Amato & Equestrian

**Donate Points** · Training Joined: Mar 23, 2008 Posts: 1

Number of years back, I watched a very interesting TV documentary on Cus Amato, his training system and how it applied to Tyson's training.

I can't remember who was interviewed but was mentioned that Amato fundamentally wanted his fighters to attack and defend at the same time - nothing too revolutionary about that. Where I thought it got interesting was some of his methods were developed as he studied equestrian & show horses and their gates.

The program mentioned that Amato was particularly interested in the tempo of the horse's gate and training his fighters to mimick that tempo while moving forward. This may sound like lot of horse sh.t but then again it's not that off-the-wall because many techniques in sports are copied from nature.

Can anyone please confirm and possibly expand on this story about Amato's interest in horses concerning developing his fighting techniques?

**Donate Points** · Training Joined: Apr 10, 2008 Posts: 13

i read a few things about damato and it usually was about psychology in the sport, punching with bad intentions, punching when you cant get hit and a lot of defense strategies and new training methods. never heard about techniques seen from horse

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 294

Never heard of this mate can you explain what you mean i am very interested now.How did he compare fighters to horses?

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Jun 27, 2008 Posts: 539

if anyone finds a link to this that would be great i want to know & understand what he meant

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 555

rize wrote:

Number of years back, I watched a very interesting TV documentary on Cus Amato, his training system and how it applied to Tyson's training.

I can't remember who was interviewed but was mentioned that Amato fundamentally wanted his fighters to attack and defend at the same time - nothing too revolutionary about that. Where I thought it got interesting was some of his methods were developed as he studied equestrian & show horses and their gates.

The program mentioned that Amato was particularly interested in the tempo of the horse's gate and training his fighters to mimick that tempo while moving forward. This may sound like lot of horse sh.t but then again it's not that off-the-wall because many techniques in sports are copied from nature.

Can anyone please confirm and possibly expand on this story about Amato's interest in horses concerning developing his fighting techniques?

was that on tv cuz on "behind the gloey" they had something like that on thear??????????

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Jun 27, 2008 Posts: 539

yes jim it was on beyond the glory . your an instant classic

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 555

spartan3k wrote:

yes jim it was on beyond the glory . your an instant classic

doent get smart with me .lol. Laughing

rellery doent