Is boxing the most /lit/ sport?
>>24878975Where do you train, anon? My 8-yr old son's obsessed, is strangely very good (already have a heavy bag in the basement, and he wants a jump rope and a speed bag for Xmas). He's also in the middle of a complete Sherlock Holmes, so maybe.A little concerned that he'll be able to kick my ass in a year or two, however
>>24879541Yeah whatever man just don't let him do fights cuz of y'know brain damage>>24878975Go watch a couple of rounds of sumo wrestling including the parts where they purify the mat, start to sing, do bow-twirling, "summoners" start singing, the different hairstyles and how there's a hierarchical structure of referees which you can tell apart by their them having socks or not and tell me it's not at least 10x more /lit/ than boxing
>>24879588Kek I didn't do grammar check
>>24878975Surely one requiring intellect. Maybe Judo? HEMA/etc?Judo is very technical, but I'm leaning more towards HEMA because it essentially requires you to read up on relatively extremely niche European (or Asian) authors from hundreds of years ago.>>24879588"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. A physicist tries to make it simple; an idiot, anything the more complicated is, the more he will admire it. If you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it, he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it." - Terry A Davis
>>24878975No that would be fucking your mother
Cricket is by far the most /lit/ sport.>>24879636HEMA is full off MTG nerds who need some exercise.Wrestling, judo and BJJ are top combat sports.
>>24879644"Saar vee are de mohst indeleckduel!"
Cricket and Rugby because Joyce and Beckett loved them. Maybe Rowing because there's a certain charm to it.But honestly it's chess, though I guess that doesn't count as a sport.
>>24878975Playing cards for money and dueling are pretty /lit/
>>24878975>>24879541CTE
>>24878975Boxing is close the most /lit/ sport is mountain climbing/rock climbing. While there are many similarities, long amounts of training for brutal endurance events, the mountain climbing is just more dangerous, longer, and with much less money involved making it the ultimate sport of man discovering his inner will to live or die.
>>24878975wrestling
>>24879704>wrestlingExplain yourself, how is it any different than Boxing?
>>24878975only if it's bareknuckle.
>>24879708Abe Lincoln was a renowned wrestler and he was fairly /lit/ and somewhat /sci/.
>muh brain damageLife isn't about living for as long as you can without receiving injuries. Boxing is good.
>>24879771When you add soft gloves to protect your hands you hit harder.modern boxing isn't real boxing
How do I get into cricket as an intellectual activity? I assume just watching it?
No, fencing is
>>24879843You think about it for a while before deciding to do something less gay
>>24879771I fundamentally agree with the premise but unless you‘re going to go semi-pro at least it‘s a bad idea to make real bouts any regular pursuit instead of using them as selective moments to confirm the fruit of your training. Turning vegetative at 35 is not the same Faustian endeavor as turning vegetative at 70. Anyway, was thinking the other day about how Scorsese was initially resistant to making Raging Bull but was convinced by how he found boxing to be such a primal exploration of man‘s will. Kino. The book is okay but I felt it was more of an ethnography about his old Italian neighborhood and the nastiness of the New York reformatory system.
>>24880015The boxing in Raging Bull was lame though
>>24878975idk i do it a bitcontroverial opinion here but just dont spar or if you do, wait some years and go with someone who isnt retarded boxing is fun but in todays time its not even self defense considering people have weapons so its just a physical outlet reallyif you box a lot and you leave there thinking, holy fuck i can fight, you will get your head dumped on pavement by a grappler or stabbed to death it isnt particularly lit or not, its just exercise and to anyone saying otherwise, boxing is not a fight, even a semi-pro "fight" isnt a real fight and unless you can make money from it, my advice is to largely avoid sparring
>>24880051I do light sparring once a week. I leave the gym thinking ‘holy fuck I do not know how to fight’ every time.
>>24880035You‘re lame
>>24879843Listen to it on the radio while sinking piss in the backyard, floating around on a blow-up pool toy, dipping your feet into the water and glorying in the 35 degree fury of the december Sun
Kyuudou is not only /lit/ and /jp/, it's /sci/ as well
>>24879765You could've said Plato, but went for a literal who Jewish puppet. Shame on you.
>>24878975Always was.>>24879541Make him watch Fran Sands on youtube, and get him famous boxer autobiographies for Christmas.>Tyson, Foreman, Ali, Dempsey, Jigoro Kano (Judo, if he has any interest in MMA)>Rex Applegate & Fairburn close combat 'gutter fighting'
>>24881178>a literal whoAbraham Lincoln is a literal who? stopping slavery means being controlled by the jews? Touch grass and come back with coherent conspiracies.
>>24878975snooker and cricket, and I'd count swimming too if casual enjoyment of the activity qualifies as a 'sport'anyone here should read 'waterlog' by roger deakin too btw
it's funny because every time you see an anon post anything about a sport, you can immediately tell that they are (at best) a complete noob that has no fucking clue what they're talking about.Reminds me not to take any of you retards seriously.
>>24878975I'd love to punch Nabokov in the face
>>24881394This is /lit/. The corporate puppet charlatan you mention is an odd appearance in the board of Virgil and Homer. You might seethe at this but it's not my fault. It's more on-topic for you to talk about Trump's Art of the Deal.
>>24881394seems to me it's still there. he must not have had very much impact
>>24881491Are you posting from Libya or Western Sahara?
>>24881480>The corporate puppet charlatan you mention is an odd appearance in the board of Virgil and Homer.Ol Honest Abe could speak and debate for hours. He wrote speeches that are memorized and recited by children the united nation over and led his people in war. Also could wrestle like a MF. If anything he is the modern inheritor of the Greeks.
Sailing in summer. Skiing in winter.
>>24878975I'd love to have been able to beat the living shit out of this limp-wristed Russian faggot. Put his butterfly net over his ugly, bald head and leave him in a puddle of his own piss.
>>24878975Boxing is indeed the most /lit/ sport because I don't see where else all that brain damage is coming from. In more seriousness though, I agree with >>24879636that the most /lit/ sport is one that introduce more elements than punching an opponent while still maintaining simplicity and improving the practical side of the experience. Knife fighting anyone? That's become more and more practical these days. Kendo matches the theme of /lit/ though a but better than a lot of the rest of these.
