Boxer's Start-Up: A Beginners Guide to Boxing
By Doug Werner
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a practical and methodical book instructing the reader about how he or she might undertake learning how to box and conveying the writer’s experience doing so. It succeeds on both points. It’s brevity is to be admired as it provides plenty to the reader.
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Boxer's Start-Up - Doug Werner
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To Alan Lachica
Acknowledgements
Alison Thatcher
Lance Goldman
Katrina Gaede
Teri Youngs
Jordan Ressler
Ryan Broomburg
Jonathan Gruber
Kathleen Wheeler
Red Werner
Ann Werner
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Renaissance
Boxing is a lot more than blood, guts, shabby behavior and whacked-out hair-dos.
Underneath boxing’s ugly public perception lies the pursuit of complete physical conditioning, athletic grace and essential self-defense for both men and women. Boxer’s Start-Up: A Beginner’s Guide to Boxing explores boxing as a confidence building and practical method of defending oneself, as well as a fun, sure-fire way to get into the best shape of your life. Included is information about equipment, safety, the boxer’s workout, offensive and defensive skills and history.
I believe that there is a new market for a new boxing book. Mainstream interest in boxing and the boxer’s workout is higher than it has been in 20 years.
First and foremost, the fitness movement has become enamored with the boxer’s workout. The drills are aerobically supercharged, improve balance and coordination and teach basic self-defense for both sexes. Public awareness of the benefits of the boxer’s workout has cast a brighter light on the sport in general.
Second, the new champions are definitely a cut above the thugs and grandstanders of years past and will most certainly convert legions of new fans. There’s no doubt that Evander Holyfield projects a better image than Mike Tyson. Young up-and-comers, like the clean-cut and clean-living welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya, promise to usher in a new era of respectability as well as a new crop of female fans. And of course, George Foreman single handedly forced a nation of middle-aged Americans to take another look at boxing (and their midsections) during the ’90s with his courageous comeback and heavyweight sense of humor.
Third, media coverage is at an all-time high. HBO, ESPN and Pay-Per-View each regularly broadcast boxing matches and report record ratings for 1997.
Finally, the advent of women’s boxing over the last five years has broken down the men’s club door, changing forever the sport’s appeal and horizons. The most exciting bout during the evening of the Tyson-Bruno mismatch of 1997 was the undercard that featured female boxing’s top competitor Christy Martin. She has also been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
My reasons for writing this book also include a more traditional point of view. My gut take is that most every guy (and maybe every person) desires the self-confidence that comes from knowing how to defend oneself. Boxing is still the grandaddy of self-defense, and despite martial arty trends, is still the heart and soul of American contact sport.
Doug Werner
Tracks Publishing/Start-Up Sports
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Women in boxing:
Changing the sport forever.
Good News
PRIMAL
So I got this idea to take up boxing. Nothing in particular nurtured the idea, it just dawdled in my noggin (as such thoughts do) and stayed there. It’s my belief that if something sticks around in my head for any length of time, it’s meant to be dealt with no matter what or why. (Image D)
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Thinking about it, though, I can come up with some pretty good reasons. Boxing is at the heart of physical toughness. It’s the barest art of self-defense. It can be the rawest measure of a person. It’s the most basic of competitions where fears are met and overcome or all is lost. It’s the ideal vehicle for unfettered aggression. Short of actual hand-to-hand combat, it’s the ultimate contest between two people.
It’s primal. Like sex, making money and laughing. All guys (way down deep) wanna be desirable love machines, happily rolling in green and capable of stopping anyone at anytime with a lethal right hand.
MEGA WORKOUT
The boxer’s workout will get you into the best shape of your life. I’ve been involved with several sports over the years and not one of them comes close to the type of physical conditioning that boxing demands. The boxer’s workout improves everything: strength, endurance, coordination, you name it. An hour of bag beating, sparring and skipping rope will leave you soaked, spent and exhilarated. Three months of this regime will shape you up, put a bounce in your step and instill a special kind of self assurance that the TV gym gizmologists can only dream of. (Image E)
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ATHLETIC GRACE
Hey, it’s boxing bay-be. Exercise drills are structured around three-minute rounds of aerobically supercharged effort designed to forge you into a better athlete. No less. You’ll sweat and burn, sure. But you’ll also become a better balanced, more coordinated, sharper reflexed, longer lasting human being. Try getting that out of a stair-master. (Image F)
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CRANIAL RELIEF
What it does for your head is remarkable. (Image G)
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This ain’t news: Day-to-day life can be one ultimately meaningless, yet immediately urgent and oh-so-annoying snafu, obligation or requirement after another. Fear and rage zoom in and out of our minds like bats from hell whether we’re fighting to put food in our mouths or simply trying to deal with traffic. But after 20 minutes on the heavy bag it’s all gone. Beat the bag and you’ll beat the blues, brother. No lie.
THE ULTIMATE ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
And rediscover self-assurance (remember that?). Boxing is the great and grand art of defending yourself with your hands. Knowing how it’s done will change the way you walk into a room, stroll down the street or meet someone new. It’s not a bully thing at all. It’s probably one of the oldest and purest forms of confidence a person can have. (Image H)
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CONFIDENCE NOT TO FIGHT
More on this confidence stuff. Acquiring boxing skills won’t make you any more likely to get into physical confrontations outside the gym. Actually, the desire to settle things violently will become weaker – because you have nothing to prove, you won’t be compelled to prove it. It’s a martial arts type of thought and it applies to boxing as well. When you are truly confident in your ability to defend yourself, the minor confrontations in your life stay minor. Especially in your mind.
WHOOPIE!
And it’s fun. The three minutes of each round is insanely intense and exciting. It’s like being in the greatest action movie ever made. Heck, I get giddy. (Image I)
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SWEAT! VIOLENCE! FEAR! (OH MY!)
Yeah it’s a alotta work, but what isn’t? Don’t be afraid of the sweat and strain. You’ll learn to glory in it. Don’t be put off by the violence of the effort. It’s the sweetest release. Don’t be afraid of trading punches. With the proper gear and supervision, boxing is not a dangerous slugfest, but a remarkably refined exercise in athletic grace and technique. Besides, facing your fears in the ring (or anywhere else) is freedom. Believe it.
INSTRUCTION
This book will detail certain aspects of the boxer’s workout including some boxing technique and specific drills. This will be more than enough to get you acquainted with the sport in general and to get you started with a great fitness program.
However, if you’re going to get into sparring, it’s recommended that you hook up with an accredited coach and an accredited boxing program. If you’re gonna throw punches you want to be trained and supervised by those who know. That’s how you’ll learn safely and properly. Without proper supervision, you and your neighbor will just be rumbling around with bloody noses. Or worse.
In the United States the umbrella boxing organization for amateur or Olympic-style boxing is the United States Amateur Boxing, Inc. or USA Boxing. They sponsor a host of programs from developing the sport and its athletes at the local, regional and national levels, to sponsoring national and international dual competitions and selecting teams for international events, including the Olympic Games, World Championships and Pan American Games. USA Boxing has programs all over the country and to contact one near you, call or write:
USA Boxing
719-578-4506
Fax: 719-632-3426
E-mail:usaboxing@aol.com
The differences between Olympic-style and professional boxing are very important and are explored more fully later in the book.
DEMARCATING THE DANGER ZONE
The label on my headgear reads:
WARNING: Users of this product are subject to personal injury. Severe head, neck, and other injuries including death and paralysis may occur despite using this equipment.
Are you still there?
First of all, if it’s just the workout you’re after, there’s no contact and therefore no punching in your face. The workout involves contests between you and a skip rope, a heavy bag or someone wearing punch mitts.
Sparring is another matter but still a stage of intensity