Boxing in Maple, Ontario

Boxing is the art of the hands. With only punches to work with, it goes deeper on footwork, timing, distance and defence than any other striking sport, and those skills carry over to everything else you train.

Our classes are technique-led. Each session begins with footwork and shadow boxing, moves on to bag and pad work and partner drills, and finishes with defensive drills or controlled sparring depending on the evening. New students spend their first weeks on stance, movement and the basic punches before any sparring is introduced.

The curriculum covers the jab, cross, hooks and uppercuts, combinations off each, and the defence that goes with them: slipping, rolling, blocking, parrying and moving off the line. It is a hard workout, but the focus is always on doing things correctly.

Daniel leads the program, bringing more than ten years of boxing and over twenty amateur fights. He trained under Adrian Teodorescu at Atlas Boxing and is a Quebec Cup champion. He teaches boxing the way he learned it: stance, footwork and distance first, then the hands.