“Too often deaths occur to boxers because of the devastating head trauma received in a boxing match or during practice. A glove that would lessen the trauma without diminishing the excitement and skill of the sport, would certainly be a welcome addition to the art.” The welcome addition in question was the creation of the […]
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Dangerous smells (boxing study)
“Sixteen healthy male participants donated their body odor while engaging in a boxing session […]” An unusual occurrence perhaps, but less so if you were organising an experiment to investigate whether the body odor of a stranger with the intention to harm serves as a chemosignal of aggression. see: ‘You Smell Dangerous: Communicating Fight Responses […]
New punch sensations for VR gamers
When boxing or fencing, players are unlikely to miss the sensation of being hit by an opponent. That’s not usually the case, of course, for VR gamers. But change might be on the horizon thanks to “impacto, a device designed to render the haptic sensation of hitting and being hit in virtual reality”. Researchers Lopes, […]
Boxer vs wrestler
An old theoretical question — can a professional wrestler defeat a professional boxer? — got an early test of sorts in 1976, when Antonio Inoki fought Muhammad Ali: That same evening, wrestler Andre the Giant (who in his youth often rode with the playwright Samuel Beckett, but may never have wrestled with or boxed Beckett) […]