May 09 2007
I’m a Bad Bad Man
Major breakthrough in sparring! My trainer has been a complete enigma, difficult to hit, effortlessly countering me, can’t see his punches, etc. Apparently he’s kind of the gatekeeper for amateur boxers at our club, if you can do well against him you’re plenty ready.
Tonight I spent the entire 3 rounds circling away from his power hand and going for jabs. I was able to reach him with my jab consistently and other openings seemed to arise. I got in some straight rights and a number of hooks. I blasted in with some straight punch flurries in the first round. Hell, I might have even won the first round if we were being judged - hard to say from my viewpoint.
Second round was good, third round I sucked wind. My trainer was really nice not to try and kill me at the end. I also got my face marked up again: big ol’ bruise on the side of my nose. But hey, who cares when you’re making the kind of progress I am.
I got lots of kudos on my progress considering this was only my 20th round of sparring and considering the quality of my sparring partners. I feel like my confidence is back.
