Hello, I am 15 and I want to ask is it true that everyone who is involved in boxing suffers from severe brain damage and even frequent deaths? As far as I read in American forums, some doctors talked about boxers where the names can not be said with 75% brain damage and that almost every third boxer dies from a cerebral hemorrhage. Is it true? I ask because I want to train boxing and I have been training for 1 year now and if this is true maybe I should stop I still want to have minimal brain activity (to be able to say my name)
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Not for now, but at a later stage you will have a lot of health problems, Parkinson's mostly. My advice is to change the discipline - I would recommend taekwondo or aikido, and if you are from Sofia Krav Maga or Filipino Kali. Wing Chun is also a very good martial art
This may be true, but it must be taken into account that boxing is mainly used for people who initially have poor "brain activity". :) Adding the low-intellectual environment in which they move, it becomes even more difficult to determine what is a consequence and what is a cause. :)
There's no way; e And I'm 15, ours enrolled me in boxing last week because I muttered non-stop for two years. I'm a girl, we're not talking about a professional boxer who goes to competitions, etc., but about sports :)
Listen now, friend! As you may be convinced, boxing is a very good sport. It develops everything - starting from the toes, going through the hands, speed, endurance and ending with agility of mind and reactions. In addition, this sport teaches order and discipline - if you do not follow the regime and training, it will just hurt more. ;) All this, however, applies to amateur and amateur activities. If you start chasing high sportsmanship, on the one hand you will have to give up quite attractive things, and on the other hand you will have to accept that they will fill your head with fists every time. Where more, where less, but you will eat paint regularly. And you have to get used to it. It's just part of the sport. So, decide for yourself. Assess well what exactly you want, what you strive for and what you want to achieve in boxing. And choose. But remember
In your place I would think over 1 and 2 comments, because boxing is not a sport for everyone. If you want to think and have a brain (readable), practice martial arts, that at least there is some beauty in it. It also makes more sense in terms of protective practice. And most of all, to know that boxing is for killing complexes, and martial arts for calming down. :)