Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Return of Formal Boxing Training (Coach G-Force Part 1)

Originally, I planned to write about what to expect when I fight one of the Gold's Gym trainers, but I got training instead of sparring.
Here's what I drafted earlier:

"The Gold's Gym trainers know that I have a bit of experience in boxing, as I have done shadow-boxing occasionally in their place. I've also did a bit of hitting the mitts with a trainer.
One of the trainers encouraged me to challenge another one of their trainers to boxing sparring. I'll call this challenger Coach G-Force. (Looks too much like a brand name, I know. I need a better fake name that starts with G.) After looking at his Facebook account, which mainly shows sparring and fight training videos, he really means business with his fighting. I'm sure he's done fighting for years--I even saw him in a professional competitive fight.

Since I'm feeling excited, I wanna write about my analysis of Coach G-Force.

Obviously, he will be much stronger and have more stamina than me since he's studied fitness for many years, so I'm gonna avoid getting hit as much as possible, despite my high defenses (I can take a full-force beating of clean hits from YoSquid without running low on HP). Unlike YoSquid, though, I'm sure tiring out Coach G-Force won't work.
I saw this video of his where a 68-year-old Japanese man pummeled Coach G-Force with punch after punch, and the trainer was mainly on the defensive, while getting pinned to the side or corner of the ring. Before seeing Coach G-Force's Facebook account, I planned to do chip damage to him like I stated in "Fighting Addiction", but after seeing this video, my strategy was verified."
*end of original post*

Training: Day 1

We had seven rounds of brutally fast mittwork (i.e. punching mitts with my fists), where I tired myself out each time, as Coach G-Force knew my skill level and adapted to it.
And, I must say, I punch much faster and harder in training now than I did before. I even knocked off one of the mitts. The trainer often described how my punches were "strong".
I admit, though, that I hit too hard on round 1 because I wanted to be boastful. In the next rounds, though, I usually did chip damage to save my energy, unless either Coach G-Force wanted me to power-punch, or I dodged an attack.
The other trainers were entertained as I kept on training.

Afterwards, Coach G-Force showed me footage of his fights.
He won an MMA fight by knocking his opponent to the ground and doing the ground-and-pound, where his opponent tapped out.
He also won a boxing match in just 2 punches. HOLY SWEAR WORDS, that is incredible. Both punches were clean hits to the chin.
At least I know more about his fighting style, but I need to get better in order to have a fighting chance against him.

Day 2

The previous day was a free training session, but I was so interested to keep on training that I begged my mother to buy me 20 training sessions in exchange for not paying me for my part-time job at her bakery franchise.
Eh, it's worth it, because my weekly salary is just enough to pay for one training session.

Now that I know what to expect on my next session, I prepared by eating too many nuts. (I'm addicted to them. They're an awesome vegetarian source of protein.)
I forgot to hit my punching bag, but in defense, I wanted to conserve my energy for my training. Plus, I wanted to do my usual 15-minute walk to the mall, so that covers up my cardio. (My mom won't let me use my bicycle, possibly because of bad drivers.)

Coach G-Force welcomed me with a smile and a wave as soon as I entered Gold's Gym. Once I got my stuff sorted out in the locker area, I was told to do shadowboxing.
I mostly threw jabs, crosses, and feints erratically in order to confuse my imaginary opponent with my speed, but I maintained my chip-damage strategy to conserve my energy since I'm expecting lots of rounds of training. I only threw big punches when I imagined an avoidable punch.
Coach G-Force was doing his own shadowboxing as well, so I messed around by pretending to dodge his punches, but dang, his combos were so fast that I usually got "hit" by his second punch.

We then did the usual mittwork for another 7 rounds. I conserved my energy throughout all the rounds because I got lazy, but I had to ramp up my performance since Coach G-Force made each round slightly harder, with more power-punches and long combos.
I got hit multiple times, though, so I need to work on my anticipation. Coach G-Force also pointed out that I wasn't blocking correctly since I put my hands and elbows too close together, when they should be separated in order to block attacks to the side of the body.
Overall, this was much more brutal than my first day.
Despite my muscles almost dying, Coach G-Force often told the other Gold's Gym trainers after each round that I'm "strong" and "fast". Yup, I can be strong even at just 173 cm, 56 kg.

I believe my mom pointed out to Coach G-Force that I need to work on my core, so, at the end of those brutal rounds, I did a lot of abdominal workouts, and I tried so hard that I felt like quitting, but I kept on trying, probably because I wanted to make my trainer proud.

Oh boy, I wanna keep begging YoSquid to fight me. Not only do I wanna show off my skills to him, but I wanna retaliate for his stupid drawings in skribbl.io.

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