It’s hard to know where to start for my first blog post. I could start writing about how I decided to to get in shape (It means something different for about everyone, I know) just over a year ago following a period of inactivity. Alternatively, I could go on about the desire to do something out of [...]
So it began. My journey to combat the decline started in earnest yesterday with the first day of training at Impakt for the September White Collar Boxing event. Foolishly, I had hoped that the requirement for fighters not to have fought before would have meant that they were in the same condition as I am. [...]
So part of the reason we are doing this boxing is to support the Children’s Surgical Centre http://csc.org/ in Cambodia. This is the charity which the White Collar Boxing (WCB), run by Vanda, is affiliated with. Vanda raises money at the 4 WCB events a year (2 in Singapore & 2 in HK) by having [...]
I am trying to get myself to a level of fitness which I have only ever dreamed about but (un)fortunately, unlike a professional athlete, I do have a day job to maintain and so it is proving a bit of a challenge but as the name of the blog says I have accepted the challenge. [...]
I started writing this on the plane flying back from Cambodia, after spending two days at The Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) and The Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC) in Phnom Penh. Reading it back to myself later I quickly realised that what I thought was a thought-provoking, meaningful and accurate narrative of my time in [...]
I’m getting quite a reputation in training. Nobody wants to fight me. I have probably caused more knuckle-knack to more would-be-pugilists than anyone else in the history of Amateur Boxing. Trouble is I’m using my nose, or my doze, I should say phonetically after Monday nights session. Monday was too good to miss ……my [...]
Well, we are over the halfway point in our training, everyone seems to have really bonded and we now have a new training facility on Mo Sultan… Only 5 minutes walk from my apartment – win. A few injuries have started to creep up on us all as some post-Christmas fatigue sets in. My back [...]
