I see myself as a maker. Most of what I do is make paintings, but to define myself as a painter puts other projects at a critical disadvantage, labeling them as “side projects.” Robert Morris once said that although visually his work may vary a great deal, he felt the ideas flowed throughout the work. I like this idea. The role of the studio and the idea of play as both diligent investigation and a way of playing a game with the viewer is part of what I will discuss. In addition, I use game spaces as a surrogate to look at interpersonal interactions and as setting for a game within a game dynamic to be discussed.

The main objective of this study was to determine differences, if any, in three-dimensional (3D) kinematic characteristics of the three principal punches (the jab, hook and uppercut) executed by novice, intermediate and elite level amateur boxers. Specifically, the kinematic variables related to the displacement, linear velocity and acceleration of the upper body segments, translational hand acceleration and vertical ground reaction force generated by boxers were analyzed. The subjects of this study composed of 10 novice, 9 intermediate, and 11 elite level amateur boxers. Ages of the subjects ranged from 18 to 34 years old. All subjects executed their punches toward a head-high target on a standard practice bag. The motions were captured with PhaseSpace real time optical tracking system with 8 high speed cameras at 240 fps. Then, the motions captured were analyzed to quantify the kinematic factors associated with each punch. The results showed that the uppercut punch generated larger linear shoulder, elbow and wrist velocity compared to the jab punch. Similarly, the uppercut punch generated larger linear shoulder, elbow and wrist acceleration compared to the hook and jab punches. Moreover, the uppercut and hook punches generated larger translational hand acceleration compared to the jab punch. As a conclusion, the results for all kinematic variables demonstrated that the type of punch executed was the major determinant of the magnitude of each factor studied. Moreover, the technique employed can significantly affect the resulting displacement, linear velocity and acceleration, and translational hand acceleration of the fist.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate, auditory feedback as a training procedure to increase the effectiveness of throwing a "right cross.” Auditory feedback was evaluated in multiple baselines across behaviors design with 4 mixed martial arts students, two males and two females, 25-54 years old. The percentage of correct steps of the right crosses.” was stable .during baseline for all participants improved substantially following the introduction of the auditory feedback, and maintained at 90 percent or more for all participants during follow-up.

Since the late nineteenth century boxing in England has been socially organised into two ideologically distinctive versions - amateur and professional boxing – that to this day are practiced in spatially segregated social universes. Nonetheless, both amateur and professional boxing-practitioners understandings and lived experiences in and through boxing are necessarily grounded in the wider social and cultural contexts through which they interpret meaning and construct worldviews and identity. Thus despite the institutional, ideological and spatial boundaries demarcating either code, on a rather more subtle yet incredibly powerful cultural level, amateur and professional boxing are both symbolically and practically deeply intertwined. Over a five year period, I conducted ‘insider’ ethnographic research among distinct cohorts of amateur and professional boxers based in Luton and London to investigate the lived experiences and socially constructed worldviews, values and identities developed by practitioners immersed in either code. The overriding aim of this research was to critically evaluate the limits and possibilities of boxing-practitioners association with and development through ‘boxing’ henceforth. The findings of this ethnography reveal that it was common for the amateur and professional boxing-practitioners studied to cultivate empowering identities through intersubjective and socially validating instances of purposefulness, expressivity, creativity, fellowship and aspiration. These lived dimensions were grounded in sensuous, symbolic and emotional attachments respective to the social organization defining the social practice of either code of boxing. Equally, the research reveals that under the veneer of collective passion for and consequent fellowship experienced through boxing, an undercurrent yet ever-present sense of dubiety, tension and intra-personal conflict was in evidence among both the amateur and professional boxing-practitioners studied. It is suggested, therefore, that as a consequence of an array of both micro and macro post-industrial societal reconfigurations defining the structural principles of amateurism and professionalism in the practice of ‘boxing’, contemporary boxers are increasingly predisposed to developing athletic identities predisposed towards patterns of meaning production “…dominated by market-mediated consumer choice and the power of individualism” (Jarvie 2006 p. 327). Thus through complex, historically dynamic and seemingly paradoxical social processes of cultural (re)production and transformation - dialectically fusing individualistic aspirations geared towards self-interested gain, acts of group and subcultural fellowship and social resistance to measures of institutionalised control - it is argued that the role of boxing as an agent for humanistic personal and social development in the contemporary late-modern era of structural reconfiguration is progressively rendered impotent.

This thesis identifies the shared pool of narrative resources, which constitute the public discourses and cultural meanings of the sport of boxing, in order to examine how individual boxers engage with them when performing their narrative identities. It is argued that the shared pool of narrative resources for boxing contain myths and legends that are taken for granted and yet heavily invested in by boxers and academics alike. This project explores how individual boxers engage with these resources in order to make sense of their own experiences and to formulate their narrative identity. The thesis asks how a thorough investigation of the shared narrative resources, and their use by boxers, provides new insights into what the sport of boxing means to boxers, and how shared resources are engaged with in order to perform idiosyncratic ontological narratives. This project makes a unique contribution, as it is the first project of its kind to fully consider the relationship between the individual accounts provided by boxers and the narrative resources available to them. It pays particular focus to the narrative resources as they relate to amateur and professional boxers alike. Through a performance ethnography, and qualitative inquiry approach, research data was collected and co- constructed over a period of three years. This data informed the reading of boxing texts in order to ascertain what the shared pool of narrative resources were for boxers, and how individuals used and engaged with them. This project found that the narrative resources of boxing were powerful, persuasive, and provided vocabularies of motives for individual boxers. The shared pool of resources, whilst constitutive of the cultural 2 meanings of boxing, were engaged with by individual boxers to tell stories about the desire for transformation, communion, respect and generativity.

Title: The development of Boxing in town Most from its beginnings to the present. Objectives: The main Topic of this thesis is to obtain information about the beginning of boxing in the city Most. Describing of the development of boxing in town Most until now is another task. Methods: It is fundamental to define the main problem and reason of this thesis. It is very important to gather relevant and verified information. The author describes and analyses various situations The methods of dialogs, reading writing materials and electronic resources are used too Verbal material obtained from interviews was recorded in writing and was then analyzed and processed into an easily accessible form. Likewise it was run on with the writing and electronically gathered information. Results: The gathered information was gradually compared, then processed and interpreted by continuous text supplemented by images and attachments. information describe the origin and evolution of the boxing in town Most until now. Most of them was presented by visual demonstration. Keywords: History, Most, boxing, sports, gym, activity

The New Orleans Athletic Club, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest athletic clubs in the United States that still operates today. After the boom of the 1920s and increased revenues, the club was forced to confront the Great Depression and shift its emphasis on the "strenuous life" to the "social life" to survive. 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 alternative strategies to survive. Its "social life" strategy relied on the club's various political ties to cut expenses and increased incentives for membership, which led to a larger, albeit, limited presence of women at the club.

A presente dissertação parte de meu engajamento como aprendiz de boxe em três diferentes equipamentos na cidade de São Paulo. Uma etnografia emaranhada em narrativas viscerais sobre uma pratica corporal eficaz, complexa, coletiva e contraditória. Para isso, procurei um olhar de perto e de dentro, convivendo solidariamente com meus colegas, desde a rotina das academias aos torneios e competições. Histórias de vida, corpos em metamorfose, olhares e gestos que representam, como mímica da violência, a postura da agressividade, se entrelaçam no limite entre o fantástico e o cotidiano. Boxe é movimento, compromisso matemática, dor, sacrifício, amor, dança, é sério, é pensar com as pernas, é roubar no olho, é para existir em outro lugar, é ritmo, tempo e barulho. Busquei compreender como se dá a construção de territórios, corpos e relações a partir do comprometimento em calçar as luvas. O mundo do boxe envolve uma emaranhada e complexa trama política-social, justapondo masculinidades conflitantes e contraditórias, utopias e reterritorializações, significados sobre racismo e violência, disciplina e sacrifício, espaços urbanos e fronteiras simbólicas, resultando em dinâmicas históricas singulares e carregadas de significação para as pessoas envolvidas. / The present dissertation starts from my engagement as boxing apprentice in three different equipments in the city of São Paulo. An ethnography entangled in visceral narratives about an effective, complex, collective and contradictory body practice. For this, I sought a look from near and within, living together with my colleagues, from the routine of the academies to the tournaments and competitions. Life stories, bodies in metamorphosis, looks and gestures that represent, as a mimic of violence, the posture of aggression, are intertwined in the limit between the fantastic and the everyday. Boxing is \"movement\", compromise, \"math\", \"pain\", \"sacrifice\", \"love\", \"dance\", \"serious\", is \"think with legs\", is \"steal in the eye\", is to \"exist elsewhere, is \"rhythm, time, and noise. I have tried to indicate how the construction of territories, bodies and relationships is given from the commitment to put on the gloves. The boxing world involves a complicated and complex political-social fabric, juxtaposing conflicting and contradictory masculinities, utopias and reterritorializations, meanings about racism and violence, discipline and sacrifice, urban spaces and symbolic frontiers, resulting in unique historical dynamics and charged with significance for the people involved.

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as questões de gênero que atravessam a inserção e a permanência de atletas na Federação Rio-Grandense de Pugilismo. O trabalho centra-se na investigação acerca da existência de barreiras legais e simbólicas para a inserção de mulheres no Universo Cultural do Boxe; na análise da forma como as boxeadoras interpretam as transformações corporais e os ferimentos oriundos da prática esportiva; e, por fim, em como questões sociais e econômicas influenciam na permanência das atletas no pugilismo. A metodologia utilizada baseia-se na realização de entrevistas de História Oral com atletas e treinadores de boxe, tendo a preocupação de analisar os sentidos que estes constroem sobre suas experiências no pugilismo e sobre as questões de gênero que perpassam suas trajetórias esportivas. O estudo está fundamentado nos pressupostos teóricos da História Cultural e nos Estudos de Gênero, trabalhando com as representações sociais que as pessoas produzem sobre sua realidade e sobre a forma como socialmente corpos e subjetividades são construídos com base na dicotomia de gênero. O exercício analítico foi realizado considerando os objetivos da pesquisa e os referenciais teóricos, emergindo, assim, dois eixos de investigação: i) o processo histórico de inserção das mulheres no universo das lutas e ii) as representações de corpo e de gênero no meio esportivo. A partir das análises, foi possível verificar o processo recente de inserção de mulheres no boxe quando comparado a outras artes marciais, evidenciando uma maior resistência da sociedade. Também foi possível observar que os corpos das boxeadoras tencionam representações normativas de gênero, trazendo à tona discursos que colocam em xeque a feminilidade e a sexualidade das atletas, o que as leva a controlar seus treinamentos, em especial os de potencialização muscular, de modo a adequar suas corporalidades a padrões estéticos valorizados socialmente. Conclui-se que o gênero, longe de ser uma exigência do sexo biológico, é uma construção sempre inacabada, passível de ser controlada por discursos e por práticas, de modo a não exacerbar as barreiras impostas pela dicotomia de gênero. / The present research has as its purpose to analyse the issues of gender that go through the insertion and permanance of athletes in the Pugilism Federation of Rio Grande do Sul. The study centers itself in the investigation around the the existence of both legal and symbolic barriers for the insertion of women in the Cultural Universe of Boxing; in the analysis of how the boxers interpret the body transformations and the wounds arising from the the practicing of the sport; and at last, in how social and economic issues influence the permanence of these athletes in pugilism. The methodology used is based on the attainment of interviews of Oral History with boxing athelets and coaches, having the concern to analyse the senses in which they build their experiences in pugilism and the gender issues that pervade their sportive paths. The study is grounded in the theoretical assumptions of the Cultural History and the Studies of Gender, working with the social representations that people produce over their reality and how bodies and subjectivities are socially built on the basis of gender dichotomy. The analytical exercise was done considering the purposes of the research and the theoretical referentials, emerging, hence, two pivots of investigation: i) the historical process of the insertion of women in the fighting universe and ii) the representations of body and gender in the sportive field. From the analysis, it was possible to verify the recent process of insertion of women in boxing when compared to other martial arts, evidentiating a greater resistence from society. It was also possible to observe that the boxers' bodies propose normative representations of gender, surfacing speeches that put the athletes femininity and sexuality into question, which drives them to control their trainings, especially the muscular potentiality ones, in order to adjust their bodily ways to socially valued aesthetic patterns. It is concluded that gender, far from being a biological demand of the sex, is always an unfinished construction, liable of being controlled by speeches and by practices, in order not to exacerbate the barriers imposed by the gender dichotomy.

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as questões de gênero que atravessam a inserção e a permanência de atletas na Federação Rio-Grandense de Pugilismo. O trabalho centra-se na investigação acerca da existência de barreiras legais e simbólicas para a inserção de mulheres no Universo Cultural do Boxe; na análise da forma como as boxeadoras interpretam as transformações corporais e os ferimentos oriundos da prática esportiva; e, por fim, em como questões sociais e econômicas influenciam na permanência das atletas no pugilismo. A metodologia utilizada baseia-se na realização de entrevistas de História Oral com atletas e treinadores de boxe, tendo a preocupação de analisar os sentidos que estes constroem sobre suas experiências no pugilismo e sobre as questões de gênero que perpassam suas trajetórias esportivas. O estudo está fundamentado nos pressupostos teóricos da História Cultural e nos Estudos de Gênero, trabalhando com as representações sociais que as pessoas produzem sobre sua realidade e sobre a forma como socialmente corpos e subjetividades são construídos com base na dicotomia de gênero. O exercício analítico foi realizado considerando os objetivos da pesquisa e os referenciais teóricos, emergindo, assim, dois eixos de investigação: i) o processo histórico de inserção das mulheres no universo das lutas e ii) as representações de corpo e de gênero no meio esportivo. A partir das análises, foi possível verificar o processo recente de inserção de mulheres no boxe quando comparado a outras artes marciais, evidenciando uma maior resistência da sociedade. Também foi possível observar que os corpos das boxeadoras tencionam representações normativas de gênero, trazendo à tona discursos que colocam em xeque a feminilidade e a sexualidade das atletas, o que as leva a controlar seus treinamentos, em especial os de potencialização muscular, de modo a adequar suas corporalidades a padrões estéticos valorizados socialmente. Conclui-se que o gênero, longe de ser uma exigência do sexo biológico, é uma construção sempre inacabada, passível de ser controlada por discursos e por práticas, de modo a não exacerbar as barreiras impostas pela dicotomia de gênero. / The present research has as its purpose to analyse the issues of gender that go through the insertion and permanance of athletes in the Pugilism Federation of Rio Grande do Sul. The study centers itself in the investigation around the the existence of both legal and symbolic barriers for the insertion of women in the Cultural Universe of Boxing; in the analysis of how the boxers interpret the body transformations and the wounds arising from the the practicing of the sport; and at last, in how social and economic issues influence the permanence of these athletes in pugilism. The methodology used is based on the attainment of interviews of Oral History with boxing athelets and coaches, having the concern to analyse the senses in which they build their experiences in pugilism and the gender issues that pervade their sportive paths. The study is grounded in the theoretical assumptions of the Cultural History and the Studies of Gender, working with the social representations that people produce over their reality and how bodies and subjectivities are socially built on the basis of gender dichotomy. The analytical exercise was done considering the purposes of the research and the theoretical referentials, emerging, hence, two pivots of investigation: i) the historical process of the insertion of women in the fighting universe and ii) the representations of body and gender in the sportive field. From the analysis, it was possible to verify the recent process of insertion of women in boxing when compared to other martial arts, evidentiating a greater resistence from society. It was also possible to observe that the boxers' bodies propose normative representations of gender, surfacing speeches that put the athletes femininity and sexuality into question, which drives them to control their trainings, especially the muscular potentiality ones, in order to adjust their bodily ways to socially valued aesthetic patterns. It is concluded that gender, far from being a biological demand of the sex, is always an unfinished construction, liable of being controlled by speeches and by practices, in order not to exacerbate the barriers imposed by the gender dichotomy.