Anyone know about russian style boxing?

[mrpopenfresh]

Ok this is a word for word repost of a thread I did in the standup technique forum, but I figured the boxing forum would also be a good call seeing how standup is petty much muay thai.

So I got bored and decided to pay a little extra to have acces to my gyms boxing class. At first I was thinking something along the lines of a skipping rope warmup, focus mitts then heavy bag, but this guy is taking it to oldschool extremes! Turns out the boxing coach is this old russian dude you can barely comprehend. He is raw. He tried to fill me in on his styyle a bit and talked about the "russian style" of boxing, wich is like the standup aspect of combat sambo. The instructor then hit the bag a bit, and it looked exactly like Vovchanchyn striking.

It's very rought and tumble; after a half hour of hard bag hitting, we went directly to sparring about 50%. Keep in mind this was my first class, and even though I have a bit of standup experience, that totally caught me off guard. The instructor talked about smabo like I said and Fedor. Does anyone have any experience with russian style boxing? For now I can get the gist of it, but I'd like to have a more complete view of it.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[Bonos]

Former Soviet boxers are doing real well in many weight classes and they have their own unique style (as compared to Americans for example) but i've never seen any former soviet system or any professional boxers for that matter use that sambo style punching that Fedor uses.

It looks to be completely different then any from of boxing used at a high level.

 

[nip102]

i've seen the russian am boxing team train and none of them trained like you described.

 

[Cracky]

The soviet style is responsible for the success of the Cuban boxing team.. The Cubans built onto the russian style, but thats the base of their game.

 

[mrpopenfresh]

TTT
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