Boxing Trainer Michael COACH MIKE Kozlowski about using jump rope in workout of boxers!

Posted on 31. Jul, 2021 by BoxingCoachMike in News

Boxing trainer Michael Kozlowski has very few memories of using the jump rope in training in the mid 70s and early 80s, when he boxed …
“The first days of boxing, we jumped more, without a rope, twice on the left leg and twice on the right one …
Often these were whole rounds during or at the end of the warm-up, as well as at the end of the workout, during which such jumps were reinforced with certain exercises, explosions or muscle relaxation …
Almost the same thing happened at the training camps of Republicans or National levels, where I had a chance to participate … ”- the Coach Mike recalls.

Looking back, Boxing Coach Michael Kozlowski formed his own opinion about why the representatives of the Russian Boxing School, compared to an American boxers, spent much less time working with the jump rope.
Michael Kozlowski grew up in Kazakhstan and his generation of boys, already on the subconscious, associated jumping rope with something girly, because always around boys were girls who jumped for hours and played games with a jump rope in the yard or at school…
Also, in sports stores, which were only in the central regions, there were no jump ropes suitable for training boxers on sale …
In those days, boxers themselves made jump ropes from thick ropes or from electric wires with a soft rubber or plastic coating …
When the Master of Sports in Boxing Michael Kozlowski, took his first coaching steps in the Olympic Sports School of the Moscow, despite the fact that jump ropes could already be bought in any Sporting Goods store, he, like most of Moscow trainers, used very few rope exercises. with his students! These were mainly regular jumps, which were complemented by accelerations with a run in place or jumps with a double turn! Then the young coach saw no particular need for exercises with this equipment!

Michael Kozlowski started to use exercises with the jump rope with his students when he started working as a Boxing Coach in the USA!

This is understandable, working on a jump rope in Professional Boxing America a whole century, has been an integral part of the training and, no less importantly, the advertising process of Professional Boxing!
Every elite pro boxer had certain tricks set when they jumped on jump rope in the public!

For more than twenty recent years, for all the students of Coach Mike, acquaintance with Boxing, first of all, begins with jumping rope, which, over the years, turn into special working with a jump rope!

According to Boxing Trainer Michael Kozlowski, jump rope exercises are very useful for the development of COORDINATION, SPEED, FLEXIBILITY, ENDURANCE, IMPROVISATION …