Riverside Shadow Boxing
As Ladybar used to be a whorehouse, the table dance is still standing in the middle of the bar. Besides this, most of the hundred year old buildung was restored, refurnished and made into what it is now in no more than four weeks.
It was just before Art Basel when we received the go to start the project in mid may and we wanted to open on june 9, the saturday before our lovely arty circus would commence. This illusional T-Rex project only became reality because there were a lot of very gute Menschen that put all their devotion, energy, and time into Ladybar. Although their commitment was and is beyond any price, for sure they didn’t do it for the benjamins but for the sake of it (I say it’s their love that keeps those old and shaggy walls or floors from collapsing). During my sixty days here I can’t mention all the people involved in helping out Ladybar or spreading their love and good vibrations around the place. But I try hard.
If David ‘Daoud’ Rykart (left in the ring) hadn’t been there during the reconstructions, Ladybar and 60pages literally never would have met. So I’m really happy to give at least proper shout-outs and gratitude to such devouted people as he is. David is not only a very talented craftsman (he built our first and very slick hallway to the basement club before the government took it down again for some finicky and bureaucratic reasons) but also one of the strongest and most rewarded boxers out of Switzerland.
Again he devouted all his energy, time and love into his very own boxgym called Riverside Boxing in Basel’s harbour area and is officially open its ring and sparing area tomorrow from 2 til 6pm (Hafenstrasse 5, stairway, first floor). There will be food and drinks and one can talk to people and see how the training works with showfights by professional people. Besides boxing you can train thai boxing, kick boxing and gaining super powers in general. I can only say that every other ‘workout’, bikram yoga or whatever captain jack gym there is, Riverside Boxing is the place for you if tough ain’t enough. Really. No joke. You become Chuck Norris, not doing push up’s anymore but pushing the world down. Pow pow for two hours and you’re rather phew phew (this reminds of another joke that follows pushing the world down another two hundred times: Was macht eine Miezekatze vor der Muckibude? Sie wartet auf den Muskelkater..).
Conclusion: Good people, the best training and another place that is held together by hard work, love and all kinds of punching bags. This is how it should be done all the time: w/ <3
Website is coming soon.