Introductions

My name is Ian, and I have never had a fight in my life (there I said it). Actually I have had one or two minor skirmishes in school ... vs Stephen Wincote age 6, and vs Mark Laven age 13 ... but that's it. I don't want to fight anyone in real-life, its just not me. I only admit that to give you a bit of context for this project. Over the next 12 months I am going to document our journey to become amateur boxers. Haha, I said amateur as if there's the option to be professional ... I am 32 years old, will be 33 in July, I work as a Sales Manager for a large software corporation, and I live in Ottawa, Canada with my wife of 5 and a half years and my dog, Fern. I am in reasonable shape, judge for yourself when you see the introductory video, but don't judge too hard because I ate a load of junk food and drank a load of booze before those shots to make the footage 12 months from now look even more impressive. Konrad is an Economist. I was pretty surprised when he said that he wanted to join in when I told him about the plan to transform myself into a boxer over the course of 12 months, with the goal of having a real boxing match on a proper bill. Konrad is younger than me. I would guess that he is fitter too, but I think its fair to say that we both have some hard work to do to keep this from being downright dangerous. Marcus is a Market Analyst, and is probably the fittest of the three of us starting the training. As of today Marcus has not commited to actually fighting but he wants to train, and I think he may get into it. I don't know, no pressure. Firuz is filming it all. I explained the plan to him about 2 months ago, and he liked the idea of tracking rather average, normal men trying to get fit enough not to get humiliated by some little shithead first time we step into the ring.


Buying the gloves at Canadian Tire

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Day after the night before

So last night was the first class, and it was brilliant. Marcus came too because he can't make his normal one on Saturday mornings, which was good because we all got to start together. The whole thing was great. Heavy bag was good, amazing stress reliever, but while I was hitting it I was flooded with the images of actually fighting. There is a long way to go. Its obvious that technique is everything with this, apparently most of boxing is in the feet, and coordination. I got carried away several times, but I'm going to concentrate on these basics and get a good foundation. As soon as you get the hand-wraps on you feel like you can do it just because you've seen it all before. I was devastated about how poor I was at the speed-bag. I've always wanted to try it, when I stood there looking at it, I felt like it was something I'd definitely pick up no problem, but there was a problem and I didn't work it out yet. Maybe Saturday. Skipping was funny, I can do that because I had a lot of practise when I was a little girl.
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