Can You Be Your Best With 1 Coach Your WHOLE Career???

Have you ever wondered if you're limiting your fight skills by staying at the same gym?
Should you be looking for a new coach after 2, 3, 4 years of being with the same trainer?
That's our conversation today guys. It's another less talked about subject which is very very important.
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[@gui.pragmatico4589]

Do a stephen wonderboy breackdown!!

[@raygarcia2540]

Can you do a video on the bad things you don't want to find in your training environment? I think that's a topic that is rarely discussed but I'm sure lots of people have found when starting to train martial arts and probably don't realize it

[@micahasher7600]

You don’t want to be abused as a punching bag for the best guy in the gym. Also, Just like a job, you need to get along with people in the gym.

[@raygarcia2540]

@@micahasher7600 yeah, but the thing it's that some people might let that pass because it's like a rite or to make you tough and you can also find the other opposite extreme where people is neglected, ignored and not given the necessary attention

[@micahasher7600]

I wouldn’t call those opposites because they both happen at the same type of gym. Also you might get confused at some gym when their style is like a classroom, show up, and run drills like everyone else. If you shine, then they give you attention during fight camp

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I like doing short trips to train with different coaches. They usually have a different fight style and that allows me to add to my arsenal. Training in Thailand for 10 weeks taught me so much. I've also done numerous 1-2 day sessions with different coaches. Do you think you could become a world champion staying with the first coach you ever started training with?

[@VivekRamanan87]

Definitely. Stipe Miocic stayed with the same team and he’s the champ

[@HeathenRides]

I never been professional, but I Love to travel and visited so many clubs it's really nice.some places was almost like going back in time, it's a really good environment in kb and mt clubs i never had to pay to participate in the training not even when being at a place for 2or 3 weeks and I love Muay Thai camp's.in my last kb club it was many instructor's the owner was a really good boxer and won a few amateur competition's because of he's strong boxing, but several of the students and all the other instructors where better kicker's than him even the female instructor there was kicking a lot better.he even teached wrong from time to time like in the turn side kick he told students to aim before turning their heads instead of turning Head first and look over your shoulder.that place would kinda suck if he was the only instructor.

[@thecommonmartialartist5807]

I can't wait for my pro debut

[@sugarray9565]

Good luck👍

[@wifi1057]

cheer mate

[@thecommonmartialartist5807]

@Bam OuttaDaBayou I won't and thanks

[@moritzschafer3977]

Good luck!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

When is it happening?

[@genises200]

It's tough here in some states with few boxing gyms. Lot of gyms around me relay on old school methods and don't allow growth. So yeah they can be dangerous to a person with no fighting experience and they may win a match or 2. When it comes to other states like NYC,LA,Saint Louis, Philly,etc. They lose against those fighters in Boxing mostly! But in my city and area around, we got an amazing professor for Muay Thai and Jujitsu!

[@dfpguitar]

my opinion is that you can if your coach is family or equivalent to. Think Tyson, Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, Wonderboy, Nurmagomedov and many more. Those family types coaches put all their possible energy, abilities and resources into you. They build you from childhood and they take responsibility and make corrections when things go wrong. As long as they know a decent amount, this makes up for lack of diversity. Your father type coach will also know when to bring in other expert tutors when necessary.

[@miquelcolet6946]

That was a very good and fair answer. I liked and tend to agree with the 95/5% statement. You can argue about the percentages but nowadays if you put the tome and effort one can definitely learn a lot regardless of your coach... And yes!! Lots of videos on clinch/sweeps/throws, please!!... Thank you!!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I'll have those coming soon.

[@miquelcolet6946]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial Awesome! Thanks!

[@RealAmericanSicko]

Awesome video. Learning from different sources can definitely be beneficial but I think it's more important to have a constant "backbone" coach (or coach base, as in your case) who is there to instruct, correct and supervise. They can even be a source of reference for second and third opinions if they think it will help the fighter. I'd be interested to hear what you have to say about unsupervised vs. supervised shadowboxing.

[@genises200]

How can you be a fighter and have a full time job!? Seems like without making the money to give to the gym and pay off living area. Its super hard!

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

For sure it's difficult. You have to balance training and a full time job until you're making enough money that training and fighting is your job.

[@matthew-jy5jp]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial that's what separates fighters from champions like you Gab 😊

[@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA]

You are doing worng work, wrong job.

[@angelgeorge3455]

Shoutout from india 🇮🇳 Question - How to increase Fight IQ? Please make a video

[@mykulpierce]

Would a coach also be someone who manages who and when to fight? It seems that sometimes coaches fulfill that kind of hybrid role between coach and manager but then other times it seems that fighters have dedicated management companies. When and where to fight is something I'm scratching my head at. I had a boxing lesson the other day with the new gym and I asked the questions you had recommended. About how they help people prepare for fights and based on their answer It became very clear that the location wasn't for me. They have multiple locations like a chain that they have fights for and they could set up amateur fights "if that's something you wanted to do". Felt like it wasn't a focus for them and that they had a more recreational approach to boxing. So definitely thank you for your advice last week!

[@Markperna1]

Great advice! Applicable to everything in life too.

[@nathanglasgow5084]

As for criticism nothing like a good honest pad to the head every time you leave an opening, it just works 😂

[@dinomra7771]

Please do Cedric Doumbe in your technique series!

[@matthew-jy5jp]

Only if you are Tony Ferguson 😊👊 thank you for all these great fight videos Gab.

[@dukey03]

Would you be able to do a video on footwork and defensive drills? It’s easy to find offensive drills online, but nobody really focuses on defensive drills

[@micahasher7600]

McLeod boxing. You’re welcome

[@arojsunar5908]

5 things on Stephen wonderboy Thompson pls

[@antonihardonk8970]

It might be challenging to find a great coach but if you find your Gus D’Amato don’t leave him ever.

[@derablilotfi2112]

i have been trainning kick boxing i want to multiple it with karate or taekwondo what do you thunk

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Depends what the reason is. For fun definitely. If you're training for competition I'd suggest making sure you are quite good at one before trying two. Just my opinion.

[@spray31]

What if you have all those things, but don't have enough/decent training partners?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

That definitely makes things more difficult. Try to find some of the better guys in the city and work with them. You must have 2-3 guys around that a descent. And if not focus on solid pad work.

[@atn2666]

Hell no! I have my boxing coach and a s&c coach and I’m an amateur boxer!

[@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA]

And nobody cares

[@atn2666]

@@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA OK?

[@alokkushwaha9799]

Maaan, the thumbnail looks fire...♨️♨️♨️

[@kevincorso9757]

love this breakdown and i can't believe i've never seen anyone talk about this on youtube; this could be an entire series. my best friend and i have had similar conversations in the past and it's always such a huge decision, particularly when you don't know how the coach will take it. there was definitely one instance he had to deal with in which the coach, wrongfully so i'd argue, took it personally and refused to speak to him ever again. it ended up being a great decision for his boxing career, but a salutary experience nonetheless. if it's not immediately evident, i think your input on all topics relating to this as a career or profession could be extremely valuable. we all love the actual training and competition, but there's no real roadmap helping to orient aspiring fighters out there, you know? i know you can't provide all the answers, but sharing your insight like this, and your experiences sounds like outstanding content that fills a void right now.

[@judocrusader5171]

I fully agree. Foundation coach is the club man sorting your growth week by week. Along the way there will be parts in training that need more attention if not addressed...usually those parts rear up during sparring. Seeking another teacher to help in that progress only adds.

[@jaysnoddon8161]

I love how you talked about your coach being a practitioner rather than just teaching you the techniques. I feel like someone who has actually went through the experiences that you as a fighter are about to go through is really valuable in helping you grow and get better. My coach is a former 4 time 4 weight world champion kickboxer so I know that each and every single piece of information passed down to me is so valuable in making me a better fighter as it is what helped him in becoming a champion. However, my coach didn’t actually have a coach. He just travelled the world and trained at different gyms and absorbed the knowledge! Billy Murray, the hardest working champion I have ever met!

[@michealtm]

The greatest coach I've ever had never competed a day in his life. When I started Muay Thai, I was training with a champion, someone who had over 30 fights with no losses, well known in my country, and he genuinely was a pretty bad teacher. Teaching something, and being good at it are two very different things. My second coach actually explained things to me, gave me reasons for why those techniques are good or bad for my fighting style, was extremely smart and helped me win all my fights. His reason for not competing was simply because he hated the sports aspect of Muay Thai. He took that martial arts specifically for self defense. He also spars like a machine and would spar every single one of his students or anyone willing for that matter and constantly put them on their behinds. Very talented fighter, never had the passion for a belt or for the ring. We should not just ignore a genius because he chose not to compete. I forgot which professional fighter said those words, but they were, "behind every champion, there is a no name partner in the gym who is more talented", those were not the exact words actually but this was the meaning behind the quote.

[@SiavashJaredAndinoBernhard]

@@michealtm Maybe was Mike Tyson who said that. If I remember correctly, one time he said that back in the day in his gym there were better boxers than him but no one knows about them because they never made it through the pressure of performing in front a crowd. As a side note, I believe it's not just on combat sports but any sport, take for example football coach Mourinho(yes, I said football instead of soccer), he never played profesionally and he made it to the highest levels coaching Real Madrid and many other high level football teams in Europe.

[@michealtm]

@@SiavashJaredAndinoBernhard Exactly, many great people get the cold shoulder because they had different motives in life that did not involve the stage, even if I understand that seeking people who are known can be the safest option, it is definitely not the only one; and those who go for the safe path can miss out on learning from the greatest minds alive.

[@jaysnoddon8161]

@@michealtm That’s amazing! I hope that my comment didn’t come off as dismissive of coaches that haven’t fought as that’s not what I meant. I think when looking for a trainer I just appreciated the experience that my coach had in the squared circle. But I agree with you 100%. Just because you were a great fighter doesn’t mean you would make a great coach and vice versa. Freddie Roach in boxing is a great example of that.

[@quest9617]

Can you make a video on ring rust? Does taking time off to focus on technique help improvement more than trying to get as much experience as you can in a short time?

[@markmcallan973]

That's a great question bro! Hope Gabriel does that in one of his segment!

[@sebastiankepper4852]

Uii thats right would my father say if Not you arent ready to be a fighter but for most people it counts what the trainer of gsp in the Interview with joe rogan told he manipulaited gsp once before a fight by leting him win the last round as he knew if gsp would have lost the last too he would be ready for the fight

[@bruce4139]

I feel like no because you need someone who specializes in fighting aggressive fighters, defensive fighters, southpaw fighters, mix of south and orthodox etc.

[@rahmabarrak8022]

Thanks

[@weshardy1063]

We open doors, expose new realities to unseen situations, and encourage the mindset. Ultimately one must cross the threshold alone, and in the End the Student becomes the Teacher. Few live up to this Way. These are great videos...

[@isos6534]

Can you explain Masato low kick technique?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I'll definitely be doing a Masato breakdown so I'll try to add it in that.

[@lg5lg583]

8:13 "OH LET'S DO THIS! IT'S FIGHT TIME😆

[@collabcomm9007]

Thanks

[@sugarray9565]

Thanks, best channel on KZbin👍

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Wow, thanks!

[@superloekie2985]

First :)

[@YourFather1555]

second :0

[@ArchingRock]

Third Gear Edit: Grizzly Magnum

[@thecommonmartialartist5807]

@@ArchingRock bounce man