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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba— Everyone has different stresses and outlets for that stress. A group of amateur pugilists join Chaplain Frank Houghtaling at his boxing classes bi-weekly to deliver a knockout blow to their anxieties.
“What inspired me to join the boxing program was that I have had a love for the sport of boxing for awhile now, and have dreams one day of becoming the world boxing champion in the super middle weight division,” said Spc. Aaron Shrewsbury a member of the Joint Task Force.
The stories behind the different members of the class are all inspiring.
One such story is Ginger Jane Hammack, who has been attending the class for a few months.
“I wanted to learn how to hit the speed bag. I work in fuel farms. I climb tanks. I operate tanker trucks. I fuel vessels, aviation and everything in between. I train to survive the battle field of life. I needed to advance my athletics and take it to another level. Boxing has always interested me,” Hammack said.
Getting up and going to the gym to do this boxing class takes a lot of will power and something that drives you to keep going, but sometimes it also takes a person, a person who inspired you.
“My role model is my mother. Yes, most people would say a
professional boxer or something like that, but mine is my mother. She raised four boys by herself after my father died when I was 4 years old. She worked two jobs, always made our (my three brothers and me), sporting events and never once has complained about her life. Now that is a true fighter in my book,” Shrewsbury said.
On the flip side of that, it could be that you are looking to be a good role model to someone else, to be a good inspiration in someone else’s life.
“My children are my inspiration because I’m a single mother with no help from anyone financially. I got myself here, and I have so much more to achieve, that’s why I train so hard. In my day to day life, slacking is never an option. I am a role model to my kids.” Hammack said. Influencing my children by my example, that as humans we can do anything we put our
minds too.”
Whether you want to be a part of something to further a dream of yours, or if it’s to be a better stronger individual just in general, than maybe the boxing class is a good place for you to look.
For more information, contact the G.J. Denich Gym about Houghtaling’s Tuesday and Thrusday classes from 6 to 8 p.m.
| Date Taken: | 01.30.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 02.05.2015 13:12 |
| Story ID: | 153647 |
| Location: | GUANTANAMO BAY, CU |
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