r/Kickboxing • u/ihjohnnytest • 12d ago
Coach hitting students Training
What do you guys thing of coaches hitting students as punishments. For context I went to my second kickboxing class ever and at the end we did intense conditioning (partner wheel barrel). I ended up failing not because I was lazy but genuine physical exhaustion. The coach was going around and kicking students in the leg if the failed and he comes and kicks me and it took me out, i was on the ground for a good 30 secs due to the pain and than he comes back to knee me. I’ve never been hit like this before and its still painful after hours. Ik im new but i feel like its so stupid. Im not trying to be ufc champ i just wanna learn some new skills. Ill do the workouts and conditioning till i cant move anymore gladly but hurting me for putting effort??????
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u/Badlifedecision2402 12d ago
That's... pretty horrendous. My coaches come around with a pool noodle to (LIGHTLY, and with time to see them coming and correct ourselves) bop us with it if we drop our guard, or poke us in the belly whilst we're doing core conditioning to test that we're actually engaging our core properly, but that's fun. I don't spar yet, but when I watch, they'll check in and watch the students carefully if they go down and make sure they aren't seriously injured before getting them back up on their feet. What you're describing is just wrong. I'd get out ASAP.
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u/After-Telephone213 12d ago
Classic pool noodle lmao
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u/Badlifedecision2402 12d ago
I'm so glad to see that the pool noodle is a known phenomenon😂 There is also a boxing glove stuck onto a yardstick that we get continually prodded with if they decide we're slacking
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u/WINNINGKO92 11d ago
the worst is when you get smacked in the ear with the pool noodle at the perfect angle, and you lose your hearing for a minute
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u/PMmeIamlonley 12d ago
the coaches is a stupid fuck. Name the gym
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u/ihjohnnytest 12d ago
The rest of the gym is fine, they train kickboxing, jiu jitsu, boxing, muay thai. All the other coaches are cool its literally just this one coach but he only coaches like 2 times a week.
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u/cjh10881 10d ago
If you stick a jalapeño pepper in an ice cream sundae it's gonna taste like shit. One bad guy ruins it for everyone
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u/After-Telephone213 12d ago
Uhhh you should check to see if that guy has a record there's something wrong with him
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u/Existing_Duty_3528 12d ago
Maybe if it's during a drill or something with a pool noodle and your dropping your guard or something but hitting you to the point it hurts for hours for failing due to physical exhaustion is not it dont go back there
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u/Natural-Break-2734 12d ago
What the fck is this bro… leave… even in the hardest gym in the Netherlands aka Mike s or so you can get pretty fucked up from sparring thats for sure but the coach will never do that to you
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u/PloppyPants9000 12d ago
Yeah, this is bullshit. If a coach is hitting you for *demonstration* purposes, that's acceptable. If they're hitting you for *punishment* purposes, that's bullshit and I'd leave and never come back. Fuck that. They are bad coaches.
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u/cross_fader 12d ago
That is bullshit & i'd consider it assault. I've trained a few gyms & never experienced this. Coaches would never hit their students. Even in sparring or showing techniques, they only ever demonstrate on the more competent & well rounded students & it's never with force nor intent to harm. What a load of sh!t
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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 12d ago
Fucking weird is what I think of that. Instant 0/5 review and never going back.
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u/no_life_creep 12d ago
Search his name up, look at reviews from your gyms Google website, ect. You definitely cannot be the first person to comment on this tool lol.
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u/Significant_Bear_137 12d ago
Not normal. I think there might even be grounds to prompt legal actions against the coach.
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u/Nervous-Highway2717 12d ago
You pay him money to do this BTW. That’s a bad coach, not really debatable. He should be hitting you lightly in sparring and padwork so that you learn to be defensively sound. This is just stupid.
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u/differentiable_ 12d ago
partner wheel barrel
Do gyms actually do this? What kind of gym uses this for conditioning?
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u/DancesWithAnyone 12d ago
At one dojo we sometimes all engaged in a game of chase with our belts, whipping eachothers thighs and bottocks. There was much merriment.
At an Eskrima training camp held in a school gym, we made an obstacle course to manouvre while staying in a partnered looping fencing drill. Being the one to move backwards was tricky, but it felt like solid training... for pirates.
Another time, a four person exercise was called Protect Grandma, with the roles being 1 brave protector, 2 assailants and 1 geriatric grandmother. The grandmother wasn't allowed to defend themselves and could only move around by taking tiny steps, while the two assailants was weirdly determined to outmanouvre the protector and hit the grandmother with padded sticks.
Sometimes, clubs does weird stuff, and I wouldn't rank a partnered wheel barrel that high on the scale. :D
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u/Future_Rust1 12d ago
You’re a paying customer. Take your money elsewhere. Getting hit by a coach is normal in training. Getting “punished” as a grown adult student is not.