They mostly are used counter-productively. The main function is to make you feel like you just accomplished a lot, and to make you dependent on the coach. Meanwhile I've seen dozens of people who look like killers on mitts but can't fight a lick. Also mitts have given birth to a whole genre of "Mitt-men" who are no longer acquiescing to real trainers and just doing their job. They tend to try to take over as head coaches and then make a fighter worse.
I kinda knew at the time but this thread confirms I was taught mittwork for the right reasons.
Hi Sinister. How hard do you want your fighters throwing?
I remember getting chewed out by a new trainer for not throwing "as hard as I could" at her, even though it was our first mitt session and obviously I had no clue if she could hold them.
But I was always taught about technique and footwork.
AFAIK it wasn't his own idea to do pro boxing. Looks that some friends when he didn't had papers for basketball told him that he might do some pro boxing. He was always interested about basketball.Nice enough guy, terrible aptitude for boxing
My Son broke his wrist riding his bike. So his Amateur debut will be delayed, but I'm keeping him in shape:
I hope that he will be fine.
My friends does have one fighter...
When he was am KBer he didn't had problems to finish opponents in distance...
Until he get broken hand....
After this he looks that hestitated to throw with 100% and when they turned him into pro boxer stuff was more like fight ends on judges cards....
Before this he had something like silver in Continental am chapmpionship
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While cos kid is young not late teen it most likely will have lesser impact on his desire to throw with full power...
This is good.He's already fine, trying to wrestle and do cartwheels with one arm
They mostly are used counter-productively. The main function is to make you feel like you just accomplished a lot, and to make you dependent on the coach. Meanwhile I've seen dozens of people who look like killers on mitts but can't fight a lick. Also mitts have given birth to a whole genre of "Mitt-men" who are no longer acquiescing to real trainers and just doing their job. They tend to try to take over as head coaches and then make a fighter worse.
Always nice to see the kids taking a crack at the sport.
What do you work on the most regarding fundamentals when teaching them?
I asked the guy I knew about Joe Clough, he didn't know him, I told him "you had to have fought across from him many times". He knew some of the other coaches from Tacoma but I just told him, whoever else was left doesn't turn out fighters anymore. He mentioned some names but nothing about Clough.
He told me what I already know, that they are still there in tacoma, but like I said, those guys are not turning out anyone today.
I don't disagree. They tend to be fitness coaches not tacticians. It's a combat sport after all. I'm guessing what you mean is that the mitt men are good for the conditioning of strict repetitive movement but not leading as trainers. I've seen it and noticed it is more common place for them to step into place when the original coach passes/leaves.