Iwao Nakamura

Do you like boxing? 

​I love boxing!

Do you think boxing is dangerous?

Yes. It's very dangerous.

But I think there are many great gains beyond that fear and anxiety.

I have been helped a lot by boxing.

 

I was engaged in boxing for more than another 20 years if I noticed.

My first interest in boxing was the match between Japanese boxing manga and Mike Tyson that I saw when I was in elementary school.

Then it passed for a while, and it was time of just 20 years old that I began boxing, but, meanwhile, there was the boxing in me all the time.

At first I aimed to be a professional boxer, but after thinking a lot, I chose to get a regular job.

There was a wall of reality that I couldn't live by boxing only.

I still regret choosing a job.

I couldn't stop boxing after getting a job.

Unawares boxing had become a part of my life.

I had never been continued a one thing for a long time.

Boxing was my star of hope.

As I grew older and my body weakened, I began to think of becoming a boxing trainer.

This is because the popularity of Japanese boxing has gradually declined with the passage of time, and the number of trainers has been very small.

However, a gifted youth appears at any time. They were that it was sad not to be received enough training with lack of trainer in such a case.

When I decided to become a trainer, I decided to study abroad here in New York, and I also thought about learning American boxing.

I chose New York because it was a mecca for boxing for me.

However, when I arrived there, I was shocked.

I thought that boxing was still more prosperous than Japan in the United States.

However, although there are many fitness gyms in the city, there were few full-scale boxing gyms. At that time I was terribly depressed.

Boxing was also less popular in the United States.

While attending a language school, I attended Gleason's gym, which I had contacted from Japan before coming here. The gym was a very nice gym with lots of rings and lots of coaches.

And there were many amateur tournaments to be hold almost every week here. Anyone can challenge it if they train. I thought that such a part is a very wonderful environment unlike Japan.

I continued my training hoping to get a job as a trainer there. Unfortunately I couldn't get it there. However, the gym officers and members I met there accepted me very kindly and helped me with various consultations.

I am very grateful to them.

Searching for my whereabouts, I walked around various gyms.

The next place I arrived at was the now-defunct Mendez boxing gym.

Even there, I continue my training and asked the trainees if you would like to receive my training. Luckily I was able to teach two trainees.

While training them, I also improved my skills and impressed it to around.

From there, I was able to make various connections and teach at other gyms too.

The people I met here also were all friendly and has been good to me.

Unfortunately, there were enough trainers there as well, and there was no room for me to enter. There is no point in waiting there. I continued training there and searched for the next place.

At that time, I happened to see a boxing movie and found out about a volunteer gym called NY Cops and Kids boxing club in Brooklyn.

I visited there immediately. Then it was the full-scale boxing gym I was looking for. I was finally able to find my whereabouts.

The staff and coaches there are also very nice people, and with the help of those people, I was able to obtain a USA BOXING coach license.

It was a dreamy place for me.

The act of helping poor children with this volunteer was in line with my idea of helping young Japanese people.

I was actually planning to return to Japan in a year, but I decided to stay here for a while to learn more in this wonderful environment.

I wondered if there was anything I could do in the boxing world by taking advantage of this environment. My dream grew.

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However ... The COVID-19 pandemic occurred in March 2020, and the world system has changed.

All gyms were temporarily closed, and some eventually went bankrupt.

Even now, after more than a year, everyone is suffering from lack of proper training.

I decided to build my own gym.

I don't know what will happen to the world in the future.

Don't just wait. This may be a good opportunity to change the boxing system as well.

I have a dream. Creating a gym was one of those dreams. And now I have to think about connecting Japan and NY to make the boxing world more exciting. I want to give back to boxing.

As for me, boxers are wanting to think about the method that can box more wealthily from now on in cooperation with other gyms of NY and a gym of Japan.

If you would like to agree, please contact me at any time!

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Come on! like-minded persons of the stars!

Whether it's just health care or full-scale boxing, I think it doesn't matter what the purpose is. You will find that the first step is the biggest step.

And the gloves you wear for the first time, the heavy bag you hit for the first time, the large amount of sweat that flows at that time, the impression of the ring that rises for the first time ... You will be captivated by boxing before you know it.

Like I was ...

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02.2021

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