Training Tuesday and Thursday 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Saturday 11am.
Partner work in the gym
At Bradricks boxing club you can be part of it as a non competition boxer who trains for skills, fitness and self defence with out the pressure of competition. As a non competitive boxer you have the option of sparring or not, although partner work is a big part of the class.
Bradricks competition boxers are a big part of the club and their training is taken very seriously and as such these boys are expected to be at all training sessions required by thier coaches.
Bradricks competition boxers are selected and only after they have proved that they have what it takes are they entered in a bout. Most of the boys that do compete at Bradricks, start as non competive boxers and after months of training they may be offered the opportunity to train to compete. There is no pressure to compete at any time the choice can be made at any time.
Non comp and comp boxers train together most of the time apart from the competition fitness training sessions which are compulsory for comp boxers only, although all are welcome.
Rocky warming up with Pete(pad master)Meakes before a fight.
In the club classes all boxer train in a structured class run by one of the Bradricks coaches, there are no do your own thing classes at Bradricks unless you are training out of class times with your coaches knowledge.
During most classses there will be a warm up and exercise section and a skills and ring work section, the warm up can be very hard or relatively easy. Coaches try to vary training as much as possible, being a sport were repetition is the order of the day it is quite hard to change many parts of the sessions.
Sparring is a big part of the boxing clubs training regime as sparring is the time when you test the skills that you have learned during training.
Sparring is not for every one and that is why we have different levels of sparring so that everybody can enjoy it to some level.
1 Partner work. 2 Touch sparring. 3 Light sparring. 4 Competition sparring
Sherwyn and Luke sparring in the gym (Get your left up Sherwyn!)
Partner work is where you work with a partner, practising offence and defence drills or combinations. At the novice level there is little if any contact in partner work.
Touch sparring is the next level where you practice drills and all sparring combinations with only touch contact of your partners head.
Light sparring is only pacticed inside the ring with a coach present a all times, light sparring is the most common form of sparring that the competitors will practice. All boxing skills are used at a controlled power level the coach watching will coach at all time picking up mistakes and commenting on which techniques are working well. The coach will often stop the sparring to correct mistakes in practice.
Our most experience boxer Angus Hann (left) "light sparring" with our newest competitor Pete.
Competition sparring is full contact sparring with respect for your partner, comp sparring is conducted with a coach at all times and is the lead up sparring before a scheduled bout. It is represents as close as possible to the real fight, in duration and intensity.This style of sparring is only conducted with competitors who have bouts coming up, safety is of the upmost importance at all times.
Angus Hann winning the 2006 state title
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