Boxing Clever : (also 'known as Personal Journeys')
Shot on broadcast-quality video, a 75 minute psychological study of the Cambridge Blues Boxing Team in the week before the 100th anniversary match against Oxford University.

National Television Documentary

Writer-Producer-Director of 'Boxing Clever' : 1997-2007

Boxing Clever is the psychological study of the nine Cambridge University full-time students, ranging in age from 18 to 34 (including a millionaire barrister, a JP Morgan investment banker, a Californian Physicist and a retired RAF pilot instructor) who not only learnt to box in 6 intensive months, but then went on to fight the Club's traditional three matches against The British Army Sandhurst Officers, the Royal Navy enlisted men, and finally Oxford University in the so called 'Blues Match'.

The Blues match had never been filmed before in its 100 year history, so the documentary follows the nine very personal journeys of the team in their training from 7 days before the Centenary Blues match, taking us through their big night in front of a thousand strong crowd, and on to the morning after….bruised, exhausted, and smiling deeply.

Shot on broadcast-quality video in 1997, the 75 minute rough-cut was at the time short-listed by Channel-4's Cutting-Edge series, but it has not yet been seen on television. In 2007, Nick would now be very glad of a production partnership to develop the subject into a two part-time documentary that revisits these remarkable individuals ten years on from their participation in a sport that each of them felt was one of the most psychologically demanding and rewarding challenges they had ever undertaken.