in the gym I've seen often perform nearly opposite when it comes time to put it to use.
Pads are like the board-breaking of boxing, makes people feel look and feel cool and ehh not completely useless but deceptively MUCH less applicable than anyone would be willing to admit.
But isnt that more a case of how you use pads? Sure you can go just the flashy way and its a great ego booster but I really love mitts when covering distance is included, or random slips with moving around. Training reaction with throwing as soon as pad holder helds it up...etc Helps me a lot in learning distance control and honestly it shows me much better how bad I am at certain things like (f.e. my big mistake stayin in mid range all the time & throw a combo while moving) then heavy bag. I am a beginner so take my comment lightly but if someone knows a little how to do pad work I really like it and imo benefit a lot.
My litmus test regarding if something helps in sports is always how much its able to show me my deficits and mitts do a good job at that in my experience. Felt like shit after the last session which is good
Meh, I disagree.^^Would like 2x if I could
Rockstars on the pads in the gym I've seen often perform nearly opposite when it comes time to put it to use.
Pads are like the board-breaking of boxing, makes people feel look and feel cool and ehh not completely useless but deceptively MUCH less applicable than anyone would be willing to admit.
Meh, I disagree.
Pad work done correctly focuses learning. It’s a direct connection between instructor and learner, the action is the same as a drill or on a heavy bag, but the learning is different.
You could read a book on how to bake a cake, might be that when it comes to finally baking that cake you can do it or you can’t. You can watch a video on how to bake a cake, we do it in groups and i’ll step in now and again to correct you and chances are you’ll probably get pretty close. If me and you bake a cake together, I can break everything down as to what your doing why your doing it and why it’s relivent to you directly. You’ll also have that direct learning experience where you won’t remember the word of me correcting you, you’ll remember the action and experience of it.
But yeah, they are over used!
Meh. Who’s Howard davis
Many coaches think they can feed mitts, will even say as much, but take one look at them doing it and you'll realize they're fucking terrible.
It's not a matter of just punching things. A good feeder will be able to work all aspects of his fighter's game. Proper form, defense, footwork, speed, angles, reactions, counters, cutting off the ring, etc. All of these things can be developed if the coach is worth their salt. If a coach is just awkwardly holding up mitts, occasionally throwing a "counter" 6 feet away from the head of a fighter... well yeah, that coach should probably not hold mitts.
Mittwork is one of the very many tools used to develop a fighter. There isn't a useful tool that I'll disregard when bringing up my stable, and mitts are no exception.
A good litmus is this:
Do 99% of professional fighters, with literally millions of dollars on the line, utilize this tool when training? If the answer is yes, it's probably something worth exploring.
Yeah but like I said before, it's alarming when fluid fuckers on the pads are lousy at sparring/fighting. It doesn’t correlate as much as people think it does. It just looks cool.
and one of the most highly touted pro prospects ever. never quite lived up to the billing, but a hell of a fighter anyway.Just an Olympic gold Medalist and professional title contender, no big whoop
He undeservedly took Aaron Pryor's spot on the olympic team and history has shown who the more talented fighter was.and one of the most highly touted pro prospects ever. never quite lived up to the billing, but a hell of a fighter anyway.