Hooked on boxing

I spent 10 years trying to understand, if not master, the “sweet science,” long before there was boxercise, aerobic boxing and men who see boxing as a way to “disguise the fact that they are exercising” [“Out of the Office and Into the Ring,” Oct. 2].

For five years, I drove to Bell, Calif., standing alongside Julio Cesar Chavez, arguably Mexico’s best “pound for pound” pugilist, learning how to throw a jab and avoid a hook. I learned that -- and much more. What I also realized was that as a woman I had as much fun and gratification as any of the men -- something the article fails to mention.

RUTH KRAMER ZIONY

Los Feliz