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Top 7 places to learn boxing In Singapore
Earlier this month, one of the greatest boxers of this generation, Manny Pacquiao, announced his retirement from the sport after taking his 57th career win in the ring with a unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley. The resounding impact of his announcement across the mainstream media is testament to the powerful force that the sport of boxing is on a global level.
Known as the “Sweet Science”, boxing is undoubtedly one of the most respected combat arts in the world today. It has, over the last 50 years, produced superstars who are still household names today such as Mohammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Floyd Mayweather.
It also happens to be a phenomenal workout that melts away fat, builds muscle, and gets you into the best shape of your life. It is an ideal sport for beginners to pick up. Whether someone is looking to work up a sweat or is harbouring aspirations of being the next boxing superstar, beginners learn quickly that boxing is in fact a highly technical striking discipline that requires a great deal of strategy and knowledge to achieve mastery. If you are a first-timer looking to try your hand at boxing, this helpful list of the top 7 boxing gyms in Singapore will point you in the right direction.
Evolve MMA (above)
With three gyms conveniently located in the hotspots of Singapore and more expected to open soon, the award-winning Evolve MMA is the clear dominant player in the combat sports scene here in Asia. It caters to complete beginners to advanced experts and also has the largest Children’s Program in Asia.
The pristine, state-of-the-art gym is well known for its stellar lineup of world champion instructors in every discipline of combat sports it offers, and for boxing it is no different. It is the only boxing gym in Asia with two authentic World Champions to lead its boxing programme.
WBA Boxing World Champion Yodsanan Sityodtong (58-3 with 47 KOs) and WBC Boxing World Champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (90-5-2 with 47 KOs) head the Evolve Boxing Program together with an army of other instructors. Alongside them are dozens other world champions like Nong-O Gaiyanghadao, Nonthachai Sit O, Muangfalek Kiatvichian and more who conduct personal and group classes daily.
Juggernaut Fight Club
Situated along Hong Kong Street, Juggernaut Fight Club has been making waves on the regional stage by grooming young amateurs into medal-winning representatives for Singapore in major games. The boxing programme is led by ex-National Boxer and Coach Arvind Lalwani, who has earned top honors for the country in boxing since 2000.
The no-nonsense approach to training in the gym was developed based on Lalwani’s experiences training with a former Russian Special Forces Boxing Coach, as well as a stint with Mohammad Ali’s own personal trainer Angelo Dundee. Students can join classes which occur up to three times a day in the mornings and evenings.
Kadir’s Boxing School
If you’re looking for a rustic old-school experience for boxing, Kadir’s Boxing School is the perfect place.
Helmed and named after former national boxing coach Syed Abdul Kadir, the boxing programme draws from his wide-ranging experience both inside and outside the ring.
Kadir started boxing at the age of 9, and has been at the forefront of Singapore’s boxing scene for the past 30 years after representing the nation in the Commonwealth games and Asian Games.
Recognised by the Singapore Sports Council as the “Sportsman of the Year” in 1974, “Coach of the Year” in 1985, and one of “Singapore’s 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century” in 1999, Kadir continues his mission today to find and groom local talent to represent Singapore on the international stage.
Legends Fight Sport
Training at Legends Fight Sport brings you close to the heart of the boxing scene in Singapore. The pool of local trainers is made up of a dedicated and enthusiastic bunch, all of whom are still active fighters on the national level.
Spending their time introducing beginners to the sport between competitive training sessions to hone their own skills, Muhammad Ridwan, Coach Ali, and Muhamad Hafiz all share the common goal of bringing up the level of the sport they love here in their homeland.
Head Coach Ridwan believes strongly in a training methodology that includes lots of sparring to hone a fighter’s skills, speed, and reflexes. So be prepared to hit and get hit from the get go!
Ares Fight Club
Based in the western part of Singapore, Ares Fight Club is proud to be a “boxing-only” club. The gym offers purely boxing and boxing fitness training and is a perfect place for beginners to be introduced to the sport without any distractions.
Coach Sri heads up this establishment and brings multiple generations of boxing experience with him, having come from a family of boxers. Using unconventional but completely original methods of training, Coach Sri focuses on improving the skills and conditioning of both the competitive boxer and the boxing fitness enthusiasts.
The gym is fully equipped with heavy bags and a full-size boxing ring for trainees to test their skills in.
Fight G
While Fight G is better known today for the local MMA prospects that it has been churning out, it began almost 30 years ago as a boxing gym.
Founder Darren De Silva was a former national boxer who represented Singapore at the Asian Boxing Championships and has now devoted his time to imparting his skills and knowledge to a growing pool of young enthusiasts.
Tucked away in a nondescript corner of North Canal Road, Fight G’s classes are often packed to the brim every weekday evening with students and young adults looking for an intense workout.
While there is only one public boxing class listed on the weekly schedule, it is because most of De Silva’s clients book private sessions to hone their boxing skills one-on-one.
Spartan Boxing
Spartan Boxing has a robust boxing programme takes beginners through the basics before leveling up to a competitive standard.
Expect a full workout when you go for a session at this gym because their goal is to help students achieve their personal fitness goals regardless of whether they ever throw a punch in competition.
Boxing routines are supplemented by strength and conditioning sessions, providing a holistic training programme that a student will never feel bored with.
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Briton savagely beaten in Hua Hin works in S'pore, vows never to return to Thailand
Briton Lewis Owen, who was savagely beaten together with his parents in Hua Hin, reportedly works in Singapore as a graphic designer. And he has vowed never to return to Thailand after thugs assaulted him and his family.
He had joined his mum, Rosemary, and his businessman father, also named Lewis, to celebrate the latter’s 68th birthday, which coincided with Thailand’s Songkran holiday on April 13, reported EPA.
The 43-year-old graphic designer, who reportedly returned to Singapore after receiving treatment for his injuries on April 18, told The Mirror: “I’m not going back to Thailand again.” “Mum and dad won’t be either. Never, ever again,” he added.
In footage from a CCTV camera, Lewis is seen being pushed by a Thai man holding a beer bottle as he and his parents were making their way along a busy street. The man, who was arrested, told police Lewis had caused him to spill his drink after he brushed against him.
The video, which saw the Thai man and at least three others assaulting the family from Wales with such violence, had shocked and enraged Thais as well as people around the world. Many were especially concerned that Rosemary, a 65-year-old grandmother, was badly battered by the thugs despite her age.
She was punched hard in the face after she tried to reason with one attacker for pushing her son. Dazed from the blow, she tried to prop herself up but was kicked in the jaw area.
All three of them were so severely beaten that they were knocked unconscious.
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Injuries
According to Thai police, Rosemary suffered severe bruising on her face and head. She had left the hospital while her husband and son were discharged earlier after treatment for head wounds.
Lewis was horrified when he finally get to watch the video on Thursday (April 28) morning. Described the assaults as “horrendous”, he told The Mirror: “I did not realise how badly we were beaten up.”
“We were all unconscious. My mum did not even realise she had been kicked in the face. I did not know my head had been stamped on.
“It was just out of the blue. None of us were drunk – we had just had a merry night and were going home. We had never seen the guys before we left the bar we were in.”
The Owens also have a daughter, Ceri, who lives near her parents’ country cottage, just outside of Cardiff, She told EPA: “I’m too upset to say anything.’It was a hell of a shock to hear what happened to them.'”
The mother-of-two said she was helping to arrange flights to get her parents home. Sanook.com reported the Owens are due to fly back to Wales on May 3.
The court hearing is expected to be convened very soon so that they could testify. Friends of the Owens revealed the couple visited Thailand almost every year since falling in love with the country in the 1980s. And they would always be there for the Songkran festival, which falls on same day as Mr Owen’s birthday, reported British media sites.
Yesterday (April 28), a photograph was released to local media showing Rosemary recovering in her hospital bed, pictured next to officials who are said to be from Thailand’s tourism authority, reported ThaiVisa website. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has reported that Royal Thai Police arrested six suspects and charged them with grievous assault on April 17.
A TAT spokesman said: “The Tourism Authority of Thailand would like to express our deepest sorrow to the family who were subjected to the assault in Hua Hin during the Songkran celebrations. We hope that you recover from your injuries and make a swift and full recovery.”
“TAT would like to assure international travellers that this was an isolated incident, not targeted on any group of foreign tourists in particular. The situation was exacerbated by alcohol.”
Thai netizens,who expressed outrage over the incident, have called for a severe punishment for the thugs.
A TAT spokesman had told local media that the perpetrators will “face full justice under Thai law” if found guilty.
Lewis told The Mirror: “We were lucky because it was all caught on CCTV.”
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Tower Transit hires more than 800 bus captains ahead of service launch next month
Singapore’s third local bus operator said 77 per cent of the hires are citizens or Permanent Residents and are younger compared to the industry’s average age.
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SINGAPORE – Ahead of the launch of its maiden operations in Singapore on May 29, Tower Transit has met its recruitment target with 812 bus captains on its roster, of whom three in four are Singapore citizens and permanent residents.
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Prima Deli fires employee for racist remarks made to job applicant
SINGAPORE – Local bakery chain Prima Deli has dismissed an employee who allegedly told a Malay woman that she wasn’t suitable for a job due to her race.
In a Facebook post on April 28, Sarah Carmariah wrote that she had gone for “a job interview at a well-known Halal bakery for the position of a cake decorator”, adding that her interview with the bakery’s human resources representative had gone “well” and that the representative had expressed interest “to move things forward” after looking through her portfolio.
A subsequent meeting with the head of the baking department was organised.
Ms Carmariah added that during her interview with the head of the baking department, he had “looked through (her) portfolio, flipping the pages very haphazardly”, before asking her if she could coat a cake.
After she had replied affirmatively, they stood up to head to the bakery for Ms Carmariah to do a demonstration.
However, before they could proceed, the head of the baking department turned to her and allegedly made a discriminatory remark. She wrote in her post that the employee gestured at her from head to toe and said: “From what I see, and the way you look, and not trying to be racist ah, but you Malay, I think you cannot lah (sic)”.
Ms Carmariah said she “was stunned” and had just “froze” after this statement, but added that she “didn’t want to lose (her) cool” and “didn’t quite know how to respond”.
He had subsequently continued his diatribe, adding: “You know ah, Malays ah they over promise, promise I can do this I can do that, in the end, cannot make it, after 2 days disappear (sic)”.
She replied: “Sir, I haven’t promised you anything. I think you should give me a chance”.
Ms Carmariah said that “by this point, (she) was extremely disgusted, angry and in total disbelief”.
The man then susequently laughed and said: “Ya ok ok, we will head upstairs and proceed, then we see where we can go from there? Anyways you speak Cihnese not? Cos mostly all my worker speak Chinese (sic)”.
She told him that while she did not speak the language, she “could understand bits and pieces”. She proceeded to the baking room, thinking she “had already come this far” and “might as well finish this off and do this well for (herself)”.
The head left and sent in a colleague who was unable to adequately communicate in English.
Ms Carmariah said she asked him how he “wanted the cake to be coated”, but he simply replied “yes you coat, you coat”.
She stated that she did the job nicely and there had not been “a single crumb in sight” after she had finished coating the cake.
However, when the head of the baking department returned, she gathered from the exchange – which took place in Mandarin – between him and his colleague that she was supposed to have been “shown a sample cake” to recreate.
Ms Carmariah subsquently left after “thanking them both for their time”.
While Ms Carmariah said she did not want to name and shame the organisation, Prima Deli posted a statement on April 29, saying that they had been made aware that an employee had “made discrimnatory remarks to a potential candidate.”
The company said in the statement that they have personally contacted the candidate and later added that they had “immediately dismissed” the employee in question.
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New counter-terrorism teams to be rolled out by June
The Emergency Response Teams will comprise of specially trained officers who are better-equipped and appropriately armed to deal with such attacks, say police.
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How 5,000-to-1 shot Leicester City are on the brink of winning the English Premier League
It’s the stuff of sporting fairy tales.
Leicester City Football Club are on the verge of winning one of the most coveted championships in the world of football.
This, despite bookmakers offering odds of 5,000-to-one of it happening back at the beginning of the season. That’s less likely than Elvis still being alive or Simon Cowell becoming the next UK prime minister.
Analysts, pundits, fans and players have been incredulous as unfancied Leicester City – pronounced “Lester” and nicknamed The Foxes – has clung to the top spot through the last eight months. The club – based in a city in the East Midlands of England with a population of 330,000 – are now just one win away from winning the Premiership.
Beating the record-breakers
What makes this feat all the more surprising is that up until now just five clubs have won the competition since its inception in 1992. Added to that, Leicester narrowly avoided relegation in the season before and its record signing is just £9 million (S$17.68 million) for the Croatian Andrej Kramaric, whereas the record for the league stands at £60 million.
Audit firm Deloitte calculated that Leicester’s wage costs in the 2014/15 season were £57 million, telling CNBC that “this ranks fairly low in comparison to other clubs.”
Thai billionaire and chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha – owner of travel retail group King Power – is not short of cash but is a mere minnow compared to some bank balances in the league. A recent tie against former champions Manchester City saw a team worth £22 million in total take on a £230 million squad of superstars.
“It’s like a Rocky movie, we had been written off and continued to be written off at every point during the season,” Rob Tanner, an author and sportswriter for the local Leicester Mercury newspaper told CNBC via telephone.
‘Moneyball’ tactics
A number of reasons have been given for the club’s rise to the top, including its deployment of “moneyball” tactics made famous by Billy Beane’s Oakland Athletics baseball team in the early part of the last decade.
Assistant manager and scout Steve Walsh – who famously found football superstar Didier Drogba for Chelsea – has foraged the foreign leagues for players for Leicester and found prized gems in the form of Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez – who signed for a reported £400,000 in January 2014 and has 18 goals to his name so far this season.
But many point to the shortcomings of the usual football superpowers as another reason for Leicester’s success. The league has been criticised for being somewhat of an oligopoly but the big-spending clubs have been held back by their own periods of restructuring and rebuilding.
“Money has made the big clubs lazy, they are losing their way… they don’t to any research when buying players and just pay the highest price,” Tanner told CNBC.
Injury-free?
The club have also be blessed by a lack of injuries when other teams have suffered setbacks and have notably formed a feeling of team spirit.
Another attribute during the the club’s season has been their style of play. Purists to the game might suggest that the club plays ugly “long ball” style football but fans praise what they call a “sophisticated and direct” approach to the game. Meaning, the players soak up heavy pressure from their opponents and quickly counter after stealing the ball with hungry attackers willing to run and fight for possession. Indeed, a recent game which the team won four-nil saw it have just 38 per cent of possession during the whole match.
There’s no denying that Leicester’s success – if it does manage to successfully reach the finishing line over the next few weeks – would be against all odds and a win for prudence over financial folly.
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Maarof Mosque to be ready by Hari Raya Haji: Yaacob
The mosque, located at Jurong West Street 24, is 90 per cent complete, according to the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore.
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