Sheetboxing: Written Language for Boxing

Sheetboxing is a written language for boxing that repurposes musical notation and music theory. It is a protocol based on notation. By translating punches, defense, steps, distance, and the tactical relationships between opponents into symbols arranged as sheetboxing, it makes it possible to read boxing apart from bodily movement itself. Bodily knowledge that remains unverbalized is neither preserved directly as such nor converted into information; as a result, it is often left behind without being accumulated. As a preparatory act before boxing can be verbalized or informationalized, Sheetboxing first makes it writable. In doing so, it creates a symbolic infrastructure for the tactical dimension of boxing and for bodily learning.