The **BOXING** thread Vol 2
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FredClogs said:
tuscaneer said:
every time the olympics come around i go on to the missus about wanting to fence. i've always seen fencing and boxing as intrinsically linked and i've always found reading about the fore fathers of modern boxing like Broughton and Figg that they were all master fencers as well as pugilists..
well i've gone and done it. i start next week.!... i can't wait actually, and i'm really eager to see how it feels. as a natural southpaw i want to hold the sword in my right hand like a jab.....and interestingly this is the natural lead hand in fencing so even though i'm the wrong way round in boxing it makes me the right way round in fencing!...
interesting read for those as nerdy as me....
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/the-sword-and-the-f...
Yep, me too, I was watching it last night and thinking I'd love to have a do at it. I did some Kendo years ago, similar sort of appreciation of distance movement and hand speed (with a lot more shouting) although you can circle in Kendo, the thing with fencing is it seems very 1 dimensional.well i've gone and done it. i start next week.!... i can't wait actually, and i'm really eager to see how it feels. as a natural southpaw i want to hold the sword in my right hand like a jab.....and interestingly this is the natural lead hand in fencing so even though i'm the wrong way round in boxing it makes me the right way round in fencing!...
interesting read for those as nerdy as me....
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/the-sword-and-the-f...
Kendo and Fencing are seen as upper crust past times in their respective cultures, so not as popular as they might be otherwise but there is likely a club nearish to you, what's the worst that can happen? (Obviously you can have someone's eye out with that so be careful)
looking at the width of the mat i'm pretty sure side shifting of the feet will come into play but again, soon find out!
there are 3 clubs in my vicinty.one is only a mile from my house.....tidy!
I've just read that article and it is interesting, it also has enlightened me as to why I've tended to box southpaw, I didn't when I boxed very briefly as a kid and I've always blamed my dad who was left handed and took me on the pads as a kid, but I think having read that it's probably the years I spent doing sword practice in Aikido and the bit of kendo and Iado that I did, where you had no option but to lead right leg and right hand on top.
Edited by FredClogs on Wednesday 10th August 10:28
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yeah, it's quite interesting how you develop a fighting style and how left brain/right brain processes information and translates it into what your hands and feet do
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Yiliterate said:
and what's even more scary is the fact brook already looks ripped......it's not like he's just looking fat, he looks f
king huge!!tuscaneer said:
Yiliterate said:
and what's even more scary is the fact brook already looks ripped......it's not like he's just looking fat, he looks fking huge!!(I will absolutely be gutted if he pisses hot though after all this, I'm not saying he will or believe he will or that I know or have heard anything, I'm just saying)
tuscaneer said:
Yiliterate said:
and what's even more scary is the fact brook already looks ripped......it's not like he's just looking fat, he looks fking huge!!it is baffling to me how he can do it....when i met him he was a bit...podgy....and didn't strike me as massive in the way carl froch unexpectedly towered over me....
when you watch kell's recent fights he doesn't look draw in the way bellew used to look at light heavy..he looked perfect in the porter fight and if you'd asked me then about him going up to middle i would have laughed....but seeing him stood next to golovkin and seeing how ripped he looks in those photos....all of a sudden it doesn't look like a total mismatch!!bet you never thought you'd hear me say that!!
when you watch kell's recent fights he doesn't look draw in the way bellew used to look at light heavy..he looked perfect in the porter fight and if you'd asked me then about him going up to middle i would have laughed....but seeing him stood next to golovkin and seeing how ripped he looks in those photos....all of a sudden it doesn't look like a total mismatch!!bet you never thought you'd hear me say that!!
Yiliterate said:
tuscaneer said:
Yiliterate said:
and what's even more scary is the fact brook already looks ripped......it's not like he's just looking fat, he looks fking huge!!
Yiliterate said:
tuscaneer said:
it is baffling to me how he can do it....when i met him he was a bit...podgy....and didn't strike me as massive in the way carl froch unexpectedly towered over me....
Eh eh eh??? What's all this then...what's this about?!?!k it, i can't be arsed
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