john the badfist boxing

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Boxing is the cultivation of one's character, the strengthening of one's soul.  For through the sacred arts of boxing, we're revealed to ourselves.  Our hearts and minds are put on display, bearing all the qualities and shortcomings therein.  And through the continuous practice and subsequent revelations of boxing, we're able to improve upon the good in us while eradicating the bad.  Indeed, with each training cycle, we can become purer and purer forms of ourselves.  It is then that we can take the qualities of discipline, compassion, sportsmanship, nobility, and fair play and put them to use in the other areas of our lives--thus we become champions in life!  That to me should be the ultimate goal of boxing.  For we can't all become champions in the ring but we can become champion human beings--champion teachers, champion students, champion parents, champion sons and daughters, champions at our various professions and endeavors.   Remember this as you go along.  Happy training and God Bless!  -JTB

Gardening/farming is the cultivation of crops and foodstuffs to sustain and nourish our bodies.  Crop cycles yield not only crops but also new seed, skills, and sustainability.  As a practitioner of both boxing and gardening/farming, I've come to realize that there are innumerable parallels.  And by way of my boxing, gardening, blogging, and business, I hope to impart these parallels to others and bring the two worlds together!  What a positive impact it would have on our communities if we  were all a bunch of gardening boxers and boxing gardeners!  -JTB

Indeed, by way of this unique combination of internal/external home farming, we would gain the means to create a permanent sustainable living formula for ourselves, our houses, our respective cities and towns, and beyond.  From there, knocking out world hunger once and for all would no longer be a pipe dream as the dated trickle-down methodology of yesteryear would be eclipsed by the sprouting-up of local, self-sustaining food systems globally.  And so I urge everyone to reconnect with nature while harnessing the advances of modern technology.  Create and implement your own food systems, share your gardening/farming knowledge with each other.  And home by home, town by town, country by country, we'll knockout world hunger--together! -JTB