[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
As an artist, it’s easy to see that bodybuilding is more of an art form. Aesthetically, there’s no difference between adding muscle to the body, and adding clay to a sculpture. I’ve been to countless group art shows where great works of art are on display right beside amateur works. Sometimes (as in that bb video) I wonder what the “artist” was thinking when he entered his piece of crap in the show.
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Surrealism?
Don’t mean to interrupt, this is hijack worthy though.
I’m hoping that X’s new hair-do will be a mullet.
K, done.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
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[quote]admbaum wrote:
[quote]Dustin wrote:
[quote]admbaum wrote:
may I introduce you to the bane of mma, Kyle Maynard[/quote]
This is just fucking stupid. I wish the dude (walking upright) would have kicked the amputee in the head and be done with it.
And that Maynard guy “scampering” around looks like something out of a Tool video.
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I have issues with this freak show for a number of reasons, but his opponent couldnt kick him. He is considered at all times “a downed fighter”. You cant kick/knee an opponent to the head if they have a knee on the ground. I’m appalled by this but I do give the guy credit for having the guts to get in there. [/quote]
He should have picked that fucking stump up and flung his ass right out of the ring like a goddamned Frisbee. What the fuck was he doing in there? Yeah, sure, it’s cool that he’s willing to do that with no arms/legs, but part of their whole schtick with these disabled freakshows is that they don’t want to be treated any differently. So when the bell rings his opponent should have treated him no differently and pummeled his ass.[/quote]
Yeah, but who wants to be the guy who beat up the guy with no legs?
You don’t get applause for that no matter how dumb the fight was.
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Well, of ocurse it’s a Catch-22. If it were me, I would have leaned up against the cage and stood there while Piglet was busy scurrying around at my ankles and then when the first round was about ten seconds from being over, I would have reached down, grabbed him and hurled him Frisbee-style right in the laps of all his friends cheering him on. Either that or flung him into the back row discus-style.
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I’m in a conflicted place with this one. One the one hand, the darker part of me would have damn near murdered the kid, however, the bleeding heart in me would have made a go of it and tried to make him shine. Yeah, he probably should find a new hobby, however, since he is dead set on fighting, despite his inability to do so, who am I to remind him of how limited he is, physically? He sees it everyday in the mirror. I’d probably walk a tight rope on this one. I’d beat on him, but not enough to put him out or make him quit. Just enough to fulfill his wish for a fight.
And X, what is up with the long jeri-curl avatar??? It threw me for a bit.
I sure hope the OP’s video was a make-a-wish foundation thing.
Px’s new doo remids me of these guys lol.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Yeah, but who wants to be the guy who beat up the guy with no legs?
You don’t get applause for that no matter how dumb the fight was.
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This is exactly it. If a mentally handicapped guy competed in MMA and was seriously injured as a result, the finger of blame would point in the direction of those who should’ve protected him by preventing him from competing in the first place. All responsibility for what happens falls on them.
Because the risk of serious injury in a bodybuilding comp is low (barring freak accidents), it’s perfectly acceptable to put mentally impaired and physically unprepared individuals in with serious and committed entrants.
The friends and family of the dude in the first clip can avoid any negative criticism by painting it as a positive experience for the guy to step on stage. Which all fine and dandy - except for the fact that even though the audience are rooting him on, most are only doing it for their own gratification; I’ll bet that very few actually give a shit whether it enriches his quality of life.
The guy is clearly oblivious to this, but his friends and family should know better…and they would if there was any risk to his well-being. In that event, if they wouldn’t stop his participation, the organizers would - if only to protect their own hides.
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
What a dick. More shit that makes BBing look like a joke.
Bodybuilding: the only sport where a totally outclassed dude can step into the arena and have his friends and family cheer as if he’s already Mr Olympia.
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Are you serious? You are talking about a sport where competitors wax all the hair from their body, fake tan, wear a banana hammock, and dry hump air in front of a crowd of other guys…and you think some idiot goofing off makes it look like a “joke”?
Bodybuilding: the only sport where you get mostly naked and dry hump in front of other dudes, and not be considered gay.
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I know. It’s almost as lame as a whole group of really obese guys trying to lift so much weight their noses bleed just so they can see how many times they can bounce the bar off their enormous girth for points all while wearing extra strength spandex so tight they need help putting their gear on.
Oooh, and almost as ridiculous as trying to act like Bruce Lee in front of a bunch of other dudes while wearing head gear that allows someone to hit you in the head on purpose.
Yeah…what are ALL of these dumbasses thinking?![/quote]
I hope you’re joking and don’t actually believe all or even most powerlifters are obese. Have you ever witnessed a meet? Some of the strongest lifters, pound for pound, have wiry builds.
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I don’t even know if this is worth responding to if you can’t understand what was meant by that post.
I swear I feel like my posts need Cliff Notes lately for the learning impaired.[/quote]
Haha, nice! I’ve been called a lot of things - but learning impaired is a first. Have you been hanging around my ex? Her put downs are usually equally off base.
Re-reading the original post and your response, it is more clear. Maybe I’m just not giving these random threads enough careful attention.
OMG WTF ROFL WOW! Words can-not describe that video. The clueless competitor LOL. I don’t know whether to be sad or to laugh…well its too late about the laughing part. That guy seems touched in the head.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Yeah, but who wants to be the guy who beat up the guy with no legs?
You don’t get applause for that no matter how dumb the fight was.
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This is exactly it. If a mentally handicapped guy competed in MMA and was seriously injured as a result, the finger of blame would point in the direction of those who should’ve protected him by preventing him from competing in the first place. All responsibility for what happens falls on them.
Because the risk of serious injury in a bodybuilding comp is low (barring freak accidents), it’s perfectly acceptable to put mentally impaired and physically unprepared individuals in with serious and committed entrants.
The friends and family of the dude in the first clip can avoid any negative criticism by painting it as a positive experience for the guy to step on stage. Which all fine and dandy - except for the fact that even though the audience are rooting him on, most are only doing it for their own gratification; I’ll bet that very few actually give a shit whether it enriches his quality of life.
The guy is clearly oblivious to this, but his friends and family should know better…and they would if there was any risk to his well-being. In that event, if they wouldn’t stop his participation, the organizers would - if only to protect their own hides.
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In high school our big rival had a girl on the baseball team. She was good too, she started at second base. Well, my senior year both of our teams were tied for first place with three games to go and we were playing each other. I was on first base with one out and the tying run at third in the top of the seventh (only 7 innings in high school, so this was it).
Ground ball to the SS, he flips it to this chick at second for the out on me. Now, I know ahead of time that if they turn a double play here, the game’s over and we lose. So I went into second base like a fucking rabid elephant and blew her the fuck up. She got the throw off, but I upended her really badly. She didn’t even try to move out of the way, just planted herself squarely on the middle of the bag like she didn’t think it was a possibility that I’d be headed into second like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. The throw went into stands, the batter was not only safe at first but was awarded second on the errant throw. Their secondbasewoman was injured on the play and had to come out, their pitcher (who I found out later was banging her) all of a sudden couldn’t find the strike zone and wild-pitched the runner to third, then he scored the go-ahead run on an error by the new second baseman.
Moral of the story: once they step on the field/in the ring, they’re just another person in the way of victory. And they better be aware of this. Did I feel bad about injuring her? Not at all. I wasn’t trying to and the collision was entirely clean. Of course her team flipped the fuck out, but fuck them, they hated us anyways. In fact, I suspect that she let her guard down because of the fact that she is a female and thought I would take it easy on her.
I see this all the time in Novice strongman competitions, well at any novice level really. That is why there are requirements at higher levels.
Everyone has played a team sport with the dopey kid on your team, the one that picked daisies in baseball who couldn’t catch so you stuck him in right field. The kid who couldn’t skate so he played wing or defense on the fourth or third line in house league.
Or in my case these days, the guy who comes in last and DNFs on four out of five of the events. When a new guy comes out to a show that is novice level, and I’ll admit, I have one last year there, I am at the top of it, but the intermediate level here jumps to provincials very fast so it is dominate novice for one year then jump up to the bigger shows.
You need to start somewhere, but seriously… don’t jump out there and make a fool of yourself…
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Moral of the story: once they step on the field/in the ring, they’re just another person in the way of victory. And they better be aware of this. [/quote]
Absolutely quoted for truth.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
In high school our big rival had a girl on the baseball team. She was good too, she started at second base. Well, my senior year both of our teams were tied for first place with three games to go and we were playing each other. I was on first base with one out and the tying run at third in the top of the seventh (only 7 innings in high school, so this was it).
Ground ball to the SS, he flips it to this chick at second for the out on me. Now, I know ahead of time that if they turn a double play here, the game’s over and we lose. So I went into second base like a fucking rabid elephant and blew her the fuck up. She got the throw off, but I upended her really badly. She didn’t even try to move out of the way, just planted herself squarely on the middle of the bag like she didn’t think it was a possibility that I’d be headed into second like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. The throw went into stands, the batter was not only safe at first but was awarded second on the errant throw. Their secondbasewoman was injured on the play and had to come out, their pitcher (who I found out later was banging her) all of a sudden couldn’t find the strike zone and wild-pitched the runner to third, then he scored the go-ahead run on an error by the new second baseman.
Moral of the story: once they step on the field/in the ring, they’re just another person in the way of victory. And they better be aware of this. Did I feel bad about injuring her? Not at all. I wasn’t trying to and the collision was entirely clean. Of course her team flipped the fuck out, but fuck them, they hated us anyways. In fact, I suspect that she let her guard down because of the fact that she is a female and thought I would take it easy on her.[/quote]
Did you get any flak from anybody other than the team themselves?
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
In high school our big rival had a girl on the baseball team. She was good too, she started at second base. Well, my senior year both of our teams were tied for first place with three games to go and we were playing each other. I was on first base with one out and the tying run at third in the top of the seventh (only 7 innings in high school, so this was it).
Ground ball to the SS, he flips it to this chick at second for the out on me. Now, I know ahead of time that if they turn a double play here, the game’s over and we lose. So I went into second base like a fucking rabid elephant and blew her the fuck up. She got the throw off, but I upended her really badly. She didn’t even try to move out of the way, just planted herself squarely on the middle of the bag like she didn’t think it was a possibility that I’d be headed into second like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. The throw went into stands, the batter was not only safe at first but was awarded second on the errant throw. Their secondbasewoman was injured on the play and had to come out, their pitcher (who I found out later was banging her) all of a sudden couldn’t find the strike zone and wild-pitched the runner to third, then he scored the go-ahead run on an error by the new second baseman.
Moral of the story: once they step on the field/in the ring, they’re just another person in the way of victory. And they better be aware of this. Did I feel bad about injuring her? Not at all. I wasn’t trying to and the collision was entirely clean. Of course her team flipped the fuck out, but fuck them, they hated us anyways. In fact, I suspect that she let her guard down because of the fact that she is a female and thought I would take it easy on her.[/quote]
Did you get any flak from anybody other than the team themselves?
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Nope. In fact I played with one of the guys on that team in college and he remembered the play well. Apparently she also tried out for the wrestling team her sophomore year and got suplexed practically right thru the gym floor in her first meet and then quit after that.
He said everybody was pissed off about it at first, but mostly just because it was a convenient thing to get pissed off at as a distraction from the fact that she turned the double play like a statue and her throwing error (which could have been avoided had she shown even an inkling of instinct around the base; I mean you HAVE to expect contact on a play like that, especially with the tying run at third) cost them the game.
Afterward she was apparently going ballistic about how it was a dirty play and I was trying to hurt her. He said that no one said anything contrary to her at that time, but that in the back of their heads they all knew she was stupid for complaining because it was a clean play, just good hard baseball and they would have done the exact same thing, especially with the game and a playoff spot on the line against your crosstown rivals.
In short, she expected people to feel sorry for her since I was twice her size. But you know what? Buy the ticket, take the fucking ride.
its common for mentally immpaired athletes to play highschool sports.
our high school and wrestling teams had a few.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
its common for mentally immpaired athletes to play highschool sports.
our high school and wrestling teams had a few.[/quote]
Were you…fuck, never mind.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
its common for mentally immpaired athletes to play highschool sports.
our high school and wrestling teams had a few.[/quote]
Were you…fuck, never mind.[/quote]
Yes, I did become aroused by them.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
In high school our big rival had a girl on the baseball team. She was good too, she started at second base. Well, my senior year both of our teams were tied for first place with three games to go and we were playing each other. I was on first base with one out and the tying run at third in the top of the seventh (only 7 innings in high school, so this was it).
Ground ball to the SS, he flips it to this chick at second for the out on me. Now, I know ahead of time that if they turn a double play here, the game’s over and we lose. So I went into second base like a fucking rabid elephant and blew her the fuck up. She got the throw off, but I upended her really badly. She didn’t even try to move out of the way, just planted herself squarely on the middle of the bag like she didn’t think it was a possibility that I’d be headed into second like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. The throw went into stands, the batter was not only safe at first but was awarded second on the errant throw. Their secondbasewoman was injured on the play and had to come out, their pitcher (who I found out later was banging her) all of a sudden couldn’t find the strike zone and wild-pitched the runner to third, then he scored the go-ahead run on an error by the new second baseman.
Moral of the story: once they step on the field/in the ring, they’re just another person in the way of victory. And they better be aware of this. Did I feel bad about injuring her? Not at all. I wasn’t trying to and the collision was entirely clean. Of course her team flipped the fuck out, but fuck them, they hated us anyways. In fact, I suspect that she let her guard down because of the fact that she is a female and thought I would take it easy on her.[/quote]
Did you get any flak from anybody other than the team themselves?
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Nope. In fact I played with one of the guys on that team in college and he remembered the play well. Apparently she also tried out for the wrestling team her sophomore year and got suplexed practically right thru the gym floor in her first meet and then quit after that.
He said everybody was pissed off about it at first, but mostly just because it was a convenient thing to get pissed off at as a distraction from the fact that she turned the double play like a statue and her throwing error (which could have been avoided had she shown even an inkling of instinct around the base; I mean you HAVE to expect contact on a play like that, especially with the tying run at third) cost them the game.
Afterward she was apparently going ballistic about how it was a dirty play and I was trying to hurt her. He said that no one said anything contrary to her at that time, but that in the back of their heads they all knew she was stupid for complaining because it was a clean play, just good hard baseball and they would have done the exact same thing, especially with the game and a playoff spot on the line against your crosstown rivals.
In short, she expected people to feel sorry for her since I was twice her size. But you know what? Buy the ticket, take the fucking ride.[/quote]
That totally makes sense. I was asking because people have a tendency to make knee-jerk decisions based on what they see. An example would be your experience of playing fairly and to the best of your ability, which just happened to end with a female opponent being knocked down, only for you get booed as if you were responsible for her being there in the first place (it didn’t happen, but that is the natural reaction, which is why I asked).
That isn’t your call, but somebody has to get put in the stocks. It’s human nature: always has been, always will be. Going back to what I said earlier, there is a distinction between putting someone in a bodybuilding comp -even though they don’t belong there- and putting them in a sport where they might get injured through exertion or injury.
In the bodybuilding comp only egos get bruised. Egos get bruised in the other activities as well, of course, but the emotional reaction of the audience is vastly different.
BTW the scars on the guys head from the OP’s video is from Cochlear Implants. It helps deaf people hear somethings. But I still doubt that people are cheering him on because of the disability. Deaf people can get big to…AKA Lou Ferrigno.
Now this is tempting fate. French career prankster Remi Gaillard gate-crashing Mr. Universe:
[quote]Joebus wrote:
BTW the scars on the guys head from the OP’s video is from Cochlear Implants. It helps deaf people hear somethings. But I still doubt that people are cheering him on because of the disability. Deaf people can get big to…AKA Lou Ferrigno. [/quote]
What’s your experience with Cochlear implants?
haha thats funny shit