London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread

[capo ultra]

+1 for BJJ in the olympics

[pkay]

Speaking of mma... ufc on fx last Friday was a dopppe card

[Shum]

http://theconversation.edu.au/running-b ... games-8386

[dickman69]

i could see why you'd train running backwards in basketball or cornerbacks in football... but wtf

[Phigure]

i could see why you'd train running backwards in basketball or cornerbacks in football... but wtf

read the article, makes a lot of sense

[dickman69]

i did after a minute lol, couldnt stop cringing at the idea of a movie about it to read on

[Sexual_Chocolate]

living where i do i see alot of old chinese folk running (well lets say 'jogging') backwards... and considering most look like they would be about 80+ im gonna go ahead and assume that it prolongs life.

[pkay]

I dunno. A kid at aau camp in 9th grade died doing backwards suicides. The irony was not missed by us

[wub]

AUSTRALIA’S woeful Olympics medal tally is due to its residents’ disdain for any activity that emphasises the physical over the mental, it has been claimed.

The nation’s lack of concern for putting one over on other countries, particularly Britain, is another key factor.

Internationalist Nikki Hollis said: “Most nations would be smarting with humiliation at their resoundingly abysmal record in these games but not the Australians, an enigmatic people dedicated to the life of the mind who rarely travel outside their own shores.

“Until 1996, ‘rough sports’, a category which included rugby, surfing and cricket, were specifically banned in the Australian constitution as it was feared that they may distract young people from their studies of vers libre, dodecaphonic composition and ethnological art.

“Under protest from their own citizens, the government partly repealed these laws but only to introduce Australian Rules Football, a watered down version of the game which, according to those who have played it is ‘more like a mixture of chess and expressive dance’.

“Given how much the average young Australian male would far prefer to engage you in a discussion on the finer points of Mallarmé or Euripides than bandy remarks on uncouth ball games, it is hardy astonishing that they have won such a pitiful number of medals.”

Australian ex-pat Bill McKay said: “Being a sports fan in Australia is incredibly lonely. There’s more to life than the intellect but try telling that to the average bloke in New South Wales.

“Take swimming. We could be good at it but it’s impossible to swim and read at the same time – you just end up going in circles. And you can’t get an Aussie to put their book down, even in the water.”

Joanna Kramer, a self-confessed ‘Australophile’, said: “I think we British could learn a lot from Australia. What is sport, they say, compared with the arts and the crafts, macrame, ceramics, flower arranging?

“To them, physical competition and noisy collective celebration are as insignificant as the number of medals they have won in these Olympics.”

[Electric_Head]

That's BS.

[Forum]

“Given how much the average young Australian male would far prefer to engage you in a discussion on the finer points of Mallarmé or Euripides than bandy remarks on uncouth ball games, it is hardy astonishing that they have won such a pitiful number of medals.”

Who wrote this?

[PinUp]

This guy is a beast



Going to the athletics on a comedown wasn't as bad as I was imagining it to be but when this guy qualified with his last throw I nearly cried

[AxeD]

Liu hopping around the 100m hurdles on 1 leg, a new sport was born.

[Shum]

Women's Team Table Tennis bronze medal game starting now. Singapore vs. South Korea.

[particle-jim]

BJJ in the olympics instead of MMA maybe?

This would make much more sense, MMA would have to be so watered down for the olympics but BJJ could just use the current IBJJF rules, it'd be more exciting than the judo too imo due to higher likelihood of submissions (much rather see a fight ended by an armlock/choke/etc than by a 25 second pin).

[Forum]

Not sure what the different fighting styles are called but the one where they grab at each others clothes then roll around together on the floor is proper boring

[particle-jim]

Not sure what the different fighting styles are called but the one where they grab at each others clothes then roll around together on the floor is proper boring

that could be either judo or bjj tbh

Boring or not, they're seriously fucking effective

[Forum]

They might be but there are far more interesting martial arts to watch as a spectator sport

[AxeD]

Not sure what the different fighting styles are called but the one where they grab at each others clothes then roll around together on the floor is proper boring

that could be either judo or bjj tbh

Boring or not, they're seriously fucking effective

Effective? That's a whole new perspective for me.

Removing the hurdles and just walking 100m would be effective.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

This guy is a beast



Going to the athletics on a comedown wasn't as bad as I was imagining it to be but when this guy qualified with his last throw I nearly cried

looks like what would happen if tempz & solo45 had a child.