You Want To Get Good At Boxing? Punch Perfect
When people start boxing training we all get the bug and want to practise this amazing sport as much as possible. Boxing is very different to other sports, with football you could spend everyday kicking the ball around on the street and you would get better. This is sadly not the case with boxing everything you do in boxing needs to be punch perfect.
If we practise something with bad form that becomes a bad habit, the longer you perform this bad habit the harder it is to correct. So I will take this one stage further if you spend time boxing and everything is not 100% correct then you are really wasting your time and this is counter productive if you want to get good technically.
Another problem you can encounter is boxing trainers who do fitness before boxing this is a big no no. A good boxing trainer will split the session into two, boxing technique and then fitness. When you do your fitness before your boxing you get tired, your guard and form suffer so again this is a way in which you pick up really bad habits. As soon as you get tired move on from technique and move onto fitness so you don’t learn bad habits.
This is what your pay your coach for, to ensure your improving and not going backwards. So your better off having one good session a week than four bad ones everything you do should be punch perfect, and if its not your wasting everyone’s time. Your trainer doesn’t want to keep spending all of his time correcting all of your new found faults. If you do not want to have a great technique then carry on training how you feel fit but if my best boxers train at home I find it very frustrating as I am continually correcting form when I want to be progressing and showing them new technique.
If you want to do any kind of training at home the best kind of training you can do is fitness so you go to your boxing session both strong and fit.
