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Originally Posted by The_One77
your gym members are too many and look like a bunch of weenie's....
Come to mine instead :)
Well, your gym is probaply a bit to far away for me :)
And even though you are problably pulling my leg :P here's the deal:
Well, we like it, Everyone gets along real well, we support each other, pro or beginner or whatever. When you come in the gym, and you don't know anyone, you couldn't tell who is the trainer or who's not. The trainers don't put anyone ahead of another, a beginner gets about as much attention as a matchfighter, just as long as you are willing to learn. 8)
But let me tell you a little story you might like...
Let me take you back to the end of the year 1995....
Chris and Martin, two long time (boxing)friends with long amateurcareers and a couple of years pro, take over the lessons at their gym from their trainer and owner, because of his illness.
They do so for four years, giving about 3-4 ours of training a day together, while both having a regular 40hours job, and just starting their own pro boxing career.
Due to circumstances, the gym is closed down. That was big S***, since Chris and Martin were in the middle of a trainingperiod with a couple of boxers for a championship. They were welcome at different gyms for about 1 or 2 hours week for themselves and their boxers, in return they give a couple of trainings for the gyms.
So now we're talking the end of 1999....
They get their hands on a space they can borrow from the city for about two months, just enough to get the boxers ready for their matches. But wat happens, from the different gyms where they went, people came along with Chris and Martin to their 'new' loction because they liked their training so much. We are talking about 80 people here!
Chris and Martin don't know what else to do: they don't want to dissapoint the joined people and decided to start their own gym. The city is willing to rent the place to them, and so Haagse Directe is born.
Everything is done on voluntary bases, they borrow materials, they get some sponsored materials and gyms give them some of their old stuff. They give the trainings in the eveninghours after they finished working. Training is 5 euro's, about 4 dollar, a week, if you don't train for a week, you don't have to pay. Just enough to pay the rent and pay the matches. All because of the love for the game.
We are six years further... We have now over 300 members, and in the years four more trainers have joined. Then the city lets us know that the location is to be torn down. S*** again! But the city helps out, because the work we do with problem youth and integration of foreigners. We moved to a new location just two weeks ago, totally funded by the city. The city paid 450.000 euro (about 400.000 dollars) for the new location, all materials and advanced rent.
Chris and Martin still do everything voluntarely, and the four trainers that have joined as well. They produce multiple national champions a year, both male as female. Because of the lack of time and the few hours a day the gym is open, we don't have much pro's, just a few. Main thing with us is the good sphere, the respect everyone had for one another (for example: me, a blonde female, and non-believer, boxing with a muslim man, and having the greatest time, great fun, and learning from each other).
And looking at the remarks people like you and Adam give on my posts... They train us pretty well, with the right phylosophie and methods seeing what I know with the little experience I have ;)
So let us be weenies ;) we know what we are doing and why. We love the game!
