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  • 1 year ago

Well there's a new kickboxer on the loose ..

His name is Shiva Toolsie and he fights out of Evolution Kickboxing. At 18 years old Toolsie is presently undefeated since he started the sport. He has high ambitions of REACHING THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. Here's his backstory.
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00:0018-year-old Shiva tells he is quickly advancing in the sport of kickboxing.
00:04Coming out of Evolution Kickboxing under Jason Ramuta, he has six victories with
00:09four of them coming by technical knockout. I got involved into boxing and
00:15kickboxing all for the passion and watching fighters and watching this
00:18sport and watching the humility they have after and the pride they gain from
00:25the sport and winning titles. That's how I start. His coach believes he has the
00:29potential to go far. Shiva has been doing exceptionally well. He's undefeated.
00:34There's actually no one at his weight that wants to fight him now. So we
00:41are currently we're going to look to try the game outside the country to start
00:45fighting. What do you think gives him a competitive edge over his opponent?
00:50Shiva is very dedicated. He comes to the gym every day. I as his coach literally
00:56has to tell him to stay away. He started the gym, joined the class and also
01:00attends at the University of the West Indies where he pursues a major in
01:04environmental and natural resource management. I'd love to be, I'd love if I
01:10could continue my career and be both as a soil specialist providing help for
01:18agriculture throughout the nation and at the same time bringing the pride of being
01:22a world champion one day. So now that you're doing this sport, how do your
01:26parents feel about it? At first, as all parents would be, your mom, your dad is
01:34like, oh my god, my child going in the ring, he going to die. And never die. So now
01:40they're just proud that, you know, he could bring such an accomplishment and they
01:46could tell everybody about it. The sport can be dangerous and Tulsi shared what
01:50goes through his mind during a fight. Do you feel empathy for your fighters
01:55when you fight them and you see perhaps that they're injured because of a punch
01:59that you just delivered? There has been times where I knock out people and I felt
02:07very, very sad for them because I know I wouldn't want to be in the receiving end
02:12of that. But after I see that they make it out okay and they're good to go, I just feel
02:20okay. But it does bring a sense of sorrow and like somebody can't get up
02:24from the ground. He wants to inspire the youth and take his career in the sport
02:29internationally. Now that I win the title for Trinidad and Tobago, the future
02:34objective is to go and probably get a Pan American belt, a belt in the states,
02:40Suriname or Cuba. And that's it. And then from there, further into international,
02:47you know, probably pride, WBC, something like that. So what's the best part about
02:53training? My favorite part about training is not the fact that it had
02:58my tourbentine on me, but it's the people I meet along the way. True friends that
03:04have the same goal in mind. They have the same passion and it does make training better
03:09and it does form, you know, it does make comrades. He intends to focus on his
03:15technique moving forward as he aims to one day become a world champion. Sergio
03:19Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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