Living South - January 2012

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How you can help
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Fashion fix
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Max A Rush’s success at the Landscape
Photographer of the Year Awards
School Report
New-look Villa Nursery: Behind the scenes
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LOCALLIFE
8 Profile: Clinton McKenzie
The ex pro boxer on his career, getting fighting
fit and the London 2012 Olympic Games
13 Jenny Eclair
Straight from the Fairygodmother’s mouth...
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Great local events to keep the January
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29 Keston Kitchen
Warm up with ginger and parsnip soup
31 Helen Lederer this month
On low alcohol wines for a healthier New Year
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ROLLING
with the punches
Former pro boxer Clinton McKenzie knows
how to stay fast on his feet. Here, he talks
to Flemmich Webb about his career, his new
book, Boxing Fitness, and the 2012 Games
It’s not often boxers admit to having felt of somebody working the punchbags
in awe of their opponent before they competing with the music blaring out from
entered the ring, but then ex British and the stereo. Boxing photographs adorn the
European light welterweight champion walls, and light streams in through large
Clinton McKenzie retired long enough ago windows across the blue canvas of an empty
not to worry any more what people think. boxing ring.
The opponent was Sugar Ray Leonard, “I’m getting excited about London
the gold medal favourite at the 1976 2012,” he says, “Being part of the team
Montreal Olympics. McKenzie had won his in 1976 means the Olympics will always have
first two bouts, and had been drawn against a place in my heart. It lifts the nation.”
Sugar Ray in the quarterfinals. “I remember With us is Hilary Lissenden, co-writer of
walking out, and seeing him shuffling, giving McKenzie’s new book, Boxing Fitness, which
it all that,” he says. “I looked over and breaks down his unique training methods
thought, ‘Flipping hell!’ He was so fast, into a clear, easy-to-follow guide for
throwing these combinations; I’ve never everyone from children aged 11-plus
seen speed like that before.” to adults, from beginners to the more
Boxing Fitness (Bloomsbury) is
Sugar Ray won the fight but McKenzie experienced. “You don’t have to be a boxer
£16.99 from all good bookshops
“rose to the occasion” and made it a to use the book though,” says Hilary, who
contest. “It was an honour to fight him,” says their oldest client is 80 years old.
says McKenzie, visibly animated by The book covers the rules of the sport,
the memory. facts, Clinton’s training techniques and a
We are sitting in his boxing gym in range of exercises you can do anywhere
Tulse Hill, the thwack, thwack, thwack, – at work, in the park or at the gym.
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Hilary Lissenden’s boxing fitness tips

Incorporating boxing techniques into your fitness routine
is simple. All you need is a way of timing yourself, a towel
and some water – hydration is very important!

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“The good thing about boxing fitness is Then in 1989 came the moment all understand other people’s ways of thinking.
that you can mix it up, which keeps it sportspeople dread: retirement. I’ve seen people become more confident,
interesting,” says McKenzie, who admits “It was very depressing; I thought my seen bullies become milder.”
to being “very proud” of the book. whole world had collapsed,” he recalls. At this point, McKenzie pulls out a letter
Boxing has been in his blood since he “I lay there in bed the next day thinking, from a young girl thanking him for helping
was young. The oldest of seven children, ‘What do I do now?’ Initially, he frittered his her to get her life back on track. He’s as
Clinton and his family came to the UK in hard-fought for money on a succession of proud as punch and it’s clear he believes
the 1960s from Jamaica and settled in failed businesses run by managers who took that boxing can really help transform
Norwood. Some of his earliest memories are advantage of him. There followed three people’s lives.
of watching bouts on TV with his “boxing years of going “off the rails”. “I would like to see more money coming
mad” dad, and brothers. Like many others, “I put on a bit of weight, felt sorry for into boxing clubs like these,” he says.
he was inspired by Cassius Clay (Muhammad myself and started drinking. One day, “Boxing offers so much and helps kids learn
Ali). “I remember seeing him on TV and I woke up and thought I definitely needed to respect each another. That sort of
thinking, ‘Wow I want to be like him.’ to do something about it.” element helps cut out the gang culture.”
That changed my life.” So he did. In 1994, he set up a boxing McKenzie is as passionate outside the
He started boxing aged 11, and went fitness centre above the Half Moon pub in ring as he once was inside it, and I come
on to become the British amateur Herne Hill, where he first met Hilary, when away from our meeting a) hoping that the
champion, culminating in his Olympic bout she walked in to the gym to do some sporting legacy so often trumpeted by
against Sugar Ray. His pro career, which training. In 2008, a dispute with the landlord Olympic organisers as a justification for all
began in 1976, was similarly distinguished, forced him to move his current location. the billions spent will include support for
becoming British and European light “Boxing does a lot of things: it improves initiatives like his, and b) thinking I really
welterweight champion, though he never self esteem; it’s a great education of one’s ought to get fit. Rio Olympics 2016 here
secured a world title fight. mind and body and it helps you to I come (veteran’s class).

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