Have you fight for medal?

Narender Grewal, one of India’s exponents of martial art wushu, talks about his life in the ring

Narender Grewal: My weight had dropped, I was just bones because I had not consumed anything but liquids for three months. No one can become a pehelwan pulling from a straw.

Narender Grewal is used to conversations that go like this:

“So what do you do?”

“I do wushu.”

“Wu who?”The two-time Asian Games bronze-medallist, in the men’s sanda 60 and 65kg categories in 2014 and 2018, respectively, says this with a straight face because he is not embarrassed of the sport that’s given him this life and is happy to explain his day job to people. “I tell them it’s just like fighting on the streets—if you were to randomly pick up a fight with someone. You use your hands, feet and mme before he could go back into the ring—against medical advice

Till recently, I was just the ot

whatever works—this is a combination of boxing, wrestling and taekwondo,” says the 25-year-old.

He likes to call himself a “slightly crazy person”—you have to be, if you are in the business of hitting and getting hit, he says—but is pleased with the way his career has progressed. After being laid low due to a jaw injury in 2015 that threatened his career, Grewal is just relieved to be back fighting—the bronze

“No one understood what I did (when he started). My family thought wushu is like wrestling,” he adds. “Then they saw me (practise) boxing, they thought I was mad. Few people even now know what it (wushu) is. No one likes street fights, though it’s the easiest way to describe it.”

Grewal calls YouTube his best friend for the video aggregator helped him hone his skills. He would spend hours watching fights online, emulate what he had seen both in terms of technique and training. His quick rise in the sport and the medal at Incheon, South Korea, in 2014 gave Grewal the purpose he was looking for.

However, those aspirations developed serious cracks when, soon after the first Asian Games medal, during a bout in the trials for the world championships in 2015, Grewal broke his jaw. The three fractures meant three plates, 18 screws and a long rehabilitation

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