>want to start boxing
>all don't want to get brain damage and end up a vegetable
what do?
>want to start boxing. >all don't want to get brain damage and end up a vegetable
>want to start boxing
>all don't want to get brain damage and end up a vegetable
what do?
Wrassle
only fight women, children
Don’t box then. Am boxer for 10 years, I don’t think so good anymore.
share your experiences doing boxing for 10yrs pls
duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh idk hahaha
If you don't go pro you'll be fine, sparring and amateur circuit is safe enough. You will undeniably get some cumulative damage but the extent depends entirely on you as an individual (lot of well-spoken boxers that had massive trauma, SRL and LaMotta), but even so there are ways to minimize it (sparring, neck training, solid footwork / defence). Only you can decide if it's worth it.
Join a boxercise class where all they do is punch a bag and the air. Just remember it's not real and be prepared to run away from fights if you ever see yourself in one.
Wait it out for half a decade until Zuck releases VR, then box/swordfight there.
Don't be a retard and do kickboxing instead
Find an actual good boxing gym, enroll, enjoy.
To find one you have to look out for gyms that include the big three in martial arts: technique exercises without a partner, working with a partner and pressure testing.
>technique
This includes drills, explanation on how to strike and footwork against air, a lot of work with a mirror, the typical stuff you'd find most eastern martial arts do waaay too much and for boxing stuff like bag work, slipping and rolling under a string or some shit (we usually used either a rubber band or some old hand wraps that noone knew where they actually came from lol)
>working with a partner
Pad work, drills with a partner, and so on. The drillwork is not a free sparring session btw, but using the e.g. combo X against a litteral person with movement.
>Pressure testing
most important point. Free sparring in a safe environment. Headgear, light sparring, heavy sparring with percaution. A lot of underground whatever gyms only do heavy sparring, which is total bs. You're there to learn how to fight. You won't learn shit if you're out for 3 weeks after each session because you cracked a rib or worse, you'll fear the fight which is something every beginner needs to cope with. You only learn and improve if you get the chance to actually improve.
>pressure testing
I literally quit boxing because I got concussions every time I did sparring.
either the people I would spar with were good and I was outclassed and couldn't do anything or they had egos and wanted to hurt beginners to feel good or they were beginners and wanted to throw everything they had at me.
at least with wrestling or bjj you don't get brain trauma so some morons can feel good about themselves.
sorry to hear that anon, but it's actually pretty good to hear that this didn't put you off martial arts completely. I'm sure most other people would have stopped doing martial arts completely.
These are situations, where the coach should interfere or have the sessions supervised by more experienced boxers if he is somewhere else in the gym. All this hit hard and hit to kill mentality is something that a lot of boxing gyms have and that's the complete wrong way. It's tough to spot a good gym with good sparring mentality, especially if you have no experience in other types of martial arts and are a complete beginner.
>at least with wrestling or bjj you don't get brain trauma
You do though.
boxing is 10 times worse
Yeah I've seen at least half a dozen threads on SwoleShack about
>anon tries BJJ
>is stronger than more experienced guy
>more experienced guy gets mad and started trying to really hurt him to recover some of his ego
It's practically a meme by this point.
BJJ memes centre around weak people coping with a strong young athletic guy coming in and pounding them whilst being a white belt and the purple belts are salty because their status meant nothing
Don’t box people then. Next question
Trust me anon, if you get brain damage then nobody around you will be able to tell the difference
lil brain damage never hurt anybody
Concussions aren't a big deal if treated properly
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WvcnIUiEdozknyqhVo2Ua?si=Lp62RxfYSeClhAJ6GjqJ1w
You only get hit in the head if you do hard sparring or real fights.
I go to an MMA gym. Most people get NEVER hit in the head. Most people have a job and can't afford to have a black eye on Monday.
You can do boxing without getting hit hard. Most people do.
how much is it going to replicate a real fight if you never get hit in the head?
It won't replicate a real fight exactly if you don't get hit in the head, but you'll still be better than 99% of people who do fuck all all day.
You won't replicate a real fight in a gym anyway.
>Most people get NEVER hit in the head.
>get NEVER
QED.
>Most people have a job and can't afford to have a black eye on Monday.
That's how you know it's a shitty casual gym for homosexuals.
Proper MMA gym has teenagers who basically only train, people who regularly compete, adolescents who wanna get really good and then on top of that some 40yo fuckos with office jobs and kiddos
Keep the guard high
Getting hit in the head with 16oz gloves won't do any harm
If you're up against a big guy going too hard you might get a concussion though
Basically it's not something to worry about unless you're competing in 10oz gloves regularly
Holy fucking shit why is there ALWAYS a bunch of retards in every thread giving completely wrong fucking answer even though they clearly know fuck all about the subject?
Like are you an actual retard and think you somehow know about things you have 0 experience with?
GLOVES PROTECT THE HAND, THE BIGGER THE GLOVE THE WORSE FOR THE HEAD
It's the first thing you ever learn about striking arts
t. has never trained fighting but knows all the memes
Bigger the gloves, less room to get through the guard.
You're actually stupid as fuck
Do you think getting hit with fluffy 16oz gloves is the same as getting hit with 16oz of pure hard leather?
There's a reason all gyms require 16oz for sparring and its not "muh hand damage" or "muh facial cuts".
f=ma
bigger gloves makes that force spread out over a bigger area so it's less likely to make you bleed, but all that force ultimately ends up at your brain regardless and makes you more likely to get brain damage.
Don't know about you but I'd rather have a black eye than be retarded.
I guess people wearing protective body suits take more damage to their internal organs when they fall of a motorcycle, becuase the gear weighs more than being naked?
No, because the weight of the suit in comparison to your body's weight is less than the force dissipation it adds, and the ground's weight stays the same. In this analogy (You) would be like the protected hand underneath the boxing glove, not a person's face.
You're working backwards to justify your own conclusions rather than thinking logically at all because you are mentally ill. There's been research done on this and bare knuckle fights end in brain damage much less often, and you're not going to change anyone's mind on that with analogies that don't even work. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34380362/
You already have brain damage from imageboard use and anime consumption.
Just go and do the classes but don't spar.
It's good stuff, even if you don't go hard.
Same, OP, same. Also have large nose and would prefer it didn't get broken lol.
do sambo then pick up combat sambo later on
Just find a proper boxing gym.
Even if you do spar, the other person will only hit back as hard as you hit unless you’re sparring with some tryhard homosexual and most of these asswipes never come back.
>>all don't want to get brain damage
>all
At this point, what difference does it make?
brain damage is unavoidable if you want to learn to fight. you MUST spar if you want to get good at boxing.
you should join a black boxing gym as young as possible. look at these kids - they are way ahead. white kids arent ever taught to fight like this
muh CTE is just hysterics
people love to scream it here as soon as they read the word boxing or martial arts because they're too pussy to do it themselves and cope by acting like they're making the smarter/wiser choice, all while probably consuming braindamaging zog media and sneed oils, and sleeping like shit.
meanwhile not even every pro boxer with like 300 fights has CTE, and plenty of other contact sports have CTE aswell
just dont compete if you're so scared
shadow box
And the Wu-Tang sword style.