i couldn´t agree more, PAL. I have been training boxing for a month or so now. lots of push-ups, heavy bag, shadow boxing, combos.. but then I had my first few rounds of sparring today and, well, it gave a new dimension to my boxing life, sort of

i never imagined it could be so f*****g difficult to hit the other guy, i just thought we would enter the ring and beat each other as they do in the movies, but obviously, it´s not that easy.. outside the ring, everything seems kinda.. simple.. the bag jus´t wont slip aside, it won´t run and, most importantly, it won´t smash you

so all i can tell other boxer-wannabies is this: I learned more about fighting from four rounds of light sparring than from four weeks of hard training