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Life lessons that I learned from boxing
Life lessons that I learned from boxing:
Although ultimately boxing is an individual sport, unlike football, baseball, and basketball, you are still a part of a team. You have your trainer, your manager, and your sparring partners.
You have to spend more time training and preparing for the fight than you do actually fighting. If you want to accomplish something, you have to train and prepare for it. For example, if you want to be a doctor, you have to go through college and do internships.
When you are in the ring, you have a corner that acts as extra eyes. Sometimes the advice they give is spot on and other times it could be wrong. Ultimately, you are the one fighting, and it is you who will win or lose the fight. In life, it is good to have counsel, but it is your life and you have to live it. The counsel (your corner) will not pay the consequences of your decisions and actions. You will.
Training for boxing and being in the ring will test your limits. Oftentimes, you learn that you can take more punishment than you thought you could. Think about what you have been through in your life already. During some of those times, you thought you couldn't make it through, but yet you are still here. You can take more than you think you can handle if you have the right attitude and stay focused.
Boxing isn't all about hitting your opponent. You must learn offense and defense. You must learn how to slip punches. You must learn footwork, counter-punching, blocking punches, etc. In life, you have to prepare offensively and defensively for tough times, trials, and the storms that come into your life. In some situations, it is best to fight back, while at other times it is best to get away from the situation through defense.
Some boxers are dirty fighters. During one of my matches, my opponent had a habit of elbowing me when the referee couldn't see, so I decided to do some dirty boxing as well. When the referee was in a bad position, I would deliver some hooks to his kidneys and I would hit him in the neck with the inside of my wrist making it look like a missed punch. I laid him out and won the match. Life isn't always fair, and if you want to come out a winner, you have to fight back. If you get dropped, you must get back up if you want to win. If you stay down, you will lose the fight. In boxing, they call it a knockout.
Boxing has taught me more, but I feel that these are some things that are important to share.
Written by Bear Warrior Gonzales
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