Advisory #2

What is most important in winning an amateur boxing match?

Answer 2: For a boxer to win a boxing match, he must be mentally and physically faster than his opponent.

• A faster mind will allow you to recognize fighting stimuli such as defensive and offensive movements. A boxer with a fast mind has the ability to find openings whenever a boxer makes a mistake. 
• A boxer who is faster can land punches more quickly than his opponent can react to them . A counter punch can be performed quickly in the seconds the opponent drops his guard to punch. 
• A boxer who is faster has a defensive advantage since he can slip and move away from punches faster than his opponent can throw them. Mayweather is known for being one fast boxer, he can slip punches quickly and hardly get hit since dodges them all with quick precision. 

Article 1: Automatic Boxing Skills- Take your game to the next level. 

Article 2: How to slip punches in boxing 

(Both are on ExpertBoxing.com)

 Being faster is key to winning a fight in the ring and in many other environments. There is plenty of research and training I can do to both improve and master speed in the fast paced environment that is boxing. 

Blog 15: Independent Conponent 2.

  What I will be doing for independent component two is continuing to go to mentorship. Bryan and I discussed the idea of learning to dance to improve footwork, but he doesn't seem too fond of it. So I will continue going to the gym. There I will continue my training, that involves the lifestyle outside of the gym such as eating right and getting plenty of exercise especially running long distances to improve endurance.  I will begin to do more workouts that involve speeding up my hands, like shadow boxing with wrist weights or while holding a couple of dumbells. I will continue to spar in order to improve my reaction time to stimuli in the ring.  I will also ask my coach to begin working me with the focus mitts to also improve reaction time.

I didn't take many pictures or video of the first thirty hours, so I'll be taking much more of both. As well as screenshots of my distance runs and timed runs. Hopefully I can get a friend to come to the gym to help me take pictures and video.

Running, weight training, and sparing will all help me to explore other possible answers in my topic.  Running will help build better endurance to outperform your opponent. Th weights will make you faster than your opponent. And sparring helps you become aware of the stimuli that are present in the ring, such as the start of a punch or the prep for a combo or movement.  

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal:

I, Alfredo Nunez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

I give credit to my coach, Bernard Roberts (Bernie), for training me daily, and teaching me most everything I know.

The thirty hours of work will be taken from the spreadsheet that contains the hours of mentorship.

During training, I learn the techniques it takes to be a great fighter. With the help of my coach, I do exercises that help strengthen my body, mind, and technique over all. I also often find myself helping the people who are just starting to train with their basics, such as stance, wraps, shadow boxing, etc. I also spar often in order to learn what I need improvement with and how I can become a better fighter.

Interpretive:

 Everyday I go train, the gym opens at Five and closes at Eight, I always try to get there no later than 5:30 and stay from 2-3 hours depending on how demanding the day is. If I spar, i usually try to conserve energy for the spar, as it will be three three-minute rounds (sometimes more sometimes less) of the same stuff i would be doing, only much more rigorously, quickly, and powerfully. I mentioned in an earlier blog post that spars can get out of hand and this is still true, but a spar is meant to train you for the reality of the ring, so trainees often give it most of their all, but slow down when necessary. As mentioned earlier I also help new people with training, I teach them the basic stance of a boxer, and how he or she will move once in the stance and how they must return to said stance to provide balance and a strong base for releasing adequate punches. I have taken videos of training sessions as well as spars, but Blogger doesn't allow me to post them through their site, so I will post them elsewhere and leave a link on this post. I will update that later.

Applied:

With every person I teach, i myself learn and improve my knowledge of the basics of boxing. This is important to understand since a good foundation is necessary to becoming a great fighter ( An idea my coach stresses A LOT.) One example of how the independent component helped me improve my base is: since my coach has slightly more trust in me that most of our "little team" he often sends me to help out new comers. The last was a boy named Brian who had never really trained before and he asked me to train him since he liked how I had taught him at a past time. I taught him how to stand properly and employed techniques mentioned in my research to help him improve his stance. I also showed him the basics of slipping by showing him how to use the rope ( a contraption we have set up in our gym that has a rope that can be moved to different heights) and in doing this I myself caught minor mistakes I was doing in my technique, I promptly corrected them and continued to help him. He now often asks me for help and enjoys learning from me a little more than my own coach.  Training daily helps me get into the groove of the lifestyle that is boxing; one that is very demanding, athletic, and empowering.