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Chessboxing Storming the Athletic World
samzenpus writes "Have you been craving an athletic competition that combines the raw physical energy of a chess match and the strategic acumen of boxing? Crave no more. Chessboxing is here. No really, Chessboxing. As the name suggests, Chessboxing combines rounds of chess alternating with rounds of boxing. If there is no winner after 11 rounds, the match is awarded to the fighter with the most points in the boxing ring. Dutch artist, Iepe Rubingh, created chessboxing in 2003. He says, 'I got the idea from a Serbian comic. It looked great. I wanted to see if it would work.'"
Based on your own salary.
This is actually a good measurement. Say you're making X dollars per hour worked, and you can't hold your breath long enough to match one dollar -- chances are, you're sacrificing your health for your work and not getting enough money in return. The less money you're making, the healthier you need to try and become, because the poorer you are, the greater your risk of health issues fucking up your life forever.
Likewise, if you're rich as all get out, you don't need to worry about being healthy, since you've got lots of money to pay for doctors.
By how long it actually take YOU to make a dollar.
Concussions are your body's natural reaction to abnormal stresses to your brain. Heavy padding IE. Football, Boxing causes the hits to be just light enough for you not to get a concussion, but still enough to cause brain damage. This is why MMA has fewer deaths/brain cases (Hollyfield) than boxing or football. In MMA, if you suffer a strike to your head with force, you get a concussion and the competition is over. In a boxing match, because of the heavy gloves you remain conscious and continue to fight leading to literally hundreds of head blows in a single match. Same thing happens to football. How many times did Troy Aikman receive a concussion from a sack and then be out and playing in 3 minutes? Count the number of times linemen get full force tackles. That force gets transferred to the head, but because of all the padding and helmets, they remain conscious and still play.
Fact of the matter is MMA is one of the most safest full contact sports.