The Martial Arts of Boxing are its non-combative aspects. They are based on same Five Principles as The Fighting Arts of Boxing: Groundedness, Balance, Centeredness, Timing, and Power. It was often said, prior to a fight, "May the best man win". That is the goal of boxing, that the best man, or best woman, nowadays, should win ... not the best fighter, or the toughest guy, or even the best boxer. The best person. So what boxing teaches, really, is how to become a better human being. If you are a fighter, it will make you a better fighter, but it will also make you a better person, as long as you follow the Principles of BoxingArts taught here. Even if you never set foot in the ring, training in the Martial Arts of boxing will make you a better human being. That is what BoxingArts is all about, that the true value of boxing is to improve the human condition. That is its purpose, its goal, and its mission. The only difference between The Fighting Arts of Boxing and The Martial Arts of Boxing is that the word Footwork is changed to Groundedness, a broader concept.... How does training in the Martial Art of Boxing make someone a better person? Most people accept that the Eastern Martial Arts can make you a better person, so why not boxing? The only difference is that Boxing is a Western Art, an integral part of Western Culture. Boxing is as ancient as the Eastern Martial Arts, but Modern Boxing is relatively new. Modern Boxing came into existence during The Age of Reason, otherwise known as the Age of Enlightenment or Western Enlightenment, along with a multitude of other advancements in civilization, social justice, human rights, religious tolerance, modernism, liberalism, capitalism, socialism, and the scientific method. It was during that era that many of the customs and traditions we hold dear came into being, along with our ethical standards, societal norms, and codes of conduct. Much of that has been devalued due to the decline of boxing and the rise of martial arts and mixed martial arts. A good example is the hitting of a man when he is down, which not only goes against the rules of boxing, it goes against every ethical standard, societal norm, and code of conduct that are an essential part of Western culture. ... But that still doesn't answer the question of how training in the Martial Arts of Boxing makes one a better person. To answer that question, we must move from Cultural Anthropology to Neurology and Psychophysiology. Brain cells fire in patterns, and neurons that fire together, wire together. What that means is that when we train our bodies in The Martial Arts of Boxing, we train our minds as well, to think along those lines, to fire along those patterns of thought. Our Brain-Architecture is reconfigured. We become more grounded, balanced, and centered in everything we do. We do things with better timing, and in the end everything we do is more powerful.