ketchel i know what you are saying
i recall saying on another forum a while back reading an interview with Kayes, that his training regime, his whole focus, seemed heavily influenced by a bodybuilding approach and it seemed building pure mass/strength was a big part of it
i asked someone on the forum with better knowledge than my own rather sketchy knowledge on issues related to S&C training, if he was worried (on Hatton's behalf) that Kaye's regime seemed rather too 'weights-based' and not 'sports-specific' enough
from the answer I got (from a pro S&C trainer, maybe phenomenal-nutrition could help me out here) its not necessarily true that if you focus on a weight-based programme, that you will lose mobility or stamina. however if weights are done without specifically applying most of the movements to boxing-related activity, involving the APPLICATION of strength to movement (rather than the kind of static stregnth of weight training) then it is a possibility you can lose speed etc
basically plyometric-type training, or in weight training, Olympic lifts and their variants, are at least as useful to boxers if not more so. from what i could work out Kaye's training was more based around the powerlifting exercises (and variants). okay so i have heard very impressive numbers on what hatton can benchpress/ legpress, he's a beast of a man for his weight
but given that he is so naturally strong, surely what they need to work on is not what is strong already (he's probably physically stronger than anyone he's fought, bar Urango, and would possibly have been so without much or any weights?), but what can be developed more in him??
spud i don't think you should just react to any criticism of Team Hatton as though its ignorant etc. it ain't directed at you personally mate
btw i totally take your point that kaye was highly influential in hatton's weight-cutting, however there is a great deal moreto the job of an S&C coach as I am sure you know.
if Team Hatton, including Kaye, have been so spot-on in their preparation, how come in probably 4 of his last 5 fights Hatton has clearly tired in the last few rounds? something is rotten in the state of Hatton, maybe?
clearly you can't blame kaye for tactics but sometimes there has to be a relation between the type of training a fighter has and the way he fights and i think ketchel is at least part right when he says the Tszuyu fight mauling style has taken over with Hatton to the detriment of his movement
maybe thats just down to a decline in hatton's own abilities. maybe its that standard of competition is much better than when he DID have that more mobile style, IE vs a Tackie or Phillips it was easy for him to look mobile, against a Collazo or floyd who were so much quicker than his WBU opponents, maybe he'd never be able to outmatch them for mobility so maybe his only option was to maul and brawl.
