“Boxing is a sport that is not for everyone. Boxing is a very individualistic sport that participants are inherently 100% accountable for themselves. The sport of pugilism gives anybody the opportunity to participate without having to be scouted out or picked for the team. Boxing allows individualism, you can walk in and be whoever you want to become. Boxing is a type of sport that doesn't teach others to be violent or "how to be a bully." Instead, it is a sport that provides self-confidence, self-esteem, respect, modesty, and versatility - keeping kids off the streets and from crime and drugs. Boxing is a sport that embraces at risk youth because it becomes their physical and/or mental outlet (relief) in life (a safe haven from very dysfunctional surroundings). At risk youth very often don’t fit in the “box” of being an orthodox adolescent, thus, they don’t always fit in well in the conventional team sport. I believe boxing can be and often is the method needed to teach youth moral conduct, technique, discipline, skills, self-esteem, and how to control emotions.”
Scott Tolzmann, Executive Director of Tolzmann’s Twin Cities Boxing
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