1 hour straight sparring

[Hulk]

This sounds inhuman to me so I wanted a professional opinion on it...

I been boxing for 4 years now, had a few smokers, but all my boxing has been done at an MMA gym as its the only show in town.

Anyway I'm thinking of going to spar at a sister MMA gym in a nearby town, and apparently on fridays they spar for 1 hour straight.

That means no breaks, 3 min rounds, with only 30 second rest in between. No water breaks. Nothing.

So that would mean 16 rounds in an hour with about 10 mins total rest with those 30 second rests.

Is this possible ?

It seems ridiculous to me. Unrealistic.

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

One of my fights, I was fighting my cousin, who at the time was the number two middleweight in Minnesota. It was a fight to the finish.

We went twenty rounds with out a break. Uninterrupted. One hour. I loved every minute of it, althought I was getting pounded numb. The only reason we stopped there was because I was bleeding all over the place, and he didn't want to hit me anymore. That was the first time I legitimately got my ass beat. I slept like a baby that night.

So yeah. People have went on for longer.

[Hulk]

One of my fights, I was fighting my cousin, who at the time was the number two middleweight in Minnesota. It was a fight to the finish.

We went twenty rounds with out a break. Uninterrupted. One hour. I loved every minute of it, althought I was getting pounded numb. The only reason we stopped there was because I was bleeding all over the place, and he didn't want to hit me anymore. That was the first time I legitimately got my ass beat. I slept like a baby that night.

So yeah. People have went on for longer.

You are full of shit. I was looking for serious responses to this from trainers/fighters etc.

Good story though amigo

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

One of my fights, I was fighting my cousin, who at the time was the number two middleweight in Minnesota. It was a fight to the finish.

We went twenty rounds with out a break. Uninterrupted. One hour. I loved every minute of it, althought I was getting pounded numb. The only reason we stopped there was because I was bleeding all over the place, and he didn't want to hit me anymore. That was the first time I legitimately got my ass beat. I slept like a baby that night.

So yeah. People have went on for longer.

You are full of shit. I was looking for serious responses to this from trainers/fighters etc.

Good story though amigo

I'm not full of shit.

If I was full of shit, I'd have said that I'd have beaten the hell out of him. But I didn't. I got my ass handed to me by one of the only good fighters I've boxed.

[Gocougars3]

In my experience, it hasn't been a great thing to go with a plan for doing so many rounds. Usually in long sparring sessions emotions run over, technique suffers and injuries occur. There are pros in our gym that go 15 or 16 rounds with 30 second breaks (particularly when the outclass their partners). I have seen guys getting ready for ten rounders go 6 rounds with 2 different high level guys (that was one minute rests). With your experience I would say 8 rounds is enough to get great conditioning and salvage some technique but even that is a lot. If you feel good during a given session you could always decide to go another round or two but I think you get diminishing returns after a point. This is a boxing opinion, I only did MMA for a short time and didn't love it but I got more gassed in that than I did boxing. Sparring at an outside gym is almost always rougher than sparring at home. I suggest more frequent, shorter sessions.

[Hulk]

In my experience, it hasn't been a great thing to go with a plan for doing so many rounds. Usually in long sparring sessions emotions run over, technique suffers and injuries occur. There are pros in our gym that go 15 or 16 rounds with 30 second breaks (particularly when the outclass their partners). I have seen guys getting ready for ten rounders go 6 rounds with 2 different high level guys (that was one minute rests). With your experience I would say 8 rounds is enough to get great conditioning and salvage some technique but even that is a lot. If you feel good during a given session you could always decide to go another round or two but I think you get diminishing returns after a point. This is a boxing opinion, I only did MMA for a short time and didn't love it but I got more gassed in that than I did boxing. Sparring at an outside gym is almost always rougher than sparring at home. I suggest more frequent, shorter sessions.

Thank You very much.

I would be sparring boxing rounds with mma sparring partners essentially. Some are pros and some are amateur fighters. I completely agree a bout the point of diminishing returns. And I can't believe that amatuers and such are able to go 16 rounds, something isn't adding up. I wish I could spar less rounds there, but that is their program. I would have to do what their routine, and that is supposedly 1 hour of sparring, constantly changing sparring partners varying from 150 lbers to over 200 lbers, never sparring more than 1 round at a time with the same guy. Its going to be crazy.