Living The Life of Street Boxing

Living The Life of Street Boxing

This may come as a surprise for many street boxing practitioners. Top fighters not only train for a
competition; but more importantly, they live a life fit for being great boxers. Their lives are ran
by certain philosophies, rules, regimen, and motivations aimed at remaining as champion boxers.

In ancient Greece, during its peak as a world civilization, there were fighting competitions
held in the city of Olympia in honor of their gods. Participants from various city-states of Greece
joined the event, and the Spartans were noteworthy for their strict adherence to rigid discipline.

They were both dedicated fighters and fierce warriors. They started training for war in their
childhood, and started with a strict training in sports. Sports then took the forms of running,
jumping, boxing, wrestling, weight lifting, and all other activities that may be helpful to a
warrior.

Soon, the whole of Sparta (then a city of Laconia) became practically a training camp.
Citizens were professional warriors. According to Greek History, children were taken from their
families at the age of 7 and were put in strict training under state control. They were raised up in
barracks in both the hardest and simplest way possible.

There was even an oval for racecourse, the Dromos, which was converted into a kind of
gym where Spartans took part in strenuous foot races and other athletic competitions.
Thus, the earliest record on fighters are traced back in the ancient Greek civilization
when it was a federation of city-states. The Spartan fighters made life a sports training, and
sports training a life. They started out in childhood and ended up, not just winning honors in
contests, but as battle-hardened warriors. This kind of life became a state law and employed the
“father” and “son” system of tutoring ace athletes to perfection. They were so serious that
children who fell short of the needed physical capabilities were said to be brought to the woods
and left there to die.

Today, boxing for the street men need not train for war, nor leave incapable children in the woods to
die, but they can draw out some positive traits from the Spartans—they lived a life aimed at
being champions for life.