“Come on, how can you be crying? They’re pretty much made out of air! Grow up, pussy! So… how was your first day of Kindergarten?”
I’ll feel so much better about beating my kids if I’m wearing these.
Here’s a new take on the classic Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots toy everyone remembers from when they were young. Tamiya’s Robocraft boxing robots are very much like the classic game, except you build the bots yourself. Sure, they might not look like “Bolt Crusher Bob” and “Gear Grinder Greg” but they’re just as fun.
Each robot operates on a wired remote, not a joystick at the base of the platform. With just a simple adjustment, you can switch between two punch types: upper-cut and straight jab. You know you’re going to be using the upper-cut. After all, it’s what JCVD* would use.
* – Jean-Claude Van Damme
Who would’ve thought that boxers would like to exercise their brain in ways other than getting punched in the face. Berlin is home to the world’s biggest chess boxing club. That’s right, you read correctly: chess boxing club. A chess boxing match consists of six rounds of chess and five rounds of boxing but a knockout or checkmate could end the game prematurely.
Two men square off in the ring, separated by a chess board. After four minutes of mind bending chess, the two opponents put on their gloves and go at it. Three minutes of heavy-handed brawling goes down before the bell is rung, the chessboard is set back up in the middle of the ring and the boxers find themselves faced off with yet another potential check mate scenario.
“For me the thing is to channel your violence, to control it. Hence the marriage between boxing and chess,” said Rubingh, president of the international federation of chess boxing.
We know how people are crazy about Nintendo Wii Sports, treating 2 parts of the wiimote as boxing gloves. Now how about bring this super fun game to the streets? No TV, no power adapter, no Wii, all you need is a pair of these Nettou Boxing gloves and an I-don’t-care-what-you-think attitude. Pop in your batteries, choose between Training or Fighting mode and you’re good to go. Simply punch the midair as hard and as fast as you could, punching sound will then be simulated on top of 2 lovely pre-installed background music tracks. These gloves are selling for US$32 now in Japan, you can get these first and continue to save up for Wii. — Sam Chan
Nettou Boxing gloves [e-Revolution]
