Former Italian light heavyweight champion Salvatore Erittu returns to Sassari's schools—after a few trips to provincial schools—to meet with students. The goal is to teach sporting values that help in life: sacrifice, self-denial, but also emotional control, listening, and sharing.
The audience was packed with seventh-grade classes from Via Pavese for the final meeting. Salvatore Erittu immediately immersed himself in the students' world. He spoke to them about the social context. About the school that develops cognitive skills, emotional skills (relationships and reactions), and educational skills: rules that build better people. This applies to school and sports.
Strong boxers? Yes, but you also need to be intelligent. “If you could choose two superpowers, you would choose strength or intelligence. Some boys and girls choose strength. Erittu asks the boys and girls to express themselves, overcoming shyness, to express their ideas. Some don't express themselves. This is the point: developing educational intelligence, which is also essential for athletes. Sacrifice yourself, believe in what you do. In sports, you need self-denial. Just like in school. “I didn't apply myself to my studies, and I didn't like doing sit-ups and running. Meetings are meant to change our lives. And sometimes they convince us to really be like that.” Being ignorant, in the sense of ignoring knowledge, means giving up dreaming. We need to cultivate ideals. Then he asks the young interlocutors to establish a connection between the term ideal and the smartphone. The answers are varied, pragmatic, and sincere. “I would like you to be a tool for others: but we need to break some beliefs and preserve ideals. "Happiness is yours, not someone else's: choose wisely, live a normal life. Choose your friends and lifestyle. Have fun, share, and exchange," says the boxer, then focusing on the issue of smartphone and other devices, which, if excessive, can be dangerous.
From words to practice, playful moments that nevertheless give a perception of the potential damage that an unconscious use can cause.