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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Politics, Religion (Tall Table) >> Remember Kurling?... /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1343932453 Message started by Serowbot on 08/02/12 at 11:34:13 |
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Title: Remember Kurling?... Post by Serowbot on 08/02/12 at 11:34:13 I mean,.. I like the Olympics but,.. Kurling?... Can you really call sweeping ice a sport?... There has gotten' to be too many nutty things qualified as sports... Next up,.. Olympic teeter-toter... Olympic flower arranging... Olympic clock winding... hopscotch,.. marbles,.. feather blowing... air guitar... Okay,.. I just ain't into badminton, or beach volleyball, and that's all that's on.... I guess I'll have to get to work refinishing my dining table... :-?... Buhh!.. ;D... |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/02/12 at 15:05:34 I tell you, curling has done more damage to the olympic name than all the drug scandals combined. It was I believe invented in canada, and its huge in canada. However the saving aspect is, its winter olympic sport, not summer and we have summer games on now, and winter olympics, well lets hope Mitt Romney will save the olympics again curling and all. Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by bill67 on 08/02/12 at 15:27:37 Mitt has to save himself first. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by WD on 08/02/12 at 16:31:58 I hoped they were kidding when trampoline came up as an actual event. What's next, skateboarding? There's already the World Cup, so soccer should get dropped. Women's boxing strike anybody else as odd? Badminton is NOT a sport. Beach volleyball... only if I'm at the clothing optional beach. Since I don't go to regular ones. Canoe and kayak? alternate transportation, maybe, but not sports. So far, I'd rather watch paint dry. At least I'd know my bike was ready to reassemble. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by Serowbot on 08/02/12 at 18:27:01 7566220 wrote:
Next up,.. Olympic pea shooting,... and tag team waffle tossing...;D... |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/02/12 at 20:23:04 5B480C0 wrote:
Well every game has a world cup of sorts. All athletics, aquatics, gymnastics etc ... that well probably will leave curling as the only sport. Then as an asian I have to tell you the 2 sports americans have no grasp of as to how hard it is are table tennis - aka ping pong and badminton. The western world got tired of being beaten black and blue by the chinese, koreans, japanese and Indonesians they regulated table tennis by making the ball bigger. BTW the archery competition well that itself is a common enough sport in the US the place it was held @ - Lords cricket grounds. Really really like yankee stadium to the british, Indians, and the rest of the common wealth. Anyway some sports are a bit stupid, trampoline ... yes, but the rest are 100% actual sports, just ones that aren't played in the US. Soccer is a good one, definitely needs to be @ the olymipics. Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/02/12 at 20:48:19 Oooo trampoline competition has stuff like rotations and twists etc ... closer to gymnastics than what we saw @ the beginning of "the man show". Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by Serowbot on 08/02/12 at 23:08:51 I understand,.. I grew up in England,.. soccer is my favorite sport... ... but, soccer has the world cup.. even bigger than the Olympics... Soccer fans,.. really care about the world cup... soccer in the Olympics.. not so much... It's like,.. it's already got it's ultimate shoot-out... Kurling,... well,.. I'm just not convinced anything with a broom and a kettle is a sport... Sounds more like a couple of really bored, drunk guys in a cold place...;D... |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/02/12 at 23:38:20 Yea curling, serious even Mitt Romney cant deliver the olympics from that horror. Thankfully it is winter olympics, and its canadians who invented it IMHO. What else, they have 10 months of winter ... cant help it if you decide to see if these rocks slide across the ice better than those rocks etc. Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by Serowbot on 08/03/12 at 00:46:48 Canadians... geez.. I really admire Canadians for a heck of a lot of things... Fantastic country... Now I feel guilty for singling out Kurling and dissing it... On the bright side,.. it's the only Olympic sport where you can show up drunk, and have an advantage... I can appreciate that... ;D... Go Canada!... :)... If they managed to get Kurling in,... when do we get flat track motorcycling on ice?... Yeah!... :-?... |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/03/12 at 02:31:54 6D6C77707F6A761E0 wrote:
Well every game has a world cup of sorts. All athletics, aquatics, gymnastics etc ... that well probably will leave curling as the only sport. Then as an asian I have to tell you the 2 sports americans have no grasp of as to how hard it is are table tennis - aka ping pong and badminton. The western world got tired of being beaten black and blue by the chinese, koreans, japanese and Indonesians they regulated table tennis by making the ball bigger. BTW the archery competition well that itself is a common enough sport in the US the place it was held @ - Lords cricket grounds. Really really like yankee stadium to the british, Indians, and the rest of the common wealth. Anyway some sports are a bit stupid, trampoline ... yes, but the rest are 100% actual sports, just ones that aren't played in the US. Soccer is a good one, definitely needs to be @ the olymipics. Cool. Srinath.[/quote] When did ping pong balls change? How much did they change? Heck, it never even crossed my mind to wonder, How old is the game, anyway? When did they learn to make the light, bouncy little plastic ball Ive known all my life? HEY!? I never knew I had that many questions about Ping Pong,, but Ive sure played a lot of it,,& I likie that game, |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by Drifter on 08/03/12 at 05:06:59 I like the fancy dancing horses, i hope Mitts filly wins, if i had a million dollar horse and could afford the 100 thousand dollar saddle and 15 thousand dollar riding suit and 77 thousand dollar food bill i would have 7 of them like mitt..................if i had 15k to play with i would buy a car not a riding suit. Real macho, who needs to watch bull riders and cowboys when dancin horses on on........i would like to see mitt ride one........win the gold and prance around in the purdy suit. :-[ I wonder what a pedicure costs for a dancin pony?? |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/03/12 at 05:43:35 Table tennis balls changed around 92-93. They got larger by about 10% in dia. But the speed of movement etc depends on square of diameter. So they got slower by 121%, they also got easier to see cos they were bigger obviously. The larger ball also is softer, hence more forgiving when you mis hit as well as less lethal when your opponent hits it. Almost the same as field hockey, badminton etc. If you have stamina but not skill, you slow down the game - badminton. Shuttles got wider and more flared. This totally brought denmark into contention against eastern asia. Games went from 10 rallies to over 50. No one could kill, you had to wear and bore the opponent out. This was in the 70's if I recall. If you have speed but not stick skills, you speed up the game. You can whack it and run after it. Field hockey in the 60's and 70's. Before which India had their only gold medals in olympics, all of it in field hockey. They went to non natural surfaces like astroturf etc. Western europe has documented the whole world of sport. All of it in their favor. Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/05/12 at 09:14:20 Table tennis balls changed around 92-93. They got larger by about 10% in dia. But the speed of movement etc depends on square of diameter. So they got slower by 121%, they also got easier to see cos they were bigger obviously. The larger ball also is softer, hence more forgiving when you mis hit as well as less lethal when your opponent hits it. I played some in 68 or 9,a summer visit to Houston, then in 73, Id play this guy named Zuniga in the mornings before class in the AF,, I dont remember ever beatin that guy,, I never spotted a change in the balls, I guess if the other guy is using the same one, its a pretty fair game, I agree its crappy to change things in a game to gain some advantage, but Im no expert at any of them & have little grasp of the importance of these differences, tho, your description of how badminton has changed sure says a lot,, sounds very undesirable, Maybe they should have different ones available, fat & fluffy for the weekend get together with the mixed couples & sleek & fast for hard competition,, |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/07/12 at 08:11:31 Well TT may have gotten slower, but atleast we can see it on TV now, and it is still dominated by the same region of the globe. In the old days with the older TV's you saw nothing. Like they had to do in Ice hockey, they wrapped the puck in blue digitally. Badminton, a more flared shuttle will if hit well and proper just graze the net and drop shorter. I guess that is a smaller disadvantage for taller and more limber people. In general a slower shuttle helps the person with more stamina. A quicker one helps players who can kill. Field Hockey was far nicer when stick work was the name of the game. The whack and run after it isn't as pretty to watch. Anyway in the 60's and 70's I can recall whole rules being different depending on which rule book or which host country. In cricket for example, an over nowadays is 6 balls, delivered with a straight elbow with no more than 15 degrees of + elbow bend. So what about the negative elbow bend - as in they are double jointed. It would be legal in one country, but get called in another. Anyway 6 balls is the standard. However australia used to have 8, cos their arch rival england had 6. Not to be outdone, south africa had 4 - for no reason just to make you think. I could say also all these changes in stuff standardised the sports. Sure it rearranged the winners and losers a few years but the talent again re surfaced. Except in the case of India. We still suck @ field hockey. BTW since it is still within the rules Indians when we play cricket dont take the new ball when we are entitled to, we let the ball that has been in play a whole day with people slathering sweat etc on it, we continue to bowl with what looks like a dog's chew toy, cos our bowlers are all spinners. Worse yet our grounds are complete dust bowls and its never under 100 degrees with 100% humidity so the brit and aussies get to enjoy all those features. We not gonna tire them out, we're gonna sweat and dust them out. Cool. Srinath. |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by zippythezip on 08/22/12 at 19:18:43 How about the term "athletes" goes with sports eh" So curlers, ping pong dudes and golfers are athletes? |
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Title: Re: Remember Kurling?... Post by srinath on 08/23/12 at 13:31:39 You come and play pingpong with me and I'll show you how much of an athlete I am not. However I will also show you (when I get lucky) how they hit the ball and how blisteringly quick that game is. And that is with the larger ball that moves slower. Most asians are darn good at it, but you have to remember its a game of precision and speed not of power and endurance. Some shots can only be returned in some ways. Not only do you have to reach the ball you also need to get under, beside, over or whatever it. Sometimes it will only climb an inch off the table you need to get under that bugger else you wont return it. Play someone who knows how to and you'd see not only do you need the speed, flexibility and knowledge you can in spite of all that be left in the dust. And no Forrest Gump wont cut it as an instruction manual, heck it wasnt even the best - most entertaining movie of 1992 IMHO. Cool. Srinath. |
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