Comments From the Ring: Practical Drills With Coach and An Updated December 10 Card !

ENTRY 373

PRACTICAL TECHNICAL DRILLS WITH COACH BROCK

Tuesday was an interesting session at the Boxing Academy.
Brock had me doing practical defence drills.
I have to say it was one of the most useful and intelligent drills I had ever done.
In the past I have done drills where the coach would call out a combination, and the guy on offence would throw said combination, and I had to use any defence.
Well, thinking about it, that is not practical because when in competition your opponent does not warn you of what he is going to throw.
What Coach Brock does with his drill is he has the offence throw anything. Then the person practising defence had no idea what is coming.
A very good drill and an excellent test of ones defence ability.

It is getting to crunch time with only about a week to go to my last bout of the year.
It has been a bad year for boxing for me.
In addition to having to move to a different gym and find a new coach, I am so far winless for the year. I can not let this year end without a win.

As for finding a new coach, I may turn out to be a good thing.
So far, i have been quite happy with Brock, and the Durham team are a great bunch of people.

On December 10, eight members of the Durham team will be competing. Which, I believe is the entire team.
This will be a great card now with 23 bouts scheduled.
As I mentioned in this week's vlog, I want to see people coming out to support amateur boxers. We thrive on the audience.
Please find time to come out to this great card put on by the Hamilton Boxing Club and sanctioned by the great people at the Ontario Boxing Association.

DECEMBER 10 CARD (RECENTLY UPDATED, MORE BOUTS !)

Here is the December 10 card at the Arnie (Mohawk College Student Centre).
First bout at about 7 PM. They have added a couple of bouts, so now we are up to 23.
This is the largest amateur card I have ever seen, and it is going to be great!
Eight boxers from the fabulous Durham Boxing Academy team are scheduled to be on the card.

As sanctioned by the Ontario Boxing Association and hosted by the Hamilton Boxing Club.

[subject to change]

Names in BOLD are from the Durham team, with head coach Brock Arthur in the corner.

1: Arif Esufali/Rival Grants Vs. Josh Lush/Adanac
2: John Mutton/ McEwans VS Jim Dean/Destiny
3: Ashley Ann/ Hamilton EXH. Madeline Carscallen/Bomanville
4: Hyder Khan/ McEwans VS Allan Blackett/ Durham
5: Katie Lynch/ Hamilton EXH Megan Fiona Mosgrove/Bomanville
6: Mandy Taylor-Bartley/River City VS. Natalie Yip/Grants Rival
7: Simon Phillip/Rival Grants VS. Johnny Aguirre/K1
8: Sarah Ro/ Durham VS Jynelle Bourne/Destiny
9: Ryan Huggett/ River City VS Cody Kelly/ TwinTigers.
10:Jesse Sallows/ Boones VS Steve Nicholson/ Durham.
11: Kiefer Ritter/Inception VS Connor Mcrae/ River City.
12: Colin Douglas/ Hamilton EXH Jose Fuentes/ Hamilton.
13: Dylan Taylorr/River City VS Kyle McLaughlin/ Durham
14: Will Whyte/ Hamilton VS Derek Charbonneau/ Inception
15: Adrian Bell/Undisputed VS Trevor Clark/Radalofi.
16: Drake Olchowecki/ Hamilton VS Darren Matte/ Durham
17: Kyle Murray/River City VS Brendan Sweet/ Bowman.
18: Jason Mcintyre/ Hamilton VS Nick Hammond/School of Hard Knox
19: Peter Temoche/K1 VS Eric Walker/River City
20: Mitchell Eakins/ Hamilton VS Bruce Chaplin/ Inception
21: Nick Kambasis/ Durham VS Blake Loxton/River city
22: Scott Turnbull/ Hamilton VS Paul Brechbuhler/ Durham.
23: Andrew Slade/ Hamilton VS Garrett Mole/ Durham

Contact HAMILTON BOXING CLUB for more information.

The event will be held at the Mohawk College Student Centre. 135 Fennell Avenue West, Hamilton. (One block west of West 5th Street)

FAILS OF THE MONTH

I like to sometimes do these extra (non-boxing related) things when I don't have a lot to put into an entry.

"The Brick" now presents Photo Fails of the Month.

I don't think these need any captions. Use your imagination.
Although, I added captions anyway, because I just had to.

S-A-F-E-T--- **SMASH**!!!

I think I will avoid this place.

They really need to fix that "O".

This is actually quite accurate.

...and the recycling bins have been replaced with garbage cans.

Well, then.

Maybe they are.

Oh, so that is what is in a coconut cream pie.

Exactly.

LAST VLOG OF THE YEAR

This will be my last vlog entry for 2016.
I will return with a new format vlog sometime in January.

THIS WEEK`S VLOG: ONE WEEK TO HAMILTON [video has been removed for technical reasons]

BLOG BREAK

"Comments From the Blue Corner" will be taking a break for the upcoming Holiday season.
There will be no "Blue Corner" on the following days: December 24, December 28, and December 31.
We will ring in 2017 with our first entry of the new year on January 4.
Happy Holidays to all.

Cheers,

'The Brick'

This guy in two weeks:

DECEMBER 10