Boxing & the climber…

Boxing was something I started to do as a way to train for climbing, especially Offwidth climbing. And also to process anger during some of the toughest times in my life. (It really worked for both.)

AND, it REALLY challenges me. It does not come naturally, because of the way my brain works as a nuero-divergent human.

I am often scrambling my brain, moving in the opposite direction I am supposed to be moving and regularly, want to kick the ground in frustration.

And, I have absolutely fallen in love with boxing. The challenge, the technique, the precision, the strategy and the rhythm of it. Big thank you to coach @champleon on Instagram.

My reminders this week are in my Coaching blog - it takes 400 repetitions to build a new synapse in your brain, but only 15-20 repetitions if it is done in play, joy, pleasure or laughter.

And…“What if failure is only a gap? If we thought of failure as A GAP, then would failure simply be unfinished actions or part of a process?

Maybe…

Failure becomes something you accept as learning. Curiosity.
Failure becomes something we need to cross through. Actions.
Failure becomes something that demands new approaches. Novelty.
Failure becomes something that requires you to take risks. Leaps.

Would this make failure something we could eventually achieve or accomplish? But, then, doesn’t viewing it from that perspective make failure transform to the potential for success?”