Going for the Ko - Manzanares, Gustavo Vidal
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The stellar moments of boxing seem to take place in public, under blinding spotlights and thousands of eyes fixed on tense muscles. But it is not like that... everything begins to take shape much earlier. In loneliness. Sweating to exhaustion in gyms with the smell of "basement armpit", jogging in fields and parks, between shadows and silences of cold dawns. Weight, diet, rest, no nights out. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. That is where success begins to germinate. The staging is nothing more than the accumulation of effort and sacrifice almost always worked in solitude, almost always in the…mehr

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The stellar moments of boxing seem to take place in public, under blinding spotlights and thousands of eyes fixed on tense muscles. But it is not like that... everything begins to take shape much earlier. In loneliness. Sweating to exhaustion in gyms with the smell of "basement armpit", jogging in fields and parks, between shadows and silences of cold dawns. Weight, diet, rest, no nights out. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. That is where success begins to germinate. The staging is nothing more than the accumulation of effort and sacrifice almost always worked in solitude, almost always in the midst of incomprehension. Can a more similar metaphor to life be constructed than those offered by boxing?
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Gustavo Vidal Manzanares graduated in law from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is a Jurist of Penitentiary Institutions in Spain. He describes himself as a "repentant socialist" and has published various works on the history of the Socialist Party in Spain and Freemasonry, an organization in which he achieved the rank of master although he is not currently active. He is the brother of the historian and writer, César Vidal. He has collaborated in newspapers, radio and television. He is known for his participation in "Looking for the KO", a section of the online television program of Cesarvidal.tv. Gustavo Vidal has published several books and lives in Madrid.