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Most of the rules of Rugby.
The names of all the positions in either football or Cricket, silly mid what?.
Why golf is such a highly rewarded game.
Motorsports.
Dressage.
The intricacies of scoring in gymnastics, diving and boxing.
How you get started at the pole vault.
Why snooker or darts is ever televised
Why fans include themselves in their teams results "We did well at the weekend". No you didn't, you sat on your lazy arse watching Sky Sports while other people won the game.
I don't understand why people moan about England Football team being rubbish when all the money in the Premiership goes to foreign players, managers and the companies that own the clubs.
It's a money making business pure and simple, not a sport that's worth my time any more.
And yes I was a Leeds United Fan once
Anything that is judged. How can it be a sport?
Easily. You just need to have a better understanding of what 'sport' is. By definition a sport needs a way to judge who the winner is. Some sports you can do that with a stopwatch or a tape measure, or by counting goals and points and in some sports you make those judgements by comparing against a set of agreed criteria.
Football sort of fails to be sport in some instances in that basis as measure a winner is judged by - counting goals - often seems to be a very poor indication of which team is actually playing better football and chance, accidents and confused referees seem to have more influence on the score than the skill, action or tactics of the players. On a sunday league basis it functions fairly well but at the highest levels its just a mess.
In other sports are you move to more and more elite competitors you can use ever more finely calibrated methods of judgement to distinguish who the winner is - rank performances by 1000th of seconds. In football the better the teams and more closely matched they are the more vague and arbitrary the judgement of winners becomes.
Why women don't play 5 sets at the grand slams.
How you get started at the pole vault.
Its their only job
Why snooker or darts is ever televised
It all started with a TV programme called 'Pub Olympics' (IIRC) in the 1960s which featured all sorts of pub games like bagatelle and skittles and Darts and Snooker just sort of stuck around.
Snooker and Darts are reality stars - they're the sport equivalent people who are on telly because they were on telly once.
Why the high jump starts low (where everyone can jump) insteand of starting high and dropping levels until the first to jump it wins.
*Proper rugby.Yer right. Come back when you find the correct number of players, can scrummage properly, and have learned how to win the ball from the opposing team, rather than getting it by default after six hugs.
Watch some NRL. It will be an education. Promise.
Why American basketball players are wearing arm warmers and leg warmers?
[quote=captainsasquatch ]Why the high jump starts low (where everyone can jump) insteand of starting high and dropping levels until the first to jump it wins.
aka Dutch high jump?
It all started with a TV programme called 'Pub Olympics' (IIRC) in the 1960s which featured all sorts of pub games like bagatelle and skittles and Darts and Snooker just sort of stuck around.
I think you mean Indoor League presented by the legend that is Fred Trueman
Quality stuff.
aka Dutch high jump?
Dunno, and a quick Google doesn't shed any light either. 😐
How you get started at the pole vault.
You start on a fixed pole then if you are any good you learn to use a flexible one.
Why the high jump starts low (where everyone can jump) insteand of starting high and dropping levels until the first to jump it wins.
So what happens if it moves down to a level that suddenly everyone in the competition is able to get over? Call it a draw? Or you could start moving it up incrementally until you get a winner, oh hang on, that sounds familiar.
Dutch high jump? I think I've seen that 'film'. 🙂
What I don't understand is why so many long jumpers stand at the start of the runway doing the hokey-cokey before they start their run-up.
How you get started at the pole vault.
You start by... 'sort of pacing backwards and forwards thing whilst holding the vaulting pole purposely and the crowd claps.'
Once you've mastered that you move on to
Step two 'start running with the pole'
then
Step three 'have the catastrophe that everyone watching is quietly hoping you'll have'
[quote=captainsasquatch ]aka Dutch high jump?
Dunno, and a quick Google doesn't shed any light either.
Funnys don't work when you have to explain them 🙁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
So what happens if it moves down to a level that suddenly everyone in the competition is able to get over? Call it a draw? Or you could start moving it up incrementally until you get a winner, oh hang on, that sounds familiar.
Well, as only one fella got over 2,19m tonight in the decathlon and the second place was at 2.16m. It would have got a result a damned sight quicker than the 2,5 hours I've just endured. I think a draw would be unlikely if you start high enough, let's say 2,20m for the next one, eh?
I'm going to fathom a guess that kayaking helmets look old school as they are kept very round, with as few shapes and edges that could get caught up and drag a kayakers face underwater.
BMX pisspots are about the perfect shape for safety for the same reasons, it's just they're not very breathable, as they minimise events that can cause the helmet to get caught up in a crash and give the rider a neck injury.
Motocross lids and mountainbike lids are all a monument to compromise in the name of comfort.
I'm going to fathom a guess that kayaking helmets look old school as they are kept very round, with as few shapes and edges that could get caught up and drag a kayakers face underwater.BMX pisspots are about the perfect shape for safety for the same reasons,
I think it might be even more basic - modern cycling helmets are sacrificial - they're designed to break to save your napper in the rare instance that you'll hit your head that hard and after one tumble they're spent and they're actually quite delicate objects. BMXers and Kayakers are hitting their heads on things all the time so tough old pisspots allow them to do that.
lunge - Member
Why DH and BMX riders don't wear Lycra that is clearly quicker and more comfortable. Same applies to recreational MTBers in truth.
Because they tried it and it was getting silly, leaving pads and protection in the bag to be more aero was asking for trouble. Look at what happens to lucrative in a tiny Road spill. Not going to last that we'll on a dh weekend.
Anyway stuff I don't understand? The 30s of chucking a ball around between the ads on American sport
Why it's ok to boo the second placed pole vaulter even though your chap won the gold medal?
why the supporters of the two codes of rugby can't get along nicely.
[quote=maccruiskeen ]BMXers and Kayakers are hitting their heads on things all the time so tough old pisspots allow them to do that.
You shouldn't be hitting your head much kayaking - not if you're any good! You're close to identifying the reason for the difference though - a bike helmet only really has to take one hit, whilst in a kayaking incident you could end up bouncing off multiple rocks.
I think matt knows about watersports helmets though, so it's not just that they look different to bike ones (I'm too long out of the game to know myself).
why the supporters of the two codes of rugby can't get along nicely.
I can, just don't expect me to watch push shove without laughing
How football has become the most important thing for the country:
People complaining when they can't get time off to watch a 'really important' match.
TV schedules ripped up to show a match, even if it's not really important.
Players held as heroes even if they do something illegal or immoral off the pitch.
The amount of money people will spend on replica kit, pay-TV, etc then constantly criticise the coach/team/players at any opportunity.
How the average fan seems to be fat.
That the average fan has trouble kicking a ball straight, let alone scoring a goal!
How my gender is brought into question if I dare to say I'm not a football fan.
Actually it's probably just Football Fans I don't like 😐
Why horse dancing is a sport, and monkey tennis isn't?
If monkey tennis was a sport, all the native kids from the villages would win. If you make owning a pony the entry requirement, you keep all the riff-raff out.
That bit halfway through and at the end of televised sports where a bunch of people discuss what just happened. Is it for people who didn't actually watch the sport bit? Can't be for the rest of us as we know what happened, we just watched it.
Football, because of the whole rabid fan thing. People asking who you support, because clearly everyone watches it. 🙄 I also hate it when a player rolls around on the floor, crying because another player brushed passed them. Get up you soft git.
Golf, just why?
Football and the money that it attracts.
Why mountain bikers call their pastime "our sport" all the time when it's a hobby & their bike spends more time in the shed than being ridden
Folk who claim to be rugby fans as they think it makes them appear more intelligent.
Whyvare the olympic bmxers not wearing skinsuits?
folk who claim to be rugby fans as they think it makes them appear more intelligent.
Have you visited the rugby thread? All dumb shits in there!!
Watch some NRL. It will be an education
In what? seeing huge people (steroids) instead of tackling just putting a forearm into someone's head? over and over again.
I aspire to dumb shit 😆 currently ranked as retarded
Watching it.I just don't get it, taking part yes, watching, no.
This, basically. And the endless Monday morning post-match analysis at work is even worse.
Why one team member in Volleyball wears a different coloured kit ?
How different height diving boards means different medals ... the competitors all still doing the same spins and flips ??
Handball .... how has that made it from youth club to the Olympics ?
anagallis_arvensis - Member
Whyvare the olympic bmxers not wearing skinsuits?
Because a while back they all got together and said Skin suits like? Nah forget it not out thing. So nobody wears one. Easy init, like the horse dancers all wearing suits
Cricket is the greatest sport in the world. Unless there is another sport where you stop for lunch and again for afternoon tea, in which case cricket is the equal greatest sport in the world.
Sounds like half a day out on the bike. What about breakfast, elevenses and pub stops?
The first 5 laps of the keirin. What the hell are they for?
Why any sport whose teams have the place name and then some sort of rufty tufty animal is rubbish.
No doubt someone, somewhere would rather West Ham United Football Club were called The London Hammers
Anything that is judged. How can it be a sport?
Easily. You just need to have a better understanding of what 'sport' is.
Well in that case it's just hunting, shooting and fishing. None of those need a judge.
Why people who do not like sport spend so long inflicting it on themselves 😉
The London freeloaders, or maybe squatters, would be more apt.... 😆
Football, right, I understand it, the rules, the player egos, money, (sort of) understand all that stuff - what I don't understand is why anyone ANYONE would want to REFEREE it! When you're just treated like a ****. And it's in the culture from 5 year old kids all the way up. I can't watch the game cos of that.
How fishing/game shooting are considered "Sport", are the fish/birds similarly equipped? Hardly a level playing field is it?
I don't think the balance of power in fishing would change much if the fish were allowed to dangle worms on strings in front of the fishermen's faces.