Boxing coach Glyn Rhodes talking about using boxing to tackle bulling in schools

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00:00Glenn it's some years since the star and yourselves at Sheffield Boxing Centre

00:04embarked on a boxing against bullying campaign but you're at it again what

00:09sparked it what do you hope to achieve? Well what sparked it again is one of the

00:13kids in the gym getting bullied so I spoke to his parents and then it kind

00:18of like reignited the anti-bullying campaign that we used to do a couple

00:22years ago it's not so much a campaign but more of an awareness bullying

00:27awareness you know people making people aware of you know if your kids are

00:32getting bullied there are places and there are people to speak to to stop it and

00:35bullying does need to stop. And it's not about being a rough-and-ready boxer who

00:40will enforce their masculinity on a bully is it? No definitely not you know

00:44we go into school and kind of leave the school kids with a positive message

00:48which we go in and we talk about the bullying the effects of bullying and

00:51what it can do to you and even in later life and then we get the kids you know

00:55to put sparring you know all the kids have a spar with the pros or the

00:59amateurs and take away a positive day and then they go away you know having had

01:03a good time but the top and bottom of it is you know it's the anti-bullying

01:08awareness thing that we're trying to get over.