How Long Should One Practice Fundamentals Before Sparring At Boxing Gym

[GzUp]

Im in my late 30s. I won't be throwing kicks and doing clinches in my 50s. My arms amd ground game will be my last line of defense

It's good that u have a good ground game(most street fights end up in the ground eventually)

How much do u way? No homo.

There's been good advice given here but I highly recommend you research gyms/trainer with high reviews and ask him exactly what u trying to achieve.

 

[Mowgli]

It's good that u have a good ground game(most street fights end up in the ground eventually)

How much do u way? No homo.

There's been good advice given here but I highly recommend you research gyms/trainer with high reviews and ask him exactly what u trying to achieve.

I'm an even 200 and can do 15 pullups...

I've done the research and I have a gym.

The goal is to have good footwork, a good jab for pressure fighters and the ability to dodge most punches, and I don't want to blink when I see punches

 

[GzUp]

I'm an even 200 and can do 15 pullups...

I've done the research and I have a gym.

The goal is to have good footwork, a good jab for pressure fighters and the ability to dodge most punches, and I don't want to blink when I see punches

Your at a good weight, unless your 5'5

Its good to learn a good jab and footwork and I'm sure the trainer will teach u all that, starting from the basics I'm sure.

How strong is your left arm compared to your right? Can u punch as hard with it?

If so you got an advantage, if u can get a good strong left hook u will be undefeated in the streets. If a pressure fighter is coming at u that punch and of course the over hand rights u will be good.

 

[GzUp]

Also take care of your hands, don't go in there reckless and injure your hand, it will be over.

 

[nasty]

Im in my late 30s. I won't be throwing kicks and doing clinches in my 50s. My arms amd ground game will be my last line of defense

If you practice jiu Jitsu, your clinch game would be deadly. Age is not a question when it comes to clinching or even kicking. Land a nice low leg kick on someone, make them think twice of even going near you. Boxing is a way less superior art, as a fellow martial artist you should know that.

If you wanted to box simply for the love of the sport, that would be different but you're asking to dominate stand up while not taking it to the ground, Muay Thai is the most superior and it's not even up for debate. Using Legs, Knees, elbows, hands are better than using just hands.

As for age, putting someone in a clinch where 99.9 percent of people don't know how to get out of (even Rich Franklin) and feeding them knees is way less taxing on the body than standing there and throwing hands using reflexes. With age, reflexes and speed decreases as well, so with your logic, Muay Thai is still the route to go.

 

[Mowgli]

If you practice jiu Jitsu, your clinch game would be deadly. Age is not a question when it comes to clinching or even kicking. Land a nice low leg kick on someone, make them think twice of even going near you. Boxing is a way less superior art, as a fellow martial artist you should know that.

If you wanted to box simply for the love of the sport, that would be different but you're asking to dominate stand up while not taking it to the ground, Muay Thai is the most superior and it's not even up for debate. Using Legs, Knees, elbows, hands are better than using just hands.

As for age, putting someone in a clinch where 99.9 percent of people don't know how to get out of (even Rich Franklin) and feeding them knees is way less taxing on the body than standing there and throwing hands using reflexes. With age, reflexes and speed decreases as well, so with your logic, Muay Thai is still the route to go.

I'm not a kicker. I'm a puncher. It's about personal styles. I grab and punch nikkas.

I do not plan on using my legs unless it's to dodge and evade punches or close distance for takedown and do ground work. Its a waste of money for me to be learning muay thai when by the time I'm 60 I'm not trying to kick shyt

I can clinch and knee someone right now. I don't need muay thai to learn that but late 30s is not the age to begin the conditioning required to become efficient in muay thai, for me.

You do your muay thai. Ill do jiujitsu and blxing, which are old man safe.

 

[Mowgli]

Also take care of your hands, don't go in there reckless and injure your hand, it will be over.

Thats a wrapping issue isn't it. I don't plan on sparring at 100 percent power.

Someone would get hurt

 

[MoroccanBoy]

nothing can prepare you for it. You just have to get in and do it. and boxing fitness is a completely different animal than bjj. You will be tight and panicky and gas out very quickly when you start. Everyone goes through the same thing. You get your ass whipped and the ones that don't take it personally and come back are the ones that end up fighting.

 

[HARLEM AL]

3-4 months. Your first time sparring should be with a pro or someone that knows how to spar someone new. You get in there with someone such as your self, y'all are going to try and kill each other.

 

[desjardins]

Don't think it matters as long as you are in there with some one of equal experience/skill and it's a controlled environment.
I think the sooner the better since it's no real simulation for real sparring. I started sparring after like 2-3 weeks of doing drills

 

[Mowgli]

Your at a good weight, unless your 5'5

Its good to learn a good jab and footwork and I'm sure the trainer will teach u all that, starting from the basics I'm sure.

How strong is your left arm compared to your right? Can u punch as hard with it?

If so you got an advantage, if u can get a good strong left hook u will be undefeated in the streets. If a pressure fighter is coming at u that punch and of course the over hand rights u will be good.

5'9. Not tall but not little

My left hand punches hard as fukk.

When I did mit work in mma I was complimented on how people dont want their face to be on the other side of my punch. I have natural punching power but my face is made of glass. I bleed easy from the nose so anytime I sparred in mma, I bleed

 

[Black Ball]

3-4 months. Your first time sparring should be with a pro or someone that knows how to spar someone new. You get in there with someone such as your self, y'all are going to try and kill each other.

VS.

Don't think it matters as long as you are in there with some one of equal experience/skill and it's a controlled environment.

 

[desjardins]

VS.

Lol I know right. i think all this is highly dependent on the gym to be honest. Before I started training the gym i was going to was on the verge of becoming one of those dikkhead internal gym war spots. most of the time i was there it was cool though and nobody was going let you get fukked up or line you up out of your league

 

[Mowgli]

VS.

Harlem all. fukk around and concuss someone on some emotional shyt

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Just take heed to this story at 3:55.

This shyt is very true


People don't run up on me anymore, but when I was young nikkas tried that shyt

but if you got street smarts you knew what they was trying to do. I wasn't jumping in the ring when I wasn't ready and no way was you gonna stunt on me. Every gym I go into though nikkas want to try me so