All middle-aged women should try this sport – it is my new therapy

My first class was incredible; the kind of out-of-body experience you only see in films. It was a buzz not unlike falling in love. I just wish I’d tried it sooner

Alexis Strum© Independent.co.uk

I’ve been a people pleaser my whole life. I’ve avoided conflict at every turn and yet, here I am, at the grand old age of forty-something, punching people on a Saturday morning.