Cornering

[fa_jing]

I may be cornering for my former classmate this Saturday. Any tips? They were giving grapes to the fighters of one school between rounds, at the last one of these tournaments.
I think it's mostly instinctual - actually, he cornered for me last year at one. It helped me alot. I'm sure I'll be up for it, with the emotion involved.

[prana]

make sure your suspension is well sorted
:D

[Serpent]

Yeah, I thought this was going to be a thread about driving too!

[dezhen2001]

on a kung fu forum? Now, thats just not right serpent ;)

dawood

[joedoe]

Originally posted by fa_jing
I may be cornering for my former classmate this Saturday. Any tips? They were giving grapes to the fighters of one school between rounds, at the last one of these tournaments.
I think it's mostly instinctual - actually, he cornered for me last year at one. It helped me alot. I'm sure I'll be up for it, with the emotion involved.

I once cornered for a friend - didn't even know he was fighting until about an hour before the fight, so we didn't have time to work a strategy. What I found was that I spent the whole fight telling him to keep his hands up, so you might find that useful.

BTW he won :)

[prana]

wasnt Darryl was it ? That guy was a natural fighter !

Actually he did work pretty hard :)

[dezhen2001]

i remember when i used to box that when i competed my coach used to keep telling e stuff like "youre doing ok" and "keep your hands up" and all that jazz, but actually i was often getting the stuffing knocked out of me :( lol

but sometimes i did ok :)

dawood

[joedoe]

Originally posted by prana
wasnt Darryl was it ? That guy was a natural fighter !

Actually he did work pretty hard :)

Yeah, it was Daryl and yes he was a natural fighter. However he had not done a minute's training for the fight and his hands were dropping constantly. But man he had a mean kick :)

Kinda wish he was still training :(

[fa_jing]

It will be cool because I can give him strategy. Plus he will be the one actually taking punches :D :cool:

[Serpent]

Originally posted by fa_jing
It will be cool because I can give him strategy. Plus he will be the one actually taking punches :D :cool:

Give him bad advice, for a laugh.

You know, stuff like, "Keep your hands at your chest", "Lead with your chin", stuff like that.

[Cheese Dog]

Yeah Dezhen2001 I remember that from my boxing days as well. One time in particular I had just eaten an Uppercut and all I hear is coach saying, "You kept your hands up, good job." Meanwhile I'm seeing double!

[SevenStar]

Note to self: NEVER let serpent be my cornerman

[dezhen2001]

cheese dog: uppercuts dont taste good! :( usually it was my own fault as i had already been doing karate for 7 years then, so was used to having my guard a little lower :p

fa jing: one good thing, especially if hes eating a lot of punches is to try and keep the morale up. i know when i was sparring with this big guy once he was clocking me left right and centre. i really felt like i was fighting the terminator or something :eek: but my coach and friends kept me going until i eventually caught him with the most beautiful left hook :cool: It seemed he was so aggressive because he had a bit of a glass jaw, so once i found that out things were much better.

dawood

[Serpent]

Originally posted by SevenStar
Note to self: NEVER let serpent be my cornerman

:D

[dezhen2001]

but he can be my opponents anytime he likes :p

dawood

[Serpent]

Originally posted by dezhen2001
but he can be my opponents anytime he likes :p

dawood

If the price is right.....

;)

[IronFist]

Originally posted by prana
make sure your suspension is well sorted
:D

lol, I was going to say something like that :)

IronFist

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by dezhen2001
but he can be my opponents anytime he likes :p

dawood

My thought exactly. :D

[Serpent]

Originally posted by SevenStar


My thought exactly. :D

I reiterate: If the price is right! ;)

[fa_jing]

well, no one showed up to fight in my friend's division. He got 25 bucks just for showing up. Of course, he paid 35 to compete...:D