Padwork

**God.in.my.corner** · 07-31-2009 03:25 AM

I like jab only sparring as an alternative. Jab to the head, body, shoulders, gloves with head movement, parrying/blocking, and footwork as defense.

I also like in-fighting only. 50% but the whole round you must be touching. Shoulder to shoulder. Alternate being against the ropes and trapped in a corner.

**Scrap** · 07-31-2009 05:48 AM

God, Ive even tide them together with Elastic Rope

**Chris Nagel** · 08-12-2009 05:23 PM

Hey Scrap, I remember you telling me before that russian coaches in the 30's were turning their gloves backwards for their pupils to hit long before the advent of punch pads. It caught on, as I found a picture of Sammy Goldstein doing the same thing:

**Scrap** · 08-13-2009 09:44 AM

Chris I heard the 1st time Pads were seen in Britain, they were being used by the Hungarian Coaches. They were the round flat ones. Id love to know where they originate from

**Chris Nagel** · 08-13-2009 12:55 PM

I don't know of anyone using them before Charlie Goldman. Hitting someone's hands has probably been around since the beginning of fist fighting. I can imagine that some boxing trainer had someone puncher hit his hands and thought, "This fooking hurts!"

Thus out of necessity, the punch pads were born.

**shafty85** · 08-27-2009 06:29 PM

I enjoy using the pads. In my very inexperienced opinion they seem to build up the muscle memory for combinations so I don't have to think about hitting, instinct just throws a 2-3 shot combo. That being said, it definitely is very different than sparring.

**JazMerkin** · 08-28-2009 08:27 PM

Padwork is often about routine, especially with people who're weaker on the pads. Also too many average coaches seem to just stand still & use it as a straight punching system, ie 1,2, 1,2, 4, 6 etc. Good quality padwork, where punches are thrown back that you have to slip & weave under at random is worthwhile, however with so many people becoming coaches, often with little experience, padwork can be very weak. Last week I had a guy about my age, who didn't move me around the ring at all, slapped my punches down (as in started so he would slapping down onto my wrists as I punched not slapping into the punches) & then bitched when I pointed out what he was doing wrong. I think the problem is there's too many guys coming in who want to be Roger Mayweather immediately rather than taking the time (often years) to actually learn how to do these things properly, & you end up with padwork being about knowing how to punch in a routine rather than with any invention or reflex