 I watched the Rocky movies and when I saw the Rocky movies it kind of inspired me like I could be that guy. This was the moment 15-year-old Jack thought he was Rocky Balboa. At the end he was embraced by his dad, emotional, yet the young boxer wanted more. I feel like I want more, like I was taking punches, taking punches, I just wanted more, I just wanted more. He was one of 36 young boxers from the VG and View for Gyms who had the opportunity to showcase their talents to an elite panel of observers, including Joseph Reds Perera and David Shakespeare. The showcase attracted parents, coaches and officials from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports. I am happy to see the number of young people, especially the number of young men who have taken an interest in the sport and I believe as a parent and as an educator, by profession I am an educator, to see that the students have an outlet for their time and their energy rather than finding idle ways to occupy themselves out on the streets, that they have this area, they can come to the gym and there are so many lessons to learn, apart from boxing but through boxing. Honourable Kensin Kazeme was among many impressed by the outcome. I am very impressed with what I am seeing so far, the vibe, very good parents are coming in, the coaches and the Ministry continues to provide support through ensuring that there is a payment of a Cuban coach for the sport of boxing and we are also seeing Conrad Fredericks continuing his local program and so we are just looking to see how we can continue to identify talent. The assessment program was competitive but at times seemed tense as boxers from opposing gyms turned it into a slug face. We saw a lot of skill but then we saw some aggression, a lot of aggression so we had to tone them down a little bit and let them know it's not aggression because today everybody is a winner, we don't have a winner or loser today because it's an assessment program. I think boxing is in good hands, from what we've seen today we have 36 boxers, all young boxers who never really fought on no regional or international level and these are boxers that we will be assessing to go to the OECS games, the Creole games, the school boy boxing championship in Guyana and also we will have our national boxing championship next month which is called the independence boxing championship at the VG complex. We also have a boxing card called champions of champions where all the elite boxers from the Caribbean will be assembling from the 69th of April, we will be featuring some of these same boxers on that card. The program is called hands in gloves not on guns and the Senorisha Boxing Association to President is encouraging youth to channel their energy in a positive direction. Marvin St. Louis reporting from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports.