How long would it take (to train at boxing) and be able to defend yourself?

[Young Money]

whatever floats your boat man...........Rockin'

lol it seems I touched a nerve, just need to keep an open mind

[Rockin']

lol it seems I touched a nerve, just need to keep an open mind

Lol, the only thing that you are touching is yourself in believing the b.s that you write. I have an open mind but when somebody tells me that you can learn to fight from a book it's pure b.s. Anyway, I would doubt that you've boxed for any real period of time and would have used moves you've learned in street fights.

When I find that I'm dealing with a young kid who thinks he knows everything I just grow bored, laugh and walk away. LOL,................Rockin'

[Young Money]

Lol, the only thing that you are touching is yourself in believing the b.s that you write. I have an open mind but when somebody tells me that you can learn to fight from a book it's pure b.s. Anyway, I would doubt that you've boxed for any real period of time and would have used moves you've learned in street fights.

When I find that I'm dealing with a young kid who thinks he knows everything I just grow bored, laugh and walk away. LOL,................Rockin'

Rockin' no need to get aggressive, if you actually read what I wrote, and I have repeated many times, you cannot learn how to fight from simply reading a book, it is a tool to help compliment your boxing training. Mabye a lesson in comprehension and humility is in check?

[Rockin']

Rockin' no need to get aggressive, if you actually read what I wrote, and I have repeated many times, you cannot learn how to fight from simply reading a book, it is a tool to help compliment your boxing training. Mabye a lesson in comprehension and humility is in check?

I still stand that a book won't teach you a thing. Ask any world champion, contender, etc if they ever learned anything about how to fight in a ring from a book. If you find one let me know. And what I wrote had no aggression in it, people with more than a year on the site could vouch for that.

I do however like how you come acrossed all calm and victim like and then end your posts shooting a smart ass remark or two at me. Take your book fighting to the playground where it might do you some good...........Rockin'

[Be_kind_rewind]

6 months and your still a beginner. I would say that in my 4th year I became pretty confident about what I could do. In that time I had won titles in the Golden Gloves and Diamond Gloves in Detroit. There is alot to learn in the ring and alot of different styles that you will encounter and have to learn to deal with. Now later on when I turned pro I had full confidence in myself and my skills should I have ended up in a scrap. Now that took years and years of hard work and dedication.

If you are joining boxing so that you can learn to fight and then go into the streets and kick some ass you're going about it the wrong way. What's to gain in a street fight besides cracked knuckles and possibly getting shot or stabbed. You know that once you kick a bullies ass theres going to be one who is bigger and badder than the last who will step up and start with you, it's a never ending cycle. If you want to fight then fight in the ring where you can do it with pride and dignity. The fools who fight in the street only fight against people they figure don't know how to fight and people that they figure they can beat up. The people who really know how to fight will be down at a gym fighting other people who know how to fight. If those fools on the street could really fight then they would be in the gym fighting people who can fight.

Nothing will truely ever be gained from a street fight......Rockin'

I hate this guy he's so ****in awesome... Do you get gloves with a diamond in it?

[Rockin']

I hate this guy he's so ****in awesome... Do you get gloves with a diamond in it?

I recieved a trophey, a couple of t-shirts and a dat-a-boy with a rap on the back.......... no diamond...........Rockin'

[Clegg]

I'm not an experienced boxer, but I'd say 3 things:

1. The boxing training I did do (just over a year) gave me better co-ordination/movement and a basic understanding of punching. So I think even limited experience may be beneficial in self-defense situations.

2. The key word in the above point is 'may'. The last street fight I had, I probably looked no more experience than any random person because I lost my temper and composure and just repeatedly threw sloppy right hands. I think you need the right mentality in order to use controlled-aggression, otherwise your training might be for nothing. But like I say, I don't have that much experience and I lost my temper. Maybe the majority of people have maintained technique in a situation like that.

3. If you like boxing and think you'd enjoy the training, go for it. But if you don't enjoy it then I doubt you'll do it for long, even if it does help in the street. Most people who get into anything for the wrong reasons usually don't stick at it.

[moal]

Maybe if you don't carry yourself like a b*tch noone will want to fight you.

[Reggie Miller]

I think it would be easier to learn just how to throw straight punches.

Just about every streetfight I've seen, theres been guys throwing wild looping shots and I always see these videos and wish one day someone would throw a shot straight down the pipe and end the fight.

Boxing is good for self defence because most boxers, am or pro can KO just about anyone with one punch to the jaw, but its also dangerous because your boxing training can be used against you if you go to court and you could possible be given a harsher sentence because of it.

I'd still learn to box properly if I were you, because when you're in the heat of battle, your mind and body go through alot, you need to learn to be calm and control your breathing when your adrenaline is flowing and punches are being thrown. Along with learning how to throw correct punches and also receiving punishment but still continuing to fight, you'll learn alot.

I'd work more on fuckin someones body up then shots to the chin/face, I knew a guy in my gym class who KO'd a guy with one punch in the street and he fell backwards, smacked his head about as hard as you can when hit.... and died 6 days later. He's in jail now.

Also remember that boxing/fighting isn't just physical, its a mental game too.

[killsomething]

I'd work more on fuckin someones body up then shots to the chin/face, I knew a guy in my gym class who KO'd a guy with one punch in the street and he fell backwards, smacked his head about as hard as you can when hit.... and died 6 days later. He's in jail now.

Yeah but I bet the other guy called him a ***git first so he had it coming..

Right?...