Id hemmed and hawed about it for forever,but I decided on FIST
Before you accuse me of being cliche,its an homage to the dojo I used to train at The Traveling Fist,Im paying homage to my former Sensi
So its now The FIST Gym
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Id hemmed and hawed about it for forever,but I decided on FIST
Before you accuse me of being cliche,its an homage to the dojo I used to train at The Traveling Fist,Im paying homage to my former Sensi
So its now The FIST Gym
Reminds me of the movie witd Stallone in it.
Sort of a union-maffia flick.
Congrats on your gym
Mayb ul b available to train this young irish guy in a couple of years?
cc mateQuote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Had to call it something,couldnt keep calling it "The part of the house I had completely different plans for"
Or
"The reason I dont get to sleep in some days"
You just cant get that all to fit on the back of a robe ;D
My dad used to call tha basement in our old house "the dungeon."
People used to arrive to our house to visit an end up watchin me n my cuz sparrin. It had a real atmosphere to it, great place to train.
CC Ha Ha "Fighting out of the other part of trainer monkeys house which he had completely different plans for, in his debut contest...."Quote:
Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey
You can see that thats alot to ask out of Michael Buffer ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
HaHa ye! FIST is blunt and to the point, i really like it :)
I belong to a Gold's Gym. They got rid of all the boxing equipment for spin and yoga classes for the scumbag yuppies. I dubbed it "The Suck A** Gym." I'm paid up for six more months then I'm outta there.
Feur ran in to something similar at the gym she used to be a personal trainer at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Canvasback
You asked for a result,shed get you the result
Of course it would hurt
Useless yuppie pukes started drifting towards the trainers that would just blow smoke up their a$$
Im leaning towards this for a gym motto
"Where Pain Ends,And Misery Begins"
Now I gotta get a photoshop geek
While im in college i gotta train at a different gym...no problem...except the other gym is located in one of the Roughest, most Heroin infested ghettos ever...I think it has really developed my fitness tho, sprinting to and from training u no.
From what I can tell, most of the good gyms ARE in the ghetto. I kind of like it. I'm one of like 2 or 3 white boys in my gym. I've never really felt unsafe down there (although a few weeks before I started going there a girl was shot right out front of the gym), it's just something completely different than what I am used to.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Yeah Fraziers is right on Broad Street,in North PhillyQuote:
Originally Posted by David H
Female boxers are redcomended to have an escort to get to their cars
My second gym is in limerick (im irish remember) and theres one serious gang war ther at the moment. The gang thing in Ireland revolves around two families and even jus outside the gym you constantlty gotta watch who u talk to and who u socialise with...Scary Stuff.
My "Home" gym as i call it is in The westside of Galway is also in a notorious neighbourhood but the atmosphere is completely different erbody helps erbody and its real cool.
Congrats on christening your gym Monkey! What did the announcers say when Feuer had to be introduced to fight before?
I like the sound of that. I love it when people write with accents and their local slang too - helps you picture them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Had the world Police and Firey games here a few months ago and I was really impressed with the standard of the Irish 'novices'. What's more the Irish spectators were good fun - barracked for any random country when their guys weren't fighting - "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi" sounds helarious yelled in an Irish accent!
I am supposed to get one paid international trip as part of my PhD scholarship to go to a conference and visit labs - I thought I'd go gym visiting too - I'll have to get you all to give me info on the best places to go when I've picked the conference. I'm thinking UK and europe since I can see a large number of countries and places all at once.
I think I'll have to woss out on visiting places like this though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey
Meh I let another gym put their name on her
I dont like alot of fighters in mine,I cant pay enough attention to them,so I wanst to keen on people coming around after she won.
But the two main trainers at that gym are having a bitch fight,so Im taking their best fighters,just because these guys are in their prime,its not fair to hang them in limbo because you cant get along with your partner,and they have to fight out of somewhere
And in case you cynics think I have designs on a gym,theyre still getting their ameteur license out of another gym
I really dont have alot of time to f around with off the streeters,if your at FIST,your expected to win,or you wouldnt be here
See sharla the problem with irish people is we're great fun when we're on ur side it's when we're against ya the problem arises...But the Irish love the Aussies so ther'l b no conflict here. If it were a bunch of irish lads at an English comp, well lets just say they wouldnt b cheering :o
Right thanks for the warning - if I'm ever passing through Ireland I'll be very careful to make sure everyone knows I'm Aussie and not from anywhere else!Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Nah everywhere else is good cept' England!!!
I got no problem with english peopl, but ther still a lot of ole fashioned peopl that hate the english after what happened like 200 years ago!!!
Wonder why Irish n Aussies get on so well? I got a bunch of mates south of perth that are practically family.
Im English i never had problem with Irish people but i heard of conflict vs England and the Irish.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
See thers the funny thing, english people got no problem with the irish, its just a certain section of irish people livin in the past and not let history b history. Kinda like the scottish hatin the english 2.
Yea im friendly guy i've got no problem with anyone i don't care where they come from if they have problem with me because of where i come from and not for the person i am then shame on them thats all i can say.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
In soccer you had Jack Charlton as coach. hitmandonny
He used to say when talking about a match against Holland (fonetically)
I loif the Dutch
It was always greet to see the Green Army being supportive of their own team but still be respectfull and gracious against the opposition
Glad we're agreed :) But i find it amazing the amount of people still living in the past this way. Like for my eighteenth birthday, the traditional thing to do would be to hit the town and go mad, but i had saved up and went to see hatton fight maussa, the amount of people frowning because my favourite boxer is english!!! pure ignorance!
Unfortunately i think that trait is not as strong as it once was, actually some of the greatest gentlemen in sport can be found in the english rugby squad, not to mention th boxing gymsQuote:
Originally Posted by DarkDestroyer
I have to admit I don't knowmany Irish people but I'd have to guess we have a similar sense of humour. Aussies like to pay out the English cricket team but it's all in fun and I think we have similar sense of humour to them too. A lot of successful comedians who tour Australia are from Scotland, Ireland and England. Perhaps because theat's where a lt of early Australian settlers came from.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
That must've been fantastic! How did you rate it? I always wonder if I'd be able to see anything at these big fights because I think the best seat I could afford would be somewhere waaaaaay down the back! To make matters worse I'm short sighted!Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Ye i reckon that mite be it!
What i usually do is i save for like a year n buy a ringside ticket to a world title fight :) Then for the rest of the year im second row at a mates house thru ppv :D
The hatton mAussa fight had this electric atmosphere i hadnt expierienced before or since!