I got a black eye last night at sparring. The worst part of this stupid thing is that I now have to tell everyone I know and many I don't what happened. And everyone at work is going to ask "Hey what happened?" And they always assume you got beat up. I feel like pulling a Fight Club and just having blood in my teeth and smiling when people ask. Any one have a similar situation?
In my early twenties I was working out, sparring a bit....I did this while also being in a Philadelphia street hockey league.
No one believed me when I'd show up at work with bruises, swellings...that they happened while playing hockey, not while boxing.
I got a black eye last night at sparring. The worst part of this stupid thing is that I now have to tell everyone I know and many I don't what happened. And everyone at work is going to ask "Hey what happened?" And they always assume you got beat up. I feel like pulling a Fight Club and just having blood in my teeth and smiling when people ask. Any one have a similar situation?
I've had it a few times, its annoying. I was sparring someone and got careless, they caught me with a right hand which give me a cut on my cheek bone and bruising. It was a new job so people didnt know i boxed and the got the impression i got beat up, which couldnt be futher from the truth because i was giving this guy a beating.
once people know you box and spar
and u come to work with like 1 black eye a month
it will be less of an issue
anyway
i see black eyes and shit like that is honor badges anyway
confucius say, stop worrying about what those ants think .
I got a black eye last night at sparring. The worst part of this stupid thing is that I now have to tell everyone I know and many I don't what happened. And everyone at work is going to ask "Hey what happened?" And they always assume you got beat up. I feel like pulling a Fight Club and just having blood in my teeth and smiling when people ask. Any one have a similar situation?
just be honest and tell them exactly what happened and that this happens when you spar sometimes.
eh, something similar, I guess.....One morning when I was still in high school, I woke up and my eye was swollen, not blackened, just swollen (still not really sure as to why). EVERYBODY at school assumed I had been beaten up and even though they let it go after I told them I hadn't been fighting they would have that look on their face like, "man, poor kid, that's messed up." So, I just lied to everybody and said I got in a scuffle at the bus stop and my brother and myself beat the guy up.