Can a 47 year old become a competitive boxer?

[Dark Lord Al]

Please Please go for it , I mean what have the rest of us got to lose?

[brocktonblockbust]

DLA could lose out on this thread if he poo-poos it any further.

medicine ball sounds great, but i'll just have the trainer drop it lightly at first, dont want any bloody noses too soon.

[Dark Lord Al]

DLA could lose out on this thread if he poo-poos it any further.

medicine ball sounds great, but i'll just have the trainer drop it lightly at first, dont want any bloody noses too soon.

It was a question , feel free to answer.

[brocktonblockbust]

no, no, no, it was an ANSWER, feel free to question it.

[X]

Brockton ..... I boxed amateur for 12 years (Detroit and Chicago golden gloves, British schoolboys etc ...... 56 amateur bouts undefeated, lots of trophies) so I sort of knew what I was doing.

I'm 42 now, but I wouldnt think I could get fit enough to compete properly at a high level again.

So, I guess the answer to your question is what you mean by 'competitive' - you could probably do some sort of white collar boxing and maybe even get a couple of low level amateur bouts ...... but don;t expect you are necessarily going to suddenly become a 'monstor for your weight' or anything (to paraphrase a famous old post)

Be real, man.

[Dark Lord Al]

Please Please go for it , I mean what have the rest of us got to lose?

I ask again brocktonblockbuster.

[generalbulldog]

Brocktonblockbuster vs Charlie Zelenoff, now that's the fight I wanna see.

[brocktonblockbust]

I went to Starbucks here in Korea, but all they had was plastic spoons. So I went ahead and did a little of the xercise, but the plastic cracked or maybe chipped a bit in the left nostril, and drew some blood. Plus the CCTV was on and I felt like an idiot.

[Gandalf]

You stuck a plastic spoon up your nose and got a nosebleed? Is this what you call training for your big fight? Get away from that coffee man and get down to the local gym. You will need more than plastic spoons to beat these hordes of non-punching WW's.

[brocktonblockbust]

I stuck it partially up, not all the way, but it says on Yahoo that capillaries are right there as soon as you enter the nose, you don't have to go all the way up in order to get a nose bleed.

[JazMerkin]

I went to Starbucks here in Korea, but all they had was plastic spoons. So I went ahead and did a little of the xercise, but the plastic cracked or maybe chipped a bit in the left nostril, and drew some blood. Plus the CCTV was on and I felt like an idiot.

Man, I said hit it on the bridge of your nose, you know like the exterior. Not shove it up there! Man, you're making me doubt you now Triple B. If you can't deal with simple conditioning instructions, how are you going to cope with listening to what your cornerman is telling you?

[Gandalf]

I went to Starbucks here in Korea, but all they had was plastic spoons. So I went ahead and did a little of the xercise, but the plastic cracked or maybe chipped a bit in the left nostril, and drew some blood. Plus the CCTV was on and I felt like an idiot.

Man, I said hit it on the bridge of your nose, you know like the exterior. Not shove it up there! Man, you're making me doubt you now Triple B. If you can't deal with simple conditioning instructions, how are you going to cope with listening to what your cornerman is telling you?

You were telling him to slap his nose with plastic spoons? I don't know who's more eccentric. The man in the coffee shop shoving the spoons up his nose or the man telling him to get a spoon and hit himself on the nose with it. What happened to just using the spoon to stir the coffee?

[JazMerkin]

I went to Starbucks here in Korea, but all they had was plastic spoons. So I went ahead and did a little of the xercise, but the plastic cracked or maybe chipped a bit in the left nostril, and drew some blood. Plus the CCTV was on and I felt like an idiot.

Man, I said hit it on the bridge of your nose, you know like the exterior. Not shove it up there! Man, you're making me doubt you now Triple B. If you can't deal with simple conditioning instructions, how are you going to cope with listening to what your cornerman is telling you?

You were telling him to slap his nose with plastic spoons? I don't know who's more eccentric. The man in the coffee shop shoving the spoons up his nose or the man telling him to get a spoon and hit himself on the nose with it. What happened to just using the spoon to stir the coffee?

It's a well-known conditioning technique. All the greats have done it. Many also do it on the chins. Just imagine how good Mayweather could have been if he'd spent years banging spoons on his nose & chin rather than learning all that silly little stuff like parrying & slipping. And yet he gets into the Hall of Fame while Brocktonblockbust sits in Starbucks with a plastic spoon up his nose. The world just isn't fair.

[mattboxingfan]

I went to Starbucks here in Korea, but all they had was plastic spoons. So I went ahead and did a little of the xercise, but the plastic cracked or maybe chipped a bit in the left nostril, and drew some blood. Plus the CCTV was on and I felt like an idiot.

Man, I said hit it on the bridge of your nose, you know like the exterior. Not shove it up there! Man, you're making me doubt you now Triple B. If you can't deal with simple conditioning instructions, how are you going to cope with listening to what your cornerman is telling you?

You were telling him to slap his nose with plastic spoons? I don't know who's more eccentric. The man in the coffee shop shoving the spoons up his nose or the man telling him to get a spoon and hit himself on the nose with it. What happened to just using the spoon to stir the coffee?

That your average boxing fan for ya!

[brocktonblockbust]

miles is omewhat right there, but yu guys have it all wrong you know---I DID follow the instructions, tablespoon-sized spoons will NOT enter the nostril, so had to use teaspoons. Actually teaSPOON because I never got around to the 2nd spoon as the left nostril started bleeding a bit.