Irish Team Training Routines

keith1976

Anybody know or have seen any of the Irish Amateur team's training routines (Egan, Barnes, Joyce, O Neill etc), or how they train in the high performance center? Is it conventional enough?

Any specifics would be helpful.

Thanks.

walshb

I have Kenny Egan's DVD at home, the one after he won his silver medal and in it they
do show some training from the high performance set up. The usual, sparring, skipping and bag work. Nothing out of the ordinary or any major changes did I see.

MBC

There is a good few video's of Kenny getting ready for the Seniors in Jan/Feb this year on youtube......just type his name in the search box and you'll find them.

Here is a good one of the irish team before the olympics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1X3l4D0Kc

keith1976

Thanks for the replies. As a follow up question, what changes were implemented in the last few years to make us the world boxing force we are at the moment.

I just remember boxing in national championships in the 90's when the Stadium was basically empty and the talent was not half as strong. We were getting hammered by the likes of Poland back then. Is it simply because the lads are basically professionals now or is there more to it than that.

Sorry if this is common knowledge at home, but I don't live in Ireland and all I can glean is from snippets on the web.

walshb

Wel, I would say that years ago, many of the lads were in full time jobs and had to fit training around their work schedule. Now, with funding and full time training, this has to be of benefit.

We always had top class boxers and the 90s saw Carruth and Wayne and Gough and MaGee and Sinclair and Damen Kelly and Francy Barret and Stephen Kirk and Paul Griffin (European champ 1991), to name a few.

Those guys were evry bit as good as the current crop. Also, I don't remember us losing all that many internationals. We were always a step ahead of the Scots and Welsh and very even with the English. Better than the Spanish and Italians and Canadians, results wise anyway!

I honseltly cannot remember any Irish teams getting hammered in the 90s.
They may have lost some tournaments, but always so competitive

DONNELLON

I have seen their routines, they place a lot of importance on picking that scoring shot. As well as that full-time training and especially the regular top class sparring, they have weight programmes, physios, mental guros, full-time coaches, dietitians, better international comp, and the mixed camps with other top nations. Another big plus is the youth and junior development squads.
BTW I think we are way better than in the 90's with far more strenght in debth.

walshb

DONNELLON wrote: »

I have seen their routines, they place a lot of importance on picking that scoring shot. As well as that full-time training and especially the regular top class sparring, they have weight programmes, physios, mental guros, full-time coaches, dietitians, better international comp, and the mixed camps with other top nations. Another big plus is the youth and junior development squads.
BTW I think we are way better than in the 90's with far more strenght in debth.

Way better how?

Do you mean success wise now vs the 90s the, or, that the lads today would have beaten the 90s men over 3 rds of thre minutes?

I believe that we have had more success today, but today and recenty, there have been far more tournaments and the lads have had more chances
to be successful, plus they are "professional."

But, the guys from today would find any of our 90s champs really tough
fights. Carruth ain't losing to any welter and nor is Kelly at Fly, even Kirk at LH
would IMO be too much for Egan. Barret at 64 would have been too much for JJJ or Sutcliffe me feels. The skill and talent today is not discernibly better. The lads may well be better prepared for competition, but I don't believe they were better fighters, just different fighters.