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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Boxing"”.
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Styles Make Fights: Fashioning the Male Boxing Body in Contemporary British Boxing Ring Dress
… of professional male boxers and their boxing ring dress. In boxing, once fighters have debuted and become professional boxers, they have complete creative expression in the ring and the economic means to hire a designer who will create their custom boxing ring dress. Objects of boxing …
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Movement strategies in elite amateur boxing
Activity profiling of boxing based on the number and type of punches thrown has been examined on several occasions. To better understand the activity profile of two successful elite amateur boxers, 100 rounds of sparring and international competition were analysed. A bespoke computer vision player …
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The manifestations of fatigue in amateur boxing performance
… Must-System” (TPMS), was introduced into amateur boxing in 2013. To be successful, boxers must deliver forceful punches and exert dominance over an opponent. There has been limited research examining the strategies used by boxers to win fights under the TPMS and whether these strategies induce …
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An outlaw practice: boxing, governance and western law
… law to regulate and at times outlaw the sport of boxing. Drawing on a primary sample of two hundred and one reported judicial decisions canvassing the breadth of recognised legal categories, and an allied range fight lore supporting, opposing or critically reviewing the sport's development since …
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Boxing Men: Ideas Of Race, Masculinity, And Nationalism
… This thesis also traces the roots of American boxing to England before beginning a biographical exploration of Johnson and Louis in their respective careers. My hope is to sharpen the focus of Johnson and Louis as pioneers for equality by setting the stage in the first two sections. Looking at …
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An exploration of muscle oxygen kinetics in professional boxing
… investigation into the physiological aspects of boxing has predominantly focused on the systemic responses observed in amateur athletes, with the unique challenges of professional boxing, particularly given its distinct competition structure, receiving less attention. This thesis aimed to explore …
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MOVING BLACK-BOXING TOWARDS STATISTICS: CASE STUDIES FROM AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Over the past decade, the explosion of publicly available data and off-the-shelf machine learning (ML) tools has popularized a common data science workflow: (1) obtain a dataset, (2) fit a black-box ML model, and (3) use its predictions. This workflow has become even more streamlined with LLMs—just …
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"Moving like a boxer" : a study of Cape Town's boxing youth
… attempts to investigate the topic of 'community' boxing gyms in the city of Cape Town. Broadly, it asks the question: what is it about boxing (and particularly boxing) that seems to dictate its co-occurrence with scenarios of social precarity? To answer this question, the study uses ethnographic …
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
Leisure and sports are recently developed research topics. My dissertation illuminates the social meaning of prize fighting between 1882 and 1913 considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction …
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… international bouts in the early 1860s to glove boxing in the 1870s. It challenges the common portrayal of a simple decline due to disorder and waning aristocratic support. Instead, it emphasises a nuanced transition marked by geographic expansion and diverse participation in the prize ring. The …
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The Longitudinal Effects of Beta-Alanine on Punch Power, Punch Frequency, and Fatigue in Female Amateur Fighters
… no studies evaluating the effects of BA on boxing performance variables in women. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal effects of exogenous supplementation of BA on punch power, punch frequency, fatigue, and lactate accumulation in female amateur fighters. …
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"Strenuous Life" Strained: Political and Social Survival Strategies of the New Orleans Athletic Club, 1923-1940
… The club had capitalized on the popularity of boxing during the 1920s and just finished constructing a lavish new club house when the stock market crashed in 1929. With members losing their jobs, the popularity of boxing waning, and the club in dire financial straits, the club looked for …
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Embodying scales of Filipina/o American sporting life: transnational sporting cultures and practices in the Filipina/o diaspora
… “Pac-Man” Pacquiao family fight nights, Pacquiao boxing matches, and social media spaces. In particular, my work explores how power circulates across intersecting categories of difference, including, race, class, gender, and sexuality as they correspond with sport discourses, embodied …
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An exploratory analysis of factors influencing punching force in combat sports, with a specific focus on the jab and the cross
… While punching force has been widely studied in boxing, research across various combat sports remains limited. This research addresses that gap by analysing punching force among amateur and recreational athletes from multiple disciplines. Additionally, it explores the role of lower body isometric …
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Pugilism and Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Cravan and the Poète-Boxeur
… gathered around the rings of the Parisian boxing scene, two champions of the poetic world stand out: Guillaume Apollinaire and Arthur Cravan. For these two poets who embraced the fraternal bond which has long existed between pugilist and lyricist, the noble art came to have a unique impact …
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Doing your best (while making do with less) : the actual value conception of instrumental rationality
… the intuitive arguments offered for Two- Boxing over One-Boxing in the Newcomb Problem. I also show that the picture is incompatible with evidential decision theory. Evidential decision theory sometimes recommends preferring one option to another even though you are certain that the actual …
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Mental Cage: A Qualitative Analysis of the Mental Game in the Sport of Mixed Martial Arts
… the effects of participation in such sports as boxing and wrestling (Endresen & Olweus, 2005). Results have shown that participation in such sports has led to an increase and enhancement of violent and nonviolent antisocial behavior outside of sport (Endresen & Olweus, 2005; Bloom & Smith, …
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Evidence and choice
… theory's distinctive recommendations: two-boxing in Newcomb's problem. Unlike arguments based on causal dominance, our argument relies on a more basic principle connecting rational choice to guidance and actual value maximization. In Chapter 3, I take up the issue of rationalization. Is it …
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Can Mixed Martial Arts be Ethically Defended?: Autonomy, Paternalism and the Harm Principle
… under scrutiny for the past two decades. Unlike boxing, the ethical status of MMA and whether it is morally defensible have rarely been analyzed in the academic literature. I argue that MMA requires such an analysis because it is inherently violent. The purpose of this study was to examine …
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A Novel Tablet Based System to Measure The Effect of Subconcussive Blows On Sensorimotor and Cognitive Functioning
… blows, which are common in many sports (soccer, boxing, football, etc), do not result in the more obvious symptoms of a concussion but have the potential to cause severe brain injury. In our lab and others, eye movements have been used as a sensitive marker of cognitive and sensory changes …
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