451 research outputs found
Boxing Championships 1948 Wrestling
No full textBrochure - Advertising the Boxing Championships '48 Wrestling, sponsored by the Athabasca Branch of the Canadian Legion. There are many advertisements from local businesses along with the names of wrestlers, boxers, and local volunteers (18 pages
Western Boxing and Health
No full textWestern boxing is a world-renowned combative spectator sport. Despite its popularity, debates persist over its safety and ethics due to its aggressive nature. There are three streams of research related to boxing and health. The first stream focuses on the physiological profiles of boxers, and suggests that a boxer’s performance is associated with the interplay between aerobic and anaerobic energy systems. Highly intensive and lengthy training intervals are recommended for boxers to meet the aerobic and anaerobic demands that arise during matches. The second stream of research investigates boxing-related injuries. The most common injuries are head, face and hand traumas. These injuries may have life-threatening or career-ending consequences for boxers. Therefore, ringside physicians are necessary and should pay considerable attention to potentially catastrophic emergencies during matches. The third stream of research suggests that boxing is both physically and psychologically beneficial to young people. However, no solid evidence has been reported to substantiate this proposition, and further research is required
Neurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries in sports.
No full textTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is common in boxing and other contact sports. The long term irreversible and progressive aftermath of TBI in boxers depicted as punch drunk syndrome was described almost a century ago and is now widely referred as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The short term sequelae of acute brain injury including subdural haematoma and catastrophic brain injury may lead to death, whereas mild TBI, or concussion, causes functional disturbance and axonal injury rather than gross structural brain damage. Following concussion, symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, reduced attention, amnesia and headache tend to develop acutely but usually resolve within a week or two. Severe concussion can also lead to loss of consciousness. Despite the transient nature of the clinical symptoms, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological, neuropsychological and neurochemical assessments indicate that the disturbance of concussion takes over a month to return to baseline and neuropathological evaluation shows that concussion-induced axonopathy may persist for years. The developing brains in children and adolescents are more susceptible to concussion than adult brain. The mechanism by which acute TBI may lead to the neurodegenerative process of CTE associated with tau hyperphosphorylation and the development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) remains speculative. Focal tau-positive NFTs and neurites in close proximity to focal axonal injury and foci of microhaemorrhage and the predilection of CTE-tau pathology for perivascular and subcortical regions suggest that acute TBI-related axonal injury, loss of microvascular integrity, breach of the blood brain barrier, resulting inflammatory cascade and microglia and astrocyte activation are likely to be the basis of the mechanistic link of TBI and CTE. This article provides an overview of the acute and long-term neurological consequences of TBI in sports. Clinical, neuropathological and the possible pathophysiological mechanisms are discussed. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled 'Traumatic Brain Injury'
Embodying inspiration race and disaffected young white men in Burnley
No full textYoung white men have often found themselves bearing the burden of designs for the improvement of UK society. Official reports reprised this theme following the racially charged disturbances in Northern England's mill towns in the summer of 2001. So- called disaffected young white men were left ambiguously positioned -and immobilised- on the margins of political discourse. In response, this thesis complicates the ways in which young white men in Burnley, a town affected by the violence, may be appreciated as politically capable. In so doing, it prepares for a more imaginative mapping of roles for them in local social progress, post-2001. Ethnographies of boxing and bodybuilding gyms unpack the variety of affective capacities through which young white men live out complex masculine body cultures. These study the inspiration young men find in these carefully engineered and politically enabling places. Although these gyms nestle amidst Burnley's urban hinteriands, and between otherwise parallel lives, they see fragile bonds of affection grow between young white and Asian men. Those bonds represent small, fragile and politically ambiguous gains, which must nonetheless inform proposals for Burnley’s future. The thesis speculates that if such proposals are to be desirable and possible, those same young men must find them persuasive. It therefore recommends placing colloquial inspirations, and a cautious affirmation of capable individuality, at the heart of visions of social progress in Burnley
The Metaphorical Use of Boxing Terms in Everyday Language
No full textThe concern of this essay is to analyze how boxing terminology is used metaphorically in different contexts. The objective is to investigate the targets that these terms as the source domain are most often aimed at, i.e. what is described metaphorically by the use of boxing terms, and to analyze the possible reasons why a particular boxing term is chosen as the source to understand a particular target
Kick Boxing Coaching System
No full textThere are three key considerations when training for kickboxing; correct body position, motivation, and how to achieve different training goals. Training gear available on the market does not provide enough relevant feedback to the user to validate the effectiveness of their training. I will design a coaching system for recreational and avid kick boxers that records user input while also providing an interactive experience that tracks training in a more meaningful way. This is a project focused on user experience and product testing. User Experience requires me to study the response of the human body when it is hit, and the different hardness of materials. Working with my Associate Advisor Lee Davis (boxing coach at Rochester) helps me understand the requirements for boxing training and experience as a professional coach on the use of training equipment in the market, and details for improvement
On the objectivity of refereeing in boxing
No full textВ статье рассматриваются вопросы судейства на соревнованиях по боксу. Автор обращает внимание на проблемы, связанные с нарушением норм и правил со стороны судей боксѐрских поединков. У статті розглядаються питання суддівства на змаганнях з боксу. Автор звертає увагу на проблеми, пов'язані з порушенням норм і правил з боку суддів боксѐрскіх поєдинків. The article considers the issues of refereeing in the boxing competitions. The author draws attention to the problems associated with the violation of rules and regulations from the boxing fights judges
NextRound Tulip: intelligent boxing at home
No full textThis report contains a full description of my graduation project for my Master degree in Design for Interaction (Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology). I did this project in collaboration with the start-up company Sports-f(x), the creators of the NextRound boxing system.The NextRound boxing system currently consists of an intelligent data-collecting punch bag, paired with a tablet. This system gives users direct feedback on their workout, and enables them to see their improvement in their workout data.The system has potential to help many different kinds of people to exercise at home. However, there are many barriers withholding people from getting a bag like this into their homes. The main barrier is that positioning a large product like a punch bag (especially one which also needs access to Wi-Fi and electricity) and its accompanying tablet is quite the task.My graduation project brief was to solve exactly this problem; helping people to position the NextRound system at home. For this purpose, I designed the NextRound Tulip.To get to this concept product, I undertook a number of design research and exploration activities. To start off, I researched what kind of people might benefit from owning a boxing system as such. From this research I made five personas for potential users.I used these personas to recruit people for a co-design session, as I wanted to get to know the values of the potential users. These values would afterwards lead to both a proper Design Goal and a list of Requirements & Wishes, which would guide the product development in later stages. The most important value found during the sessions was that people do not wish this big boxing system to be in the way in the house, so other activities done in the house would not be disturbed.With the findings from this research I set up a brainstorm session with fellow DfI students to try and satisfy the Design Goal. From these sessions I made a Morphological Chart, which led to six ideas. From these six I chose three to develop further into concepts.I developed the three chosen ideas into three further iterated concepts. Potential users gave their opinions on these concepts through an online survey, which I used, along with the opinions of the company, to choose to develop the NextRound Tulip further.I made some improvements on this concept and built a full-scale prototype to test and evaluate the concept with potential users. Lastly, I wrote a list of recommendations for future development for a product based on this concept.The NextRound Tulip is a concept product which should satisfy the needs of users and Sports-f(x). It can be used with the NextRound punch bag, as well as other punch bags. In my opinion, it is a product solution to help people do boxing workouts at home.Design for Interactio
The art and aesthetics of boxing
No full text"What separates the chaos of fighting from the coherent ritual of boxing? According to author David Scott, it is a collection of aesthetic constructions, including the shape of the ring, the predictable rhythm of timed rounds, the uniformity of the boxers' glamorous attire, and the stylization of the combatants' posture and punches. InThe Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, Scott explores the ways in which these and other aesthetic elements of the sport have evolved over time. Scott comprehensively addresses the rich dialogue between boxing and the arts, suggesting that boxing not only possesses intrinsic aesthetic qualities but also has inspired painters, graphic designers, surrealist poets, and modern writers to identify, expand, and respond to the aesthetic properties of the sport. Divided into three parts, the book moves from a consideration of the evolution and intrinsic aesthetics of boxing to the responses to the sport by cubist and futurist painters and sculptors, installation artists, poster designers, photographers, and, finally, surrealist poets and modernist writers. nbsp; With distinctive illustrations and photographs in nine short chapters, Scott creates a visual as well as a textual narrative that supplements and concretely demonstrates the deep, dynamic relationship between the art of boxing and the world of art and literature."--Jacket
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