Alread starting actually. In Southern California a high school boxing program that started recently, and they're getting great success with inner city youths who are now pulling 3.5 gpa. Now schools all across the country are looking into it, and Dan Goosen gave them a very sizable donation.
opcorn:GREAT....having these hoodlums box can only improved the boxing scenes in the years to come... i hope its pick up by more states around the country...but considering how pussy this country has become i doubt it...:doh:
sounds great. ive never been in a place where people treated each other with more respect and courtesy than a boxing/mma gym. Guys need an outlet for their testosterone, high school kids more than anyone, getting out their natural aggression in a ring is probably more effective than any other initiative you could possibly dream up for improving their behaviour.:fightme:
I was joking about the state/national level. There's some good local programs. I know Klitschko got some ink before his fight with Ibragimov for a donation to a boxing program for NYC children.
:: The American media is baying for his fucken blood along with 'the rest of them'... and sweet Wladdy donates money to help American youths take up the sport, to get rid of the likes of him.
Boxing in US high schools would be the single best way to make boxing more popular in the US. By far. But as much as I'd like to think it could happen, people don't like seeing 17 year olds carried out on a stretcher and never recovering. No matter how much the good outweighs the bad, the typical person won't look at it objectively.
Boxing classes don't actually have to involve boxing or sparring one another in the ring. It could simply be the training.
They don't seem to mind seeing kids getting carried off the football field in stretchers. Football's a brutal sport, yet there aren't any safety measures taken at the high school level to protect kids, which there obviously would be in a high school boxing program. With the proper precautions (headgear, larger gloves, quick referee stoppages), high school boxing would probably be safer than high school football.
Exactly I think boxing in schools is an outstanding idea, and no-one needs to ever so much as have a glove laid on them. You install a few bags and a speed ball, get some skips, pads and gloves and you've got all you need to teach young lads to box. Boxing is an outstanding way to instill discipline, respect and hard work into young 'uns, as well as giving an acceptable outlet to all the angst and frustration that comes with teenage life. Gotta be better than Dricket, surely? :: MTF
Wrestling is popular in high schools. It also happens to be a large part of MMA. Just like a teenage kid can understand why a takedown was done properly, one can understand why a left hook was done properly.
wrestling's a great sport. i wrestled throughout my high school years, and it was almost like being in the military. never wrestled in college, but had few friends who did and they hated it.
