Alliance Boxing Club

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00:00Yeah so we've got a range, we do kids classes, we do amateur classes and we do sort of boxing

00:06fitness type classes. Anything can range probably from about 6 up to about 36, if not in fact

00:13probably up to mid-70s. So we cater as a gym for every age more or less.

00:18And with regard to the children, how many are you catering for?

00:25It varies usually, it's probably between sort of I'd say 15 to, there could be up to nearly 25,

00:3130 kids potentially at some point. Obviously not just by me, there's a group of coaches,

00:36probably about nine coaches that all of us at some point will be in here and giving up

00:40us time and helping everyone. And first of all, why did you get involved in boxing?

00:47A bit through Sam really. I got to know through Sam and then I started training here,

00:53the gym sort of progressed, got busier and I just got involved in boxing. I'm not

00:58massively a sports person but then nine years on I went to boxing and got involved in everything

01:04to do with it. And with the kids, what do you think that they take from boxing? Where do you

01:10think it's important for them to be involved? With the kids, I think it's really rewarding

01:16because when you're at home and you're a young kid and you're running around like a lunatic and

01:21rest of it. I think when you come to a gym you learn a lot of skills and you learn a lot that

01:26probably your parents try and teach you but as a kid you probably don't want to listen,

01:30like every other kid. And here we've got sort of structure, we give them discipline,

01:35we teach them sort of the right and the wrongs of what to do. They get the team bonding,

01:40they make friends, everything on a day-to-day life in a gym really.

01:45And I assume you encourage anyone and everyone to come down?

01:49Yeah, I mean we've been up in Crossgates and we're now in Ariels and literally anybody,

01:55we get every walk of life. We get people that have got ADHD, we get people that suffer from

02:00autism, we get every possible person you could ever think of coming in the gym and everybody's

02:05welcome. Nobody's different, everyone's the same and everyone gets treated the same.