Page 11 - Ian Oliver Boxing Fitness

!S PART OF OR AS AN INTRODUCTION TO A MARTIAL ART OR INTEGRATED MARTIAL
ART SUCH AS MUAY THAI 0ANANTUKAN KICKBOXING 6ALE 4UDO AND *EET +UNE

$O
"OXING HAS BECOME REGARDED IN THE MEDIA AS A MINORITY SPORT COVERING

ONLY MAJOR CONTESTS USUALLY INVOLVING HEAVYWEIGHTS )TS RESURGENCE HAS
COME FROM PUBLIC INTEREST IN DOING IT INSTEAD OF WATCHING IT ! FEW YEARS
AGO THE HIGH TECH GYMS WOULD NEVER HAVE INCLUDED A PUNCHBAG AMONG

THEIR GLITTERING ARRAY OF SHINY MACHINES BUT CLIENTS WANTED THEM AND THEY
WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO SKIP ROPE LIKE A lGHTER .EW GYMS ARE SPRINGING
UP WHICH INCLUDE ROWS OF BAGS AND EVEN BOXING RINGS #ONTEMPORARY lLMS

ABOUT BOXING INCLUDE 4HE #INDERELLA -AN 2USSELL #ROWE !GAINST THE 2OPES
-EG 2YAN 4HE #ALCIUM +ID /RLANDO "LOOM AND -ILLION $OLLAR "ABY
#LINT %ASTWOOD AND (ILARY 3WANK BUT DON T JUST WATCH IT GIVE IT A TRY

"OXING AND THE "OB "REEN !CADEMY

)T WAS *EET +UNE $O *+$ WHICH RE AWAKENED MY INTEREST IN BOXING
THE WAY WE TEACH AT THE !CADEMY IS GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS 7ESTERN
"OXING WHICH DIFFERENTIATES IT FROM THE MANY OTHER FORMS OF BOXING )T IS

TAUGHT AS THE lRST AND MOST BASIC ELEMENT OF THE MANY FACETED ART OF *+$
DEVISED BY "RUCE ,EE CONTINUED PRINCIPALLY BY $AN )NOSANTO HIS FRIEND
AND STUDENT AND POPULARISED IN THE 5+ BY "OB "REEN HIMSELF A STUDENT

OF 3IFU )NOSANTO "RUCE ,EE BELIEVED IN TRAINING INCREDIBLY HARD PUSHING
HIMSELF TO THE LIMIT (E RAN HE SKIPPED HE WEIGHT TRAINED HE WORKED OUT
ON PUNCHBAGS AND PADS AND HE CYCLED MOSTLY mAT OUT

!T THE !CADEMY WE USE ALL THE SAME TRAINING SKILLS PLUS A FEW MORE
AS MORE MODERN THINKING AND INNOVATIONS ARE ABSORBED /VERTRAINING IS

SOMETHING TO ALWAYS BE AWARE OF SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE TOLD
TO CUT BACK THEIR TRAINING BEFORE THEIR OVER ENTHUSIASM MAKES THEM ILL )T IS
ONE THING TO VENERATE "RUCE ,EE IT WOULD BE INADVISABLE TO COPY HIS FULL

TRAINING REGIME