Yeeper wrote:
BLeP wrote:
I don’t even know what it’s called. Basically people slap each other. The goal is to give the other person a concussion so they can no longer participate!
Yay!!! Let’s watch people try to give each other brain damage!!!
Somehow this seems worse than boxing. Maybe it isn’t. Who knows.
Agreed. I was just having this conversation with a client two weeks ago. Any combat sports are odd to me. The goal is simply to hurt the other person and in many of them give them a traumatic brain injury.
At least in boxing and MMA, etc there is a chance to defend and not just stand there and take it like the slapping shit.
But even in boxing it’s just bruise the ribs, hit the organs, or give the person a traumatic brain injury. No taps outs or limb stress to tap… just fucking vital organs and the brain.
Makes no sense to me.
Combat sports, to me, are probably the purest representation of sport and competition there is. Not that I enjoy seeing people get hurt, but, I can really appreciate the skill, athleticism and quite frankly courage & mental toughness involved in MMA and other combat sports.
That being said, power slap is just stupid.
My nomination will be CrossFit. I love it as a workout protocol. As a competitive sport it is completely ridiculous.
Honourable mention goes to Kabaddi.
Long Chile was a silly place.