What's Your Stance
As you walk into the studio moisture fills the air as an unpleasantly warm and humid feeling.The class stands in the same stance perfecting the combos 1, 1-2, 1-2-3 . The coaches voice raises while saying "watch your stance", "keep your hands up". A bell rings and suddenly we have to go faster 30 sec on the clock to finish the combo. The 30 second mark is the time you go your hardest even when your feeling weak. The Coach speaks over the bell to get back in our stance by this time we are sweating muscles warm and ready to keep going so we work on our footwork for another round. After practicing footwork our bodies are feeling all kinds of pains. Begining of the Boxing Club started with three young men Amir, Delly, Zah, they were part of the act 101 program. During the six weeks of act 101 these three young men found a common passion for one thing and that was boxing. These three went to the gym at different times of the day and eventually decided to make a club. Delly explained that he didnt think Amir was serious about actually starting up the club until he brought the documents to him to start it up.
(DELLY)
"When I was a young bull I used to fight all the time in and out off school and also in the streets cause I was an angry kid”. Delly explained how he wanted to learn how to fight Correctly so that he wouldn't be an amateur fighter. Boxing became an outlet to release stress especially being a college student trying to balance out social life and school. He feels good when he teaches others how to fight because he knows that he did a good thing and he help somebody else learn.
When Amir was in elementary school he used to get bullied so when he turned 11 he decided to start boxing to prove to others that he isn't a little punk. Amir explained that boxing to him was it a passion at first it was more of A surviving Hobby he Wanted to protect himself. he then grew a passion for boxing and began to coach He feels that when he coaches his Drive for competing comes back and he also help somebody out to get to a competing level. 
(Zah)
Zah Started boxing at 12 as a punishment, he Eventually grew to start liking boxing he was attending a gym for a couple years and then moved and joined his cousin's gym for the rest of his boxing career, Zah was involved in boxing competitions. When he got to Bloomsburg University he would go to the gym alone and practice on his own. People started to ask ,him where he got his training from and eventually wanted to learn how to box, so because he had such a passion for boxing he started to help people learn, grow, and continue to train and better themselves.
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