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wub wrote:

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“Under protest from their own citizens, the government partly repealed these laws but only to introduce Australian Rules Football, a watered down version of the game which, according to those who have played it is ‘more like a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

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

AxeD wrote:

particle-jim wrote:

southstar wrote: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.

capo ultra wrote:major con - BJJ is rife with steroids, a lot of the BJJ guys that don't do MMA would fail olympic testing immediately.

particle-jim wrote:

capo ultra wrote:major con - BJJ is rife with steroids, a lot of the BJJ guys that don't do MMA would fail olympic testing immediately.

Helio would be spinning in his grave, rampant steroid use completely defies the point of BJJ in the first place (the smaller guy can win using technique over strength etc) I suppose with more MMA meatheads being interested in BJJ the increased steroid use was inevitable

wub wrote:

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.”

kidshuffle wrote:

particle-jim wrote:

capo ultra wrote:major con - BJJ is rife with steroids, a lot of the BJJ guys that don't do MMA would fail olympic testing immediately.

Helio would be spinning in his grave, rampant steroid use completely defies the point of BJJ in the first place (the smaller guy can win using technique over strength etc) I suppose with more MMA meatheads being interested in BJJ the increased steroid use was inevitable

especially since even guys like royce have been caught using them.

kidshuffle wrote:They would still be in 4th, and just barely behind you

particle-jim wrote:

capo ultra wrote:major con - BJJ is rife with steroids, a lot of the BJJ guys that don't do MMA would fail olympic testing immediately.

Helio would be spinning in his grave, rampant steroid use completely defies the point of BJJ in the first place (the smaller guy can win using technique over strength etc) I suppose with more MMA meatheads being interested in BJJ the increased steroid use was inevitable

capo ultra wrote:

particle-jim wrote:

capo ultra wrote:major con - BJJ is rife with steroids, a lot of the BJJ guys that don't do MMA would fail olympic testing immediately.

Helio would be spinning in his grave, rampant steroid use completely defies the point of BJJ in the first place (the smaller guy can win using technique over strength etc) I suppose with more MMA meatheads being interested in BJJ the increased steroid use was inevitable

it's not really the MMA guys it's the pure sport BJJ guys. The idea of street BBJ is getting lost in the competition aspect of BBJ. Smaller guy beating bigger guy is now defunct when you have guys of equal size and technique competing together innit

southstar wrote:Looking at the medals table, if you take out swimming the US isn't actually that impressive