help picking a gym

[Stuart_boxer]

I've actually never stepped foot into any other boxing club but my own, so what constitutes as a "quality" boxing gym?

I love my club and definitely don't intend on changing, just curious what you all would consider a good boxing gym.

I guess I'm fussy because I could give a quite extensive answer to this but I'll keep it short.

Sparring: Not too hard, not too soft. I can't stand training in a gym where I'm the only one wearing a headguard but equally I wouldn't go to not wear one because I would hate going in to work with black eyes.

Bag work: do the coaches give you technical instruction or just encourage you to burn out, similar with shadow boxing and focus pads.

Again keeping it short, I've seen a huge variation from coaches who get their entertainment from having guys beat the crap out of each in sparring to commercial boxercise places that will do no sparring.

[Lucky86]

Different gyms have different methods of developing fighters if that’s your goal. I learned to box in Toronto. My gym there was open gym 5-9pm every day. You show up put in work and a few different coaches would
Put in one on one time to teach you. They gave me a program to follow and here and there would get interrupted to spar.
When after high school I moved to western Canada work money and the mountains. The boxing gyms
Were quite different. It was almost all like a class everyone doing stuff together you had to be there 5-630 or whatever or you missed it. There would be very little open gym time or it was always at awkward hours ( during the work day).
So I recommend seeing what works for you . I do not enjoy the large class type training. I felt I got a better education on boxing in Toronto.

[OctoberRed]

Different gyms have different methods of developing fighters if that’s your goal..

True words here...

[YoungManRumble]

Different gyms have different methods of developing fighters if that’s your goal. I learned to box in Toronto. My gym there was open gym 5-9pm every day. You show up put in work and a few different coaches would
Put in one on one time to teach you. They gave me a program to follow and here and there would get interrupted to spar.
When after high school I moved to western Canada work money and the mountains. The boxing gyms
Were quite different. It was almost all like a class everyone doing stuff together you had to be there 5-630 or whatever or you missed it. There would be very little open gym time or it was always at awkward hours ( during the work day).
So I recommend seeing what works for you . I do not enjoy the large class type training. I felt I got a better education on boxing in Toronto.

Are you in BC? I'm on Vancouver Island and there seems to be a real shortage of decent gyms. I'm worried the only gym that's close to me is one of those group class type or boxercise fitness/no sparring type gyms. Wanting to start super late in life and I certainly don't wanna go get beat up by teenagers, but at the same time I don't wanna play pretend with soccer moms.

I think what I'm looking for is exactly what Stuart_boxer posted. Controlled sparring but not just pitty patting around. Technical training and not just trial by fire on first day leaving with busted nose and black eyes.

Guess I'll just go check it out tomorrow for the 1 day trial at least. Any redflags I should look out for?

(sorry for high******* your thread btw OP)

[cv808]

I guess I'm fussy because I could give a quite extensive answer to this but I'll keep it short.

Sparring: Not too hard, not too soft. I can't stand training in a gym where I'm the only one wearing a headguard but equally I wouldn't go to not wear one because I would hate going in to work with black eyes.

Bag work: do the coaches give you technical instruction or just encourage you to burn out, similar with shadow boxing and focus pads.

Again keeping it short, I've seen a huge variation from coaches who get their entertainment from having guys beat the crap out of each in sparring to commercial boxercise places that will do no sparring.

I get that. Hmmm, interesting. Like I said, I've never cared to check out any other club/gym, so I guess I assumed every club/gym functioned the same as ours.

I do remember someone once telling me, every coach teaches differently, so every boxer trains differently. I know for a fact my coach teaches me differently than others. I never realized he taught differently until I started talking to others on here or in person, and putting the pieces together that I either learned that differently or not at all. Not that I feel my training is lacking or anything, just different.

[Jamesfranklin]

You must go for an adult gym, but try to keep yourself away from heavy workout routine. You should do exercises that are healthy for your muscles and bones in your age. While doing heavy training can impact badly on your body.

[Rockin']

Hello, I am new to boxing, coming from a jiu jitsu/MMA background. As it stands i would like to get into boxing for awhile to improve my stsnd up. In the area I live in there are 2 boxing gyms, one just opened a couple months ago I went in for a day and the main issue I see is that they are yet to acquire any adults, they don't do a separate class for kids and adults so it just seemed a bit weird to me. Second option I went into the gym and in two weeks of going (that is the trial period they give) I saw only 2 people including the coach. So my question is should I go with the new gym and hope they get more members or the second option knowing that I would only have one option for a training partner. Any other advice or insight on what to look for is greatly appreciated.

Sheeet, there are kids out there who, if properly handled, could teach you more than this coach. You have to find a guy who will truly have experience, with experience comes true knowledge.

Your going to have to pack up your ego and maybe learn from these 'kids' one day...…….Rockin'

[OctoberRed]

At this point you might have to pick whatever is actually open