Learning to throw a punch feels good. But,wonders Nikesh, would it protect him in a street fight?A month after that incident on the train, and where I worried approximately my inability to defend myself,having overheard some men threatening to defeat me up because they didn’t like my sweatshirt, I decide to take up boxing.
I’ve never been into boxing in any way other than enjoying a good sports film. And self-defence doesn’t even enter my intellect. Boxing, or to me,seems like the perfect way to own your space. I’m bulky and I don’t want to shrink like I did in that moment on the train ever again. I want to have the confidence to stand up and walk down the corridor. I read a quote somewhere online, from Mandela: “I did not indulge in the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, and how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat,how one paced oneself over a match.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk