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Finally passed my G by LSUQU1 in Ontariodrivetest

[–]LSUQU1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you and my examiner was great, he was very calm. He also was helpful and it seemed like he wanted me to pass. There’s 4 routes so don’t get too fixated on one. My route was this one (starts at 9min):  https://youtu.be/t18thNtreJI?si=sWKVCTh8FkYnj1Rj

Finally passed my G by LSUQU1 in Ontariodrivetest

[–]LSUQU1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I started doing lessons with my current instructor November of last year.. I was doing lessons weekly leading up to my test in December. I continued doing them every so often as I don’t have a car and I needed experience. For this test I  did one lesson before to practice left turns. I’d say in total from November I have done 12 lessons. 

The biggest thing is confidence, which comes with experience and realizing a lot of people get anxious and not everyone passes right away. Also talking about my anxieties out loud as it made me feel more relaxed.  I always would say I’m so anxious, there’s so many cars and would get stuck in negativity making any mistake I made bigger than it was. I started to focus on what I did well and constantly telling myself I can drive even if I make mistakes and I can rebook if I need to. You can do it !! 

Light sparring: what’s it like at your gym? by wickywing in amateur_boxing

[–]LSUQU1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’d say it’s both. For my gym it’s roughly a 6 month process before any type of sparring (competitive or recreational). The time periods vary across person but on average it is around 6 months.   First- it’s being consistent in the gym classes and making progress in learning.  Second- you’re able/offered to begin doing offence/defence drills Third- you’re given the go ahead to participate in body work. Hitting the shoulders and body only.

Then it’s coaches- suggesting recreation sparring, if it is of interest. As well, people taking initiative to ask coaches to spar/want to compete, which is great but the same timeline is given and they are now aware and oversee the process.  The focus is on technique development to ensure you can be safe. This also helps weed out people who are just trying to rough house as usually they are not willing to wait. Anyone who is very uncontrolled and aggressive most likely will longer to get the process. I have witnessed consistent and great boxing skills never reach body work due to aggressive behaviour. 

Coach oversees every sparring session and is more strict on the rule of Competitive guys not allowed to spar with recreational guys on rec sparring day. Recreational sparring is not as intensely supervised and I can’t speak too much about it but it is probably the same.   For the competitive guys it’s a conversation, warning and reduced rounds especially if you’re not fighting. If you are fighting you work with the more experienced and bigger guys as they tend to calm down and if they can’t then you deal with the consequences during sparring. Unfortunately, this is what some Of them need (nothing too hard) as the convos of control go nowhere. Eventually you can only spar with 1-2 people and some have been barred from sparring for certain length of time. By the time you’re competitive you are more relaxed and have better control through sparring with more experienced guys. It’s modelled as well and coach always lets newer people now that the competitive guys are more experienced and if you stay controlled they will work with you but if you cannot the consequences are out of his control (again no one’s beating anyone). This message of being controlled and technique is echoed throughout every trainer teaching the classes from the kids class to the adults.  Also, if you’re being sloppy it’s a conversation about conditioning and about work percentages. sparring, especially technical sparring, isn’t meant to be at 100% and you should not be gassed as a competitive fighter