📌 3 RULES WHEN YOU PANIC IN THE RING
Beginners panic, it’s normal, your body kicks into fight or flight. You stop breathing. You lose your stance and start getting in worse and worse positions.
Get the space if you need it. Then breathe, you’re holding it without knowing. Stay in your stance, the physical body is the anchor when nothing else is. Feel something in your body, your feet, your guard against your head, your breath. Bring yourself back.
This is the beauty of learning to fight for everyone - you learn how to regulate when that crazy fight or flight kicks in.
Train it with us:📍East Van · 📍PoCo · 🥊 QB Online ($5/month, free for members). Link in bio.
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Bag burnout with @nyousha_ and @rubyb.ox at the end of team training. Our vets are always helping develop those younger than them who are trying to follow in their footsteps. Always generous with their knowledge, presence, and experience. This is the culture I deeply believe in - those older to leave their shirt behind for those younger. Making a mark at the club by not what you personally accomplished, but by how many you uplifted behind you.
📍East Van · 📍PoCo
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📌 HOW TO FIGHT IN THE MATRIX
It’s not reflexes. It’s not speed. The fighters who look like they see everything coming aren’t dodging shots, they’re eliminating them before the shots get thrown.
Take small angles. Cut off his options. He can’t throw the cross from there, so he has to throw the hook. You already know what’s coming and you’re not standing where it lands.
Read the position. Eliminate the shot. That’s the matrix.
Train it with us — 📍East Van · 📍PoCo · 🥊 QB Online ($5/month, free for members). Link in bio.
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📌 8 YEARS OLD. CLEANER THAN MOST ADULTS!
Lennox has been boxing nine months. No bad habits to undo, just falling in love with how boxing feels. Not only building the right technique, but a kind of confidence to be at the front of an adults class killing it!
Her dad @eddie__lopez86 joined first. Worked through the curriculum with a ton of consistency and recently started sparring. Inspiring his daughter to try it too. Watching his kiddo grow up in the gym next to him, that’s what makes this a community, not just a place to train. Growing in the sport together ❤️
If you’ve got a kid who wants to start, bring them in. Watch what happens when they fall in love with something that’s just theirs.
Train it with us — 📍East Van · 📍PoCo · 🥊 QB Online ($5/month, free for members). Link in bio.
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📌 BAG WORK IS LYING TO YOU
Your opponent isn’t going to wait in your range. They’re going to make you work for it every round. Step out. Use your feet to close the distance, then throw. The best bag worker in the gym means nothing if his footwork can’t get him to the target.
Train it with us — 📍East Van · 📍PoCo · 🥊 QB Online ($5/month, free for members). Link in bio.
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@ericbasranboxing prepping for his WBC Silver title shot at home May 30 in Surrey with @3lionspromotions - sparring with young @a._arvin_ . What a privilege for the next generation to learn from the high level vets, sparring with them and watching them prepare.
📍East Van · 📍PoCo
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📌 DEFEND LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Your defense is not time to rest. You’re throwing with mean intention — your opponent is too. So why don’t you drill defense like it. Move your head with urgency, not lazily. Don’t confuse urgency with reckless either. Defend with the same intensity as your offense for it to really translate.
🇨🇦 Train it with us — 📍East Van · 📍PoCo ·
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@logan.clouthier going for 10-0 and first time fighting in Sask as a pro. What a homecoming it’ll be! June 13 @gkopas !
📍East Van · 📍PoCo
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📌 STOP DROPPING TO COUNTER
Milliseconds and millimetres matter. Throw right from where you’re catching, you’re more sheltered and throw it faster. Obsess about the details.
🇨🇦Train it with us — 📍East Van · 📍PoCo
🥊 QB Online ($5/month, free for members).
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📌 THEY HAVE REACH. YOU HAVE FEET.
Long and lanky? Doesn’t matter. Your feet are the answer. The amateur game is quick feet and mastery of range. Yes being tall is an advantage, but I’ve seen many tall guys lose to short guys with quicker and smarter footwork. Footwork is king — if you can’t reach, doesn’t matter how stunning your offense is, every fight starts out of range.
Drill it with us at East Van or PoCo. QB Online’s got the breakdown if you’re not local — $5/month, free for members. Link in bio.
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📌 WAIT = GET HIT FIRST.
If you wait, he’s already there. You’ve got to fill the beat in to keep your rhythm after an exchange — keep control of the air space and make them keep reacting to a threat. That doesn’t mean throw blind. Be first from positions where you CAN be first. From a bad angle, first gets you hit. From the right angle, first keeps your dominance.
Most fighters wait too long because they think first = reckless. First is a skill. Find the timing.
Drill it with us at East Van or PoCo. QB Online’s got the breakdown if you can’t make it in — $5/month, free for members. Link in bio.
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