I normally just say "i go to the gym"

[DutchDynamite]

I am not a guy that goes around telling people that i box or do other martial arts. Only when people ask me sort of directly, so what sports do you do, i will tell. Last week 2 of my former colleagues walked in to the gym planning to join and they saw me, and were very surprised. They signed up.

I have trained in very disciplined gyms around asia where showing of is not tolerated by the trainers and were you will not dare to question them. Showing of will put you in the ring with pros and it will not be a pain free experience. They do that just to shut you up.

Do you guys look for every opportunity to tell people or you also just do your own thing?

[Bendigo]

It's even better to put on all your sweats and training shoes and tell people you're going to the club. They just don't get it.
I'm also pretty reluctant to tell a lot of people that I box. I don't know if you've experienced it yet, but this is a good way to get a lot of unnecessary macho bull**** to come out of the woodwork from guys who think they have something to prove against you.

[DutchDynamite]

I don't know if you've experienced it yet, but this is a good way to get a lot of unnecessary macho bull**** to come out of the woodwork from guys who think they have something to prove against you.

Yes i have experienced that but that was at a kick boxing gym, it aint cool and some guys there were really just training so they could pick fights on weekends while being drunk

[rj_ct]

It's even better to put on all your sweats and training shoes and tell people you're going to the club. They just don't get it.
I'm also pretty reluctant to tell a lot of people that I box. I don't know if you've experienced it yet, but this is a good way to get a lot of unnecessary macho bull**** to come out of the woodwork from guys who think they have something to prove against you.

SO AS SURE AS THE SUN WILL SHIIIIIINE
I'M GONNA GET MY SHARE, WHAT'S MINE

[aussieboxer2320]

It's even better to put on all your sweats and training shoes and tell people you're going to the club. They just don't get it.
I'm also pretty reluctant to tell a lot of people that I box. I don't know if you've experienced it yet, but this is a good way to get a lot of unnecessary macho bull**** to come out of the woodwork from guys who think they have something to prove against you.

haha yeah i got into a scrap a while ago after people found out i boxed.....i made the guys nose bleed and i thought he was gonna cry lol another time i just whacked a guy around the head and he was too freaked out to hit me back after he picked a fight with my mate

[Unanimous]

As I'm not attending a gym at the moment I can't comment. But I like the no-showing-off-attitutde you mentioned in your post. I abhor showing-off, even if I do well at something I generally never tell people unless asked. I can't stand it when I hear other people bragging that I know I don't want to go down that road myself. When I do eventually join a gym the only people that will know will be my wife and close friends. I mean, I'll be joining the gym so I can get myself even fitter and hopefully train to be a competent boxer NOT so that I can brag and boast.

[2swell k-wells]

I normally just say "**** cream corn"

[skilgannon]

Yes i have experienced that but that was at a kick boxing gym, it aint cool and some guys there were really just training so they could pick fights on weekends while being drunk

those are the kind of guys that you give brutal and painful ass kickings to in the gym

[MentalExecution]

Yeah normally people will ask me 'you play any sports?' I tell them naw and then when they see me box they like 'holy **** I thought he was athleticly impaires', lol i know its ****** but thats the way i see it

[HopeFalcon]

If they ask, i'll just tell them, if they don't ask, then i won't tell them.