Help please...

**Chris Nagel** · 02-05-2009 06:46 PM

Just in case, look through the online directories and see if there's any other boxing gyms around. Some might be a little further away, but if you're serious about it, then it's worth the extra gas.

Try, Boxing Gym and Club Directory - BoxingHelp.com
or...Boxing Gyms and Boxing Clubs

You might want to talk to Von Milash or some other people that have also done other martial arts for their opinion.

**wesrman** · 02-05-2009 06:52 PM

Toronto is huge. There has to be a gym somewhere.

**Youngblood** · 02-05-2009 07:01 PM

I've hooked you up with a link specific to boxing gyms in that area through our own listings before, and they are that, boxing. Associated with and registered with boxing ontario. Even suggested I could dbl. check them to see if they are active on the boxing circuit. They may not be exactly in that area...but are in the GTA and it is more densely populated with gyms there then any where else in the province.

Can't help you more then that. But anyway...I'll link it again.

Club Directory

**sourpuss** · 02-05-2009 09:10 PM

Just a piece of advice. When you do find a proper boxing gym it would be wise to humble yourself a bit and not walk in there and tell them that you've already taught yourself everything and are ready to spar.

Chances are that if you've been 'home training', no matter how careful you are, you've developed some bad habits. It's best to show up to the gym as if you've never thrown a jab in your life and ready and WILLING to learn and absorb everything your trainer tells you. The slowest progressing boxers at my gym are always the guys who think they already know everything.

**wesrman** · 02-06-2009 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by sourpuss

Just a piece of advice. When you do find a proper boxing gym it would be wise to humble yourself a bit and not walk in there and tell them that you've already taught yourself everything and are ready to spar.

Chances are that if you've been 'home training', no matter how careful you are, you've developed some bad habits. It's best to show up to the gym as if you've never thrown a jab in your life and ready and WILLING to learn and absorb everything your trainer tells you. The slowest progressing boxers at my gym are always the guys who think they already know everything.

QFT.

Also if you act cocky they may put you in the ring with someone that you arent prepared to be in the ring with. :P

**leggy** · 02-06-2009 06:14 AM

and you may get beat to fuck wich will then put you off

**sourpuss** · 02-06-2009 01:39 PM

I don't know about you guys but at my gym when we get a cocky guy who isn't open to learning, my coach just sticks them off in a corner and has them hit the bag or shadowbox endlessly and ignores them. They get a fraction of the coaching that the rest of us get, and rightly so.