Personal Narrative Essay: The Joy Of Boxing

Improved Essays
I was 14 when I started boxing it became a passion that no one could understand. It all started in kinder garden 2 brothers use to beat me up every day in the bathroom and take my lunch money until one day it got really bad and they left a knot on my head and when I got home my mom had enough of it. She went to the school the next day and made a huge complaint the brothers mom came up and my mom seen her outside and they started talking and everything got solved. Then I started to get bullied in 6th grade because I was afraid of hurting anyone else I usually would just let them him me and just walk away after and act like nothing happen because the bruises and cuts never really hurt me. I use to play with the cuts and bruises I had just to see how much …show more content…
So I started boxing a lot like I never liked being home I was always in the gym learning new combos and movements even if I didn’t need to I just wanted to learn. I use to be the gym from 3pm before opening work out for an hour and half before anyone got there then when the gym opened at 4:30pm I use to stay and work out till the gym closed at 10pm. I got so into boxing that revolved my life around it everything I did every step I took was all about boxing I was so into boxing that when my mom forced me to go to church I use to shadow box while sitting down and the preacher was speaking. After a year I had already learned so much that my coach wanted me to work for him and help him train people I trained kids, adults, and even elderly people men and woman all shapes and sizes and I loved every min of it. I use to look forward to training people because it made me happy that I can teach someone something that I’m so passionate about. I also met a lot of cool people while training I actually met a lifelong friend in the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    A person’s sense of identity is often heavily determined by their views and place in society. Especially in a country like China where there are rigid social norms and morals, different people may have conflicting perspectives about their identity. Gene Luen Yang’s two volume graphic novel, Boxers and Saints, illustrates the parallel stories of two young kids caught up in China’s late nineteenth century Boxer rebellion. Throughout their lives, questions arise about their identity and personal choice of actions. Both Bao and Four Girl are presented with challenging circumstances and experiences that stir their decisions about faith, rebellion, and pursuits.…

    • 505 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Children and Teen’s Kickboxing Tournament It was 6:00 pm on a Wednesday and the kickboxing tournament that featured a family friend’s son, a teenager that had been in MMA since he was 5, was starting in an hour. I was already mentally and physically drained from working a full day at the office and considered not even attending. I mentioned this to my sister, the mother of my beloved blue-eyed big-hearted niece Maliah, and she too was debating on whether or not to go. Then she said something that sort of caught me off guard - "You know, kickboxing is so violent.…

    • 1711 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Chris Linde stated “My job as an athletic trainer is to prevent injuries as much as possible. I also support with strengthening and conditioning, guidance in nutrition and sleeping, and I also make sure the playing area is safe”. When he was young, he always adored being around the athletic trainer. Subsequently being pushed to his limits and fighting through the pain, there was always someone to care for his aches, and pains. She gave him opinions on what to do when he was alone to prevent fatigue, and serious injuries that would prevent him from playing to his fullest potential or limit him from achieving his goals.…

    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Up until that certained point in time, I thought that I had assured myself a victory. But I was wrong, because the match that day ended with my defeat. After class, I apologized to him for the injury, but then I was curious. Once we left the classroom, I asked him how he learned how to jab and punch like how he did during the match. He responded by revealing to me that before he took this class, he had boxing classes.…

    • 604 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    It was freshman year of high school I was 16 my first year wrestling it was my first jv tournament we were at pacific high school in there gym at 8:30am and it was hot it felt like desert my match was about to start as sweat ran down my face I started to get nervous because i'm always nervous before a match it feels like there's a pit in my stomach but I was to focused on winning a medal and excited because wrestling is fun and it got a fire going in me I was ready to become a beast and fight for and earn my win. First my opponent…

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Shunterrance Walton Mrs. Harper Comp. 1 23 Sept. 2016 A Double Life The double sports life is probably one of the best things to happen in high school. What is better than playing two of the most exciting sports in the school? Well, having those two sports at two different off seasons would be the best.…

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Wrestling Changed My Life Seventh grade was the most exciting school year I have experienced, because I made the Wrestling Team. However, I was not expecting this outcome, because prior my triumph, I was being declined the opportunity to participate in an extracurricular activity. Immediately after I was introduced to the sport of wrestling, my thoughts were flooded with the goal of becoming a wrestler. Unfortunately, I knew my Mom would never agree to let me wrestle, and the moment I asked for her consent, she declined my request. However, I desired to be a part of the wresting squad, so I knew the only way I could be a member was to convince my Mom I deserved the chance to be on the Wrestling team.…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I like to play sports that are highly self-dependent, and I have one that I love to participate in myself. That would be the sport of wrestling. The results for this sport is nearly all based on how much you want to put in to the sport. If you don't put a lot of effort into being a better wrestler than you will not get any better. The only way you can get better without practice is by getting stronger, and that is rarely enough to beat good kids.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It was Sunday morning, the sun was shinning, the birds were chirping and it was gameday for the Browns. I thought to myself another day for them to lose and hopped on my xbox to talk to my friends about the browns. It felt like we were only talking for ten minutes but i looked at the clock and it was on five minutes until the game started. I told my friends i will catch them on after the game and rushed downstairs to where my dad had his feet kicked up on the couch looking like he was ready for the game to start.…

    • 1215 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “His name is Mitchell, but we call him Mitch-Hell,” my mom joked. The kid mustered a laugh, but his face did not show the same impression. There were two big traditions for my family during the summer months. We would go on vacation together to a little beach town in Florida called Rosemary Beach. The second tradition was a game that we created ourselves.…

    • 864 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The legendary sports writer Budd Schulberg once said, “As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.” Boxing is a rough and physical sport that’s for sure, which is why it’s used as a metaphor for life so often. You get knocked down, but you get back up and live to fight another day. Although the sport requires self-awareness and respect from others, it always doesn’t work out that way.…

    • 173 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Essay About Wrestling

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The discourse community for wrestling is different from most that I have heard. It could be similar to most high school sports because every high school has their own way of saying things. This Community differs from other communities because if you have never heard a person who wrestles talk about it or have never wrestled yourself, it can get very confusing. Wrestling is different because most terms are not heard in every day language. The moves are different for every team, although every move has a universal name that everyone knows it by.…

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Narrative Essay On Karate

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The time of Boredness Strik!!! My Mind was still playing tricks on me whenever I thought about Karate and when I looked at the time, but I always knew that one day I am going to be good at karate even though it was my first time. It was Monday everything was going normally until when the clock struck 1:00 and my friend called me and said you are in karate class, I suddenly jumped off of the couch and said Yes! I was so happy to be in Karate class it was one of my dreams to be in karate and one day I knew there's gonna be a lucky day and my dreams will come true.…

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Sport That Made Me As the clock counted down 3, 2, 1 I knew my career was over, but it was one good ride. Playing Chester High school in the Suburban One playoffs at Chester isn’t ideal for any basketball player from Southeastern Pennsylvania; it was truly a blessing and an experience I will remember for the rest of my life. Chester is the hometown of a couple of NBA players such as Jameer Nelson and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. Chester has also produced other 1,000 point scorers who have gone to lay professional basketball overseas.…

    • 1129 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The ways in which we physically carry ourselves in the world, the traces left by our voices, can reveal some of the architecture of who we are. We are physical bodies, experiences, minds, thoughts, actions, words and stories. Our bodies and voices can name the source of some of our experience. In searching for the true “naming” of what makes a person who they are, I am pulled back into somatic memory and called to reflect on my experiences with martial arts. At a young age I was drawn to the etiquette of martial arts.…

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays