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Posted: Thu 9th Oct 3:20pm Post subject:
I love boxing, but I hate all the muppets who train solely because they want to be able to bash people up. There's heaps of these people out there learning to box, and there's far too many otherwise honourable people who are willing to train them and then turn a blind eye when they go get drunk and start throwing their weight around. Also it (and a few other martial arts) glamourise street fighting to some extent - I used to train with some of my old workmates. Amongst them it was quite a badge of honour if you managed to give someone a really thorough roughing up.
As a sporting endeavour I think boxing is totally amazing - to be good requires strength, endurance, skill and intelligence. There's not a lot of sports like this.Oh, and it's hella fun too. But in social terms I think it (and many other fighting sports) are a bit of a dumb idea - we'd all be much better off if access to martial art training wasn't available to just any moron who wants it.
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Posted: Thu 9th Oct 3:38pm Post subject:
happybaboon wrote:
I love boxing, but I hate all the muppets who train solely because they want to be able to bash people up..
agreed, the same reasoning there as to why I got out of rugby.
happybaboon wrote:
As a sporting endeavour I think boxing is totally amazing - to be good requires strength, endurance, skill and intelligence. There's not a lot of sports like this.Oh, and it's hella fun too. But in social terms I think it (and many other fighting sports) are a bit of a dumb idea - we'd all be much better off if access to martial art training wasn't available to just any moron who wants it.
once upon a time there was a sense of honour in fighting sports, you could have a tough matchup with some one and afterwards, regardless of who won, go have a beer and be the best of mates. It seems that these days small mindedness means grudges are held inside and outside the ring.
once upon a time there was a sense of honour in fighting sports, you could have a tough matchup with some one and afterwards, regardless of who won, go have a beer and be the best of mates. It seems that these days small mindedness means grudges are held inside and outside the ring.
Joined: May 27, 2004 Posts: 10,605 Location: Nose City
Posted: Thu 9th Oct 8:20pm Post subject:
Percy Pig wrote:
Mind you I would always have been about 7 weight grades above you!
you would have squished me! I used to be in the <55kg category, which was great 'til I went up an age group (no-one in my weight class so had to go up against bigger oponents, who slaughtered me)
I presume you were with good ole crichton cobbers too?
Mind you I would always have been about 7 weight grades above you!
you would have squished me! I used to be in the <55kg category, which was great 'til I went up an age group (no-one in my weight class so had to go up against bigger oponents, who slaughtered me)
I presume you were with good ole crichton cobbers too?
<55kg!!
I could have lifted you with one arm!!
I was in the 85-90kg area, whatever that was called, Welterweight maybe?
Ahem, I did some training there, but most of it I did at school, so it was a far old time ago!
I love boxing, but I hate all the muppets who train solely because they want to be able to bash people up. There's heaps of these people out there learning to box, and there's far too many otherwise honourable people who are willing to train them and then turn a blind eye when they go get drunk and start throwing their weight around. Also it (and a few other martial arts) glamorise street fighting to some extent - I used to train with some of my old workmates. Amongst them it was quite a badge of honour if you managed to give someone a really thorough roughing up.
As a sporting endeavour I think boxing is totally amazing - to be good requires strength, endurance, skill and intelligence. There's not a lot of sports like this.Oh, and it's hella fun too. But in social terms I think it (and many other fighting sports) are a bit of a dumb idea - we'd all be much better off if access to martial art training wasn't available to just any moron who wants it.
Well said, Babs.
I'd add that boxing training done well is great added to a selection of other combat skills to round out your self-defence abilities.
Also boxing is great for learning how to take a punch as much as it is about being able to deal one out...
Is it thuggery when both participants are willing though? Bullying is thuggery, but boxing is just another way for people to judge themselves through beating someone else.
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