“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) […]
How to take a punch
This video shows and tells, in a general way, about the momentum involved when one person punches another: [vimeo]66831703[/vimeo] That advice, with a bit of physics thrown in, is most helpful for taking a punch coming towards one side. The video does not tell what to do if that punch is unavoidably coming squarely at […]
A boxing match, with fireworks
John Ptak is spotlighting some inventions of limited utility. Here’s the first, a boxing exhibition in London, in which the contestants wear asbestos suits with fireworks that explode during the (pardon the pun) match. It’s pictured in a 1937 issue of Popular Science magazine: BONUS: From a later decade: electronic rock-em sock-em robots
Electronic Rock em Sock em Robots
This video documents the successful attempt to modernize, with electronics, a somewhat beloved mechanical toy:
Savate, s’il vous plaît: British take on French boxing
Historic footage of savate, a French style of boxing. The first film clip offers historic British commentary. The narrator says: “After the recent British heavyweight box contests, let’s take a look a the French ring, where men are men. On the left, Battling Gaston, the brutal bruiser. On the right, Pretty Pierre, who packs a […]
Wacquant, furious-fisted sociologist
Loic Wacquant, perhaps the only French sociologist who spent at least three years in the Woodlawn Gym in Chicago, Illinois, boxing with both amateurs and professionals, emerged from the experience strong, spry and of a mind to punch out some books and papers. Wacquant is now a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne in […]
Cosmic boxing
This video called “Cosmic Boxing“, by Ann Tracy (aka Gianroop Kaur) shows a interdisciplinary concept called, yes, cosmic boxing: