Like any other afternoon, an endless flurry of jabs and hooks consumed Albany’s Schott’s Boxing Gym on Friday.

“Oh yeah, it is very tiring but it is a good kind of tired!” said an enthusiastic Emmi Crosier.

Crosier, 21, began boxing about a year ago.

What made Friday a bit different is that each of the young boxers grapple with far greater challenges outside the ring, such as autism and other developmental disabilities.

“I was extremely nervous,” Crosier said. “I thought I would not like it because I am not a very athletic person.”

“When I first started I was pretty tired, but as I got motivated I kept on having fun,” Jesse Rankin said.

Founded five years ago, the Undisputed Champions training camp is part of the Wildwood Program’s adapted physical education program.

“It is not about disability, it is about ability. What they can do, what kind of thresholds they can push them through,” said Tom Schreck, Wildwood’s director of public relations.

Schreck is also a boxing judge. The group is coached by former pro boxer and Colonie police officer Javier Martinez.

“In here, we really push kids. We really rock them and they give it back to us and they love it,” Schreck said.

“I know it motivates them, this burning desire in them — really like everybody else — to show we are good enough,” Martinez said.

To mark the end of their months-long training camp, the group showcased its newfound skills and stamina with a grueling 1,000 punch challenge — an event that raised $6,200 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

“It was fun hitting the coaches a lot,” Rankin said. “It’s my last year and I’m going to miss this.”

No free passes were given and each student powered through.

“It is kind of like when an athlete reaches the Olympics and wins the gold medal,” Crosier said.

The accomplishment proved to others, and mostly themselves, that even the highest mountains can be climbed.

“Boxing is a metaphor for life,” Martinez said. “If I can do this in here, then I can do whatever life throws at me out there.”