Times Of Swaziland: COACH NOT GIVING UP ON BOXING

COACH NOT GIVING UP ON BOXING
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ANDILE LANGWENYA on 15/07/2021 08:27:00


MBABANE – It has been over a year since boxing was last active in the country.
This was before COVID-19 struck Eswatini in March 2020 and government was forced
to ban high-risk sports and boxing, like karate, have not had any competition
since then. However, boxing junior coach Nkosinathi Dlamini of Stepping Razor
Boxing Academy said individual training helped him to keep fit during the
suspension of the sport. “For the love of the sport, we keep training
ourselves at our respective gyms following the COVID-19 regulations, our coaches
encouraged boxers to do more individual pieces of training at home,” said
Dlamini. He said he was doing just that all this time and as a young coach, he
was also doing personal training for interested individuals at home at the
Mbabane Club Gym. He currently trains with other boxers among those who have
joined him.
Gym
He also explained that at the gym, terms and conditions applied otherwise he
also used boxing to help people lose weight, get fit, improve their boxing
skills while he ensures they enjoy the fun part of the sport which he deemed
exciting and very addictive once it gets into you. “To the ones with the power
to bring boxing back, we would like him/her to bring back our sport, the combat
sport. We want to box again following the COVID-19 rules and regulations as
other countries are doing with the sport,” he appealed.
Dlamini further encouraged the nation to be safe from the deadly virus by always
wearing a face mask, wash hands with soap and running water or hand sanitiser
regularly.