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Question about Boxing Clubs

  • 21-01-2009 10:54pm
    #1
    Fromvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭


    I presume you guys will know this. Would a boxing club train you if you had no intention of having a boxing fight. Rather you were looking for the boxing to compliment your MMA. I've heard before that clubs are more interested in people who are going to compete in boxing.
    So would they?


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  • #2
    Mikel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 863 ✭✭✭Mikel


    Apparently most won't, it's come up in the past on a few threads.
    It might seem extreme (it did to me at first) but when you hear the reasoning it makes sense.
    It was explained best in this thread, but you have to wade through some other stuff too

    http://wwww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055434102


  • #3
    colly10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭colly10


    Most clubs will not train you if you have no interest in ever fighting and some others will not take you if they feel your too old. I've never heard a reason for this but from what i've seen most clubs tend to be short of space so have to prioritise.
    Also if you want to be completive in boxing you have to train far harder than any other sport i've been involved in so that means the trainer has to put on training a few days a week, so he's busy and the way he would see it is why waste his time training a guy who'll never fight when theres probably a waiting list for the club anyway.
    I understand your idea of wanting to learn though and I do think it would be useful for standup in MMA, id say most don't have experience in it and kickboxing just isn't the same
    You could always do white/blue collar and stick that out for a few months, that way you'll only have to take around 2 fights in 4-5 months and can train as much as you want


  • #4
    JMCD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭JMCD


    There are some personal boxing trainers out there who would also be able to help, cowzer from boards offers 1-to-1 coaching (I think?) as does phil sutcliffe.

    Maybe you could look into Muay thai boxing aswell, ive found muay thai gyms to be a lot more accesible to people who are just looking to train/keep fit than boxing clubs. Boxing clubs are only really interested if your young,willing and able but maybe if you explain your situation and are in anyway handy they might let you join so that you could be a decent sparring partner at the very least.


  • #5
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,356 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fromvert wrote: »
    I presume you guys will know this. Would a boxing club train you if you had no intention of having a boxing fight. Rather you were looking for the boxing to compliment your MMA. I've heard before that clubs are more interested in people who are going to compete in boxing.
    So would they?
    My view is well known on this issue. With the advent of boxing gyms for training and fun; then you may well find one to train. But a CLUB is a different situation. The club is for competition and is licenced and affiliated for competition. It is not a gym in the normal sense. If a a club accepts you, expect that club to ask you if you intend on competing; and if you say NO, expect that club to say "goodbye," unless you can prove a valuable asset to the club in some way!


  • #6
    cowzerp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    JMCD wrote: »
    There are some personal boxing trainers out there who would also be able to help, cowzer from boards offers 1-to-1 coaching (I think?) as does phil sutcliffe.

    Thanks jmcd, i do boxing lessons as part of my personal training job and phill does them aswell, he does them over the crumlin area and i do them out in swords.

    i do mma too so it would be more suitable as i would know more about using boxing in mma than a pure boxing coach, ps, i was a pure boxing coach at 1 stage so im not an mma coach teaching a bit of boxing-thats a different thing altogether!

    The best thing to do is ring the local clubs near you and vask do they take on lads who just want to train, some do-MBC on here takes lads on in monkstown boxing club, JP is his name, if your out that way talk to him..

    where are you based? and what mma club are you with?

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



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  • #7
    Fromvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    Cheers lads for the responses. Im not actually looking for a boxing club, my friend was asking me did I know of any boxing clubs around. I didnt but said id post on here and see what you guys thought.
    I dont know what MMA club he is with but he lives in Blanchardstown. I'll tell him to ring around and see.

    Cheers again lads


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