Twenty-one years ago, at university, I landed a beautiful left hook on my friend. I was supposed to miss. We were rehearsing for a production of Fifteen-Minute Hamlet, and we hadn’t measured the distance correctly. I started kickboxing; my friend took up yoga. My first proper spar was soon after that incident; my most recent was […]
I was guilty of overtraining when I was younger. I’d turn up for a boxing fight-camp session with John having already done a circuit training session, then a 2-hour Muay Thai session. My cycle to work was an hour each way, and after I got home, I’d head straight back out to do an hour-long […]
2026 Port O’Leith Boxing Club. 27th June 2pm EVENT 1: ENGINE RELAY (Relay – For Time) Ski Erg 650m → Row 650m → Assault Bike 850m → Run 550m Physical hand-touch relay; running between stations counts Score: Fastest time EVENT 2: THE PIT (Strength Circuit – Relay, For Time) Exercises (team total reps): […]
Live from Port O’Leith Boxing Club Saturday 7th March
You want to lose weight? But… When is the word ‘lose’ ever a good starting point? Thinking about losing weight is all consuming and can move people to extremes of under eating (then often binging), or over exercising (then getting fatigued, ill or injured). It intercepts thought patterns with negativity and makes for a ‘stress’ […]
Live from Port O’Leith Boxing Club Saturday 1st November
Live from Port O’Leith Boxing Club Friday May 23rd
Seaside Shootout Portobello Town Hall Sat 15th March at 18:00 18+
This is for the large number of our members who are new to the world of boxing and want to understand the layers and politics involved in putting on the most wanted fights. To start with, there are four sanctioning bodies all of whom carry their own world title belts: the World Boxing Association […]