Welcome to Droitwich Amateur Boxing Club
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The Boxing club has been part of the Droitwich community for 42 years, it has produced some very talented boxers who went on to achieve both District and National championship levels.
Today the Club is more than just a Boxing Club, within its new building it offers Fitness, self defence and a place to gain self esteem, we are open to anyone from the age of 9 to 99 to come along and join us for fitness training or for the more competitive amongst you that might want to take up the sport of boxing.
We also off a revolutionary new scheme where we ‘Counter punch’ Parkinsons Disease, by offering sufferers the chance to exercise, the results are remarkable.
Please message our team to find a night suitable to cater for your needs.
IMPORTANT: All Box Fit participants MUST complete a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) BEFORE commencing training.
You can download this form by clicking the link below and then downloading and printing the form.
Bring it along to your next session and it will remain valid for 12 months.
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How to find us
We're located behind the leisure centre.
Drive through the car park to the rear of the leisure centre and continue along the road until you reach another car park and you'll find us on your left.
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Feints - Always bring these into shadow boxing. These are useful against both come forward and back foot boxers. Use them to change the tempo, take opponent out of a rhythm and allow you time to think.
These are also great against a counter puncher, trying to draw their lead so that you can 'counter their counter'.
Try feinting to the body and going to the head too. Feints are great for setting up your own attacks.
Remember boxing is a physical chess match, where we learn how to out manoeuvre the opponent.
Here Sugar Ray uses feints effectively throughout his contest to methodically out point the British Dave Boy Green MBE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdB5kG6hik0
Sugar Ray Leonard - The Head Feint
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fayzfitness.co.uk/blog for more tips and tricks.Sugar Ray Leonard always had a plan behind his movements. By using the head feint especially with a c...1 minute muscle endurance tests - simple and straight forward. Gauge where you are at now and work to improve.
Press ups
Burpees
Situps
How many can you complete of each in 1 minute?
Importance of body punching:
Opens up the target - Body punches are a fantastic way to open your opponent up. By landing a body punch your opponent will anticipate punches coming to the body as well as head. Therefore the guard will be more likely to drop.
Slow the opponent down - The opponent will have more to think about now, also the wind will be taken out of the sails and these are much harder to recover from (if you are hit with a good body punch you stay hit for the rest of the fight! - Ask people that have sparred/fought Bulla!)
Gains the opponents respect - The opponent will feel they are in with a good boxer if the body is targeted and may even encourage them to go into their shell. Plus a well schooled judge will give credit to a boxer that is targeting the body effectively as this shows good planning and maturity, equally 'head hunting' can become predicable and limit you.
If you have a tall opponent dropping under their offence will enable you to evade their attacks whilst also setting up your own, make them miss..make them pay. Plus it's these ones that they don't see that will score.
Boxers:
We may be closed boxers however some of the greatest boxers trained in their own time, not in the gym. The pavements are still open for runs and you can shadow box and skip at home along with all the conditioning exercises we complete in circuits.
Work on mastering those skills - in our last session we were working on setting up our attacks with feints and taking out predictability. Aim to master some of these skills.
Things to integrate into sessions:
Skill focus:
Shadow boxing
4 X 2 minute rounds (45 seconds break):
Give yourself a focus for these e.g. First 2 rounds focus on foot defenses and feints to set up attack, straight punches only.
Rounds 3 & 4: Busy with an explosive lead hand and phases of attack switching the attack from head to body with both long and short range punches, incorporating feints and foot defenses.
3 X 1 minute rounds:
Round 1. High work rate, top gear, phases and double attacks
Round 2. Combination punching - 3's and 4's changing the angle between each attack
Round 3. Power punches
Conditioning:
1 round of 4 minutes skipping: 20 seconds doubles/knees up and 10 seconds active rest e.g. single knee raise/left leg only/opposite boxing stance and move. Repeat the above for 4 minutes.
Circuit:
Press ups (+push up variations e.g. Plyometric)
V-sit ups (+Abdominal exercises)
Hyper extensions + dorsal raises
Pull ups
Squat jumps (Jumping variations)
- Focus on explosive movements to prepare the muscles for punching and endurance to continue with good performance throughout the rounds and contest.
Well done team #DABCFamily
*ANNOUCEMENT*
Following the broadcast from Boris Johnson the gym will now be shut until further notice. Stay safe everyone!
