The main hall.Heavy punch bags.
Now I should say that opening a boxing club in India namely in Goa is a very tricky business (to put it mildly!). One must be a real fan a past master that such a difficult kind of sport as boxing to popularize in the state where everyone became accustomed to rest under the palm trees and have a blast at the party and drink beer (and that is not a bad thing itself :-)
Fabrizio and Chandan.Focus pads work.
As far as I`m concerned (I can say from my personal experience) you won`t find a place where you get such a comity of manner to coaching which is shown by Fabrizio to students during training session. In addition to he spar once a week and almost every time he comes into the ring with his students at any level, even with beginners who have just started to play boxing!
Fabrizio and Sonia on the Vagator Beach.
Trainings are held from Monday to Friday twice a day: on the Vagator beach in the morning and at the club in the evening. On the beach most of the time is given to the explosive technique: it is a sprint at 60 or 100 meters in a definite time, working with dumbbells and work out of basic blows in the water plus reaction exercises and movement routine.
Sonia in the weights room.
There is two-hour training with constantly changing exercises in the club every evening. You have the opportunity to work out on the heavy punch bags or light punch bags, on the sector bags, double end bags, speed balls on platform double and single, on the two-level makivara and so on. Fabrizio has his own weights room that`s why round robins are very productive and diversified.
Sonia and Anil.Sparring.
So there is a possibility to work at all ground of muscles you need for boxing and not just for it. Huge variety of sports facilities allow to carry out trainings vast amount of multifarious exercises. Sparring gloves, training gloves, bag gloves and headgears all are available in club for learners.
Ivan prepares me for the first sparring,
so he applies some Vaseline on my nose and cheekbones.
There is a different level of boxers in the TBC. Sometimes you can meet Batu Khasikov a professional Russian kickboxer the 2007 World Kick Boxing Champion. You can also have a sparring with Sonia Parab the only gold medallist for the state at the Guwahati National Games in 2007 and licensed as a professional boxer under Professional Boxing Federation of Russia.
Stolfi Brothers.
Every evening in the gym there is Chandan Chavan Pushkar Bhonsle and Anil Rathod – national level medalists, and Valeria Imbrogno – the former Italian kickboxing world champion. And heavy weight category `s represent Guillaume and Ivan Stolfi national medalists from Italy.
We deeply regret to inform about Ivan`s doom. He crushed on his bike in Goa.We would like to express our sincere condolence and sympathies to the family and friends...
RIP
Anil turned out my first opponent.
Fabrizio gives me advice before the second round.
Warm embrace after the fight is an organic part of boxing ethics.
My introduction to the Russian boxing trainer Alexander Mishutin.
For more information about the club go to the website tigerboxingschool.com