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AUTUMN 2011 JOURNAL OF COMBATIVE SPORT VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS OF MARTIAL ARTS AND SCIENCES HTTP://EJMAS.COM JOURNAL OF COMBATIVE SPORT 11:1 AUTUMN 2011 EDITORIAL STAFF Publisher: Kim Taylor Editor: Joseph Svinth Layout and Design: Joseph Svinth Online Production Coordinator: Kendall Giles Photo Editor: James Kielland EJMAS Logo: Den Beauvais Cover Photo: Courtesy Chad Seifried MEDICAL EDITOR James Weber, DO, Hurley Medical Center (Michigan, USA) CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Journal of Combative Sport (ISSN 1492-1650) is published semi-annually by the Electronic Journals Emerson Franchini, University of São Paulo of Martial Arts and Sciences (EJMAS), a division of (Brazil) SDK Enterprises, Inc., 44 Inkerman Street, Guelph, Emelyne Godfrey Independent Scholar Ontario, Canada N1H 3CT. Archived at National (United Kingdom) Library of Canada Electronic Collection. Copyright Lauren Miller Griffith, Central Michigan © 2011: All rights reserved. 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Page Guest Editorial Glynn Are physical health and weight control the 2 Leyshon only contribution sport makes? No, there is a Page Boxing at Chad dimension that is more subtle but equally as 4 Louisiana State Seifried important – the element of moral and ethical University behavior. Moral and ethical behavior is Page Stories from the Joseph fostered in the playing fields at the same time 19 Manuel Svinth that the physical contribution to health is Velazquez bolstered. The concepts are easy to discuss Boxing Fatality but difficult to adopt. Nonetheless, what Collection better time and place to acquire these Page Judo Enters the Joseph concepts than in a school setting? 20 USA Svinth In the heyday of the British Empire the Page Call for Papers colonies were all influenced by the British 26 school system. Every student (white male that is) was required to participate in a sport and to put into practice, moral, and ethical GUEST EDITORIAL values that were discussed in the classroom. These included concepts such as bravery, GLYNN LEYSHON courage, loyalty, and fair play. The concept of Former coach for the Canadian Olympic “no blood; no foul,” meaning anything the wrestling team and former assistant dean of referee does not stop is legal, was the faculty of kinesiology at University of diametrically opposed to the teaching of Western Ontario bravery, loyalty, etc. Thus, it used to be said Contact via Facebook that the Battle of Waterloo (1815) was won on the playing fields of Eton. Although the ith an estimated fifteen percent of statement is an invention, the entrenched teens overweight, representing idea of bravery, courage etc. was an some 7.5 million young bodies (the overriding, ever present influence in the lives W of Britain’s ruling classes before World War I. number has tripled since 1980), it is time to look at the problem of the flesh in a new One need not go that far back, or to light. The present recommendation for British imperialists, to find examples of the calorie burning to offset this plague of educative value of sport and athletics. In obesity is that each child should get a 1950, in Vanves, France, a radically different minimum one hour of exercise each day. approach to the school curriculum was There was a time when, without school advanced. Children spent mornings in regular buses, computers, television, or any of the class but devoted their afternoons to sport myriad labor saving devices with which we and exercise. The results were astonishingly are blessed, a person could easily accumulate positive. Marks went up, absences went one hour of exercise each day just going down, deportment and attitude all improved. about his business—walking to school or job, The experiment lasted until 1960 and then shoveling snow, climbing stairs etc. Those “quelle surprise!” the innovative program times are gone forever. A recent survey was scrapped. The entrenched attitudes were showed that a mere eighteen percent of too strong to sway (Shephard, 1984; see also children managed to reach the hour-a-day Sallis, 1999). target. My bet is that most of those were The potential for change is still there. A professor confrere of mine decided to © 2011 EJMAS JOURNAL OF COMBATIVE SPORT 11:1 Page 2 duplicate the Vanves experience and Although we still have school teams, convinced a local school board to devote one physical activity is not just for the athletically class for six months to the experiment. The gifted. Just as talented athletes should be general approach was as with the original. made to master their math facts and write a That is, students would spend the morning at coherent essay, so should artistically gifted regular curriculum and afternoons in children be made to experience their physical supervised activities monitored and selves. instructed by university students from the Alas, the contribution of sport to health professor’s class. It was a huge success. As typically does not extend to musicians, happened at Vanves, marks went up, artists, or video game players. It would take a absences went down; attitudes and well-spoken, highly-regarded educator and an deportment improved etc. Nonetheless, after open-minded school board and parent group six months, the program was dropped. The to take the big step and include a daily hour staid and conservative prevailed. The children of activity as a requirement for every grade. were healthier, more cooperative, had better Perhaps a scare tactic would work. The grades and enjoyed school. Maybe it was medical evidence we have projects that the unnatural. Whoever heard of kids enjoying next generation will be the first in centuries school and getting good grades at the same that will not have a longer lifespan than its time? predecessor. The cost to our already As for the absorption of moral and ethical staggering health care system will be values, it seems that school boards are by enormous. and large happy to leave those attributes to be assimilated by osmosis. Certainly one would have great difficulty in finding ethics as WORKS CITED an objective in a modern school curriculum. Sallis, J.F., T.L. McKenzie, B. Kolody, M. Lewis, S. Instead, the objective is to teach the children Marshall, and P. Rosengard. (1999). Effects the three R’s and hope for the best with all of Health-Related Physical Education on the rest. Academic Achievement: Project SPARK. Yet, ideally, a formal education should Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport prepare students for life in our society. Does 70:2, 127-134. our current system do that? High Shephard, R.J., M. Volle, H. LaVallee, R. LaBarre, unemployment, obese children and youth, J.C. Jequier, & M. Rajic. (1984). Required and the dearth of ethics in public life and physical activity and academic grades: A controlled study. In J. Ilmarinen & I. entertainment suggest it currently does not. Valaimaki (eds.) Children and Sport (pp. 58- To correct the situation would require a 63). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. tidal wave of change. It would include a revision of the subject matter taught and a realignment of the time spent on that subject matter. It would take a lot of convincing, too, to get school administrators to understand that physical activities are as important to a rounded education as history and mathematics—and probably even harder to get parents to accept that all of the above topics, athletics, history, and mathematics, are things that a society needs its citizens to learn and appreciate from very young ages. © 2011 EJMAS JOURNAL OF COMBATIVE SPORT 11:1 Page 3 squared-circle to massive crowds in both BOXING AT LOUISIANA STATE Madison and Louisiana to see the two fierce rivals battle between the ropes (Table 1). UNIVERSITY (1929-1956) TABLE 1: LSU AND WISCONSIN DUAL THE DEVELOPMENT AND FALL OF THE MEET ATTENDANCE 1937-1956 SOUTH’S PREMIER BOXING PROGRAM Year Home Away Crowd 1937 UW LSU 9,000 CHAD SEIFRIED 1938 UW LSU 7,367 1939 UW LSU 15,000 Assistant Professor, Department of 1940 LSU UW 8,500 Kinesiology, Louisiana State University 1952 LSU UW 5,500 [email protected] 1953 UW LSU 11,200 1954 LSU UW 7,500 Abstract: This paper provides a brief history of the 1955 UW LSU 6,500 varsity boxing program at Louisiana State 1956 LSU UW 4,000 University, which is a major regional university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.