brains and brawn

You might want to move to Berlin. If you like chessboxing, that is!

What is chessboxing? I'm glad you asked. It's chess...and boxing.

Basically, two guys (there may be a female division, I'm not sure. that would require research, and I just don't have the time to check facts) are in a ring with a chess board in the middle. They play chess for four minutes. Then the bell rings. The board in moved and they box for three minutes. Then the bell rings. The board is replaced. Chess for another four minutes.

This happens until either one of the players is either knocked out by a punch or by a check-mate.

Wow. Who would have ever thought of this? I know I'm not familiar with the Berlin culture, but what put it in their head to combine these two sports? I gotta say, once that wall came down, things started going willy nilly. That wall separated good solid ideas like chess on one side and boxing on the other. Nowadays...sheesh! I mean, what other types of sordid relationships will come about!

I'm glad you asked...again...

Pogwrestling: Remember pogs? I do. You play with them for 4 minutes. Then wrestle each other. What fun!

Marbleskating: How about this challenge! You are on ice, skating around a big circle, and you have to flick that big marble into it and get the little marbles out of it! (that is the point of marbles, right? I never quite got it.)

Archeryjenga: You have to shoot the arrows at a jenga tower. You knock out different blocks and the first person to make it collapse loses! Ha! Not bad, right?

UltimateFightingCandyland: Now this game you gotta see. Mad card-flippin action happens until one of the players lands on a trap. As soon as they land on a trap, the players beat the snot out of each other for 3 minutes. Then the game continues. People bring candy, too. It's awesome.

Finally, HockeySweeping: Oh wait...they already play that in Canada...it's called curling. heh heh heh...canadians...

Feel free to come up with your own game combos. I'm sure they'll be better than mine. Well...maybe not better than the candyland one. Tell me you wouldn't go watch that. I know you would. You might not admit it to your friends and family, but when you bump into them at the show, you'll all be cheering for the chocolate swamp, gum drop mountain and princess lolly.

I'm off to see if anybody still sells pogs.

Enjoy!

-DJ