Training starting soon…

As I told in the previous post, last year I signed up for the White Collar Boxing event organized by Vanda Promotions in Singapore. Basically it consist of a boxing event where white collar people, without prior experience, will train for 3 months. After the 3 months, there will be an event held in Singapore, where each boxer will have one fight (3 rounds of 2 minutes)  in the middle of a crowd that is there to enjoy a nice dinner. The money raised through the event will go to the Children Surgical Center in Cambodia.

A lot of people keep asking me the reasons of signing up for such an event, where you endure so much during the 3 months and then you have to face another human being for 6 minutes, where the only thing that keeps you from getting hit hard is you and only you. Well, I listed some reasons last time, here they are roughly again: for the kids (at the end, it's all that matters, that those kids receive some help), for the commitment, effort and results that you receive from such a training (both mentally and physically), and for the thrill, the sense of danger, the adrenaline rush. I think we all need to have these kinds of things in our life to put some spice on it, to know more about ourselves. After all, we only grow by going out of our comfort zone.

Vanda has done a pilot documentary based on the last event held last October. It shows the journey of 4 participants through the 3 months. It's really worth the watch and might let you understand a bit more on the motivations we have.

White Collar Boxer from Ian Mullane on Vimeo.

Late December I received a call from the club and later on they released the names, age and nationality of who who would be my training mates for the next 3 months. I was already very excited! Out of the 137 applications, only 70 showed up to the first meeting, from which only 20 were selected. From the list (that can be found on their blog Here) I was surprised to see so many English people, and also relieved I was not the youngest participant.

So, the training: it starts next week (the 10th) and we will have 3 trainings a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturday mornings). This might already be quite tough, but on top of this I'll also do some running prior to go to work and some strength training one or two days a week. Not much time for anything else anyway! We still need to rest at least one day a week.

I'm getting really excited about this and I'm looking forward meeting the other participants and train at the club. I'll keep you updated on the training sessions and how everything goes through the 3 months!