What was your first time in a boxing gym like?

[pyrovampx]

I never fit into high school and had few few friends. I didn't like clubs or any of the usual teenage stuff. I didn't like gyms either I always got a ****sexual vibe from it. I fought at home with my parents often too. I worked with a proboxer in a restaurant he told me to come over and he'd show me the place. he never showed up. So one day I decided to go check it out. I was a nervous wreck and instead of taking a trial I made a 3months membership. In the first week I made so many friends more than I can count on my hands. I enjoyed the fact that my hardwork and effort would reward me with fighting skill. I replaced all my leisure time with training.

This was the first time I felt like I belonged. The first time I ever felt that way.

[TheTruthIs]

I was 12. Confident and I wanted to learn. And then nearly crapped my pants when the sparring began.

[them_apples]

I never fit into high school and had few few friends. I didn't like clubs or any of the usual teenage stuff. I didn't like gyms either I always got a ****sexual vibe from it. I fought at home with my parents often too. I worked with a proboxer in a restaurant he told me to come over and he'd show me the place. he never showed up. So one day I decided to go check it out. I was a nervous wreck and instead of taking a trial I made a 3months membership. In the first week I made so many friends more than I can count on my hands. I enjoyed the fact that my hardwork and effort would reward me with fighting skill. I replaced all my leisure time with training.

This was the first time I felt like I belonged. The first time I ever felt that way.

man my gym just felt like a place i could spend a lot of time at if you know what i mean

all the other dojos i went to felt like places milking your money

[peewee1460]

i walked in, said what's up, paid my dues and started hitting the bag. sparred a week later.

[Cyse]

Hmmm... my first time I walked into the gym I got a negative vibe from one of the trainers, his name was Mark. He made me work with the ****tiest trainer there. And then when I first sparred, Mark had me go in there with one of the older kids that totally busted my nose and lip.

I kept going back for more, eventually I hooked up with a pretty good trainer in a guy named 'Sal'... he was Featherweight Champion Steven Luevanos trainer as a kid. So that was pretty cool

[aje]

I cant remember the EXACT first time .

But i remember that era (98-99) and just walking behind the back of a pub and into the gym , tacky as hell , bags were writ off , a big box of gloves that had seen better days and smelt like death ! haha

Then finishing up , being exhausted and waiting around town at like 7pm for a bus (used to be well dark) and just coming back smiling after enjoying a good workout !

There isnt many better feelings than that !

Used to & still do love the hardship that goes on in a boxing gym !

Awesome times !

[#1Assassin]

first time dont really count. was just checking out the place, didnt even step in just looked in from the outside, got a bad vibe and left. went to another gym where i came at the wrong time, returned the next day and entered properly for the first time. i dont remember weather ppl payed much attention to me or not, i was just so happy to be there. first time i stepped between the roped it was just a great feeling all thru by body and mind. i never really like sweden, the home of my mother. and i havent spent enough time in Martinique or Guadeloupe (where my fathers from) to really feel at home there eighter. im kind of like lennox lewis, have so many homes none of them are really home , u know what im saying? if your from everywhere your from nowhere. after i stepped foot in that ring it all made sense, i knew no matter what part of the world im in i can always find a home in that squared circle. i had just turned 17. i turn 19 soon, and anytime i have any issue i always turn to boxing. just stepping between those ropes gives me a feeling of comfort and inner peace. and i still remember that first time clear as day, the biggest milestone of my entire life. not getting a piece of ass for the first time or graduating from high school, stepping into a boxing ring for the first time..

[Czarek]

damn i like the stories.. had also so good experiences

['Sugar' Freddi]

Oh man, it was hell. I heard about the gym and they have this program called "$5 Friday" where you can go and train with one of the trainers for only $5. It was raining that day like hell and when we got off the train, we didn't know the exact address so we were looking all around Manhattan while it was raining and had no umbrella. We finally found it and went inside, changed and started training. It was hell. After the training was done, I never felt so tired, muscle fatigue, legs were hurting like hell, arms, neck, everything hurt so much that I told my friend "**** this, I'm never going back" on the way home. That day was over.

My dad told me to wait after the New Years then join full time so I decided to wait about a month and finally joined. I went there with a check and gave it in the front desk and started training with one of the trainers (he left the gym) for a couple of weeks then after he left, I started training with my current trainer.

First time I ever spared was after a couple of months of training. It was hell. The guy I spared with had much more experience than me and had spared before a couple of times and this was my first time. I was getting my ass handed to me for two rounds than I got so mad because I didn't know what the heck to do, I just threw a wild overhand right that landed and he just dropped. I did not know what the **** just happened but I saw him on the floor. The rest is history...

[BOX-A-LOT]

I have quite a unique story as well. When I was a kid I had always fantasized being a boxer, having grown up watching highlight clips of Ali and hearing about Ali-Frazier from my Gramps, pop's and uncles and of course the Rocky flicks.

Even back in high school boxing only gyms were scarce. But Martial arts gym were ubiquitous like how MMA gyms are today.

A cousin of mine who off and on would come by my place and would talk about his newfound hobby, martial arts, specifically Shotokan Karate, Tae Kwon do and Arnis(Filipino stick fighting), lil did I know that this cousin of mine was one of the best TKD/Karate guys in all of Cali, he never told me about his success, he just told me that that he practiced martial arts and only heard about my cousin's achievements through other people.

So anyway, my cousin drops by one day and starts talking about this "new" martial art he has taken up recently, called Muay Thai. And I was like, oh ****, this time, I've gotta check this place out. It was the same place that he has been going to for his Karate lessons.

The place was small and the dojo was leased by more than one instructor. My first day was not intimidating because the gym had a friendly atmosphere and it was a small gym with a class of 30 students, this was the Muay Thai class, and guess what guys, the Muay Thai trainer of this gym, branched off and put up his own gym and his school is now the main rival of Fairtex SF! He now has had two world champions that he groomed from the very beginning!

I also took up boxing at the old dojo, it so happens that one of the Karate sensei's came from a boxing background, with all the gyms that I've joined throughout these years, I'd have to say that this lil Karate studio taught me the most about boxing, it was were I honed my skills. The rest were just gyms frontin' like it's one of those throwback gyms!

Oops, I almost forgot about the thread question. There's only one way that to describe how my first day of boxing class went "It was torture and I felt like puking" and enjoyed every second of it and I came back for more punishment!!