phantomeye t1_iugz4hv wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:00 AM

Reply to comment by charlesfire in ELI5 How did knights participate in tournaments like jousting without killing themselves? by QuantumHamster

Still, in boxing there's a lot of avoiding the opponents punches.

Slapping sport in the other hand is almost like if you had to stay still in boxing taking the punches.

chris14020 t1_iuh6mvq wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:57 AM

The point of most sports where you can die is to avoid the dying part, not just boxing. Pretty much every sport has not doing the things that can cause dying as a pretty good strategy. The one you mentioned is actually an exception, where the thing is an integral and mandatory part of the sport. Even football, where you can get yourself rattled up pretty good by getting tackled, recommends you probably don't get tackled. It just so happens there's quite a bit of that.