Every Time We Experience Something New, We become Something New
Experiences are quite easy to get access to these days, they’ll call it VR or this or that, experiences are dime a dozen. but there are some experiences that you really need to put in some work to be a part of. Playing in a world cup winning team, or the Olympics or to save a million lives or maybe the feeling of making a million dollars. any experience that can truly change you, needs some work to be put in.
From the day I got introduced to boxing in an urban fitness gym I wanted to compete. I had a good feeling every day after I boxed. Quite addictive. It’s not even from fighting, we didn’t sparr every day, it was entirely from the satisfaction of putting some hard work in and seeing results.
It’s not sweat, its the smell of success ;)
I met Coach Srilal Gomes through a mutual friend, and I am amazed at how he has transformed me in to a competitive boxer with a good foundation in such a short period of time.
One of my biggest challenges was to bring my weight down, I was 76 when I just started, a few months of boxing I was at 62. But I had to get down to 52 if I really wanted to have a good fight. This I tell you this was the hardest part, and this is really where discipline comes in to play. And the best part is that you pay for all your mistakes on the fight day when you are running rounds to make weight. learned it the hard way :P
I saw on the matchups that I m fighting Buddhika Manaram, an experienced fighter who won the super fighter championship with sirasa. It made me relaxed to hear i m fighting a boxer, not a fighter. It’ll be amazing experience to have a game of chess with gloves on.
Bell goes and all you see is the opponent, the first punch doesnt feel that bad. I can take it :D. I keep at it, but all im truly doing is surviving. Thank god coach made our footwork like liquid i kept moving moving moving making sure he never catches me like a deer in the headlights. I always moved.
I ran in round one, ran more in round two, even more in round 3 until the fight was stopped.
I felt free when I got down from that ring, its amazing to see all the people you love in the same place after you have stepped down from the loneliest place in the world, with a guy who wants to knock you out.
For me that feeling, makes it all worth it :)
Success is doing what we love with people we love
