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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
I mentioned this before that when we began the research for this program, we did some experimentation.
One of the things we did was take a 100 man RIP class and divided it in half. Half received ten hours of boxing instruction, the other half did PT. After the instruction, we had boxing matches between those with the training and those without. Strangely enough those who received no training won more fights. We did this three times with different amounts of training and different boxing instructors with the same results. Our conclusion was that from the perspective of actual fighting ability small amounts of boxing training is actually counter productive.
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I haven't read all the posts in this thread, and I'm pretty much jumping to the last page, so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the context in which you put this quote excerpt up as a reply (to who on the board I'm not sure).
Anyways... the body mechanics, that is the trained body mechanics of boxing are such that I know of no one that can utilize the boxing fighting style with only 10 hours of training. It can take some people several months before they can even step in with a proper jab. And that's just a simple basic move. But people moving forward and backward with while throwing a jab, when they are just learning to do it, and while they are practicing it, look like they are half-way mentally challenged.
If you've got no skill or coordination in kicking, I would not suggest trying to use Thai kicks when you have only 10 hours of training either.
In fact I can't even believe someone would waist money (per time/payroll) studying this sh*t, the Army could have asked me (I have no authority whatsoever - just making a point) and I would have told them for free.
