This week’s Community Spotlight feature is on Ali Ahmed, a professional boxer at Dreamland Boxing. Ali is the most disciplined athlete I’ve ever met – he stays in shape year round and never fluctuates in weight. In this interview, we discuss his amateur career, winning the Golden Gloves, the Olympic Trials, his diet, training during Ramadan, and adapting to the current shelter-in-place.
Today’s Community Spotlight feature is on Dreamland’s own Alex Rodriguez. Alex has been boxing for since he was a teenager and previously fought for Dreamland in 2016-2017. In this interview, we talk about his time in boxing and placing at the Golden Gloves, fighting undefeated pro Tony Munoz, the mental side of boxing, the books “Top Dog” and “Born to Run”, his journey into trail racing, the Big SURreal Virtual Marathon, and more!
How the Dreamland Boxing Team in San Jose, CA is continuing their boxing training and keeping members motivated during the quarantine.
Today’s Community Spotlight feature is on Dreamland’s own Sara Koshfam. Sara has been boxing for around 7 years and been training and coaching at Dreamland for the past 2. In this interview, Sara takes us through her journey walking into a boxing ring, having her first fight (overseas!), training at Dreamland, coaching, sparring world class fighters such as nationally ranked Alexis Gomez, and how she’s keeping herself busy today.
Announcement: Big SURreal Virtual Challenge!
Today’s share of the day is a simple hand eye coordination drill. Hand-eye coordination is really important for boxers.. I used to take our team to a place called Sensory Speed where it was all reaction and cognitive training, with things like a Dynavision board (think wack-a-mole while someone’s giving you math problems) or Fit Lights. Or they’d have these glasses you wear that shutter in and out your vision and they would throw like a green ball for you to catch with you left hand, a red ball to catch with your right, and an orange that you skip. I… Read More »Share of the Day: Hand-Eye Coordination Drills for Boxing
If you’re looking for a boxing gym to train at in San Jose, CA – look no further. While my experience has been exclusively at Dreamland, I’ve been at enough tournaments to see the familiar faces and programs that have successful (and long-lasting) boxing programs. Below are the top boxing gyms in San Jose if you are looking to compete. Dreamland Boxing: Dreamland Boxing is a 501c(3) non-profit boxing gym in San Jose, CA. Originally founded in 2004 by the late David “Sarge” Neeleman and his wife Maria Neeleman, the gym was named after “Dreamland Auditorium”, which is where Maria’s… Read More »Best Boxing Gyms in San Jose
This past weekend marked the 2nd Annual Dreamland Boxing Master’s World Championship, a two day tournament hosted by Dreamland for Masters fighters (age 35+) all over the world. In the two years that we’ve hosted the tournament, we’ve had participants from USA, Australia, Canada, Austria, Russia, England, Germany, Argentina, and all over the US! Due to how difficult it is to get matched up, many of these fighters travel to compete and do it for the pure love of the sport. Many come without coaches and are assigned one at registration. I volunteered to help and ended up working 35… Read More »Dreamland Boxing Masters World Championships (2019)
This week at Dreamland Boxing: • Chris The Warrior Washington is fighting on 3/1/19 at the DoubleTree in Sacramento. Tickets are on sale at Dreamland now!• Ali Ahmed is fighting on 3/23/19• Rick Noble brought Carina Moreno and some amateur fighters for sparring• Mariana Gonzalez came by for sparring• Vicky Qianyue Zhao came by for sparring• Adrian Serrano came by for sparring• The amateur team continued training for the “Never Give Up” Boxing event on 2/16, here at Dreamland• The amateur team is training with @teroculture at @performancegaines on Saturdays in preparation for their upcoming bouts• Sign-ups for Sandra Magallon boot camp are going on now: first… Read More »This Week at Dreamland Boxing (01/21/2019)
Thank you to everyone who supported us this year! (cont.)