boxing – Excelsior

Bumper Cars, Skateboards and Newton: How things work course review

By Team | May 6, 2013 |

“If you pull yourself to the centre of a spinning merry-go-round, what will happen to its rotation”?

One of many task specific questions that Professor Lou Broomfield asked on his course “How Things Work“.

I took the course for my own interest, but the concepts and theories are essential in biomechanics. Newton’s 3 laws of motion, plus Amortons 2 laws of friction underpin a lot of the work I do.

Jack Dempsey book

By Team | April 14, 2010 |

Jack Dempsey’s guide to championship fighting

Is a great book for boxers and coaches

The book is written in a colloquial 1950s fashion, and is more entertaining as a result- palooka is a phrase not often used.

The book is a good guide to training for boxers, but also for other athletes and coaches. I especially like the way Dempsey has stated that fighters are made not born, and that he has analysed his sport and written a guide on how to get better at it.

Tradition is the scourge of endeavour

By Team | April 7, 2010 |

A quote taken from Terry Pratchett’s “Unseen Academicals”.

Think about that.

Having been in a few environments where tradition has been deemed important, I can empathise with this quote. In fact, the hierachy of “people in charge” who have wanted to remain traditional have stamped on any signs of endeavour.

This could be in Karate- where bastardised forms of fighting have been put in sequences and ritualised beyond all recognition oif actual fighting.