Boxing Club

Boston

What the craic with the boxing club. I've been giving joining some serious thought, as soon as the up coming exams are out of the way. Anyone a member? I read about session having 150+ people in them, is that accurate. I generally want to join in an effort to keep fit, and I figured this would be a good place to start.

ApeXaviour

I'm a member but I don't attend. I really really wanted to go this year. But I can't make the time. I'm not the type who'd go just the odd time I'd need to really get stuck in and just don't have the time this year for that. Maybe next year...

As for boxing in general it's absolutely class (I used to go to lucan boxing club as a teenager). It's hard though, without a doubt the most physically intensive training I've ever done. But it's damn rewarding. You'll never see anybody more capable of controlling their weight than a boxer. Buy a good gumshield though, I had a cheap one and man did it cut into my gums.

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

Maybe next year...

your free time goes down next year not up

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Yeah, boxing club is great, I'm a JF CS and I've been a member since the start of the year...can't really attest to its hardness, since it's pretty much the only exercise I've gotten since primary school, so all things seem pretty equally difficult to me

It's a great laugh though, and sparring's fun too, and they hold a lot of night out stuff too, either by themselves or with the TKD club

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

your free time goes down next year not up

Maybe literally, but not exactly. I'll be doing my project in the michealmas term and if it's in college I'll be off at 5 everyday..

Nietzschean

uh huh, library after that though

snorlax

boxing is great for keeping fit and it's a great aerobic workout. i did it in first year but i have to say i prefer fencing as they have a lot more social events and you get more one on one training from the begineers and more expereinced people.im currently looking forward to our first cocktail event and the intervsaties in Queens college, Belfast (im 6% from Belfast:))

if you want to build up your upper body strength boxing is the best. plus there's a good mixture of males and females. sometimes i think people go to check each others bods out, everyone wears shorts !

ApeXaviour

snorlax wrote:

boxing is great for keeping fit and it's a great aerobic workout. i did it in first year but i have to say i prefer fencing as they have a lot more social events and you get more one on one training from the begineers and more expereinced people.im currently looking forward to our first cocktail event and the intervsaties in Queens college, Belfast (im 6% from Belfast:))

6%? as in 1/16th? I have no idea where any of my great great grandparents are from.. Though I suspect one is scottish considering my surname.

snorlax

im 25% from portlaoise (my mom and my grandparents), 50% from Dublin(dad and live here, grandad and dad) and my nana was from belfast do it's about a 1/3 of 25% so i figure about 6/8%!

Brian_Dennehy

LiouVille wrote:

What the craic with the boxing club. I've been giving joining some serious thought, as soon as the up coming exams are out of the way. Anyone a member? I read about session having 150+ people in them, is that accurate. I generally want to join in an effort to keep fit, and I figured this would be a good place to start.

I'm a member of DUTCDAMC.

There are a couple of boxercise sessions that have about 150 maybe more people at them. Doesn't really matter because this training pretty much consists of:

Star jumps, press ups, squats, situps and fairly static shadow boxing. The coach will wander around the shadow boxing and tell you how to improve your stance etc. but the real coaching is done in the ring. We usually end up doing about 100 press ups, sit ups and squats etc over about 20 mins so if you think that will help you in your "effort to keep fit" so be it.

Apexaviour wrote:

It's hard though, without a doubt the most physically intensive training I've ever done. But it's damn rewarding. You'll never see anybody more capable of controlling their weight than a boxer. Buy a good gumshield though, I had a cheap one and man did it cut into my gums.

Well I'm not sure what you mean by weight control here. But if I'm correct in my assumption, I'd imagine the collegiate wrestlers would be better at it. I don't think it's nessecary to buy a "good gumshield" I have one that cost 2 euro and it's not a problem, I use it 3/4 times a week. Some people say, get a shockdoctor one at least, it's 15euro but I definitely don't think it's nessecary to get a dental moulded one.

Snorlax wrote:

if you want to build up your upper body strength boxing is the best.

Well I'd imagine going to the gym and doing some upper body weights would be the best. Have you ever boxed before or are you basing this on the warm up classes from 5-6?

TBH, if you're going to come on a message board and ask if you should join the boxing club, the chances of you joining are slim to none. gg

But just to make a few things clear. College is really going to be your last chance to take boxing up, it's rather difficult to wander into the local club and get started. These type of clubs are more interested in getting young talent in and forging them into good boxers, then getting Joe Bloggs down 3 times a month for a bit of cardio. You should really take the opportunity while it's available. The club in college really look after you as well. If you come down sparring, and make it known you've not boxed before or you've only a tiny bit of experience, they'll look after you and make sure you don't get beaten up by a superior. There is always a couple of bigger fish around too, so if someone goes mad they'll get it themselves later. You should go training.

NewOxfordReview

DUTCDAMC? DUABC you mean?

Time Magazine

ApeXaviour wrote:

6%? as in 1/16th?

That statistic always interested me. Where's the line man, where's the line? Say if my dad was Belgian, would I necessarily be half-Belgian? What about if his grandad moved from Norway? And at what rate does the percentage alter? Is your father of greater "weighed mean" than your grandfather? What percentage does one use, surely my dad is only a tiny fraction of my actual ancestry? Or is it a sliding scale depending on how many gernations you go back, such that if you only refer to the generation above you (i.e. your parents, and thus two ancestors) is it only their ethnicity/background that counts? Should one account for ancestry already embedded in parents when calculating the percentage? So many questions!

Ian, fire us up a d(Background)/d(Time) equation there .

snorlax

i'm kind of a health science person who studies alot of muscle anatomy and physiology. yeah i did only go to the 6-7 warm ups but i would say the primary muscles beind developed there are your upper body ones (including pec major )and some of your back ones like trapezius.i did it for a term.
a MA like taewkon do or even jogging is however good for building up your leg strength (i did tkd for a while) and flexiblity.

Boston

Brian_Dennehy wrote:

I'm a member of DUTCDAMC.

There are a couple of boxercise sessions that have about 150 maybe more people at them. Doesn't really matter because this training pretty much consists of:

Star jumps, press ups, squats, situps and fairly static shadow boxing. The coach will wander around the shadow boxing and tell you how to improve your stance etc. but the real coaching is done in the ring. We usually end up doing about 100 press ups, sit ups and squats etc over about 20 mins so if you think that will help you in your "effort to keep fit" so be it.

Woudl that level be expected from someone whose just started. Basically should I get to that level and then join?

Well I'd imagine going to the gym and doing some upper body weights would be the best. Have you ever boxed before or are you basing this on the warm up classes from 5-6?

I'm looking for a competitive, non-team based sport which is physically taxing. Boxing fits the bill to my knowledge.

TBH, if you're going to come on a message board and ask if you should join the boxing club, the chances of you joining are slim to none. gg

Meh, I thrust the opinions of some of these people. I don't see how asking here is any different then asking someone over a pint what the club is like

You should really take the opportunity while it's available. The club in college really look after you as well. If you come down sparring, and make it known you've not boxed before or you've only a tiny bit of experience, they'll look after you and make sure you don't get beaten up by a superior. There is always a couple of bigger fish around too, so if someone goes mad they'll get it themselves later. You should go training.

So despite the fact that I am Joe Bloggs, who could do with loosing afew pounds, you'd recommend me coming along?

What they of gear does oen need? A gum shield was mentioned, anything else?

ApeXaviour

LiouVille wrote:

What they of gear does oen need? A gum shield was mentioned, anything else?

Wraps... You can get them in elverys for a fiver.

Brian_Dennehy

NewOxfordReview wrote:

DUTCDAMC? DUABC you mean?

Yes, but DUTCDAMC looks funnier. I see you haven't boxed in a while also.

health science person wrote:

i'm kind of a health science person who studies alot of muscle anatomy and physiology. yeah i did only go to the 6-7 warm ups but i would say the primary muscles beind developed there are your upper body ones (including pec major )and some of your back ones like trapezius.i did it for a term.
a MA like taewkon do or even jogging is however good for building up your leg strength (i did tkd for a while) and flexiblity.

So what. What's your point exactly. I didn't say the training isn't beneficial to increasing upper body strength, I just said a full time weights routine, composed by a qualified fitness instructor would be "better" as you say. I don't know why you're mentioning TKD.

Woudl that level be expected from someone whose just started. Basically should I get to that level and then join?

Not at all. There is no prerequsite standard of fitness required. As I said there's loads of people there, and a handful of newbies every class. The coach makes it clear, go as fast as you can, but at your own pace. So if you fall back, it doesn't really matter, and no one will really notice.

I'm looking for a competitive, non-team based sport which is physically taxing. Boxing fits the bill to my knowledge

That's fine, the comment i was making was WRT snorlax . Boxing does fit the bill. But it's only competitive if you spar and if you go to competitions. which isn't for everyone but everyone has a chance.

Meh, I thrust the opinions of some of these people. I don't see how asking here is any different then asking someone over a pint what the club is like

Funny you should say that. I met the current boxing captain in the pav at the start of the year and said I was interesting in boxing, not just training, but boxing and he said come down. So I did. I recommend you do too. I'm just trying to make the point talking about it will get you no where.

So despite the fact that I am Joe Bloggs, who could do with loosing afew pounds, you'd recommend me coming along?

Sure, I recommend everyone that's male and between the ages of 18-25 should try boxing. As i said already, the college club will look after you and you'll improve very quickly over a short space of time.

What they of gear does oen need? A gum shield was mentioned, anything else?

As Apexaviour said, for sparring, you need a gum shield and some hand wraps. Hand wraps are just straps you wrap around your wrists and knuckles for support while punching stuff. all you need for the 5-6 class is runners, shorts and a t-shirt. All the other gear you'll need for sparring, is provided by the club - 16oz gloves, groin proctectors, head gear.

ApeXaviour

Brian_Dennehy wrote:

All the other gear you'll need for sparring, is provided by the club ... groin proctectors

Groin protectors are provided! Doesn't sound very hygenic? Do you really need them? I mean in a friendly sparring session you're hardly gonna hit below the belt are ya?

I suppose though jewels are jewels and even a grazing punch in that direction would be agony. We never wore them in lucan boxing club, not for sparring. Only in comps which I never got to...

Brian_Dennehy

I didn't say a box, I said groin guard.
http://store.titleboxing.com/groin-protectors.html

They go on over your shorts so they're more hygenic then sharing gloves and head gear. Both tend to be minging tbh. but at 50 euro a pop, I won't be getting my own too soon.

snorlax

japers Brian no need to get excited over boxing! my point is im third year health science so i say i know a few things about muscles etc, and i know which ones to work with as it kinda will be my job when im qualified (improving the muscular function of people with CVAs etc). im not being smart but i do know a thing or two , which muscle groups work to do what function so i would probably know as much as an instuctor. i mentioned tkd specifically because it's a great sport for developing leg function and probably better then boxing for it, which was kinda of my point as we are taking about pros and cons of joining the boxing club.

Giblet

Someone had better hope they are not kev, jesus I hope for your sake you're not.

Hobart

LiouVille wrote:

Yea, see you at training bigman. Last time we where in the same room you ran and hid in a cornor.

So I presume he is all talk but no walk then Liouville? He sounds like a guy struggling with his gender to me. I think he doth protest too much!.

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Yeah, I know that Kev's not the most popular guy around here, and that he's gonna get banned and all that, but why did you delete all his posts there....the ones up the top at least were somewhat informative....

ApeXaviour

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote:

Yeah, I know that Kev's not the most popular guy around here, and that he's gonna get banned and all that, but why did you delete all his posts there....the ones up the top at least were somewhat informative....

Duly noted.. I shall undelete the useful information posted while leaving the undesirable.

Edit: Also Liouville/snorlax's rebuttles deleted. There, now maybe this thread can look nice..