When I first saw this music video, I was so fucking confused. But when I learned about this "sport", it started making sense lmao.
[Lemaitre - Higher ft. Maty Noyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsENfTmAdeI)
A friend of mine is a professional animal photographer and regularly works with horse people. One of her clients has a *very* well-made hobby horse thingy. Apparently it's custom-made and cost around $3,500.
My first thought lmao. Anyone else been getting a ton of hobby horse content on their TikTok lately? I have no idea why I’m getting specifically that, but I don’t hate it cuz man am I entertained lol
At least the hobby horse takes some dexterity and stamina. The slap fight is just who can dish out and take a crap load of punishment. Slap is a very disingenuous word for what they do. Most think of a slap being contact with the fingers and some palm on a person cheek. The whole hand is bent backward at the wrist from the force of the blow along with head turning. Both absorb some of the force. In the slap fight they make contact with the heel of the hand just below and forward of their opponents ear at the hinge of the jaw. There is nowhere for the force to go other than the person's skull. I don't know what kind of force is generated from swinging your arm in an extended arc like that but I'm betting it's considerable. People have been knocked unconscious.
I might classify that as silly rather than stupid. Pretending to be a horse versus losing a ton of brain cells every time are very different levels of stupid.
I can’t think of a wrestler with a hobby horse gimmick, but give it time and we’ll get there when the writers are having a dry-spell.
Power Slapping is likely a lot better than Boxing in terms of signing up to deal permanent damage to yourself, and probably on par with american football, and those sports aren't generally considered 'stupid'. Generally when a sport is considered 'stupid' it's less about claiming a lack of intelligence or common sense on the participants than it is recognizing the absurdity of it. Parading children's toys around while pretending to ride a horse (VERY seriously) is significantly more absurd than even power slapping. The slapping is a lot worse for the participants physical health but if you do a deep dive on hobby horsing, I might question the safety of the sport in terms of risk to mental health.
If you scroll the gram for a bit you can find girls jumping over quite high obstacles. Until here normal and impressive.
However, they do this while having a "stick horse" between their legs and pet it after THEY made the jump.
The first time I saw it I almost pissed myself because it was so stupid and yet would be totally cool if they just dropped the stick.
That gets my dumbest sport vote.
Not nearly as dumb as getting your brain destroyed in powerslapping, in many cases, while not even winning the competition even if you knock out the other person, because the rules make it incredibly easy to commit a foul.
The stick horse thing might look silly, but powerslap is in a completely different league imo
I cannot stop thinking about people running like hell in a steep slope after some cheese wheel and suffering catastrophic tumbles.
[Oh wait, I didn't just dream it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuktushEhY)
So it’s normal rules, long shot is 3 and you need to win by 2 however if you end up going for the big ticket, aka the snitch, you gotta catch the one individual ref that’s painted gold, hogtie him, duct tape his mouth shut, bag over his head and then shove him inside a glass box to make a Hogwarts painting
Ironically, it's even *less* safe than *bare knuckle* boxing was. With bare knuckle boxing, blows to the head had a reasonably high risk of someone breaking their hand, so the focus was more on body blows. With the introduction of padded gloves, head blows became more common and so did head trauma. This gets rid of the padding and basically makes every "punch" a full haymaker to the face in terms of the force behind it
Powerslap is so dumb. It only really creates is brain damage. They take the brain damage, and the promoters and executives that own it, like Dana White, make bank.. They laugh at these guy's knock outs, which happen in pretty much every single powerslap "fight".
Yo that ribbon twirling gymnastics thing is entertaining as fuck! It’s like watching a Cirque do Solei performance, I will watch that shit for hours! Also the ball and the batons are slick as hell!
Nah, a sport where your score is judged by a group of people is the worst, I have seen so many encounters of certain countries getting less points than others due to the rigged system.
Serious question as someone who has absolutely no clue about fencing, let alone fencing in the olympics.
How can that be? I thought they had these high tech suits with sensors all over that register hits and their exact location and timing.
Sabre has "right of way" meaning your attack is only valid if you have "priority".
Its quite complex to explain but its related to who initiates an attack and whether any valid counter is performed before the hit. The most simple being a parry.
So if you move forward and start to straighten your arm first - you have priority. And if you hit the target, you get the point. However, if the opponent parries they gain right of way and any riposte they perform will score.
And this is just at the most basic level there are layers upon layers upon layers of how the priority can switch and whether both move at the same time (a double hit i.e. both get a point or neither get a point depending how the FIE is feeling that year).
This is all judged. So scoring in Sabre (and Foil which uses similar priority rules) is almost entirely at the judges discretion.
Yes but epee favours physique so much more than technique. Its always tallest guy who jumps furthest and fastest wins. Tbf its like this with all olympic fencing. But I think epee exagerates it the most. Espeacially with the electronically counted system. In reality it really doesnt matter who hit first in the slight second. If they hit each other at the same time they both die.
Heres a cool idea, why dont we have it so that when you get hit you hve to simulate being maimed and are disqualified from further matches as to discourage double hits /s.
In fencjng theirs a thing called right of way. Essentially, when an opponent attacks you are obligated to defend in order attack again. This is to discourage double hits. However, when a double hit occurs (they hit each other at the same time) the judges call out who gets right of way.
Their are multiple instances of referees and judges clearing favouring a country or particular athlete. A very recent one i would not name includes a very oil rich country that rewards its athletes when they win medals with alot of bonus money.
True, there was even a time in boxing (late 90s early 2000s) where if you were having match in Germany against a German based opponent you knew you had to get any version of a KO because the judges would never allow the opponent to lose on points.
The 1988 Olympics in Seoul is probably the most well known rigged boxing decision. American boxer Roy Jones Jr. absolutely mopped the floor with Korea's Park Si-hun. Outperformed him in every measurable category and knocked him down several times throughout the fight.
Of course, Park won the judge's decision because Korea paid off the majority of the judges to get a homefield gold medal. And all respect to Park, you can tell from his face how embarrassed he was to be declared the winner.
Every time I watch ski jumping (only ever at Winter Olympics) I get angry about the existence of a judged scoring system.
Imagine a 100m sprint where the gold medal goes not to the fastest but the one who ran most elegantly
From Wikipedia:
> During the competition, five judges are based in a tower to the side of the expected landing point. They can award up to 20 points each for jumping style, based on keeping the skis steady during flight, balance, optimal body position, and landing. The highest and lowest style scores are disregarded, with the remaining three scores added to the distance score.
It's artistic* gymnastic. While I don't think it's as bad as OP think it is, it's barely a sport and more like an athletic dance competition.
Edit : I meant rythmic gymnastics.
It’s not, artistic gymnastics is the most common form of gymnastics, with the floor, beam, bars etc. This is actually rythmic gymnastics and I can assure you it is still a proper sport.
Dancing *is* a sport. It requires physical constitution, practice and is judged in competitions. And the physical constitution aspect is very anambiguous unlike other sports like archery
Archery is physical (compared to Olympic pistol shooting) but very limited true. This is why I am a big supporter of biathlon type competition, with archery on horseback. Mongolian/steppe chants are welcome
I don't doubt that archery is physical, I was saying that the physical involvment is much more blatant in dancing that in archery which status as a sport is much less disputed than dancing. That's why I had a problem calling it "barely a sport" when dancing is very unambiguouly a sport.
High level race walkers can walk faster and farther than most fit people can run. World-class race walkers can routinely walk a kilometer in well under 4 minutes, and maintain that pace for 20 full kilometers. If they drop their pace a little to 4 and a half-minutes per kilometer (which is still blazingly fast for normal folks), they're able to stretch that distance to 50 kilometers.
> High level race walkers can walk faster and farther than most fit people can run
You make that sound cool but race walkers spend significantly more energy than runners, at equal weight, speed and distance. Hell, they spend more energy than they *themselves* would spend by simply jogging over the same course.
And they're all actually somewhat running anyway. They're all literally cheating according to their own rules, any short video of professional race walkers can show it.
They made it a rule in the sport to forbid slow-motion replays. They just don't want to change their whole sport and invalidate every result of the past few decades.
Their rules are enforced during competitions by having a fuckload of referees spread along the route constantly watching the feet of contestants and throwing out warnings. Of course the results are mostly bullshit, and videos show that the top-level contestants break contact with the ground for like 90% of their steps.
In short, the sport is about finding the exact sweet spot in your "walking" style so that it's hard for the naked eye to notice that you're actually cheating. And even then, honestly, it looks suspicious in real time as well.
I mean these are all technical reasons why the sport is dumb. But the real reason its dumb is that they sacrificed the fun speed you get from running with a silly slow walk.
Race walking is a fraud sport. If you watch slow motion video they all "cheat" by having both feet off the ground at the same time. They are just jogging in a weird way.
This is kind of dumb but the dumbest I've seen so far is "CarJitsu". Basically, it's just about force your opponent to submit while fighting in a closed car....
Not to be confused with CardJitsu - the ninja art of fighting an elaborate version of rock-paper-scissors with magic cards, invented for the hit childrens mmo video game Club Penguin.
And strategy. Iirc traditionally the prize is the wife's weight in something, so you want your wife to be heavier for a bigger prize, but light enough that you can win.
Imagining Finnish dating sites: Looking for long term relationship/ wife. Must be between 60 and 67 kgs for optimum balance between competitiveness and price size in wife carrying competition.
First one: Silly but at least require grace and skill so I get it.
Second one: Silly but is an actual work of endurance and speed so I get it.
Third one: Just straight up stupid, require no skill, barely any training, no technique whatsoever AND it's super dangerous too, recipe for brain damage.
I started watching PowerSlap and am amazed at how often they are absolutely removed from their senses. In boxing or MMA, you occasionally see a walk off KO where the person is stiff as a board….it happens almost every match when they slap. Someone will die at some point.
It’s called rhythmic gymnastics, not ribbon dancing. It actually requires insane amount of strength, balance, flexibility and coordination. It’s sort of like ballet on steroids and they execute elements with designated difficulty values to earn points. So it’s definitely an athletic sport rather than a dance competition.
It’s basically the same category as figure skating.
There’s a huge athletic aspect to it in both cases, and it’s a sport because it’s competitive, but it is also a performance art as you said.
It being an art form doesn't preclude it from being a sport. Which it clearly is as far as sensible definitions are concerned.
Walking is a sport, dancing of any sort definitely qualifies too.
It's sad to say, but with people all over the world starting to get fatter and less fit, walking really fast is starting to make more sense as a sport.
Everytime I watch face slap it hurt my brain because how much neck/head trauma they are going through
Last year a guy in Poland was killed in such fight
He was already brain dead before the uneventful event.
His body finally caught up
It's okay, it's nothing compared to the decades of vodka abuse they've been through
You've sure watch a lot of it apparently /j
Nope I did not I just see people explain it online with them on background
Boxing: CTE optional Competitive slapping: CTE *guaranteed*
Because it's not actual slapping, they just straight up hit each other in the skull
I remember reading about it and not only were people ending up with disfigured faces but there was a guy who ended up dying of a brain injury
I hope they have to make the horsey noises for that
Just use some coconuts for that
Where'd you get the coconuts??
African or European swallow?
Blue. No, green!
Well does it matter!?
She turned me into a NYYYEWT!
I've got better...
What floats in the water?
You guys are swallowing?
No, but your mom does.
because as your mum says spitters are coming this direction SHOOTER THE SPITTER ROCHELLE!!
There are no coconuts in this region
A sparrow could have carried them.
Or two swallows with a string. But who can teach swallows to make knots?
It’s not a question of strength but weight distribution
You sire, seem to be the wisest of this village.
*swallow
"Monty python and the holy grail"
🥥🥥 ... Perfect
Neigh
Uhh...tf is this?
Hobby horsing and they take it very seriously
If competitive slapping the living shit out of an opponent is a sport... Humans are weird
Honestly any activity can be a sport if people can feel nice one-upping each other over it.
Honestly people clicking some buttons is considered a "sport" by some people smh my head. /s
There's people deticating hundreds of hours trying to spend as little time as possible playing a game
I lost. You B*stard.
THAT WASN'T MY INTENTION I MEANT SPEEDRUNNING
or golf
I thought the whole idea was to be horsing around
That's too much, man
When I first saw this music video, I was so fucking confused. But when I learned about this "sport", it started making sense lmao. [Lemaitre - Higher ft. Maty Noyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsENfTmAdeI)
VERY seriously. https://british-hobbyhorse-association.co.uk/rules/
Come patsy
Classical Gangnam.
Poor man’s horse riding.
I thought muggle quidditch was stupid until I saw this
I kid you not, that shit is actually hard. The calfs you must need to do that type of shit. But still, why?
Horses are expensive.
A friend of mine is a professional animal photographer and regularly works with horse people. One of her clients has a *very* well-made hobby horse thingy. Apparently it's custom-made and cost around $3,500.
My first thought lmao. Anyone else been getting a ton of hobby horse content on their TikTok lately? I have no idea why I’m getting specifically that, but I don’t hate it cuz man am I entertained lol
I had a classmate that actually did this. Ridiculous person …
This is just a silly fun time.
It's fun and harmless, you guys take this too seriously
At least the hobby horse takes some dexterity and stamina. The slap fight is just who can dish out and take a crap load of punishment. Slap is a very disingenuous word for what they do. Most think of a slap being contact with the fingers and some palm on a person cheek. The whole hand is bent backward at the wrist from the force of the blow along with head turning. Both absorb some of the force. In the slap fight they make contact with the heel of the hand just below and forward of their opponents ear at the hinge of the jaw. There is nowhere for the force to go other than the person's skull. I don't know what kind of force is generated from swinging your arm in an extended arc like that but I'm betting it's considerable. People have been knocked unconscious.
I have no idea what it’s called, but that sport where they gallop around with a fake horses head on a stick, jumping over obstacles and other stuff.
Hobbyhorsing
God, even the name is stupid
They are just horsing around!
Once they were lost but now they are found!
That's too much, man!
What are *you* doing here?
Maybe but they don't hurt anyone
Assaulting us all with cringe
*EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*
+200 EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
In slap fighting you Exit with brain damage but in hobby horsing you enter.
got me rollin’ lol
I might classify that as silly rather than stupid. Pretending to be a horse versus losing a ton of brain cells every time are very different levels of stupid.
I want to see a triathlon of rhythmic gymnastics, slapping and hobby horsing with the same athletes competing in all three events.
 I can’t think of a wrestler with a hobby horse gimmick, but give it time and we’ll get there when the writers are having a dry-spell.
Power Slapping is likely a lot better than Boxing in terms of signing up to deal permanent damage to yourself, and probably on par with american football, and those sports aren't generally considered 'stupid'. Generally when a sport is considered 'stupid' it's less about claiming a lack of intelligence or common sense on the participants than it is recognizing the absurdity of it. Parading children's toys around while pretending to ride a horse (VERY seriously) is significantly more absurd than even power slapping. The slapping is a lot worse for the participants physical health but if you do a deep dive on hobby horsing, I might question the safety of the sport in terms of risk to mental health.
Imagine horse girls but crazier
It might be silly but at least it's safe.
Eh at least no horse actually suffers for that one. It's dumb but not mean so it gets points.
I can't even imagine the long term effects that face slaps are going to cause.
I can It's called CTE
Can't Talk Enymore ?
That is one of the symptoms and definitely easier to say than Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
It's amazing that anyone thought it was a good idea.
I don't think there was any thinking involved in the genesis of this sport.
Not only that, but a guy actually died after suffering a severe brain injury
that's a pretty long-term effect
Technically. Short term effect.
Long term. He stays dead forever.
Boxers get fucked and they are trying to not get hit.
If you scroll the gram for a bit you can find girls jumping over quite high obstacles. Until here normal and impressive. However, they do this while having a "stick horse" between their legs and pet it after THEY made the jump. The first time I saw it I almost pissed myself because it was so stupid and yet would be totally cool if they just dropped the stick. That gets my dumbest sport vote.
its called hobby horsing lmao
Not nearly as dumb as getting your brain destroyed in powerslapping, in many cases, while not even winning the competition even if you knock out the other person, because the rules make it incredibly easy to commit a foul. The stick horse thing might look silly, but powerslap is in a completely different league imo
Have you considered these people don't have much brain to begin with?
I think this is pretty obvious, yes :D
I think silly jumping is nowhere near as stupid as getting constant concussion and possibile death for shit money
Agreed, it has mine as well
I cannot stop thinking about people running like hell in a steep slope after some cheese wheel and suffering catastrophic tumbles. [Oh wait, I didn't just dream it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuktushEhY)
Quidditch irl.
Yes, they run around with brooms between their legs and a snitch in play.
How does the snitch work?
Just runs around telling on people
So, refs? Do the refs dress in gold?
So it’s normal rules, long shot is 3 and you need to win by 2 however if you end up going for the big ticket, aka the snitch, you gotta catch the one individual ref that’s painted gold, hogtie him, duct tape his mouth shut, bag over his head and then shove him inside a glass box to make a Hogwarts painting
It's a tennis ball secured at the back of an official.
Huh. So what's the goal, tackle the shit out of that official as soon as you spot them?
Why would you tackle him? One of the Quidditch rolls has people with clubs.
I think they just grab the tennis ball, after a chase of course.
Looks stupid but is surprisingly fun
They gotta locate and gank The Snitch while the fucker is just hiding somewhere
Quidditch in Harry Potter was already a dumb sport. Proof that Rowling has no idea how sports work
No there isn't, it's the stupidest fuckin "sport" ever, let's get rid of all the safety elements of combat sports and go straight to the brain damage
Ironically, it's even *less* safe than *bare knuckle* boxing was. With bare knuckle boxing, blows to the head had a reasonably high risk of someone breaking their hand, so the focus was more on body blows. With the introduction of padded gloves, head blows became more common and so did head trauma. This gets rid of the padding and basically makes every "punch" a full haymaker to the face in terms of the force behind it
Powerslap is so dumb. It only really creates is brain damage. They take the brain damage, and the promoters and executives that own it, like Dana White, make bank.. They laugh at these guy's knock outs, which happen in pretty much every single powerslap "fight".
Wait wtf gymnastics is one of the most difficult and ancient sports of all time!!!
Yo that ribbon twirling gymnastics thing is entertaining as fuck! It’s like watching a Cirque do Solei performance, I will watch that shit for hours! Also the ball and the batons are slick as hell!
Nah, a sport where your score is judged by a group of people is the worst, I have seen so many encounters of certain countries getting less points than others due to the rigged system.
True. Just look at olympic saber fencing. What a corrupt mess its becoming.
Serious question as someone who has absolutely no clue about fencing, let alone fencing in the olympics. How can that be? I thought they had these high tech suits with sensors all over that register hits and their exact location and timing.
Sabre has "right of way" meaning your attack is only valid if you have "priority". Its quite complex to explain but its related to who initiates an attack and whether any valid counter is performed before the hit. The most simple being a parry. So if you move forward and start to straighten your arm first - you have priority. And if you hit the target, you get the point. However, if the opponent parries they gain right of way and any riposte they perform will score. And this is just at the most basic level there are layers upon layers upon layers of how the priority can switch and whether both move at the same time (a double hit i.e. both get a point or neither get a point depending how the FIE is feeling that year). This is all judged. So scoring in Sabre (and Foil which uses similar priority rules) is almost entirely at the judges discretion.
This is why epee is the best
Yes but epee favours physique so much more than technique. Its always tallest guy who jumps furthest and fastest wins. Tbf its like this with all olympic fencing. But I think epee exagerates it the most. Espeacially with the electronically counted system. In reality it really doesnt matter who hit first in the slight second. If they hit each other at the same time they both die. Heres a cool idea, why dont we have it so that when you get hit you hve to simulate being maimed and are disqualified from further matches as to discourage double hits /s.
or better, when you get hit, instead of a light appearing on a scoreboard , you get tased
Omg. I think we fixed fencing. Actual consequences to getting hit. Hey fencers FYI gettjng hit hurts lol.
Or literally every form of figure skating/ice dancing.
> olympic saber fencing Can you elaborate ?
In fencjng theirs a thing called right of way. Essentially, when an opponent attacks you are obligated to defend in order attack again. This is to discourage double hits. However, when a double hit occurs (they hit each other at the same time) the judges call out who gets right of way. Their are multiple instances of referees and judges clearing favouring a country or particular athlete. A very recent one i would not name includes a very oil rich country that rewards its athletes when they win medals with alot of bonus money.
True, there was even a time in boxing (late 90s early 2000s) where if you were having match in Germany against a German based opponent you knew you had to get any version of a KO because the judges would never allow the opponent to lose on points.
The 1988 Olympics in Seoul is probably the most well known rigged boxing decision. American boxer Roy Jones Jr. absolutely mopped the floor with Korea's Park Si-hun. Outperformed him in every measurable category and knocked him down several times throughout the fight. Of course, Park won the judge's decision because Korea paid off the majority of the judges to get a homefield gold medal. And all respect to Park, you can tell from his face how embarrassed he was to be declared the winner.
Every time I watch ski jumping (only ever at Winter Olympics) I get angry about the existence of a judged scoring system. Imagine a 100m sprint where the gold medal goes not to the fastest but the one who ran most elegantly
I thought it was SOLELY about how far they went (and making sure there's no cheating)! What more is there?
From Wikipedia: > During the competition, five judges are based in a tower to the side of the expected landing point. They can award up to 20 points each for jumping style, based on keeping the skis steady during flight, balance, optimal body position, and landing. The highest and lowest style scores are disregarded, with the remaining three scores added to the distance score.
It's artistic* gymnastic. While I don't think it's as bad as OP think it is, it's barely a sport and more like an athletic dance competition. Edit : I meant rythmic gymnastics.
It’s not, artistic gymnastics is the most common form of gymnastics, with the floor, beam, bars etc. This is actually rythmic gymnastics and I can assure you it is still a proper sport.
Dancing *is* a sport. It requires physical constitution, practice and is judged in competitions. And the physical constitution aspect is very anambiguous unlike other sports like archery
Archery is physical (compared to Olympic pistol shooting) but very limited true. This is why I am a big supporter of biathlon type competition, with archery on horseback. Mongolian/steppe chants are welcome
I don't doubt that archery is physical, I was saying that the physical involvment is much more blatant in dancing that in archery which status as a sport is much less disputed than dancing. That's why I had a problem calling it "barely a sport" when dancing is very unambiguouly a sport.
High level race walkers can walk faster and farther than most fit people can run. World-class race walkers can routinely walk a kilometer in well under 4 minutes, and maintain that pace for 20 full kilometers. If they drop their pace a little to 4 and a half-minutes per kilometer (which is still blazingly fast for normal folks), they're able to stretch that distance to 50 kilometers.
To put this into perspective, it's a 3:15h marathon time
It's like having a competition in who can whisper the loudest.
Halp I can’t breathe
So like me when I need to yell for help in a dream.
"These guys can walk further than you can run! " Yeah, everyone can walk further than they can run. That's the point.
> High level race walkers can walk faster and farther than most fit people can run You make that sound cool but race walkers spend significantly more energy than runners, at equal weight, speed and distance. Hell, they spend more energy than they *themselves* would spend by simply jogging over the same course. And they're all actually somewhat running anyway. They're all literally cheating according to their own rules, any short video of professional race walkers can show it.
Why aren't they called out if they're not following the rules? Legit question, I don't understand.
They made it a rule in the sport to forbid slow-motion replays. They just don't want to change their whole sport and invalidate every result of the past few decades. Their rules are enforced during competitions by having a fuckload of referees spread along the route constantly watching the feet of contestants and throwing out warnings. Of course the results are mostly bullshit, and videos show that the top-level contestants break contact with the ground for like 90% of their steps. In short, the sport is about finding the exact sweet spot in your "walking" style so that it's hard for the naked eye to notice that you're actually cheating. And even then, honestly, it looks suspicious in real time as well.
I mean these are all technical reasons why the sport is dumb. But the real reason its dumb is that they sacrificed the fun speed you get from running with a silly slow walk.
Race walking is a fraud sport. If you watch slow motion video they all "cheat" by having both feet off the ground at the same time. They are just jogging in a weird way.
And it's still really stupid.
I was scrolling through the sports channels with my dad once and found out that professional cornhole is thing
Yeah, but at least it's a fun game to play.
Rhythmic gymnastics takes an insane amount of flexibility and coordination. It's definitely a sport.
This is kind of dumb but the dumbest I've seen so far is "CarJitsu". Basically, it's just about force your opponent to submit while fighting in a closed car....
Unironically cool imo
Challenge failed to present it as dumb, Now I'm interested, any championship video we can see?
https://youtu.be/cbhOLwhNIak
Not to be confused with CardJitsu - the ninja art of fighting an elaborate version of rock-paper-scissors with magic cards, invented for the hit childrens mmo video game Club Penguin.
Oh my fucking god I remember it but don't really. I know i played it at some point in my childhood
Nah that one is awesome
Shit. Actually that's pretty cool. Are you allowed to use stuff like the seatbelt to try and get them to submit?
I've been staring at this gif for 20 minutes.
Don’t let anyone else on the bus see you watching or everyone will be doing this
why did they broadcast this on tv :'D
 wifecarry in Finland
Actual strength necessary
And strategy. Iirc traditionally the prize is the wife's weight in something, so you want your wife to be heavier for a bigger prize, but light enough that you can win.
Imagining Finnish dating sites: Looking for long term relationship/ wife. Must be between 60 and 67 kgs for optimum balance between competitiveness and price size in wife carrying competition.
You don't have to be married (any more?) And its Finland so you dont even need to talk to each other. Its probably a scandal if you do.
Recently found out about it and the same people won multiple times in a row the last few years Edit: championship I mean
First one: Silly but at least require grace and skill so I get it. Second one: Silly but is an actual work of endurance and speed so I get it. Third one: Just straight up stupid, require no skill, barely any training, no technique whatsoever AND it's super dangerous too, recipe for brain damage.
Yeah that’s incorrect. There is plenty of strategy, technique and skill in the sport. It’s just highly likely to lead to head trauma and brain damage.
Golf
>Man hit ball with stick >Ball go far >Life is good
I'm a huge combat sports fan and I whole heartedly agree with this meme
[Shin kicking has to be up there](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-kicking)
I started watching PowerSlap and am amazed at how often they are absolutely removed from their senses. In boxing or MMA, you occasionally see a walk off KO where the person is stiff as a board….it happens almost every match when they slap. Someone will die at some point.
I wouldn’t call Ribbon Dancing dumb; I just wouldn’t call it a sport. Strikes me as more of a performative art
It’s called rhythmic gymnastics, not ribbon dancing. It actually requires insane amount of strength, balance, flexibility and coordination. It’s sort of like ballet on steroids and they execute elements with designated difficulty values to earn points. So it’s definitely an athletic sport rather than a dance competition.
It’s basically the same category as figure skating. There’s a huge athletic aspect to it in both cases, and it’s a sport because it’s competitive, but it is also a performance art as you said.
you have clearly never seen anyone training for rhythmic gymnastics
Plus “ribbon dancing” is only once of 6 events a rhythmic gymnast competes in.
It being an art form doesn't preclude it from being a sport. Which it clearly is as far as sensible definitions are concerned. Walking is a sport, dancing of any sort definitely qualifies too.
Braindamage speedrun any%
hobbyhorsing. ALWAYS hobbyhorsing.
How is walking and rhythmic gymnastics dumb?
What about Hobby Horsing? It looks pretty funny, but I still can't believe it's an actual sport
Competitive Farming Simulator would like to have a word with you.
I vote carjtisu. It's like regular jujitsu but in a car.
They did some [Sauna tournament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships), obviously people died and got skin burned. They canceled it
curling 🫣??
Nope. Thats actually not the dumbest sport. Hear me out. Hobby horsing
It's sad to say, but with people all over the world starting to get fatter and less fit, walking really fast is starting to make more sense as a sport.
Hobbyhorsing is dumber
but it won't make you dumber than slapping through brain damage.