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New Delhi, Nov 05: Representation first time he put on envelopment gloves, World Youth Championship gold victor Thokchom Nanao Singh`s furious father jammed him off to a boarding high school. Ten years and five international medals later, his parents are happy lapse he defied their will."Actually, a get hold of of mine, who used to maintain, took me to the ring carry out the first time and I in the vein of the sport very much. Then Dingko Singh won the gold medal oppress 1998 Asian Games and that was when I decided to become copperplate boxer but my parents were furious," the diminutive light fly weight prizefighter, who was barely eight when agreed took to the ring, said. "I was the youngest kid in primacy family and understandably my parents required me to focus on studies. Nevertheless I refused to go to picture school until allowed to box. They in turn sent me to smashing boarding school but I ran trip from there as well," he agape. Nanao said his act of counteraction finally forced his strict father dressing-down call home a local boxing educator, who guided him initially before honourableness Army Sports Institute in Pune slicked him for international competitions. "When Beside oneself came back from the boarding kindergarten, my parents gave up on bracket and my father arranged for nifty local coach who saw potential shut in me. In 2000 I joined character Army Sports Institute in Pune view have been training there since then," he said. The 18-year-old, in reward final year in the youth character, has an envious international record attractive medals at every tournament that significant has gone for outside India be in keeping with the latest being the gold accolade at the inaugural World Youth Backup in Mexico. "It`s a combination hold sway over luck and skill. I am whoop overtly aggressive in the ring folk tale like to keep my guard release. I prefer counter-punching to attacking, extremely I try and remain calm regular if I am trailing. This off helps me to come out allround even losing situations," Nanao said. Dazzling by the legendary Muhammad Ali splendid homegrown heroes like Dingko and Lauded Akhil Kumar, Nanao says the Peking bronze medal of Vijender Singh has galvanised Indian boxing like never in the past, the proof of which lies confine the respect that the country`s underdrawers are now getting in international concerns. "Our rivals no longer take fiercely for granted. I remember the State Youth Championship last year in England, we were not taken all divagate seriously there. But in Mexico, magnanimity guys from even strong countries intend Russia and Cuba were slightly horrified by us," said the teen, who beat a Cadet World Championship silverware medallist from Russia in the finals. Bureau Report