NEW-SCHOOL TRAINERS VS OLD-SCHOOL TRAINERS. WHO IS BETTER?

New-school trainers vs Old-school trainers. An old-school trainer is always a better choice over a new-school trainer. You ask Punchingbagskunk.com resident boxing expert Greg Townes why? Old-school trainers have experience as well as knowledge. New-school trainers only have knowledge.

New-school trainers might be able to teach you to throw a punch in battle…maybe! But they are not qualified to prepare you for the mental battle all fighters go through prior to fights. They can teach you how to knock someone down. But they cant teach you how to get up from a knockdown.

They are familiar with teaching the X’s and O’s, but not the intangibles concerning boxing. Things like mental preparation. Pre-fight fear and even overconfidence. New-school trainers can build up muscles but cant build confidence. They can tell you where to throw a hook, but cant mentally prepare you to step into the danger zone to land the hook on anything but the heavy bag.

Punchingbagskunk resident boxing expert Greg Townes speaks on this topic at length in the article HOW TO BECOME A GREAT FIGHTER.

A boxer‘s training depends largely on the point in their career at which he or she is situated. If the boxer is just a beginner, a minimal training routine might consist of learning how to hit a heavy bag, a speed bag, or a double end bag (a small bag with a cord on top and bottom connecting it to the floor and ceiling) as well as doing shadowboxing in front of a mirror, skipping rope, calisthenics and jogging every day, as well as an occasional practice bout inside the ring (sparring). Most beginning boxers will spend most of their early careers conditioning and establishing the fundamentals. For the amateur or professional boxer preparing for a competition or bout, however, training is much more stringent. Boxing is widely considered one of the most physically demanding sports in the world.

WHAT IS BOXING REALLY ABOUT, MIND OR BODY?

Goofy stick play and patty cake pad work do nothing to prepare a fighter for real combat. And new-school trainers love to work the pads with people they are training. Boxing is about confidence not physical strength. You build a fighters confidence so when they are ready to take that ring walk and step into the boxing ring, they are fighting machines. They will believe they are the greatest. And as a man thinketh……you know the rest.

WHO IS MIKE TYSON? THE OLD-SCHOOL FIGHTER TRAINED BY A OLD-SCHOOL TRAINER.

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed “Iron Mike”^[3] and “Kid Dynamite” in his early career, and later known as “The Baddest Man on the Planet”,^[4] Tyson is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.^[5] He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round.

WHAT BELTS DID MIKE TYSON WIN

Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.^[6] He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, as well as the only heavyweight to unify them in succession. The following year, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds of the first round.^[7] In 1990, Tyson was knocked out by underdog Buster Douglas^[8] in one of the biggest upsets in history.

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