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Teaching boys to box

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,181 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Your Face wrote: »
    Furiuos - that's what wins fights.

    Shaddup, yuo.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Feisar wrote: »
    By the by if I ever decide to go down the gangster route I'm investing in a groin guard, everyone thinks a kick in the balls is some sort of great leveller.

    The gun is the great leveller in that world.

    Doesn't matter how jacked up and buff a fella is. Nobody wins against the gun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,325 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    What is a good age to teach boys to box and very importantly having taught him to throw a punch how do I stop him from doing it in ordinary rough and tumble play.

    Whatever age you think is good to start on them a path to permanent brain damage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    In theory a fantastic sport for discipline self defence fitness and confidence.

    In reality it's over run with Irish ethnic minorities


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    Some people here will know how some boxing clubs work and will be better qualified than myself to comment, but I would have thought that actual sparring is something that only happens after a fair bit of training anyway. Perhaps anywhere from 6 months - one year. Maybe it's different with kids though - I'm not sure. There surely wouldn't be a rule forcing anyone into it anyway. There seems to be a lot of people of all ages just doing drills for fitness and hand to eye co-ordination now. Actual sparring is primarily done to prepare someone for a fight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    In theory a fantastic sport for discipline self defence fitness and confidence.

    In reality it's over run with Irish ethnic minorities

    Not true at all...it depends on which club and where it's situated. A number of clubs won't take them at all.
    It's true that they are attracted to it, and there's quite a few of them at it, but that's all part of the whole macho attitude that is ingrained into them.
    Some of the traveller children are great kids and are very respectful and obliging. It's when they get older that they're expected to partake in the traveller 'way of life', mostly due to peer pressure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    In theory a fantastic sport for discipline self defence fitness and confidence.

    In reality it's over run with Irish ethnic minorities

    Not true at all...it depends on which club and where it's situated. A number of clubs won't take them at all.
    It's true that they are attracted to it, and there's quite a few of them at it, but that's all part of the whole macho attitude that is ingrained into them.
    Some of the traveller children are great kids and are very respectful and obliging. It's when they get older that they're expected to partake in the traveller 'way of life', mostly due to peer pressure.
    my own experience of traveller boxers (in the same club ) -is complately positive, boxing is not overrun with travellers, boxing is helped by travellers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Literally every club in Ireland or England that I've boxed at had Travellers in it and they were nearly all sound as a pound - certainly no worse than any other demographic anyway. It's a shame people are trying to crowbar their prejudice into a sport they clearly know nothing about or don't participate in.


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