Sparring Partner
When the history that made us is built upon the denial of citizenship to entire peoples, entire races - how can you feel proud of that? To retort with we are better than other countries, or go live somewhere else……Why? When I could be a part of a different paradigm of thought- a potential change that gets us using our intelligence and technology for collaboration more than competition. We live here and the current estate of affairs is built upon generations of decision making. How can we not look at our decision-making outcomes and see that we so desperately need a different way of thought. This swinging back and forth on the same pendulum with the same two extremes is getting us further from ourselves.
It’s why I like living in the bubble of the gym and my home.
Boxing training is primal. It forces you to get to the root of yourself physically and emotionally. You cannot find any corner to hide in, because corners only trap you. In your attempts to stay or escape is where you find yourself.
Personal Responsibility is the rule of the land in the gym. In learning types of sparring, we go back and forth, an agreement to push boundaries without intentional harming of the other. We each are responsible for our own offense and defense….we are there to teach and learn.
In harder sparring preparing for fights….we promise to one another to use battle to prepare for battle. We rely on the outside corners to mediate. We test ourselves and one another to the brink of our abilities…we purposely expose weaknesses so that we can improve. It’s on the job learning.
I want our world to have more of the etiquette of the boxing gym…the respect, the conflicts and resolution, the honesty, the multitude of difference resulting in the same desire burning within. A desire to know oneself to the fullest. A code to commit to developing one another. I want us to be able to go into the trenches and whenever you get heavy handed and sloppy, there is someone to put you in place….they don’t get mad, hole up or blame, they just do their part to get your attention and move on…….because you do the same for them.
#Boxon!
