I want to start boxing...

The question you might ask yourself, are you an athlete? If you aren't any good at sports, chances are you won't be any good in boxing. Although there are specific talents required to become good in any given sport, most athletes can learn and become reasonably proficient at any sport. If you can't do boxing do something else. Sooner or later a chance to do boxing will come along.

 

you sound like an athletic guy

i can only say whta other people have said before to elll your dad about the safety and tell you r dad your just going to a boxing gym, you might end up not liking it or juts going for fitness and hardly anyone spars in the first few moths

also my mum and dad arnt to keen on me fihting but they realise i enjoy it and can handle myself.
but she aslo comes out with soem great one liners while i was boxing

'just hit him'
'just dodge them'
'just bob him on the nose'

that was the first and last time she came to see me box

 

Trust me mate, ralphc is the last person here to imply that you need to be a big bodybuilder to be an athlete

That's athletic. You shouldn't be putting on mass, you'll fill out naturally by doing boxing training. Convince your father, or send him here :hey

Seriously, he should understand that amateur boxing and professional boxing are two different animals, amateur boxing is a sport like any other. Sure it'll get you a shiner or an occasional broken nose but no one died of a broken nose and cemeteries aren't filled with shiner victims either. He should cowboy the **** up

 

A lawyer? That's perfect! Tell him that you need proof of brain damage in amateur boxing, innocent till proven guilty

Besides you are 17, he can only stop you for a short while so that's a pretty pointless exercise. His best option is settling out of court. You get to train, but no sparring until you're 18 :think

Or request to be tried as an adult, 17 is pretty close to 18 :think

 

Brain injuries are an ugly reality in violent sports, however boxing doesn't have a monopoly on it. As a matter of fact American football is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, brain injuries included. A football player is about 3 times more likely to incur a concussion requiring hospitalization than a boxer. If you get proper training, there is only a small chance of getting a brain injury in boxing.

 

Not to hijack the thread, but would there be any hope for a guy who's 28 and just wants to get into shape? I'm 5'11" 200 lbs and I want to get fit.

 

just to respond to the athletic thing....I was a heavy drinker and weed smoker before I started boxing and it didnt stop me for ****....I dont think you should make such broad generalisations mate...just saying boxing/sports is open to everybody I know some really athletic guys who started at the same time as me, In the first sessions I was a reck sweating all over the gafe, out of breath all the time, the athletc ****s were like looking down their noses at me, a few months down the line came sparring and lo and behold a few punches on the nose and the athletic ****s never came back....