Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Getting punched in the face for fun
Romain Pouclet
March 16, 2022
0
28
Getting punched in the face for fun
Why everyone who can should try boxing.
Romain Pouclet
March 16, 2022
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Romain Pouclet
See All by Romain Pouclet
Buddybuild - Android Montreal - June 2017
romainpouclet
0
72
Closed source is best source
romainpouclet
0
200
Save countless hours of work with this one simple trick - Fastlane tools
romainpouclet
1
260
Taking a peek at ReactiveCocoa 3.0
romainpouclet
0
120
Managing your dependencies using Carthage
romainpouclet
1
180
Cocoaheads Montréal: Xcode Bots
romainpouclet
1
64
Cocoaheads Montréal : Automated testing for iOS
romainpouclet
1
160
Intégration continue pour iOS
romainpouclet
0
270
Featured
See All Featured
XXLCSS - How to scale CSS and keep your sanity
sugarenia
236
1M
GitHub's CSS Performance
jonrohan
1020
420k
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
113
15k
ParisWeb 2013: Learning to Love: Crash Course in Emotional UX Design
dotmariusz
100
5.9k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
351
21k
Optimizing for Happiness
mojombo
365
63k
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
eileencodes
10
3.3k
Git: the NoSQL Database
bkeepers
PRO
415
59k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
15
940
Streamline your AJAX requests with AmplifyJS and jQuery
dougneiner
126
8.5k
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
333
37k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
296
110k
Transcript
Getting punched in the face for fun (and why everyone
should try boxing)
Context • We’d just moved to Vancouver (early May 2018)
• Ran my f irst half marathon in June • Wanted to try something new
Why boxing? • Going to the gym is boring (to
me) • Wanted to meet new people • Low-pressure challenge (That’s not me)
I looked at gyms around our place… 🥊 👨💻
Beyond Boxing • Tiny club (in an old f lorist
shop) • Beginner friendly • A bunch of di ff erent trainers with their own style • Most of them are friends now
What boxing is (And what boxing isn’t) •not (just) 2
people punching each other until one gives up •It’s a very technical sport •Super intense (and fun!) workout •Good opportunity to reach your goals (get in better shape, have more energy, loose weight or just have fun…)
Boxing is not just sparring •Most people actually don’t f
ight •No pressure from the club (if there is: run!) •I only started sparring after 6 months and I’ve mostly stopped
Injuries
Injuries •One cracked rib •One nosebleed •One bruised ego when
getting my ass kicked by someone younger
Results
Body Transformation
Opportunity to f ist bump the owner of a boxing
gym
Rope Skipping
Chances of survival in a mugging
Since then
Since then I converted my girlfriend to join every now
and then...
Since then ... my little sister (visiting from France)
Since then ... and my brother in law (also visiting
from France)
Bonus
Great Instagram material
Great Instagram material (2)
(Mostly) Great Instagram material
(Mostly) Great Instagram material
(Mostly) Great Instagram material
Thanks!