competing with injury

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Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Yeah I understand completely.

Have you a gym/trainer in mind for your pro career?

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I feel I need so show some loyalty to my current gym as long as I continue to live in Adelaide. They're a great bunch of people even if i don't always understand everyone perfectly. I think I'd like to manage myself a little more though. Just to feel I can work things out in advance a little more and make things a little more organized than they tend to be when you hear all your fight details via Chinese whisper at the last minute. I think I'd try to negotiate sparring outside of my gym as often as possible and maybe pay for a few sessions with some pro guys from Adelaide.

he thing with my gym is you don't pay for coaching - and they'd never accept your money for private trainings - but that can mean training doesn't have much have structure which makes it hard to feel like you're progressing. That's why I want 6 months to prepare physically and make sure my training is on the right track before I fight pro.

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Originally Posted by iceman

same here, no real avenue to complain and if ya find a masters division fight (HA) they basically castrate you...1 minute rounds and huge 16 oz. gloves...what's the point? i mean i assume a level of risk just by training why not let me test myself...besides i got insurance for a cat scan or mri..

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Yeah they should just set a stricter medical if they are worried about slightly older fighters. You would be pushed more in training with only 1 minute rounds!

with one minute, i can only say i need to simply just rip the damn sink out of the wall and him with it again and again till i win..stupid rules stupid game...so once again i say amateur reflects imho nothing of a REAL FIGHTER...UNLESS HE IS SCARED and need 50 fights to get unscared...

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Originally Posted by iceman

with one minute, i can only say i need to simply just rip the damn sink out of the wall and him with it again and again till i win..stupid rules stupid game...so once again i say amateur reflects imho nothing of a REAL FIGHTER...UNLESS HE IS SCARED and need 50 fights to get unscared...

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Well I don't really get you but ok...

I'm not saying a fighter without an am background will be nothing, But a good amateur education can be a great supplement.

After 35 the body doesnt repair it self as it used to. Its all downhill from there :'(

I find it hard to understand how people put a set age on these things. One of my coaches said the brain doesn't repair itself after 35 but I think that's a myth because the brain can not repair itself - only rewire itself since we do not grow any new brain or nerve cells - what we have when we're born are all we ever have.

So what else wouldn't be able to repair itself after 35? Why 35? Isn't that age likely to vary significantly with lifestyle, nutrition (such as antioxidant intake to combat free radicals), genetics etc?

We have all that were going to get at about twelve :o

Oops I should have stopped boxing 15 years ago then! ::** Oh well I'm not sure you know what you're missing when you loose brain cells - ignorance being bliss and all!