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This really builds on Judo Champions last post re sport TKD/MA etc.
What bugs me is the increasing amount of private trainers in gyms that are teaching their clients MA or boxing. Sure, combat-cardio and cardio-boxing and the like can appear as a joke to a martial artist but at least it should be pretty clear that it is just a form of work-out/cardio and can be an effective way of staying or getting in shape (although I always wondered why not do boxing or karate and then just simply run for your base fitness training - but not everyone likes fighting or putting the time into that I guess).
But what I have been seeing for a while when I go to train in the gym at lunch is more than one fitness/private trainer "teaching" boxing to their client (and one guy who is pretty suspect teaching kickboxing). Several things annoy me: (i) it is clear to any boxer or anyone who has trained with or fought boxers that these trainers have no boxing background and have only gone thru some two-hour crash course seminar on boxing; (ii) it is not presented as merely a cardio workout; (iii) the skills imparted (focus pad, bag-work and ring work/sparring) is appalling.
These people are paying good money and are picking up dangerous punching techniques (ie broken wrist material) and shoddy applications. If these people, and I think many do, think they are learning how to box, then it is a joke and a travisty! Their trainers have no experience, physical or mental, about how to really fight! Maybe the clients do not want to go to a dingy boxing club or training dungeon but I have seen a few with their trainers who seem to think they are training in the real McCoy.
Is anyone else coming across this? Sure, why should we care, we should just get on with our own stuff and training, but these trainers seem a bit like imposters. A trainer should be teaching good technique in whatever it is, be it pilates to kettle bells, to throwing a punch.
What bugs me is the increasing amount of private trainers in gyms that are teaching their clients MA or boxing. Sure, combat-cardio and cardio-boxing and the like can appear as a joke to a martial artist but at least it should be pretty clear that it is just a form of work-out/cardio and can be an effective way of staying or getting in shape (although I always wondered why not do boxing or karate and then just simply run for your base fitness training - but not everyone likes fighting or putting the time into that I guess).
But what I have been seeing for a while when I go to train in the gym at lunch is more than one fitness/private trainer "teaching" boxing to their client (and one guy who is pretty suspect teaching kickboxing). Several things annoy me: (i) it is clear to any boxer or anyone who has trained with or fought boxers that these trainers have no boxing background and have only gone thru some two-hour crash course seminar on boxing; (ii) it is not presented as merely a cardio workout; (iii) the skills imparted (focus pad, bag-work and ring work/sparring) is appalling.
These people are paying good money and are picking up dangerous punching techniques (ie broken wrist material) and shoddy applications. If these people, and I think many do, think they are learning how to box, then it is a joke and a travisty! Their trainers have no experience, physical or mental, about how to really fight! Maybe the clients do not want to go to a dingy boxing club or training dungeon but I have seen a few with their trainers who seem to think they are training in the real McCoy.
Is anyone else coming across this? Sure, why should we care, we should just get on with our own stuff and training, but these trainers seem a bit like imposters. A trainer should be teaching good technique in whatever it is, be it pilates to kettle bells, to throwing a punch.