Boxing as a power for good

if he's only 14 they must be very very serious charges if hes gona get jail.

 

Here you go mate.

http://www.youthoutlook.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=313b7706811bd18b96e53f4b971be5af

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk...ng_saved_me_from_life_of_crime_woods_1_497063

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200701060133337

There is another but can't get the full article of Hopkins talking about how it changed his life.

Good luck and hope the lads gets head sorted.

 

hope it works out for him, he's got people round that care about him which is a big + :good

whats your sister views on boxing then, just thinks it mad brawling :think

 

hopkins would be a great example of how he used to get into trouble but then turned his life around. fill her in and show her the article where he was friends with that kid who had cancer. proper teary eye stuff, i'm sure Mandanda posted the link in here before

 

I think that is the misconception that people get that its just fighting

A rugby tackle in the street isn't rugby
If you pull a sword in the street on somebody it isn't fencing
If you use your fists in a fight on the street it isnt boxing

Completely different things

 

sorry but that made me laugh. Fences used in fencing are hardly swords are they!

 

It's like anything in life, people will use it how they want to. Like how kids take rap music on board. Some listen to violent rap yet don't go around stabbing/shooting people. Some do sadly.

Some people love to fight, some have never stepped in a boxing gym in there life. Some fighters still get involved in street fights outside clubs with tragic endings. A large majority don't because they take the positive side of things. I for one was a aggressive kid and loved fighting but boxing always taught me never to use it on the weak and only use it in self defence.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink it but i'd rather have tried then not. I personally see it more as a positive effect then negative. Some kids/adults will never stop being violent in normal life.

The people within Amateur clubs are special people with many having a gift to work with troubled children. I hope she don't deny him a chance to be helped.

 

True! Presumably its a transferable skill with a slightly sharper more lethal sword though...but the point stands im standing by it :hat

 

he needs himself bought down a peg or two, hope he gets hammered in sparring and might show him some respect.

 

nothing that quite takes a wannabe hardmans(or hardlad in this case) huimlity level up a few stages than getting thrown into sparring and getting embarrassed by a decent fighter. happened to me when I first joined a club and started showing off, I wasnt a violent little criminal though lol

 

yeh never was a little thug, but i thought i could go in and win against everyone around my size due to my agression, beat my mate whohad trained as long as i did. so thet put me in with a boxer with skill and my head got jabbed off for 3rounds straight. lol