Do boxing coaches give many people a false confidence?

[Blue_boost]

I was watching some boxing coaches today train some people and some of the combinations baffled me..

The novice boxer was throwing a combination of 3 punches and then the trainer would swing one punch which they were supposed to duck.. then the process repeats.

But there are a few issues I had…

1. the punch thrown by the boxing trainer was a hook and way above their head where they basically didn’t have to duck to avoid being collected by the punch. It was also way slower than a real punch. The reality was the novice boxers head was sitting there like a t-ball.

2. then do we think on a real fight your opponent will stand there and take 3 punches and throw a slow one back and then be happy to receive another 3?

3. The boxing trainer was hitting their punches with their mits to make it appear there was far greater impact on their punch, like there was more torque in the punch.

4. true boxing training should be undertaken with your opponent coming forward and throwing a series of punches. To see how you move and deflect their punches, back them up and asserting your own punches. Sometimes there is a trade of punches, you don’t always get the luxury of the first 3 punches and stray punch by return

5. these novice people walk away from these boxing coaching sessions thinking they are slick and very evasive, couldn’t be hit. Also that they hold some real powerful punches that could drop an elephant .

Then out in the real world, they won’t let things lie and before they even lift their hands, their opponent lands a clean punch and they stumble back and drop on their arse. They wake up to someone shining a torch on their eye. How did the boxing training help exactly?

 

[bricktamland]

No. Coaches save so many kids from a life of drugs look at the iq or many of these fighters and see how boxing saved their life. Wether it’d boxing or mma etc fighting sports sort you out. And there are barely any egos in sports like that.
That’s what you do with mits! Freddy roach etc all do this it’s normal, and you shouldn’t fight outside our gym or tournaments.

and lastly as for true boxing training as you say, the pads are about technique it’s about a coach watching your form he will point out your elbows are out to far or hands not higher enough or if you slip you’re leaning to much. Same with Sparring sometimes you trade other times you spend an entire round on working on what coach has told you to do.
This is a nasheed type of post tbh

 

[Blue_boost]

No. Coaches save so many kids from a life of drugs look at the iq or many of these fighters and see how boxing saved their life. Wether it’d boxing or mma etc fighting sports sort you out. And there are barely any egos in sports like that.
That’s what you do with mits! Freddy roach etc all do this it’s normal, and you shouldn’t fight outside our gym or tournaments.

and lastly as for true boxing training as you say, the pads are about technique it’s about a coach watching your form he will point out your elbows are out to far or hands not higher enough or if you slip you’re leaning to much. Same with Sparring sometimes you trade other times you spend an entire round on working on what coach has told you to do.
This is a nasheed type of post tbh

pretty fair post to be honest, taking kids off the streets so they don’t get into trouble is a fair points..

but I was talking about people trying to get self defence training.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

No. Coaches save so many kids from a life of drugs look at the iq or many of these fighters and see how boxing saved their life. Wether it’d boxing or mma etc fighting sports sort you out. And there are barely any egos in sports like that.
That’s what you do with mits! Freddy roach etc all do this it’s normal, and you shouldn’t fight outside our gym or tournaments.

and lastly as for true boxing training as you say, the pads are about technique it’s about a coach watching your form he will point out your elbows are out to far or hands not higher enough or if you slip you’re leaning to much. Same with Sparring sometimes you trade other times you spend an entire round on working on what coach has told you to do.
This is a nasheed type of post tbh

Every Bluey post is a Nasheed type post.

 

[King Gus]

The reason why they throw 3 punches is for their rhythm so it becomes second nature.
In boxing the more you look dominant the higher your points are.
Also there is 2 reasons for coach to throw a swinging hook 1. It’s for your reflex and 2. To make sure your hands are up when an opponent is throwing punches.
In boxing training, you always doing repetition so it becomes second nature.

 

[Baseball Furies]

Just watch Roger and Floyd go to work to get an understanding of the work the mit man does, it’s all about honing technique.