[🧩] The Story of Almost Getting Sick on Day 1 Back at the Boxing Gym

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I stopped by the boxing gym after a long time and finally lifted the pause that had continued for several weeks. “Oh, member, long time no see! Welcome!” The director’s booming welcome rang out.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223895261157
• Naver published at: 2025/06/11 04:44 KST
• Original category: Daily Life

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I stopped by the boxing gym after a long time and finally lifted the pause that had continued for several weeks.

“Oh, member, long time no see! Welcome!” The director’s booming welcome rang out.

Both the director and the coach welcomed me much more warmly than I expected, and even though they must have been busy, they showed interest in me and asked how I had been, so my mood naturally got better.

After happily finishing the small-talk time, I had just started stretching and was warming up for about 1R when…

“Oh, member, long time no see! Welcome!” The director’s booming welcome rang out again.

Huh? From what I heard, that member also seemed to be back after several weeks, like me.

lol ah… comrades in suffering.

Anyway, workout start. Maybe because it had been so long, even after just 2R on the step box / 2R jump rope, I was already gasping for breath.

I fell for the director/coach’s smooth lie, “It’s been a while, so don’t overdo it~!” and thought I would just do 2R of shadow boxing as the last thing and go home. Then… suddenly came a proposal.

“Since both of you are back after a long time and probably forgot a lot of posture, I will teach you jab and parry together. Let’s have you two partner up in the ring and do just 4R of jab/parry practice.”

Excuse me?!

Y… yes

In an instant, I reviewed the jab / body jab and learned parrying newly.

Skill acquired!

When I climbed into the ring, they told me to put on black gloves.

Oh… they are pretty heavy.

The sparring drill was simple.

• For a jab, keep the fist attached to the face, step back, slightly lift the left hand, and lightly deflect it.

• For a body jab, keep the fist attached to the face, step back, slightly lower the left hand, and lightly deflect it.

• The attacker always targets the opponent’s opening with various steps and attack patterns.

• The defender always maintains distance based on the attacker and lets the opponent’s attack slide off.

Start!

The partner I had felt comradeship with earlier took the first attacking round. Maybe because he was left-handed, parrying was actually easier. Since the attack touched my left hand as soon as it came in, even if I just pretended to raise my hand while stepping back, it felt like I blocked it right away.

But 1R is three full minutes… Even though I only kept parrying for about two minutes, maybe because the black gloves were so heavy, my shoulders and hands started getting stiff and painful.

2R. Now I attacked again.

Maybe because I kept hearing the coach give my partner feedback not to attack with such monotonous patterns, I got a little competitive.

I will show you the splendid offbeat attacks and footwork of someone with 20 years of rhythm-game experience.

I attacked my partner with downbeat, offbeat, urgent beat, short beat, off…be-beat and so on, and he got a little flustered lol. The coach let out a satisfied exclamation. That’s it, member! Put variation into the rhythm like that! Take big steps! That’s right!

Grinning, grinning.

Did my enjoyment carry over to my partner too? He soon adapted and started grinning as well. Both of us were making dying faces because even lifting our hands properly was hard, but even in that, I saw my partner’s faint smile. That was an expression of pure enjoyment. My face was probably full of that expression too.

For 3R/4R, we switched offense/defense again with the “body jab.”

After finishing like that, before I knew it, something like sticky friendship(?) exchanged through fists had bloomed between my partner and me. Without anyone going first, we praised each other, shared updates about how/after how long/why we had come back to the boxing gym, and quickly became friendly. Along with a promise that it would be nice if we could see each other again at 7 p.m. the next day.

After that, I did just one more 1R of shadow boxing alone as a cooldown-ish thing and immediately wrapped up.

It was fun…! So hard, but so fun.

And as expected, doing it together instead of alone made it twice as hard and twice as fun!

But now that I think about it, I am pretty sure… I vaguely heard earlier, “It’s been a while, so don’t overdo it~!”

Well, it must have been an auditory hallucination. If they did not intend to make me overdo it, they would not have made me spar… right… coach?

I saw the devil inside that coach’s smile. But with cuteness added.

“Member, great work today! See you again!”

When I got home, I felt like death.

Body aches…? I think they might be starting a little lolol

With the body-ache excuse + Wednesday worship excuse, I can skip tomorrow, right?!

A naughty thought rose up slightly, but well, no way that happens.

… Probably.

Right? Hyuk?