Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Welcome to Thursday's Girls Guide episode.
Speaker 2: It is just me here today.
Speaker 1: We are trialing something new for our Girls Guides where
Speaker 1: we dive a little bit more into our separate interests. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Easy loves books, I love fitness, so we thought we
Speaker 1: would open our Thursday's episode into talking about our own
Speaker 1: interests and hobbies. So for the first episode of mine,
Speaker 1: I thought I would bring on someone who I see
Speaker 1: quite regularly speak to on a daily basis. I'm making
Speaker 1: this sound like I'm watching my relationship as everyone thinks online,
Speaker 1: and I'm in a relationship with him too. It's my trainer, coach,
Speaker 1: owner of One two Boxing, Josh.
Speaker 2: Hey, Josh, Hey you guys, I'm good. How are you good?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 2: It's his first podcast episode.
Speaker 1: And I think if you guys follow me all on socials,
Speaker 1: you would see that I've taken up boxing in the
Speaker 1: last what seven months?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I started in twenty twenty four June July. I
Speaker 1: was like a bit lost and I wanted to get
Speaker 1: into something and put my fitness to the test, I guess,
Speaker 1: and I signed up to a free trial at one
Speaker 1: two Boxing.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it wasn't a free trial.
Speaker 1: It's at thirty thirty dollars for three class the intro
Speaker 1: pick yeah. And I went to one two Boxing South
Speaker 1: Melbourne and Joshua's standing there when I walked in, and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy fuck this this guy's compet in tattoos.
Speaker 1: He's so fucking scary and I have no clue what
Speaker 1: the fuck I'm doing. He like quickly gave me like
Speaker 1: this cunkintroduction. He was like yeah, and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: this class is like I'm really hard, so good luck.
Speaker 1: I was like, fuck yeattle, yeah, but you did it well,
Speaker 1: like you're so friendly, So could you explain a little
Speaker 1: bit more as to what one two is, how you
Speaker 1: kind of got into boxing and what boxing is for
Speaker 1: you and like take the mic bape.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I've been boxing since I'm fifteen. I'm thirty
Speaker 4: three now. So I've been boxing since i was fifteen.
Speaker 4: I'm thirty three now. So I was initially boxing with football.
Speaker 3: So I was playing football, my aspirations to play AFL football.
Speaker 4: In my off seasons, I was boxing, and then over
Speaker 4: the years I just naturally grew my passion for that.
Speaker 4: And then and as I moved to Melbourne from Adelaide and.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're an Adelaide guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Wow.
Speaker 4: I grew up in Adelaide, moved to Newcastle, New South Wales,
Speaker 4: was there for like six seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I moved from Newcastle in Melbourne with the
Speaker 4: football aspirations. But at the same time I had a
Speaker 4: personal trainer since I was fifteen, so I've always been
Speaker 4: fascinated about, you know, pushing myself to my limits and
Speaker 4: just getting the most out of what I could do
Speaker 4: to influence my AFL football aspirations. And then yeah, pretty
Speaker 4: much was in Melbourne, started at a boxing gym called
Speaker 4: Boxing Fit, learned under Mick Hargrave's there and then basically
Speaker 4: got into boxing.
Speaker 2: Sparring was boxing sparring for the girls, I don't.
Speaker 4: For those who don't know, it's the professional sports side boxing,
Speaker 4: so it's combat, it's one on one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I started doing that and sort of was moving
Speaker 4: my way around the ring pretty well and started to
Speaker 4: realize that maybe this is for me, and naturally, just
Speaker 4: with my passion for moving into business and personal training
Speaker 4: and boxing, it just started to tie in really neatly.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, ended up sort of doing my own thing,
Speaker 4: moved into boxing pretty heavily. Had a couple of amate
Speaker 4: fights and then yeah, ended up turning professionals.
Speaker 3: So I've been doing that now for being professional for.
Speaker 4: About eight years. Wow, I haven't had as many fights
Speaker 4: as I probably could have had because work's always been
Speaker 4: a priority. Yeah, but it's always been something I've done.
Speaker 4: So that's my introduction to boxing. Given myself being in
Speaker 4: a fitness space for such a long time, boxing has
Speaker 4: always been a platform that I've loved to coach because
Speaker 4: it's also a workout that everyone loves to do, but
Speaker 4: the door of entry for that is always so intimidating. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we basically came up with the idea about creating a
Speaker 4: really non intimidating boxing environment where people could learn how
Speaker 4: to do it properly but in a really fun way
Speaker 4: that gets people stimulated mentally and get them feeling good.
Speaker 4: And you know, that would delve into a whole, whole
Speaker 4: big world of one too.
Speaker 3: So that's essentially the world that we created. And yeah,
Speaker 3: we've we've.
Speaker 4: Put a lot of time and effort into bringing boxing
Speaker 4: to people who want to do it in the funnest
Speaker 4: way possible. So yeah, that's been our journey from my
Speaker 4: boxing and.
Speaker 2: You guys have done that really well.
Speaker 1: Like I think from my experience, I always wanted to
Speaker 1: get into boxing because I think it is my dad's
Speaker 1: grown up as a pe teacher, and I've always been
Speaker 1: focused heavily around like sport and like a very active lifestyle.
Speaker 1: And I think you look at people that box and
Speaker 1: you think they're like really cool, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do at the start. I wanted
Speaker 1: to look really cool, like I'm like, am I Yeah,
Speaker 1: I look like a fucking idiot at the start. But
Speaker 1: it's it's so good because one two also has it's
Speaker 1: all black, like in your room, it's all black, and
Speaker 1: you actually can't.
Speaker 2: See anyone when you're doing it.
Speaker 1: So you could be next to a really good professional,
Speaker 1: like I've been next to Josh when I box, and
Speaker 1: like you can barely see what he's doing, like he's
Speaker 1: got his own bag. You've got your own bag, and
Speaker 1: it's just like you're doing your own thing. So that's
Speaker 1: I think one of the best things that you guys
Speaker 1: nailed is that it's a dark room, because like it
Speaker 1: feels like if it's light, you're fucked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well the eyes are off you.
Speaker 4: So when you a bag in your own space you
Speaker 4: basically tune into the screen. You still live as the
Speaker 4: combinations and the china which delivers the cues, so that
Speaker 4: with music and the bag swinging, you're sort of in
Speaker 4: your own little world yess all we wanted to create. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, the biggest stigma around boxing is that like
Speaker 4: you have to be coordinated or good to start. But
Speaker 4: the reality is is like if you're looking at a
Speaker 4: boxing reel and you're seeing someone start boxing and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh my.
Speaker 3: God, that's so cool. I can't do that. The first
Speaker 3: thought is I can't do that.
Speaker 4: But what we what we tell people that come into
Speaker 4: one too, it's like you literally once you turn your
Speaker 4: shoulders and extend your.
Speaker 3: Arms, you're doing what the person was doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's just that the only way you're progress
Speaker 4: in boxing is by simply doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the most important thing is like take away the
Speaker 4: barrier of like I'm not good enough to start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because regardless where.
Speaker 4: You learn, whether it's with another trainer or it's another gym,
Speaker 4: or it's at one two, you're going to learn from
Speaker 4: the base up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the key is just to.
Speaker 4: Literally walk through the doors and start throwing out because
Speaker 4: that's literally what boxing is all about and having fun.
Speaker 4: And for us, we created an opportunity where people could
Speaker 4: come in and not worry about getting things perfect straight away.
Speaker 4: And you know, our trainers and our team are so
Speaker 4: supportive of the first time we're coming in because we
Speaker 4: know how intimidating is walking to a gym and it
Speaker 4: to take someone, you know, three weeks to three years
Speaker 4: to finally commit to buying an intro pack and going,
Speaker 4: I'm going to try it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's really important for us.
Speaker 4: To always make sure our message is strong about you know,
Speaker 4: it's for everyone.
Speaker 1: Like Blake over here, our producer, he's actually bothering indrop
Speaker 1: back and.
Speaker 4: He has to go to a class there you go,
Speaker 4: I'll have to renew that one get you in after.
Speaker 2: This, But I think it's really good.
Speaker 1: Like I think also another thing that you maybe explain
Speaker 1: to the girls that like, it's not just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: physically hard, but I think for me as well, it's
Speaker 1: actually the mental challenge of like I've.
Speaker 2: Told Josh to fuck off like a lot.
Speaker 1: In boxing because he deals with it like they're combos,
Speaker 1: so kind of give like the girls a basic explanation
Speaker 1: of what boxing is like and what you do it
Speaker 1: one two Yeah, because yeah, you're punching a bag, but
Speaker 1: like you're.
Speaker 4: Not just like yeah, So that boxing is quite broad
Speaker 4: with like how it works, but essentially the coordination between
Speaker 4: your feet right through to your ears and then you've
Speaker 4: got the bag. So there's multiple air elements that you
Speaker 4: need to sort of start to understand. But the boxing
Speaker 4: workout is obviously a physical workout, but mentally it's a
Speaker 4: big expression of yourself as well. So the biggest thing
Speaker 4: we talk about at one two is when they come in,
Speaker 4: is to just to stop and have some fun and
Speaker 4: be in the moment once you walk into the room.
Speaker 4: We've tried to create environment where people can come in
Speaker 4: and forget about their day things they're going through, the
Speaker 4: breakup they might have just had, or the fight they
Speaker 4: have their friend or their bosses, struggling at work, or
Speaker 4: they're not sure they want to do in life. We
Speaker 4: wanted to create an outlet where they could come in
Speaker 4: and completely escape that reality, not to blunt it, but
Speaker 4: just to get themselves present and to get themselves free
Speaker 4: and just feeling a little more clarity. That's where boxing
Speaker 4: offers the best workout. It's one of those workouts. I
Speaker 4: think a lot of people when they leave a class,
Speaker 4: they don't actually know why they feel so good. There's
Speaker 4: a couple of elements, but the biggest element to that
Speaker 4: is they've just simply got themselves so present that the
Speaker 4: things that they were stuck in their head with have
Speaker 4: become a little dissolved and they're a lot more present.
Speaker 4: So that's one of the biggest elements for your first
Speaker 4: time boxing. At one two, specifically, we'll run you through punches,
Speaker 4: so we'll get yourself understanding how to do a jab
Speaker 4: and across all that sort of stuff, and then naturally
Speaker 4: from there, as you progress through.
Speaker 3: The classes, you build confidence. And boxing is not a
Speaker 3: fabrication of confidence. It's a time period where you'll gain that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that's why it is a good thing to feel
Speaker 4: intimidated and nervous about your first class, because part of
Speaker 4: that process is getting confident in that journey and.
Speaker 3: By doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's why it's important don't worry about having
Speaker 4: to start somewhere, you know, And that's where confidence comes from.
Speaker 3: From our workout and from boxing in general.
Speaker 1: It's literally just about rocking up for the first time.
Speaker 1: Like guys, I can honestly tell you, I was so
Speaker 1: humbled when I walked in there the first time, but
Speaker 1: I was going through a breakup.
Speaker 2: I was going through a really hard time.
Speaker 1: And it's so true because every time I go, like,
Speaker 1: I have a lot going on in my personal life
Speaker 1: that I don't speak about, but every time I go
Speaker 1: to boxing, it's normally towards the end of the week,
Speaker 1: and there's so many things going on in my head mentally,
Speaker 1: but you actually mentally cannot think about everything else that's
Speaker 1: going in your life because you have to be so
Speaker 1: mentally switched on about like remembering combos, remembering certain things,
Speaker 1: like if you're doing a one on one session, like
Speaker 1: you have to follow them around, like you're looking at
Speaker 1: the screen, Like there are so many things that are
Speaker 1: going on that you actually cannot think about anything else totally,
Speaker 1: which is so good because if you go to pilates
Speaker 1: or something, I think sometimes the movements are really slow
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, so that you're almost ruminating on
Speaker 1: all the stuff that you have to think about, but
Speaker 1: you actually can't think of anything else but that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it's the.
Speaker 1: One time where I'm like not thinking about my phone.
Speaker 1: It's that I'm not thinking about what someone said to me,
Speaker 1: what's going on in my personal life? Because you physical
Speaker 1: like you fucking can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fucks it's really hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was you know for me, I can I
Speaker 3: can share a story from that. It was this was
Speaker 3: about just under ten years ago.
Speaker 4: About a years ago, I was going through a breakup
Speaker 4: as well. And I was going through a breakup, I
Speaker 4: had my own private gym, and all at once I
Speaker 4: entered a world of anxiety, which I didn't even really
Speaker 4: know what that was.
Speaker 3: It was so foreign for me, and I became quite anxious.
Speaker 4: I opened my gym when I was twenty one, and
Speaker 4: I just built all these perceived thoughts of that and long, long,
Speaker 4: lil process to get myself to quite anxious and almost
Speaker 4: a few full place.
Speaker 3: And I had this breakup.
Speaker 4: I had, like the council pretty much there any to
Speaker 4: pull my gym down because of a car parking, a.
Speaker 3: Lady had injured herself.
Speaker 4: There was just like in the whole week, there was
Speaker 4: about six things and it just took me to a
Speaker 4: boiling point and I mentally I was and spirit salves.
Speaker 3: I was done. Like I've known who I am for
Speaker 3: a long time and for that period of my life.
Speaker 3: I just lost myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I remember getting back home and I said
Speaker 4: to my I'm like, Mom, I don't know what's wrong,
Speaker 4: Like I just I'm not me or something's wrong. And
Speaker 4: she's like, Josh, just go to Bali for a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks. She goes, go by yourself, Just spend some
Speaker 4: time by yourself and and just work through what you
Speaker 4: need to. And I flew over there and I remember
Speaker 4: getting on the plane and I was like my phone
Speaker 4: was just I'm like I couldn't use it, and I'm
Speaker 4: like wondering what text were coming through, and I was
Speaker 4: so wired. I remember sitting down and I was waiting
Speaker 4: for my friend to take me on his boat to
Speaker 4: go surfing, and I'm like, this is perfect. I'm going
Speaker 4: to spend some time for myself because I've always given
Speaker 4: my time to a lot of people. I'm like, this
Speaker 4: is my opportunity to get myself right. So I get
Speaker 4: in the boat, we go to the surf and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I just I need a my phone. I was like
Speaker 4: wondering what text were coming through, and I was trying
Speaker 4: to deal with all this other stuff.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't like I was trying to dismiss what
Speaker 3: I needed to do, but I just lost myself.
Speaker 4: I get out in the surf and I sit down
Speaker 4: my ma and I said like, let's do ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: You come pick me up.
Speaker 4: I got ten minutes in the water and I was like, dude,
Speaker 4: I'm like signaling. I'm like, come come pick me up.
Speaker 4: I just couldn't sit there with myself. And after that,
Speaker 4: I was like never dealing with that in my life
Speaker 4: and anxiousness. I was like, nah, this is this is
Speaker 4: really bad.
Speaker 3: Got to my phone. I felt a bit better.
Speaker 4: And that cycle happened for days, and then after about
Speaker 4: three days, I went to one of the boxing gym's Bali.
Speaker 3: I've been going there for a long time. It was
Speaker 3: in coutera real dingy.
Speaker 2: GM cuder full fire gym.
Speaker 4: When I rocked up, there was like snakes running around
Speaker 4: and my mate Indonesian champion over there.
Speaker 2: Snakes are running yeah, yeah, they have their legs and shit. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was running around trying to find what was
Speaker 4: going on and then seeing this guy and this dude,
Speaker 4: I'm like, he definitely looks like a fighter and it's
Speaker 4: one of the scariest looking guys.
Speaker 2: Have had you done a fight at that point, I hadn't.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think I had are a manch of fights
Speaker 4: and anyway, so I've found this gym. A couple of
Speaker 4: years later, obviously rewind to where I am now in
Speaker 4: this story.
Speaker 3: I started doing padwork.
Speaker 4: And I was in the moment completely and I didn't
Speaker 4: know what this whole moment thing was and anxiousness and
Speaker 4: I'm in the moment, I'm hitting pads and all I
Speaker 4: could do was folcus on breathing because he was pushing
Speaker 4: me to my limits. And because I'm love fighting, I'm
Speaker 4: like trying to sit there and I'm trying to go
Speaker 4: hard and as you do, you just blow yourself out.
Speaker 4: Got to the end of the session and I was like,
Speaker 4: holy moly, I feel amazing. I couldn't figure it out,
Speaker 4: and I had this moment and it might not come
Speaker 4: across like a massive moment, but for me, I remember
Speaker 4: sitting back and I've realized that I was finally living
Speaker 4: in this fair state and had this anxious but I
Speaker 4: didn't know how to get myself present, and that was
Speaker 4: through boxing. And I remember sitting in this moment and
Speaker 4: I was sitting on the step and I was dripping
Speaker 4: in sweat and my friend was sitting next to me.
Speaker 3: We weren't speaking, and in that.
Speaker 4: Moment, I truly learned the power of being present, and
Speaker 4: boxing was a tool to allow me to get myself there.
Speaker 4: And then after that, I somehow and I just believe
Speaker 4: in the spiritual lineups of things coming in your life
Speaker 4: right they as they need.
Speaker 3: I met this life coach, it was a.
Speaker 4: Former BIKI and ended up guiding me through the next
Speaker 4: chapter of my life around presence, and I learned a
Speaker 4: lot from that. But boxing was that tool, and from
Speaker 4: there I have never ever forgotten about that moment about
Speaker 4: teaching people that when they come in and they're feeling
Speaker 4: wide and they're feeling anxious, the power of just simply
Speaker 4: breathing through a combination and just following me in the
Speaker 4: pads is a great way to get themselves present and
Speaker 4: get them out of the head.
Speaker 3: And I've learned it.
Speaker 2: You do it really well, Like I'll give your hats
Speaker 2: off to you. Like I'm probably the.
Speaker 1: Least present person I know, Like I constantly just live
Speaker 1: up in my hand and I'm constantly thinking about the
Speaker 1: next thing.
Speaker 2: And Josh always goes just breathe, like just breathe like
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: Sh I'm I can't do that, Josh, I'm not doing it,
Speaker 1: and I guess no, you'll never get it out of me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Josh, I try sometimes in like nighttime,
Speaker 1: like I'll just try to do it just so I
Speaker 1: have no one listening to me, because I think I'm
Speaker 1: scared about like you me laughing.
Speaker 3: No, you gotta have fun. But I'm never laughing at
Speaker 3: your skills.
Speaker 4: I laugh more at like for me, I'm laughing more
Speaker 4: at like you're having fun trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah you've never tried.
Speaker 1: No, No, you're laughing like with me or like you
Speaker 1: accidentally like keep me in the face accidentally definitely.
Speaker 4: On purpose because it's a great tool to learn perfect Yes,
Speaker 4: it's a great thing to get in the moment and
Speaker 4: fix things. But you're you know, for you And this
Speaker 4: is like a lot a lot of people get in
Speaker 4: this mindset.
Speaker 3: Is once you get in the rhythm really well, and
Speaker 3: then after about.
Speaker 4: Ten minutes, once we start to pick it up, we
Speaker 4: try and advance, and then when you get two of
Speaker 4: those advancements wrong, you start getting in your head. And
Speaker 4: it's almost every session and we spend the next ten
Speaker 4: to fifteen minutes taking you out of that. And that's
Speaker 4: that perfectionless mindset of I've got to perfect this and
Speaker 4: I'm going to get good at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In that moment, I'm guiding you to get away from that, yeah,
Speaker 4: and to learn it.
Speaker 3: And this is a massive.
Speaker 4: Thing about boxing is in a fight, you'll throw maybe
Speaker 4: three hundred punches over a couple of rounds and maybe
Speaker 4: land twenty percent of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you're taking that mindset into padwork and thinking
Speaker 4: you've got to nail every combo and every punch, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're doing the opposite of what boxing is about. It's
Speaker 4: about teaching you that you don't have to be perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't have to make a mistake and be like
Speaker 4: it's the end of the world. Learn to make the
Speaker 4: mistake and just keep rolling. And that's a really important tool.
Speaker 4: And that's why in classes we never even if you
Speaker 4: make a mistakes, go again. Yeah, And that's really important.
Speaker 1: That's really true because like I spit the dummy quite
Speaker 1: a bit, Like I get really frustrated because I am
Speaker 1: a perfectionist and I do like not getting things wrong,
Speaker 1: and I do crack the.
Speaker 2: Shit's quite a bit. Because I want to do it right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think when you say that and you're like,
Speaker 1: it's not about being perfect. I just pick yourself up
Speaker 1: and start the combo again, or like play it off
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, Like it is really true, Like
Speaker 1: you can't always you I.
Speaker 3: Don't have to. Yeah, you don't have to put that
Speaker 3: mental pressure.
Speaker 4: And often doing the skill is just about you being
Speaker 4: in the moment and following the pads, not trying to
Speaker 4: mentally do the.
Speaker 3: Skill and then doing it. Like, yes, it's two things.
Speaker 4: It's the pressure of like I've got to get this
Speaker 4: right versus just doing it, and that often is what's
Speaker 4: getting it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the key elements to a first time is
Speaker 4: starting at one too when they come in is we
Speaker 4: tell them not to worry about perfecting the combinations, just
Speaker 4: worry about having some fun and just experiencing the room.
Speaker 4: Because when you're learning boxing for the first time, it's like,
Speaker 4: oh fuck, there's a screen. Some people come in that
Speaker 4: even though there's a screen, yeah, and like that's okay,
Speaker 4: like all the bag swings. You're learning so many elements
Speaker 4: to coming into a first class. You've got the lights,
Speaker 4: you've got the music, you've got the trainer telling me
Speaker 4: to keep my hands up, and I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: get the combo down.
Speaker 3: It's like that is the first point of just like
Speaker 3: have some fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is the progression of where you need to go,
Speaker 4: Like you've got to start somewhere, and that's where confidence
Speaker 4: get built. You know, confidence gets built over time and
Speaker 4: rocking up and showing yourself that you can do it.
Speaker 3: And then eventually with the trains progressing.
Speaker 4: You you'll get more skills, you'll learn new tricks, and
Speaker 4: then from there that's where that confidence goes. Like you
Speaker 4: could walk into a boxing gym now and feel confident
Speaker 4: to do some pad work.
Speaker 3: No matter where you.
Speaker 4: Go, you'd get like you would. That's the perfectionist mindset
Speaker 4: of you going, oh, you know, I've got to I've
Speaker 4: got to show like what I've been doing. It's like
Speaker 4: you just got to rock up and just throw your
Speaker 4: hands away.
Speaker 3: You would, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think it's because I'm also like used
Speaker 1: to the people around and I think that that's something
Speaker 1: that one two has done really well. Is like you
Speaker 1: definitely have built a community. Like I go to the
Speaker 1: gym and I know all like I'll see verity and
Speaker 1: I say how to verity, Like you catch up and
Speaker 1: you create such like a personal relationship with almost like
Speaker 1: every single person that walks through that door. So then
Speaker 1: like I see other girls and you see them at
Speaker 1: other classes, and you like build a little like everyone's
Speaker 1: built a community and everyone kind of knows everyone.
Speaker 2: It's not like a.
Speaker 1: Gym where you just like get in and out, like
Speaker 1: you always make sure you have conversations with all the
Speaker 1: people that go in, so you do feel valued every
Speaker 1: time you walk in there. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: something you guys have done really well, especially because you all.
Speaker 2: Look a little scary nicely like that. It's true like
Speaker 2: booking some touch no, but like I think like.
Speaker 1: You could be deemed as quite intimidating, would you agree,
Speaker 1: Like you're not so you're a professional fighter, Like that's like,
Speaker 1: oh he's going to bash me. Yep, You're not going
Speaker 1: to bash people. But like I think you do really well.
Speaker 1: And then breaking that down.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that, Yeah, we you know, boxing's all that respects,
Speaker 4: like when you do sparring or when you walk into
Speaker 4: a gym, like especially five gyms, it's knuckles as a
Speaker 4: sign of respect, and that's something that we encourage both
Speaker 4: as trainers. So when someone walks in, it's a knuckle
Speaker 4: on arrival just to say hello and sign of respect
Speaker 4: and make them feel really cool in that moment and
Speaker 4: then in class depending on the round and how many
Speaker 4: people we have to judge this between like how many
Speaker 4: people in the class and first times and things like that,
Speaker 4: we always encourage a knuckle to someone nearby and that's
Speaker 4: just a little smile moment and make someone feel part
Speaker 4: of it and feel comfortable. That's something we really encourage. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because yeah, boxing can be intimidating, so we've just got
Speaker 4: all these little things that we try and do to
Speaker 4: make people feel comfortable and safe. And often all those
Speaker 4: things that we do are just things that have been
Speaker 4: in sport for a long time.
Speaker 1: So then you say that it's like, yeah, okay, you
Speaker 1: guys give each other a knuckle is the signs of respect.
Speaker 1: But like then you think about like the tomm if
Speaker 1: you're in the Jake Poul fight, Like there's so much
Speaker 1: disrespect there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're selling to make money, so.
Speaker 2: So but then like why is there a difference there?
Speaker 4: Well, because like you've obviously got the sport of boxing
Speaker 4: where you know, people are out to hurt each other,
Speaker 4: and that's you know, the combat side of things, plus
Speaker 4: selling tickets because there's a lot of investment into each
Speaker 4: fighter and the open venues and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: And then as you know, we're a boxing fitness workout.
Speaker 4: You know, we're a fitness workout for those who just
Speaker 4: want to learn boxing, but the heart of what we
Speaker 4: do is boxing. The heart of where everything comes from.
Speaker 4: The whole workout is based on a boxer training camp.
Speaker 4: So you know, the whole thing is boxing, but yeah,
Speaker 4: just delivered in a fun way, a non intimidating way.
Speaker 2: No, it's not intimidating.
Speaker 1: So if you had to like describe something to like
Speaker 1: get someone to go there, what would you say.
Speaker 4: Well, I think like one of the most common if
Speaker 4: you say to someone i've been boxing most of the time,
Speaker 4: the common phrase, oh my god, I love to try that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very first response.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's because they genuinely want to feel that little bit
Speaker 4: of power and that little bit bad us element the
Speaker 4: boxing brings.
Speaker 2: That's actually so true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like it's yeah, so it's like that's
Speaker 4: a big element. So we know, and we've known that
Speaker 4: for a long time, but the door of entry for
Speaker 4: that person to then go that's where I'm going. That's hard,
Speaker 4: you know, that's a really hard platform. And that's where
Speaker 4: we came in. And you know, the whole concept around
Speaker 4: one two from the from everything you see has been
Speaker 4: thought and calculated. You know, Jimmy busus partner and I
Speaker 4: we sat down back years ago when we started this
Speaker 4: venture and every part of what we did, how does
Speaker 4: that correlate to someone coming in for the first time?
Speaker 3: Right through the colors, you.
Speaker 4: Know, and the branding and the way we articulate what
Speaker 4: we're doing and the messages we say, like we don't
Speaker 4: put anything around the words fighting or.
Speaker 3: Anything like that.
Speaker 2: No, because what does one two stand for?
Speaker 4: Well? One two is a boxing commination design, simplicity, the
Speaker 4: same way our workout runs genius. So people can come
Speaker 4: in and they can go, yep, sweet, once I've learned it,
Speaker 4: it's like sweet, there's the combo this.
Speaker 3: In the trainer.
Speaker 4: Once you've boxed for maybe ten to fifteen classes, you
Speaker 4: can get to a point where you can switch off
Speaker 4: completely and be super in the moment and hear me
Speaker 4: in the background. So at the start it's a little
Speaker 4: more tuned in on me and you're a little tuning
Speaker 4: in on the screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a little more energy output.
Speaker 4: But once you've got that figured out, you're very much
Speaker 4: in the background. So when you fight, you know, with
Speaker 4: my trainer Sam, you know, when we do our spirring,
Speaker 4: he's in the background and he's delivering messages to me.
Speaker 4: When you walk out to a fight song, the world
Speaker 4: around you becomes completely blank. You almost kind of hear
Speaker 4: a song. That's my experience, and I walk in the
Speaker 4: round again in the ring. As much as the crowd
Speaker 4: is making noise, the only thing you can hear in
Speaker 4: the background is your trainer and that's the same experience
Speaker 4: in it one two.
Speaker 3: You're in the zone. We don't want to be like
Speaker 3: the focal point.
Speaker 4: We just want you to be in the zone, having
Speaker 4: fun and letting your hands go and feeling bad ass
Speaker 4: while letting off some power shots and you walk out
Speaker 4: a little more bouncing your step.
Speaker 3: We do that. That's like the process of getting you there.
Speaker 4: We just want you to be able to know, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: he's asking to spin after the combo, and you'll just
Speaker 4: do it and you'll hear us as a second.
Speaker 1: It does come so naturally, Like I think once you
Speaker 1: get past the point that you know there's six punches
Speaker 1: in there, and then you've got like the little combos
Speaker 1: down when like because they have a microphone and they
Speaker 1: will like be like, oh, every second one's like a
Speaker 1: power punch, and that's when you hit the bag a
Speaker 1: little harder, or like you do a spin, Like it
Speaker 1: comes like second nature, Like you don't even realize you're
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like driving a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you don't even realize you're doing certain things,
Speaker 1: but it just becomes natural. And some girls or some
Speaker 1: guys are like especially on a Sunday, sometimes you are
Speaker 1: like a lot of your trainers will go in or
Speaker 1: do a class and then normally up the front. So
Speaker 1: then seeing them actually do it, you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. And you do follow people a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and the more confident people tend to
Speaker 1: go up the front, which is like so fair, I
Speaker 1: would too, and you get to see them a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But then you kind of watch them and
Speaker 1: pick up with what they're doing. Like verity is always
Speaker 1: up the front, or if you're doing a class, like
Speaker 1: you're up the front and it's just like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: what that is, like that.
Speaker 4: And that's the power of like mixed levels, Like yeah,
Speaker 4: like the hardest one of the hardest things building programs
Speaker 4: for one two is factoring in a program to suit
Speaker 4: Sam on her first class right through to verity and
Speaker 4: a couple of other guys that've been with us for years,
Speaker 4: boxing and trying to make sure that we can hit
Speaker 4: both ends of the spectrum. But that's the power of
Speaker 4: like being in the same room together, is you're inspired
Speaker 4: by that person next to you, and multiple people know
Speaker 4: who's around, and multiple people know people seeing progress. And
Speaker 4: all the time I get comments all the time from
Speaker 4: your pad videos of people that have been at one
Speaker 4: two for a long time saying, wow, I can't believe
Speaker 4: how much.
Speaker 3: He's improved, how good she's gone.
Speaker 4: And that's because that's just because you just started and
Speaker 4: just had some fun with it, and I know, you get.
Speaker 3: People hit you up and like oh that's so bad
Speaker 3: and things like that.
Speaker 2: This is one guy that's constantly my DMS.
Speaker 1: It just loves to have a go at Josh being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would go do with shit if you'd like taught
Speaker 1: you how to do it properly.
Speaker 2: I'm like brother and like.
Speaker 4: The best thing about coaching, and it's like one thing
Speaker 4: we always talk about to our team is coaching boxing
Speaker 4: is such an intricate thing to do and often and
Speaker 4: padwork really shows what happens here is when you have
Speaker 4: worked on two things.
Speaker 3: Let's say you worked on stance and a bit of footwork.
Speaker 4: The first thing that happens when you start working on
Speaker 4: stands and footwork is your punch start to drop.
Speaker 1: Your hands start to drop because you're focused, because you're
Speaker 1: focused on footwork.
Speaker 4: So we never tell everyone to go, hey, we're going
Speaker 4: to work on your footwork, but don't drop your hands
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: That's that's just reminders.
Speaker 4: But we don't have this expectation that you've got to
Speaker 4: come in on your first class and you've got to go, yeah,
Speaker 4: you've got to.
Speaker 3: Know this, this and this and this.
Speaker 4: So anyone as an outsider sitting there trying to nitpick
Speaker 4: those elements, a lot of the time they haven't actually
Speaker 4: experienced what it's like to coach people, and coaching people
Speaker 4: is such an intricate task. And again, for revert back
Speaker 4: to that confidence thing, it's once you've learned how to
Speaker 4: go stance and you've done your footwork and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden your hands are in this.
Speaker 3: Good position while you're working on new footwork drills.
Speaker 4: And then I advance your combos and then after six
Speaker 4: weeks to say right, we're gonna put all together and
Speaker 4: we're gonna put long combos together. And you do that,
Speaker 4: you walk away gone, holy shit, look what I've done. Like,
Speaker 4: I'm leave half farve progress.
Speaker 3: That's your moment. Yeah, but you've had to work to
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's not about trying to get it right straight away,
Speaker 4: not about perfecting it.
Speaker 3: It's just about having fun, and boxing is often just
Speaker 3: about showing up.
Speaker 2: Would be nice to perfect it, though.
Speaker 4: I know that's because you have a perfection and that's
Speaker 4: why you get angry after fifteen minutes of your workouts.
Speaker 2: Angry is the wrong term.
Speaker 3: Frustrated both, definitely both.
Speaker 2: Dress is really out of me here? Why would you
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 3: Because you had a me in class? So it's a
Speaker 3: bit of at you are you always do it? More paths, yeah,
Speaker 3: more pads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't embarrass you.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'll do that over the mic every now.
Speaker 2: Then, yes, you know, but yeah, I don't embarrass you
Speaker 2: in the class.
Speaker 3: Nah, only on pads, only on cookie videos.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, guys, did you say that?
Speaker 1: So so Josh like always like obviously we filed our
Speaker 1: workouts and we are like I love uploating boxing videos
Speaker 1: because I also like filming them for myself to show,
Speaker 1: like I think sometimes again, like I have such a
Speaker 1: perfectionist mindset. Obviously we're filming something that Josh is really
Speaker 1: confident in. So like if I feel Josh doing boxing,
Speaker 1: like he's got a nailer every time, like it always
Speaker 1: just like you just know what you're doing because like
Speaker 1: you've done it for so long. So then after one
Speaker 1: day obviously we trained in South Melbourne when we're near
Speaker 1: the South Maulburn markets, and he's like, Josh has the
Speaker 1: biggest sweet tooth I've ever fucking met in my life.
Speaker 2: I get like sometimes like.
Speaker 1: Five messages a day of like, well, yeah, I went
Speaker 1: to this Korean corner storm all this shit.
Speaker 2: Like he sends all these videos of him like trying
Speaker 2: all this food.
Speaker 1: It's really funny, and he has the biggest sweet tooth
Speaker 1: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Like always in.
Speaker 1: Cheesecake cookies, vanilla slices a side fucking with so much
Speaker 1: peanut butter on it.
Speaker 2: It's insane, Like this guy has the biggest sweet tooth.
Speaker 2: I walk in, there's like a.
Speaker 1: Packet of snakes something like he's so bad and he's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: there's this new cookie place in South wel but like
Speaker 1: I'm going to go try one.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, like, let's film a review because
Speaker 1: everyone films like McK bangs and reviews of cookies.
Speaker 4: Sweeah asked for like a break review and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, like the.
Speaker 1: Cross section of a cookie and you like break it open,
Speaker 1: like what mock banger is doing on TikTok.
Speaker 2: I was trying to be cool and like stuff like that. Josh.
Speaker 1: I've never seen you like in a comfortable situation in
Speaker 1: my life. You just didn't know what to say. It
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you were speaking in front of a
Speaker 1: whole crowd, but it was literally just me.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to say. I couldn't. I couldn't come
Speaker 3: out of the words to describe the cookie. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: I was really enjoying. I was like, yeah, the cookie
Speaker 3: is good, it's soft.
Speaker 2: What else did you know?
Speaker 3: And then you're waiting for me to say something, and
Speaker 3: I looked at Sam.
Speaker 4: I'm like, please, take over and then she just started
Speaker 4: laughing and fully embarrassed me.
Speaker 3: I went out a couple of times and people.
Speaker 2: People like recognizing They're like.
Speaker 4: Hey, I seen you on TikTok and I'm like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and they're like, yeah, you did some like cookie thing Sam,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I was laughing.
Speaker 3: It was pretty funny.
Speaker 4: So that's that's my claim to fame with You're famous
Speaker 4: famous for TikTok.
Speaker 1: So overall, if you could say one thing to people
Speaker 1: who want to try boxing, what would you say?
Speaker 4: The simplest message is just let's glove up, let's box.
Speaker 4: Don't even put your mindset to be like, I've got
Speaker 4: to nail it. If you watch a highlight reel of
Speaker 4: someone boxing and you think, oh, I can't do it,
Speaker 4: they are just twisting their shoulders, and we always simplify
Speaker 4: boxing is just about twisting your shoulders and everything else
Speaker 4: gets learned from that. So book the class, have some
Speaker 4: fun and let the skills of boxing progress over time,
Speaker 4: and just appreciate your journey, because everyone starts from somewhere,
Speaker 4: whether that's your first time doing sport or first time
Speaker 4: doing fitness and boxing your chosen carrier for that, you
Speaker 4: just start there and have fun there and the team
Speaker 4: will guide you through through our journey at one two.
Speaker 3: And if you're.
Speaker 4: Looking to start boxing anywhere else, just literally do the
Speaker 4: same mindset, rock up and have fun, keep the expectations.
Speaker 1: Low, and enjoy the process of being present and girls,
Speaker 1: we might be doing a little boxing event, so if
Speaker 1: you wanted to try it, then then you can come
Speaker 1: to the event that I'm running.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's Josh, Yep.
Speaker 4: We'll be doing a It's about a ninety minute workout
Speaker 4: where there'll be a bit of rest in between, but
Speaker 4: you're basically working between the class experience, so you'll get
Speaker 4: to experience what is like to do a class. We'll
Speaker 4: teach everyone how to learn a box at the start,
Speaker 4: and then they'll be do a bit of pad work
Speaker 4: and getting videos and getting their little.
Speaker 1: Money, get that cool shot to put on the Instagram story. Girls,
Speaker 1: you get those people liking that story and all the boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all that we want.
Speaker 3: In that class. But thanks, be really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much for coming on Just a
Speaker 2: Girl's Podcast. How do you feel feel great?
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You're a natural I reckon thank you first.
Speaker 3: This is my first ever podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: As I told you, I was like, yeah, shit, I
Speaker 3: don't really know. I don't really I don't listen to
Speaker 3: podcasts very much. Yeah, I've moved away. I did a
Speaker 3: lot of self help.
Speaker 4: And I've just gone back to being in the moment
Speaker 4: and just experiencing things naturally.
Speaker 3: And that's where.
Speaker 2: You're a very simple guy.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I've come to realize you like the small things in life,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing.
Speaker 3: Do you know what's taught me that?
Speaker 4: Do you know why when you do a fight camp,
Speaker 4: you are eight weeks in and you're locked in.
Speaker 3: You've no early nights now going out, You've got to
Speaker 3: be a little more COURTI of your food.
Speaker 4: You've got to eat more meals that are going to
Speaker 4: nourish you, so your performance eating a bit more.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not drinking or anything like that.
Speaker 4: So when you go to bed and you know you
Speaker 4: got sparring the next day, you're like, you're you're in
Speaker 4: bed and you're thinking, you've got this unknown element and
Speaker 4: this is like, this is where I've learned. This is
Speaker 4: the only time I ever get a little anxious is
Speaker 4: when I'm thinking about the unknown. And that's often a
Speaker 4: lot of time. Where that can come from is just
Speaker 4: the thinking about it. So I've learned how to get
Speaker 4: really present by just allowing myself to rock up in
Speaker 4: the morning and go for the sspiring. But because you're
Speaker 4: in that eight week period where you're a little more
Speaker 4: zoned in and checked in when you finish the fight, and.
Speaker 3: This is like the journey, Like when you finally do
Speaker 3: eight weeks of boxing. You feel good when you finish
Speaker 3: that eight.
Speaker 4: Weeks of fight camp and you get in the ring, win,
Speaker 4: lose or draw. You have everyone supporting you and you
Speaker 4: get out. It is the most liberating feeling in the world.
Speaker 4: And the fact that you can just wake up and
Speaker 4: just have some breakfast and go about your day, it
Speaker 4: is so next level. On every fight camp I've been
Speaker 4: through takes me another level of gratitude to the point
Speaker 4: where I can.
Speaker 3: Order a beer and just look at it and be
Speaker 3: like this is next level.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it, and like that's what you lose
Speaker 4: for eight weeks, just the simple things that we get
Speaker 4: access to all the time. So fighting, you know, there's
Speaker 4: obviously a lot of discipline elements of rewarding yourself with
Speaker 4: you know, committing to an eight week period. But that's
Speaker 4: where my simpleness of like behind the simple, there's there's
Speaker 4: been a lot that's gone on to like take me there,
Speaker 4: but that is yeah, a very being grateful has been
Speaker 4: something that boxing.
Speaker 3: Has really taught me because it's same. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I see that in you too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I've seen you slow down a lot, Like
Speaker 4: I know you're a tornado up inside, and we've got
Speaker 4: a great relationship and I get to learn the ins
Speaker 4: and outs of how you operate, and I get to
Speaker 4: see it in front of your boxing A lot of
Speaker 4: the time. You can see how people are when they box,
Speaker 4: And I think you've really gained like a lot more
Speaker 4: of a slowdown.
Speaker 3: I think it's like, you know, what's a work in progress.
Speaker 4: I've definitely seen it, especially your will to learn and
Speaker 4: your will to like pick things up.
Speaker 3: It's just become a little bit more less chaotic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So kudos, Hey, shut Out Boxing, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on just for girls, and we'll see
Speaker 1: you guys next Tuesday with another episode.
Speaker 3: Thanks everyone, Bye Joe.