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Saddoboxing Fight Study Group
Saddoboxing Fight Study Group
Book clubs are a great way for people to get together and talk about the books that they are reading. Usually what happens is that everyone agrees on the book that they will all read, and later they meet to go over all sorts of details from the book. Now in this day and age, internet message boards makes setting up any kind of discussion as simple as click, type and post.
So here’s the idea, we can pick a fight to watch, and later we will talk about our observations and impressions from that fight. This would be intended for those who are interested about the nuances of boxing rather than your casual fight fan.
Getting the fights shouldn’t be difficult provided that you have a computer with a faster than dial-up connection. Anyways here’s some advice from Thomas that’ll save me from having to explain it all:
“First thing you need to do is join a site where you can get all the fights you want! I suggest you go here: http://fights.worldboxingvideoarchive.com/ and sign up. Basically its kind of like file sharing with music but...with fights. I've gotten hundreds of fights from them and even some really rare ones. The site is completely free. Anyway read their FAQ section before you get started.
another thing you need is a good way watch your fights. I go on youtube and watch fights too and they got some good stuff on there. The only problem is the quality is terrible, you cant use slow motion to analyze things, and its hard to rewind to the specific location you want to.
I suggest you get this media player: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm media player classic. Its like any other media player but just real simple and without any extra stuff you don't really need. Whats unique to this player is that you can frame step forward in slow motion with the arrow keys on your keyboard. Or frame step backwards. Its just very easy to control the fight this way because when you see something you want to look closer at you can easily rewind in slow motion and then play it back in slow motion again over and over. Watching the fight in slow motion makes it very easy to see what the opponent's are doing.”
Simple enough, with media player classic you can also take screen shots of any moment in a fight which you can post on the message board for discussion. Just like in Thomas’s posts on how to throw a left hook, and “How did Walcott land this punch?” It’s a good way to emphasize on a point while making things easier for others to see what you’re seeing.
If need be someone can come up with a checklist of some of the things to look for when watching the fight. This might help those who feel lost when there are so many things happening.
Right now this is still in the idea stage. If anyone is interested, or have some ideas to contribute then by all means…
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Originally Posted by hitmandonny
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