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Looking for a Fight

Lynn Snowden Picket

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Description:The author was in her mid-30s and "looking for a fight" after a humiliating divorce, when she began training as a boxer at Gleason's, the legendary Brooklyn gym. She wasn't there just to blow off steam, however. A veteran journalist, whose research had driven her to perform as a stripper and tour as a roadie for a heavy metal band, Picket "wanted the real deal," as she told Gleason's owner. And she got it: her brisk, no-frills prose cogently conveys the sweaty, muscle-fatiguing slog of training; the visceral fear that she experienced in her first sparring matches; the elation that was prompted by her trainer's approving comment, "You hit like an animal"; and the shock of her realization - when she punched a guy who accidentally spilled beer on her while they were watching a match - that, "once violence is learned, it cannot be unlearned."The squeamish are unlikely to yearn to pick up gloves after reading Picket's vivid descriptions of swollen knuckles mottled with bruises, blood pouring down her injured face, and blackened toenails dropping off; she makes the physical toll of boxing very real, particularly in a sobering afterword about the sport's high incidence of brain damage. The author herself quit after her first big bout, concluding that fighting was a misguided attempt "to settle a score that was started back in sixth grade when I was pushed off the swings by a bully." Yet, she describes emotions that are familiar to many women, chronicling a personal journey in which boxing was, perhaps, a necessary way station. --Wendy SmithWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking for a Fight. To get started finding Looking for a Fight, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The author was in her mid-30s and "looking for a fight" after a humiliating divorce, when she began training as a boxer at Gleason's, the legendary Brooklyn gym. She wasn't there just to blow off steam, however. A veteran journalist, whose research had driven her to perform as a stripper and tour as a roadie for a heavy metal band, Picket "wanted the real deal," as she told Gleason's owner. And she got it: her brisk, no-frills prose cogently conveys the sweaty, muscle-fatiguing slog of training; the visceral fear that she experienced in her first sparring matches; the elation that was prompted by her trainer's approving comment, "You hit like an animal"; and the shock of her realization - when she punched a guy who accidentally spilled beer on her while they were watching a match - that, "once violence is learned, it cannot be unlearned."The squeamish are unlikely to yearn to pick up gloves after reading Picket's vivid descriptions of swollen knuckles mottled with bruises, blood pouring down her injured face, and blackened toenails dropping off; she makes the physical toll of boxing very real, particularly in a sobering afterword about the sport's high incidence of brain damage. The author herself quit after her first big bout, concluding that fighting was a misguided attempt "to settle a score that was started back in sixth grade when I was pushed off the swings by a bully." Yet, she describes emotions that are familiar to many women, chronicling a personal journey in which boxing was, perhaps, a necessary way station. --Wendy SmithWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking for a Fight. To get started finding Looking for a Fight, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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