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Boxing Lesson: Advance on the Jab

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It may be that trainers have been saying this to me for years now, and I’m only just recently able to hear it. There is so much to be mastered in boxing that sometimes it’s all you can do to cope with the basics. You have to simply survive in the ring for a long [...]

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Fighting the Dread of Boxing Training

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Having just moved to a new boxing gym, I’m once again reminded of how hard it is to make inroads into a new gym, a new team. I don’t mean overcoming the reluctance to train, but rather the simple and profound fear of boxing itself, and all the insanely hard work it takes to stand [...]

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How Boxing Inspires People

How boxing inspires people

Train Me Right — What We Are About from jill Morley on Vimeo. I just found this awesome video over on Jill Morley’s blog and was glued to the screen as each fighter told just a small piece of his or her story. The woman who appears at the end of this video, Kaiyana Rain, [...]

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Atlanta Corporate Fight Night 2, Merz vs Bledsoe

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ACFN2 Merz vs Bledsoe from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. I promised to post video from my fight so here it is. Try to ignore the blinking — I should have messed with my codec settings, but I wasn’t willing to spend the time on it. Also, I compressed the crap out of it with [...]

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Trying Out a New Gym

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Walking into a new boxing gym for the first time is excruciatingly difficult for me. In this particular case, there had been a number of obstacles to overcome even before I walked in the door. I’d heard about them, but couldn’t find an up-to-date website. Rumor had it they had recently relocated, and I knew [...]

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13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing

13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing

I recently posted my Ignite Durham speech titled “How to Win a Fight in a Bar,” and it made me realize I’d never posted the first Ignite speech I gave, “13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing.” The Ignite idea is that if enough people vote up your idea and put you on the stage, [...]

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Taking a Knockout Punch

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I haven’t been knocked out yet, but I’ve been rocked hard plenty of times in the boxing ring. The only reason they haven’t been knockouts is because when you get hit hard enough to stumble dizzily around or hang off the ropes with a head full of stars, a sparring session will pause until you [...]

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Back in the Ring to Take Another Swing

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In an attempt to lever myself out of my post-fight funk I’ve been listening to lots of hair metal, so that’s the post title and you can laugh all you want. But while hair metal might address the out-of-the-ring blues, it can’t cure it. There’s only one cure, and that’s to get back in. I [...]

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Post-Competition Letdown

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I trained, I fought, and I performed incredibly well. But I drove the seven and a half hours home and suddenly found myself miserable. Periodic moments of joy interspersed with hours of listlessness, frustration, and anger. I haven’t been able focus. It already seems weird that I’m a competitive boxer. Me: a 45 year old [...]

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How to Win a Fight in a Bar

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I’ve never actually had a fight in a bar, but that seemed hardly relevant when I had the idea for this Ignite Durham speech (<– click link for video, if you’re reading this on Facebook). It didn’t seem to bother anyone who voted for me, either, and I thank you for that. The Ignite idea [...]

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