Hajime no Ippo - The First Step - Vol. 98 Ch. 945 - The Key to Unsealing

[MangaDex]

 

[Ceildric]

The thing is, Kojima was right (as was Miyata), Ippo is pretty predictable. He is great at what he does, and has a lot of strengths that make up for it, but he is repetitive, simple, straight forward, etc. In other words, his training is a blessing and a curse. It would have let him down.

The Coach (and the author) are so wrong in this instance, trying to feed Ippo (and the readers) this idea that it was a bad thing Ippo mixed things up. He will never make it on the world stage following his training like a robot.

 

[alidn1415]

The thing is, Kojima was right (as was Miyata), Ippo is pretty predictable. He is great at what he does, and has a lot of strengths that make up for it, but he is repetitive, simple, straight forward, etc. In other words, his training is a blessing and a curse. It would have let him down.

The Coach (and the author) are so wrong in this instance, trying to feed Ippo (and the readers) this idea that it was a bad thing Ippo mixed things up. He will never make it on the world stage following his training like a robot.

What ippo done wrong wasn't not mixing it up but blindly running into a fight with nothing but blind force, coach didn't like that. And besides the coach had future plans for ippo.

 

[exxeld]

Kamogawa's training was always to ensure Ippo's pattern stays resilient even through any plans the opponents have concocted. The formula is there, its just always been down to Ippo's training and his own willpower, but this fight does reveal that opponents are starting to easily pick up on Ippo's idiosyncrasies which won't cut it in the world yes.

I do feel bad for Kojima tho, he gave his all to teach Ippo what his weakness was, but lost the entire experience due to his actions.