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urban games: boxing

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by wolfgang haak on November 1, 2009

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Discipline of the week: Boxing

The Majority of London

Marital Arts are in everyday use in London. Most performances are somewhat ungraceful, as most participants show up intoxicated to the performance. Only some events are recorded on the council’s TV network. “Best of” performances however are given a bigger audience on Crime watch.

Although frowned upon as a street sport, boxing is heavily incited by the same local councils who record the events on CCTV and go on to claim that they work hard to make their area “better”. Specially trained “wardens” are dispatched in large numbers around the capital and tasked with acts designed to boost the council’s koffers and get members of the public all fired up to hone their skills and engage in spontanious sparring matches.

Although we disapprove of the sport, a lot of have been tempted ourselves.

Tickets available from £100.

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urban games: squash!

Urban Games 2012

by wolfgang haak on Juli 12, 2009

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Enter the Urban Games!

The Majority of London

Ha! Olympics I hear you say? 2012? No, us Londoners doesn’t need the IOC to tell us what form of exercise qualifies as a sport and more importantly if we’re any good at it! Decades of bad politics on both national and GLA level (yes Ken Boris, grow up!) are the reason, this place is a quirky (good), wiered (good, sometimes), rough (not so good) and plain aggressive and violent (definitely not good) as it is.

Let’s have a look at our first category, a sport you’re all too familiar with:

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Our chances for gold? Tell me in the comments!

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