Technology and boxing

[frasd]

I am an IT instructor at a College and am encouraging my students to do a paper on anything to do with technology as it relates to their personal interests/hobbies. I want to give them an example as my passion is Boxing. I can explain how technology changed after RJJ's loss at the Olympics and the way scoring was changed but was looking for more positive and negative examples. Training, scoring etc. Anyone have any suggestions?

[SugarBoxing]

I am an IT instructor at a College and am encouraging my students to do a paper on anything to do with technology as it relates to their personal interests/hobbies. I want to give them an example as my passion is Boxing. I can explain how technology changed after RJJ's loss at the Olympics and the way scoring was changed but was looking for more positive and negative examples. Training, scoring etc. Anyone have any suggestions?

You can suggest your students to place the paper between their elbows and body, so that they learn to keep elbows tight. That's the most modern boxing technology!

[TitoFan]

PED testing is an obvious choice, and an example of where science is constantly trying to keep up with cheating techniques.

[frasd]

Good idea. I was thinking training and compubox but testing is a good example as well. As well as the usage of the web that gives fans that don't always have others that follow the sport around them like hockey fans might have. Like this site for instance. (I'm in Canada, eh) Looking for bad and good.

[Master]

Punch Stats, scoring rounds/fights, would be interesting.

[ykdadamaja]

Teach them how the tech nerds get bullied by the guys that are forced to be fighters in school, and then let them find out that the end of the story shapes up with the nerds finding jobs, ways and means, with or without tech, to screw those same bullies out of title shots because of dodgy scoring and crappy tech tabulations and calculations- rankings included with the compubox.

That should be a wonderful story.

[Dark Lord Al]

I am an IT instructor at a College and am encouraging my students to do a paper on anything to do with technology as it relates to their personal interests/hobbies. I want to give them an example as my passion is Boxing. I can explain how technology changed after RJJ's loss at the Olympics and the way scoring was changed but was looking for more positive and negative examples. Training, scoring etc. Anyone have any suggestions?

You can suggest your students to place the paper between their elbows and body, so that they learn to keep elbows tight. That's the most modern boxing technology!

Can they not just ask your god to help them?

[erics44]

youd have to make the technology not only count the number of punches landed but the area they land and the damage they do

which is probly pretty impossible

[frasd]

I am not sure what you mean but I had a couple of beer so maybe I am not getting the sarcasm/reference.
Unless that is directed to another poster.
Regardless, thanks to anyone who gave me suggestions as I believe the things that I learned in boxing can be translated to most aspects of life and I end up using it as an example for a lot of things. God knows the discipline it taught kept me out of the big house as although I took it up at 12, I did get in trouble and my mentor at juvie reinforced the things I learned and I have been on the straight and narrow ever since. I'm 40 now and have a family of five I provide for. That could not have happened without the things I learned in boxing, I believe. In terms of my post, Technology may be stretching it but I use what I know.


Sorry for the Oprah moment.


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I am an IT instructor at a College and am encouraging my students to do a paper on anything to do with technology as it relates to their personal interests/hobbies. I want to give them an example as my passion is Boxing. I can explain how technology changed after RJJ's loss at the Olympics and the way scoring was changed but was looking for more positive and negative examples. Training, scoring etc. Anyone have any suggestions?

You can suggest your students to place the paper between their elbows and body, so that they learn to keep elbows tight. That's the most modern boxing technology!

Can they not just ask your god to help them?