If your city doesn't have a boxing gym, until one can move to a place that teaches boxing exclusively, what are people's opinions on starting out learning this as part of another martial art or generic type of gym? Like, in this place I took some TKD the teacher says "yeah I incorporate some boxing technique". It's not comparable really since all he teaches is jabbing, and there's a minimal amount of space so you have to keep circling each other or else you will knock into another pair of people sparring. No ropes or anything...
The best I can figure is that this forces you to learn to be aggressive since you can't retreat a lot. So it's probably better for learning inboxing than outboxing techniques. Outboxing sounds like something much more technique-laden that requires a coach and a boxing-focused gym to learn.
It doesn't use boxing gloves, but instead these things which strap on and the palms are uncovered, it covers the knuckles and also the back of the hand. Sort of like this:
The way I figure, since the inside is bare, you can make a tighter fist, meaning if the opponent is using these, they might be easier to dodge, but harder to block since they can slip through a loose guard easier than a wider glove. To close the fist also wouldn't require squeezing it as much, not sure what effects that would have.
Since you'd also be learning to block kicks, I wonder if practicing blocking kicks with your guard (and combining this with using your body to roll with it so you don't have to absorb it head-on, because kicks are heavy) might help prepare you for taking punches with your guard? Thai kickboxers tend to have pretty strong guards from doing this right?
What I figured was, I should join a gym and do TKD, and then get a heavy bag (and maybe a speed bag) for training at home and do stuff like jump rope and sprints and all that. Then, once I've built up some fitness and stuff I could learn techniques from a more professional boxing gym?
Oh yeah and I know TKD isn't really 'MMA' as people call it since there's no grappling or groundwork or anything
Learning boxing as part of MMA?
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