December Sparring Sessions

Here are some videos of our December sparring sessions:

November Sparring

Here are some clips from some of our sparring sessions in November 2011.

Kid's Class Heavybag Training

Heavybag training can serve an integral part of training. If you cannot spar nor have a coach that can hold mitts for you then the heavy bag is the next best thing. The heavy bag can help improve and develop punching power, balance, and also simulate an opponent.

The heavy bag gives you a feeling of what it feels like to hit an opponent and to punch correctly. If you hit the bag wrong it you’ll know what it feels like to hit incorrectly. It helps to create punching endurance and to condition the muscles and bones in your hands, wrists, and arms. It also can help footwork if you engage the bag as an opponent. When it swings you can block, push, shuffle, move and step.

If you want to hit harder the heavy bag will definitely help--if you use proper technique. The fact that the heavy bag does not punch back can be a positive and a negative because it allows you to focus on hitting it as hard as you want.

It can be a negative because it can cause you to be a little sloppy with your defense and technique because punches aren’t coming back like when using focus mitts with a coach. The danger is if you only hit the bag to see how hard you can hit it, hit the bag without direction or practice sloppily. Those habits that can develop in the way you compete.



You can see some of that above in the first video. The youngster is getting lazy with his hands as they are dropping to his sides. In the next video below (Heavy Bag pt. 2) the coach gives him more instruction and it is a little more of a technical workout. There are still flaws of course because he is only a pup in the sport but there is a difference that is visible.

Lompoc Boxing Show

The Fillmore Boxing Club's Rodrigo Ganica and Jonathan Minero competed on Saturday, October 15th at Ray Baca's Gym as part of the Ventura KO Boxing Show in Lompoc, CA. You can see clips of their bouts below:

Rodrigo Garnica: Red Gloves & Headgear, Black Trunks & Jersey


Jonathan Minero: Blue Gloves & Headgear, Blue Trunks, Black Jersey

October Sparring Sessions

Here are a few sparring sessions from October:

September 2011 Sparring Sessions

Here are some of our sparring session from September 2011

Rodrigo Garnica vs. Pablo Melgar

The Fillmore Boxing Club's Rodrigo Garnica competed at the Eddie Heredia Boxing Show on Saturday, August 27th 2011. In a highly competitive bout Garnica lost a close decision to Pablo Melgar from LA Boxing Torrance. You can see the match in the video below. Garnica will be preparing to compete for his next match in September in San Fernando.

Coronation of the 155 lb. Champion!

Congratulations to the Combat Fight League's new 155 lb. Champion, Fillmore's own Jose 'Froggy' Estrada. Estrada won a unanimous victory and captured the title at the CFL's Coronation series on Friday, August 26th at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills. Estrada joins his brother Francisco 'Turtle' Estrada who is the CFL's 145 lb. Champion as a CFL title holder.


From left to right: Francisco 'Turtle' Estrada, Robbie Aguilar, Jose 'Froggy' Estrada



The face off!

(Photos by Robbie Aguilar)

Eddie Heredia Boxing Show

Congratulations to Fillmore Boxing Club's Rodrigo Garnica who competed this weekend at the Eddie Heredia Boxing Show at Obregon Park in Los Angeles in the 120 lb. weight class.

June Sparring Sessions

Here are a few videos of some of our sparring sessions from last month:

Congratultions to Big Roy

(Left to Right: Ventura KO Boxing's Will Posser & Roy Milbrandt, Coach Torres-Fillmore Boxing Club)

The Fillmore Boxing Club was on hand to help coach Ventura KO Boxing's Roy Milbrandt in his bout at the Yo Valley Foothill Jeopardy Boxing Club Show. Roy has been a regular sparring partner for us and it was a pleasure to help him out. You can see his match vs. Sergio Orozco of Yo Valley below.

Victorious!

Congratulations to the Estrada Brothers. Jose "Froggy" Estrada and Francisco "Turtle" Estrada both won their matches at the Combat Fight League's "Coronation" event at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills on Friday June 24th, 2011.

Jose Estrada won his 170 lb. CFL debut match by defeating Chris Hardaway via ground and pound stoppage.



In the Main Event, Francisco Estrada defeated Tim "The Tyrant" Riscen to defend his CFL 145 lb. Championship Title via rear naked choke in the second round. You can see Francisco's match below:







Here are highlights from the entire event:

Tale of the Tape

Francisco 'Turtle' Estrada vs. Tim 'Tyrant' Riscen
Friday, June 24th at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, CA.
For more information:
www.combatfightleague.com

Coronation

Jose 'Froggy' Estrada & Francisco 'Turtle' Estrada will be competing Friday, June 24th in Woodland Hills at the Warner Center Marriott as part of the CFL's "Coronation" event.

Good luck to the Estrada Brothers.

For more information click on the link below:
www.combatfightleague.com

A Glimpse at the Kids Class

Yo Valley Foothill Jeopardy Boxing Show

The Fillmore Boxing Club's Jonathan Minero competed at the Yo Valley Foothill Jeopardy Boxing Show in San Fernando, CA. April 2nd, 2011 in the 140 lb. weight class.

Congratulations to Jonathan.

See Round #2 of Jonathan (red gloves, red jersey) vs. Luis Pitones of Rose City Boxing in the video below.

KO High Boxing Show

Fillmore Boxing Club's Alex Becerra competed at the "KO High Boxing Show" held at the Taft High School Gym in Woodland Hills, CA on March 18th, 2011. Congratulations to Alex.



Watch Alex (blue gloves) below:

Saturday Night Boxing Show

Fillmore Boxing Club's Eric Figueroa and Jonathan Minero competed at the Ventura KO Boxing Club's "Saturday Night Boxing Show" held at Roy Baca's Boxing Gym in Lompoc, CA on March 5th, 2011. Congratulations to our fighters.

See Eric (wearing red gloves)in action:



See Jonathan (wearing blue gloves)in action.

Getting Ready for the Fight

Fillmore Boxing Club is looking forward to having Eric Figueroa, Alex Becerra, and Jonathan Minero compete next month.

Watch Alex & Eric preparing to compete in one of our Wednesday night sparring sessions:



Watch Jonathan & Eric preparing to compete in one of our Wednesday night sparring sessions:

Double End Bag Drill Using Bas Rutten Boxing Tape

The Bas Rutten workout CDs are an excellent way of exercising combination punches and creating muscle memory. I have been fortunate to study the CDs from Bas Rutten himself and his instructors Randy Khatami, Amir Rahnavardi, Hector Pena, Art Rivas, and James Singler. They have all demonstrated and introduced a variety of different ways that the CDs can be used and tweaked in a workout routine. Using the CD with the double end bag improves hand/eye coordination.