I know how it sounds, but no i don't plan on mugging anybody. I'll try to make it short.
Tonight i went to the gym just to see what was up, i'm taking the summer off since the trainer who usually trains me is off for the summer aswell. The only trainer there is a old british guy who tells everybody hook with your palms facing away from you. I never liked him as a trainer, he thinks he is always right and tries to make everyody into the same format instead of looking at what somebody can do and building around that.
Anyway, as soon as i step in he's like "Hey Big Ben! We got a new heavyweight that will be able to spar with you. He'll be here soon!"
I wasn't there to spar but...i love sparring so i waited. I warm up, shadow boxing, streching ect.
I waited for the guy for over an hour before he arrived. He comes in, big guy, bit taller than me, but he was pretty much a fat ****, must have been 280-300 easily. The guy had never sparred before.
Fast forward 40 minutes later, he's finally ready and we get in the ring. Trainer tells me to take it easy.
As soon as we started i knew something was wrong. The guy was fighting scared, i took a step forward, he took two backwards. He had both his gloves in front of his face, his elbows in his ribs and didn't budge. I swear, we almost two rounds and he didn't land nothing, not even a jab. He just threw jabs when we weren't even in punching range like he wanted to make sure i didn't step forward.
I was just jabbing hitting his gloves, threw some body shots. But honestly the guy never opened up. He acted like my gloves were covered in aids and his face was an open wound. I landed most of my my punches in his gloves and forearms. But he was always moving backwards, every time he was stuck in the ropes and i started throwing to the body trying to get him to open up the trainer told me to let him breathe and step back.
I felt bad for the guy but i was also frustrated cause i could barely hit him. In the middle of the second round i was getting annoyed and i tried throwing some shots with some pop behind them, he still wasn't throwing punches and he was still convering up. I eventually caught him with a straight left, it was not really hard as i had to hyper extent because he was backing up as i threw the punch. But was soon as it landed he threw himself to the ground, i swear that punch could not have hurt him, he threw himself down in fear of getting it.
His nose was bleeding a little and he said he wanted to stop. So we stopped. After that he came up to me to shake me hand and said "It was a good fight man, you hit like a mac truck" I didn't insult him but i honestly felt like clocking him right there for a second. I mean, you call that fighting? Running away from me for like 6 minutes.
I'm so ****ing pissed. I could have just kept punching but he was new and i'm not that much of a ****.
Long story but my question will be simple, how do you fight somebody who doesn't want to fight and just covers up and backs away? I landed a good amount of body shots but i landed 10 punches to the head tops and most of them weren't clean.
No keyboard warriors please, i need real advice.
Edit: ****, typo in the title. How do i edit this crap?
Tonight i went to the gym just to see what was up, i'm taking the summer off since the trainer who usually trains me is off for the summer aswell. The only trainer there is a old british guy who tells everybody hook with your palms facing away from you. I never liked him as a trainer, he thinks he is always right and tries to make everyody into the same format instead of looking at what somebody can do and building around that.
Anyway, as soon as i step in he's like "Hey Big Ben! We got a new heavyweight that will be able to spar with you. He'll be here soon!"
I wasn't there to spar but...i love sparring so i waited. I warm up, shadow boxing, streching ect.
I waited for the guy for over an hour before he arrived. He comes in, big guy, bit taller than me, but he was pretty much a fat ****, must have been 280-300 easily. The guy had never sparred before.
Fast forward 40 minutes later, he's finally ready and we get in the ring. Trainer tells me to take it easy.
As soon as we started i knew something was wrong. The guy was fighting scared, i took a step forward, he took two backwards. He had both his gloves in front of his face, his elbows in his ribs and didn't budge. I swear, we almost two rounds and he didn't land nothing, not even a jab. He just threw jabs when we weren't even in punching range like he wanted to make sure i didn't step forward.
I was just jabbing hitting his gloves, threw some body shots. But honestly the guy never opened up. He acted like my gloves were covered in aids and his face was an open wound. I landed most of my my punches in his gloves and forearms. But he was always moving backwards, every time he was stuck in the ropes and i started throwing to the body trying to get him to open up the trainer told me to let him breathe and step back.
I felt bad for the guy but i was also frustrated cause i could barely hit him. In the middle of the second round i was getting annoyed and i tried throwing some shots with some pop behind them, he still wasn't throwing punches and he was still convering up. I eventually caught him with a straight left, it was not really hard as i had to hyper extent because he was backing up as i threw the punch. But was soon as it landed he threw himself to the ground, i swear that punch could not have hurt him, he threw himself down in fear of getting it.
His nose was bleeding a little and he said he wanted to stop. So we stopped. After that he came up to me to shake me hand and said "It was a good fight man, you hit like a mac truck" I didn't insult him but i honestly felt like clocking him right there for a second. I mean, you call that fighting? Running away from me for like 6 minutes.
I'm so ****ing pissed. I could have just kept punching but he was new and i'm not that much of a ****.
Long story but my question will be simple, how do you fight somebody who doesn't want to fight and just covers up and backs away? I landed a good amount of body shots but i landed 10 punches to the head tops and most of them weren't clean.
No keyboard warriors please, i need real advice.
Edit: ****, typo in the title. How do i edit this crap?
) but anyway my friend who been fighting for a while tells me that a fighter always knows how to control his power...so if it's a new guy just do things you wouldn't do for say a more exprience person. like maybe you should had just prataice on your jab or a combonation you wanted to try out...thats wht i usally do.
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