A boxer can practice the four main types of punches on a punching bag. However, to enhance the fluidity of their attack and defense moves, they require “boxing mitts.” These glove-like accessories are essential for good boxing training. But without a good mitts-holder, boxing mitts are of little use. It’s the positioning, stance, and communication of the mitts holder that enable boxers to train for the ring. So, when Jonathan Mounzer (@jonathanmounzer) didn’t have a mitts holder, he reached out to his sister Johanna. What happened next surprised the siblings duo.
On social media, the sibling pair, Jonathan and Johanna, is famous for sharing videos of their boxing training in the form of inspiring pedal-to-the-metal montages. While the sister holds the mitts, Jonathan trains his moves as a boxer. All of it started quite unexpectedly for both of them. Jonathan once shared that, one day at home, he randomly asked Johanna to hold focus pads for him. As it turned out, she was a genius at doing this task. They continued to practice for hours and hours. She signed up at the boxing gym, and both of them started getting better day after day. While Jonathan was becoming a better boxer, his sister was discovering in her an effective boxing coach.
In a video that is about to hit nearly 12 million views, Jonathan explained that when he approached his sister to help him in his training, she hadn’t trained a day in her life. She even used to think that boxing was just a cruel and violent game. But when she started training with him, her perspective changed, and she found it to be so much fun. “It turns out, she’s a natural born at this,” he said while the clip showed scenes of the duo doing their training. And now they train every day. “Just look at the mitts-monster she has become,” Jonathan exclaimed in the video.
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On the internet, their training videos are making rounds. People don’t just like how enthusiastically the two train for the sport, but also love the wholesome connection that has surpassed a sibling relationship to a coach-boxer relationship. “Now that’s a sibling bond that can’t ever be broken,” @maz_atashband, a gym trainer, commented on the TikTok post. @kymberlybravo said that they were “meant to be siblings.” @riko_suaveh added, “This is one of the most genuinely wholesome things I’ve seen!”
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On the subreddit r/nextfuckinglevel, where u/raciallyambiguous reshared this video, u/mylilpiglets commented, “This is such a wholesome NFL post. The world needs more Mitt monsters.” Others complimented Johanna’s technique including her stance, posture, and footwork.
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Many people said that this sibling duo is bound to get successful because “Your sibling can be your best partner in literally everything since you both share a connection that can't be shared with anyone else,” said u/anonymoustoaster25.
You can follow Jonathan Mounzer and Johanna Mounzer on TikTok and YouTube to watch more videos from their training sessions!
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.