Little Video I Shot Yesterday in a Managua Boxing Gym

The reason I share this little clip, two young boxers fighting while a third dances around with the happiest, most foolish grin, one of many such clips and interviews I'm filming on a new and perhaps not incredible handheld video camera -- hence the roughness -- is I love the way that, in these gyms, vortices of intensity, every single kid there seems to believe he will be Nicaragua's next world champion.

Perhaps the roughness of the video does not hide the intensity of these kids.

So far, have talked with a few contenders and a few champions, and there is an intensity -- sophrosyne? -- to the guys who did make it. Discipline, clarity, purity, eyes on the prize: the champions have in spades what the contenders hope for.

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