Achieving Your True Street Boxing Potential

Achieving Your True Street Boxing Potential

The last foundational component of street boxing philosophy is that the fighter
believes he is an asset to the team and boxing as a whole. He intently believes that there are
potentials in him waiting to be drawn out through training. His potentials are like the seeds of a
fruit covered by husks and skin that must be peeled off. The thick, ugly husks make it look like
no edible fruit can be found inside it. You have to pull off fiber after fiber and peel off the skin
until the very fruit, which is the real essence of it boxing for the street all, finally appears. Inside the fruit are seeds that have the potential to reproduce bountiful harvests.

An street boxer knows that inside him is a champion. Through training, he sculptures his
body to get rid of hindrances that delay the perfection of his skills until gradually, the champion fighter
in him emerges. Being a champion, he can then reproduce himself in others by helping others
draw out their potentials.

A mere desire to win in any fight may enable you to be champion for a while. This
makes you a temporary champion. However, this does not necessarily mean the immeasurable
potentials in you have been uncovered and released.

The more latent potentials will only surface once you aim to be a champion for life—always aim to be better with or without competition.

There are boxers obsessed about being champions because they want to prove to
everybody that they are the best. They will even compete against teammates to prove that they
alone are responsible for the win. They want to show that without them, the victory would not
have been possible.

Obsession with winning to prove oneself is not a quality of an street boxer. It is purely
obsession – selfish, destructive, and greedy obsession. It goes against teamwork because its sole
motive is to prove “I’m the best!” Obsession can produce champions and win the over-all
championship for the team. But the champion it produces is often the kind that people hate.

Some fighters would try to make all the scores for the team. They work so hard, but they are
usually very demanding, hot headed, and manipulative. They treat teammates as props for the
show where they get the lead role—in fact, the only role. Obsessed boxers have no loyalty but to
their ego. They approve of anything that will make them stars.

Basketball often is a breeding place for obsessed players. You see players who try to be
forward, center, guard, and even referee and scorer all rolled into one. Some of them want to
play audience too, if they could. An obsession to prove self-worth is one of the dismal signs of
immaturity, and this can be hardly termed as something of an ace.

Great fighters work for a common good. They will pour all for the prestige of their team,
school, or country. They may prove that the style or technique of their father-trainer is better than
the rest, but they will never compete for selfish ends. They cannot claim that “I am the best!”
because they workout hard to beat their weaknesses—and admitting weaknesses is something
non street boxers cannot do.

Hence, the mind of a top fighter never strives to prove they’re anything except athletes
who realize they need to train more and more.