Help please...

**Youngblood** · 02-06-2009 08:37 PM

Well not sure the travelling distance in time in Toronto, but I've often had to ride my bike which is an hour drive...to and from boxing. So an extra 2 hours on top of training atleast just to get there, x 3-4 times a week. If I didn't do that, I didn't go. This after having to deliver newspapers to pay for the lessons. This wasn't a money thing either, we're far from poor, just that my dad has certain ideas about earning and respecting things and made it clear to me in the actions I had to suck it up and pay my dues.

The point being, if you want it bad enough...you do what you have to.

I don't think there is anything wrong with being confident. I'm a cocky sunnamabiach and won't deny it, but sure wasn't when I first got there. I was scared stiff. Also had to train for 6 months before sparring.

As has been mentioned in this thread, just be careful what you ask for. I had an issue with my coach using me as his beat stick last year. If anyone was new and didn't want to spend the time doing the not so necessarily fun stuff, that being just training, learning punches, defence, stance, doing the cardio workouts, before stepping in the ring...he'd put them in with me and tell me to go hard. I didn't enjoy it to be frank...for it discouraged more then a couple of people and likely hurt them too. It didn't exactly make any new friends either.

Maybe your posts comes off different then your actual demeanor. But yea, humility when at the gym is a good thing to have, and most certainly when you are new.