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Why so many road riders have such high gearing in the hills.
Why divers have such undersized cossies or budgie smugglers.
Why slalom kayakers/canoeists use such old designs of helmet.
Why slalom kayakers/canoeists use such old designs of helmet.
Yeah I always wondered that. Must be some regulation or suttin.
I don't understand much track cycling or roadie races for that matter.
Why horse dancing is a sport, and monkey tennis isn't?
why the women gymnasts where so much make-up.
Why anyone would want to be a football referee.
Nobeerinthefridge - Member
Why horse dancing is a sport, and monkey tennis isn't?
It's to do with how many people are involved. Playing tennis with a monkey (i'm thinking more as doubles partner than as a racket) would be a sport. Two monkeys playing with each other would YouTube sensation but not a sport.
Why people who pay a small fortune for a season ticket, £100 pcm for satellite TV and many hundreds of pounds on reploca shirts and half time beer & food every seasom complain when football players act like over paid premadonnas who fail to perform for a national side when comparatively they earn nothing for playing for their country.
Helmet list.
But I guess from my slalom days, if you're cutting it fine on gates, you want the lowest profile helmet &BA you can get away with. Not the standard WW hero sweet rocker or playboater sweet strutter.
How people whose job is not in sport manage to know and regurgitate a range of statistics, sports people's career histories, underwear preferences etc. About a range of sports that they probably don't even play and still have brain power for their day job.
Rugby (which way can you throw? I always forget)
Cricket (how can you play for five days and still draw!? :?)
Why golfers can't carry their own clubs?
Why tennis players spend half the match sitting down having a rest?
Downhill/Bmx pyjamas.
Why heptathletes cant do 10 events?
Why people pay money to watch overpaid footballers underperform?
Why so many people hero worship F1 drivers when they are in vastly superior cars?
And yes, dancing horses...
Why are all Badmington Club Treasurerers are called Clifford.
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.
What are the two jacuzzi/ bath things that the Olympic divers get into after each dive.
why footballers get more money than a brain or heart surgeon.
Why the bloke in the keirin thinks no one will notice that he's on a motorbike. Every time he gets disqualified just before the finish but he relentlessly tries to get away with it every time.
Golf.
Why schools never do snooker or darts on sports day. We're quite good at it in the uk.
Why cricket has never got past the test match stage. Surely they'd know how to play it properly by now.
Why the customers at work you see every day are perfectly civil Monday to Friday become total animals when they're in a football shirt on a Saturday afternoon.
garage-dweller - Member
What are the two jacuzzi/ bath things that the Olympic divers get into after each dive.
They're to wash off the green algae
People who pay to see a live sporting event (which is televised, you know wiv proper camera and angles and quality and that) and watch it through their phone. Filming it. On their shitty little screen.
I really don't understand that.
Why golf is in the olympics but downhill mountain biking isn't
What are the two jacuzzi/ bath things that the Olympic divers get into after each dive.
To keep the muscles warm.
RESPECT
Unless, it's ironic
why the women gymnasts where so much make-up.
Have you seen them without?
Currently wondering about dads on kiddies bikes as mentioned elsewhere. Dancing horses are OK though.
[quote=matt_outandabout ]Why slalom kayakers/canoeists use such old designs of helmet.
Do they? What do you think is wrong with what they use?
How the Chinese manage to keep their female gymnasts in a child like stasis.
Why a local English football match is more important than the Olympics 😈
Steve McLaren. WHY?
Do they? What do you think is wrong with what they use?
Many are.
It would be like comparing modern trail helmet level of protection with 1980's helmet protection.
Tribalism.
I'm a Wigan lad and Wigan Warriors* fan, Apparently I'm supposed to [b][u]HATE[/u][/b] St. Helens, despise Leeds and show a healthy disrespect towards Warrington. Sorry but I don't get it. I am a passionate Warriors fan and love watching the team but I can't hate another set of players simply because of where they come from. Half the players aren't from the towns anyway.
Same with the football. Why hate another fan because of where they come from? Sounds a bit like an acceptable form of bigotry.
*Proper rugby. Not that kick and clap stuff.
Olympic level Slalom is in such a safe, controlled environment paddled by such skilled paddlers I'd say they could safely paddle without a BA or a helmet.
It would be like comparing modern trail helmet level of protection with 1980's helmet protection.
A casual glance at helmet protection standards would suggest that modern trail helmets offer less protection than 1980s helmets because of a change in testing.
Cycle helmets sold in the UK
today generally offer a lower level
of protection than those sold in
the early 1990s. This is due in
the main to the introduction of
the European EN1078 standard,
which is weaker than the Snell
standards then used (see below).
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*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.
Why John Inverdale is still on the telly and has more makeup than the women gymnasts.
What Coyote said, all of it.
zokes - Still not a customer
*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.
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So so true....
Where all the Man City fans were 10 years ago. 😐
[quote=jam bo ]Olympic level Slalom is in such a safe, controlled environment paddled by such skilled paddlers I'd say they could safely paddle without a BA or a helmet.
I wouldn't go that far, but neither are they going to be bouncing their heads off rocks in a way which demands huge amounts of protection (arguably neither are most recreational paddlers). I certainly can't remember any head injuries due to helmet failure back in the 80s - not even on "natural" rivers like the Trywerwyn, which I've navigated with my head nearest the river bed on occasion.
why footballers get more money than a brain or heart surgeon.
+1
Why DH and BMX riders don't wear Lycra that is clearly quicker and more comfortable. Same applies to recreational MTBers in truth.
Why England football fans seem to think the team will win every tournament they enter despite them being consistently average.
Why female tennis players don't play 5 sets.
Why there are apparently no performance enhancing drugs in football and rugby (yeah, right).
Watching it.
I just don't get it, taking part yes, watching, no.
Particularly running. Putting running on TV for people to watch is just bonkers.
why footballers get more money than a brain or heart surgeon.
Sadly, unless you and a few million others are prepared to pay £100 per month to watch Sky Surgeon and by millions of replica surgeons scrubs it will never happen.
Adults riding bmx.
Anything that is judged. How can it be a sport?
Team sports.
[b]Golf. Because I am rich and bored. [/b][i]
I once saw that on a t-shirt.
Any sport linked to doing 'business' is not a sport.
And why can't I take a day off work to go skateboarding yet a colleague can go away for a day to play golf.
And why is golf club membership actually something people feel the need to tell you? It's akin to wearing a t-shirt saying 'I am a saddo'. Sorry golfers can't wear t-shirts can they.
I certainly can't remember any head injuries due to helmet failure back in the 80s
I've dealt with four in the last five years, all using crap Pro-Tec or Wildwater helmets, and more back beyond then. And a concussion to someone wearing a Rocker.
not even on "natural" rivers like the Trywerwyn, which I've navigated with my head nearest the river bed on occasion.
Likewise, and I holed a Pro-Tec flipping on Cafe Wave and swimming down to the raft egress. Fortunately the helmet took the brunt and I was dealt with a minor headache and a sore neck.
Having safety'd a bunch of slalom events, right up to Div 1/Prem, there were a lot of people in kit that I wouldn't put a fresher into for a fla****er paddle, never mind for a slalom down Town Falls. While the cheaper plastic lids pass the BS/EN standard impact tests, I wouldn't trust a helmet that I can flex the edges together without much effort...
Back on topic: Football, and the amount of money it attracts. Utterly does not compute.
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 ?