Philosophy Of A Street Boxing Champion

Philosophy Of A Street Boxing Champion

Philosophy is your concept of truth about life. We all have our philosophies, often in
almost every aspect of our lives. We have our ways of seeing finances, religion, family, work,
leisure, and hobbies like street boxing. But champion boxers do not treat fighting as an aspect of life. It is life.

Viewing life as a sport is a commitment—you commit everything into it. In childhood,
where it usually starts, you begin to have a strong leaning to the game. People around you begin
to realize your “call” to the boxing for the street.

When fighting, they easily see your natural knack for it. In
junior high, the calling intensifies, and finally, the thing sinks down deep and all of life starts to
revolve around it. Your college course, future job, future wife and family, future business, future
office, future house and property, etc. must all fall under this boxing-career heading.

Every decision and direction in life begins to be based on street boxing. Even your
rights and privileges (and even opinions and ideologies) as a citizen begin to be shaped by this
outlook. You choose electoral candidates who have boxing included in
their political agenda, you are sensitive to issues that have a bearing on fighting, and you
watch how your sport is being promoted by your local government, and so on.

You also begin to envision your family in the same way—how you should have an
athletic wife and kids, a house with a mini but impressive boxing gym,
and an office where a number of your trophies and medals will be displayed, along with handy
gym devices. Even your family wardrobe will be stocked with the latest in boxing gear and
accessories.

Then there’s your diet. Real fighters stick to a healthy diet, not really because of
health per se, but they want to be exceptional at boxing. They form health principles in
preparing their food - in what to eat and what not to eat.

You gather around people of similar boxing leaning and make them your friends or
associates. You may even join clubs to this end. You may also befriend the shop owners where
you frequently buy accessories.

Your library will be stocked with books and CDs on every fight related to boxing,
among others. You will keep abreast with the latest news on your game here and abroad, and
probably keep clippings from dailies and magazines and make elaborate albums of them.

This kind of living instills in you the very heart of boxing. Figuratively, the
sport will become you, and you will become the sport. When people around you come across the
topic in their talks, they will mention your name for sure.

The above may sound far out, but that is what aficionados really do. A world-renowned
champion and grandmaster of Japanese kendo, Karate, Judo, and Arnis GM Ernesto Presas, runs
his hectares-big training resort and is finishing on the drawing table the blueprint of his worldclass
museum of martial arts. He pours millions of dollars to promote his pet sports and to train
ace fighters to be champions. His sons and daughter have likewise followed his example. Real
boxers (and masters) like Presas are not only undefeated champions for countless years, they
have become living legends—real ace fighters for life.

You can feel the passion of an aficionado: real book lovers will have books all over their
places, as will real wine lovers and real stamp and antique collectors, and real animal lovers.
This outlook is essential to lead the life of an ace athlete.