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Street life. The kids who hang out in the yards in the big cities without business, skip school, do not care much about their education just because do not think that it is necessary. How do such kind of the stories usually end up? Drug dealership, gang participation, getting into some trouble and going to the jail. Some of the readers may say that this is the stereotyping, however, the statistics can prove it, which is unfortunately. But is not there an alternative to such a way of living?


Today there is another way to fix your life up even staying out off the school, spending time in the streets. There is a way to get over your negative emotions and aggression and this way is called the sport. An example for such a variant of the way to stay out of the trouble can be the story of the "Barcelona Fight Club." They started as the usual place for the street fighting kind of for fun. However, there turned out to be a lot of the teenagers who were eager to take part in this. So, the organizators decided to start a boxing club for all those who wanted to participate in it. Sport - it became something that could take away the kids' negativity, they became calmer, started to control their emotions better and got to know how to protect themselves in the troubles in the streets. Sport became a rescuer for those who came out of mostly poor families and had had all chances to spend half of their lives in prison at last. May this experience stay with them forever, even when they are 30 years old and cannot fight any more? I think so, because the skills to control yourself and never lose the temper in the dangerous or problematic situations may stay with them forever. This is something that becomes a part of your character and stays there. It is a part of the sportsman's discipline.


All in all, I think that the sport does give you some very important skills and traits of character. Being confident, cool-minded, persistent, responsible and able to analyze the situation - these are those benefits a person gets from being involved in the sport. Even such a kind of sport like boxing. Those benefits stay with you forever, and I believe that the kids from the streets who are the characters of our story may fix their lives forever.