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Our coaches at Legends are passionate, dedicated and knowledgeable. They are always learning to be better coaches so as to provide you with the best training opportunities. Whether you want to box to improve your fitness level or get quality coaching to help you advance in your boxing career, we are here at every step of the way. Once a Legend, always a Legend. Just like you, we at Legends are fighters too.
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Coach Bruno’s opinion on Boxing Wraps
I have been working with my hands as a carpenter all my life. Prior to boxing I used to play rugby for 4 years. I’ve been involved with boxing for the last 10 years. I’m 40 years of age now and I have to admit that my hands are very stiff the day after hitting[…]
Best Defensive Technique
Right. So here it is. There is no such thing as THE best defensive technique. Surely different fighters usually tend to rely more on the techniques they are comfortable with but there isn’t exactly the best one. Use the one that fits your situation. Use the one that feels the most natural in that moment. If[…]
Boxing The Virus
A Smooth Sea never made a skilled sailor Franklin D. Roosevelt This is indeed our situation right now. The entire world is going through a challenging time as the COVID-19 virus situation has forced us to postpone our plans, cancel events, limit our movement, practice social distancing, reduce our activities outside of home and made[…]
Beginner’s Guide to Sparring
There’s a difference between sparring and fighting. Fighting comes with the goal of winning and destroying your opponent whereas sparring is focused on developing your skills! This post is dedicated to those who are relatively new to sparring. Training on equipment only develops your technique. Training in the ring develops your fighting skills! As soon[…]
5 Rules of Sparring
Sparring is a drill where you and your opponent help each other to practice real moves in a proper ring. The intention isn’t to beat your opponent but rather learn from each other. Noticing subtle nuances such as movements, punches, positioning, defence and other aspects of fighting which sharpens your overall boxing skills. At some point[…]
5 Reasons Why We Shadowbox
Shadowboxing is when a boxer moves around throwing punches at the air. Shadowboxing is a popular and basic exercise for boxers to hone their fighting techniques, condition their muscles, warm up or mentally condition themselves in the lead up to sparring, a boxing session or a fight. Done correctly with the right goals in mind,[…]
JAB…TO THE BODY!
The jab is most certainly the most important punch in boxing. Time and again we practice the jab. The different jab variations, the timing, the speed, the accuracy, the angles when throwing the jab, placements for the jab and many more. “If you want to be a good boxer, forget the jab. If you want[…]
2020…and still lazy
It’s already February 2020 and unfortunately, some of you are still stuck in the cycle of complaining, blaming everything else and being lazy. All those new year resolutions put to rest, dead, together with your ambitions and goals that you wanted to achieve when you were all hyped up. Being motivated is good, but it[…]
High Guard
Following up from the previous post regarding the basic guard, in this post, I’ll be touching on another type of guard, commonly known as the high guard. It is pretty much the same as the basic guard only that for the high guard, you hold your hands much higher than before. When you’re adopting the[…]
Happy Birthday Legends!
Legends began in a small hole in a building at North Canal Road. We were a very small gym, probably the smallest gym back in 2014. There was no lift. The stairway to the gym was dark and creepy, like something you’ll see in horror movies and our members had to wait at the stairs[…]