About Boxing: Rose Holding Pads For Liz

Training

Most of the boxing pics we see are of rough, hard fights—and this is only natural, beating each other senseless is a big part of the game.  But hard punching is only a small part of the time spent at the gym and in the ring—this is a more common scene.

Here, Rose is training Scrap and Little Liz.  Rose is calling out punches, and Liz is snapping them into Rose’s glove.  That gives Rose a good chance to analyze Liz’s technique.  She’s bound to have some words with Liz about her defense—though there’s nothing wrong with the punch.  Meanwhile, Scrap waits for her turn.  Punch pad time is a very important part of training, and with a good coach, you make great progress FAST.  A lot of the time, classes involve working the pads with other students and competitors—and a boxer’s skill shows almost as much in how well she does holding pads.

Rose generally prefers to wear her own gloves instead of pads—smaller targets demand more precision from the students, and since she’s got gloves, she can tap her students if they leave an opening.  (Or tap more firmly in some cases…)