\u201cWe practice with boys here; our punches have become harder and more aggressive over time. Our stamina, and pain threshold have elevated, too,\u201d shares Durga Sri, a student from SRM University, Vadapalani, who stepped into boxing to lose weight but found herself gaining a new life. \u201cSeeking exercise for fitness, I was encouraged by my parents to join the club. During the weight loss journey, my coach motivated me to take part in a competition where I won gold at the 5th National Junior Girls\u2019 Boxing Championship 2022 by BFI in Manipur. That motivated me to take up the sport full-time,\u201d she says. \u201cAll this while my world was restricted to my home, school, and tuition. With boxing and the victories, I can travel across the country, take steps for my career through college admissions and job placements, and also people will know my name. They know who Durga Sri is. I won gold in the CM Trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Lenin, a student at Kerala Vidyalayam. \u201cI started boxing at the age of six. I used to observe my brother Siva Shankar practice in the ring and replicate the punches at home,\u201d says the now 16-year-old. From punching in the air to learning and using his favourite techniques \u2014 one-two and side-to-side lateral movement \u2014 to winning silver at the CM Trophy, Lenin found a sport to cling on to and carve a recognition for himself. \u201cThe coach and annas at the club motivate me a lot and I am thankful to them for my win,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
Their coach, U Govindharaj, watches each of them like a proud father. \u201cSports make a man complete. It upgrades a man\u2019s life,\u201d he says. \u201cThe role of a coach is to create athletes. What I failed to do in my boxing days, I will achieve through my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe practice with boys here; our punches have become harder and more aggressive over time. Our stamina, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,112417,112418,112422,49,48,112413,112421,112414,112415,112416,112420,37640,112419,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-238398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-in-chennai","10":"tag-boxing-in-chintadripet","11":"tag-boxing-sport","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-chennai-boxers","15":"tag-chintadripet","16":"tag-cm-trophy","17":"tag-cm-trophy-2024","18":"tag-cm-trophy-2025","19":"tag-cooum-river","20":"tag-indian-boxers","21":"tag-sarpattai-parambarai","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}