1 hour straight sparring

[AdamGB]

Done frequently and that will just put wear and tear on you, but I can see the point in it.

It's one thing to be sharp when you're fresh, another when you're fatiqued.

You have to make much more of a concious effort to remain balanced and composed and you can't rely on speed as much to get to openings etc. It's also bound to build mental toughness and confidence in yourself (ie our club did a 24 hour boxing circuit for charity last year, just bag work and not really done as an effective session to build fitness... just for the challenge of it to raise money for chairy. but since doing it I know that I can be VERY, VERY tired and still dig deep and throw hard effective punches and keep a balanced and defensive posture)

Not saying I'd reccomend it, but I can see that you'd get something out of it.

We often do light sparring after a tough fitness session, it's a great way of forcing you to think. When your body can't keep up with your mind you have to ensure you're in range, pick good openings and don't leave openings when you throw.

I'd compare it to Roy Jones Jr in his later years. When he lost his foot speed and reactions the flaws in his boxing fundimentals at a high level became more obvious.

[AdamGB]

OK... read a bit more of this. No head guard?!

For an hour?!

Fuck even Pros spar with head guards... and they don't even compete with them.

Sorry but that it pretty fucking stupid. done purposfully and objectively you'd get something from it. But this just sounds like prolonged 'milling'

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

For an hour, a head-guard would probably be smart, although I didn't fight my long fight with one.

There are benefits, as Adam is stating. When I had my fight for one hour, it was exhausting and punishing. I was thoroughly whooped. Before that fight, I'd fought all my fights with a backpedaling stick and move way of fighting, similar to the way Ali would stick and move in the 1960's. I didn't know how to stay in front of a guy, keep my cool, and keep defensive while countering. It was in that fight that I first learned how to effectively cover up and whether the storm. It changed the way I fought forever, and for the better, as well.

It gives you confidence to know that you can go on longer than many people would think to be imaginable. I was never truly confident in my boxing ability until I took that beating.