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Aspirations of a Dreamer

Feb 24, 2004  By Jason Petock
We're all dreamers. I just like to think that I dream a little more than the average person. Maybe I do. I've always wanted to be a fighter since I could remember. I wanted to hear the roar of the crowd, either for or against me. I wanted to feel the electricity in the air, the apprehension and the butterflies of the ring walk. I wanted that sense of self worth, that undeniable rush of being a Champion. I still do.

I've had my fair share of street fights, but I don't count them for much and neither should you. Unskilled displays of idiocy don't compare to the beautiful nature of boxing.

Boxing is an art form. The "Sweet Science". The sweetest. A game of angles and strategy, similar to chess, but much more intense and heartfelt. A meeting of the minds and bodies. It's a thinking man's (or woman's) sport, savage one minute and visually breathtaking the next.

I started seriously training last year, learning from a good friend of mine who has a great deal of boxing experience and is a professional boxer/trainer himself. Although it has been a slow, long process the benefits I have received are greater than I have ever gotten from anything else in my life. My training has become my religion, and it is what motivated me to try and write for Doghouse Boxing, that and my love of the sport. And here I am, thankfully.

I enjoy the aches from training. I like the soreness and the pain. The smell of leather saturated in sweat after training. The almost drunken state you feel after a good run. I'm starting to get my wind now. I don't want to eat the garbage I used to eat anymore. I don't enjoy running, but I don't think many of us do. But I do it. I do it until it hurts and beg for more. It's purifying and I'm addicted. Every fiber of my being is completely engulfed in boxing and its art. Everyday is hopefully one step closer to my goals.

I've learned an extensive workout and my punches are coming together. I'm learning head movement and things are starting to come along. Everything feels a little more fluid and I'm learning a lot.

Once you get hit you gain a higher appreciation for what your hero's go through on a daily basis for their entire careers. Every punch hurts and anyone who tells you otherwise has never had the privilege of stepping into a ring before. Either that or their ego's won't permit them to admission. Boxers adapt to punches, they never learn to take them.

I always knew it was tough, but didn't know the specifics. Now I do in a way. Boxing is what I have been searching for all my life and I have found it. If it were a woman I would have married it a long time ago. As ridiculous as that sounds it's how I feel.

There's no doubt of my love for the art of boxing. I consume it. Eat it, sleep it, read it, watch it, and try to be it……………you get the idea.

I look forward this month to get some more ring time in and try and perfect my art. It's a long, hard road and even if nothing comes of it I know in my heart that it gave me more than I'll ever know. I wouldn't trade that for all the money in the world.


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