I like doing pad work, its one of my favourite parts about training

and it definitely isn't over rated as a training technique

you leave a fighter to just his the bag and shadow without pad work then he will get into the habit of throwing the same set of combinations all the time and probably end up in a similar order too

pad work forces you to mix combinations up to how different trainers want you to, the more people you do pad work with the better

in our gym we do pad work with the other boxers and the trainers so you get used to throwing all different types of combinations, you keep some you drop some

I think pad work is extremely important and a lot of fun