A Robot Teaches Me Boxing - Summary

Summary

The speaker describes their experience of learning boxing, including their initial hesitation and eventual acceptance of a boxing tournament invitation. They discuss their use of a Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) unit to train their arm muscles for boxing, despite initial difficulties. They explain how they've connected the TENS unit to a digital potentiometer to control the electricity flow, allowing them to automate the training process.

The speaker also talks about their experimentation with an Xbox controller to control their training, leading to the creation of a game-like training environment. They share their experience of testing this setup with friends, and the subsequent development of a moving platform system to simulate boxing matches.

The speaker then recounts their experience at the Creator Clash boxing tournament, where they faced their biggest opponent yet, utilizing their training methods. Despite initial fear and nerves, they managed to win the match.

Finally, the speaker expresses their satisfaction with their experience, stating that they are done with boxing for good, and looks forward to future advancements in the field.

Facts

1. The speaker is learning boxing and has been slow to pick it up, possibly due to the brain damage they've experienced. [Document(page_content="00:00:02.60: yup that's me I've been learning boxing\n00:00:05.28: recently and aside from the brain damage\n00:00:06.90: it's going pretty good I've been a\n00:00:08.58: little slow to pick it up maybe on\n00:00:10.20: account of of all the brain damage but\n00:00:12.06: we have more important questions to ask\n00:00:13.50: like where am I why am I learning to box\n00:00:15.48: and where am I a couple months ago", metadata={})]

2. The speaker was asked to be part of a boxing tournament called Crater Clash, but they initially declined. [Document(page_content="00:00:17.58: idubbbz asked me if I wanted to be part\n00:00:19.26: of this boxing tournament thing called\n00:00:21.24: crater Clash no no I don't is what I\n00:00:24.12: thought in my head but for a second the\n00:00:26.04: surrealness of the situation overwhelmed\n00:00:28.32: me I've been watching idubbbz since I\n00:00:29.88: was in like middle school and he was\n00:00:31.56: asking me to do a boxing tournament it\n00:00:34.02: may as well have been like a mass\n00:00:35.28: hallucination for all I was aware and I\n00:00:37.68: I just said yes so I'm uh guess what I'm\n00:00:40.86: doing it uh the only problem is I am\n00:00:42.90: really really REALLY bad at boxing so\n00:00:46.80: don't know what I'm gonna do about that", metadata={})]

3. The speaker is using a technique called Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) to train for their boxing match. [Document(page_content="00:00:58.50: it's meant to treat like pain in old\n00:01:00.18: people but if you crank it all the way\n00:01:01.74: up\n00:01:03.50: it makes you involuntarily Flex whatever\n00:01:06.06: muscles it's attached to so let me show\n00:01:07.80: you how we're going to use it if you\n00:01:09.06: look at a single TENS unit can't do much\n00:01:10.80: it can only really make you move one\n00:01:12.36: muscle at a time but if I strap a whole\n00:01:14.28: bunch of them to different arm muscles\n00:01:15.66: and activate them at just the right\n00:01:16.98: times it will force me to punch so I can\n00:01:18.84: train for my boxing match without even\n00:01:20.46: thinking about it so first we gotta\n00:01:22.32: figure out how to control these guys\n00:01:23.58: with the computer because the way it\n00:01:25.02: normally works is you