[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Plus with the addition of pads people hit HARDER, due to the decrease in fear of injury. Nobody in Rugby will routinely strike someone with their forehead at a full speed run. [/quote]
I played Rugby, and there are a couple big things. You mentioned the first one which is that the pads make people hit harder. The other one though which I found to be an even bigger deal was that Rugby is played with 15 per side as opposed to 11 per side.
Combined with Rugby’s offsides and lateral passing rules blablabla it ends up in a game where there is a lot of tackling, but all the action is kept in real close. You rarely have opportunities in a Rugby game to really work up to full speed and smash into someone. In football you have a lot more instances of tackles made at full sprints.
I love Rugby; just sayin that as “hardcore” as the no-pads thing is, there are some balancing factors that make it a little more bearable. Both sports are badass.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Plus with the addition of pads people hit HARDER, due to the decrease in fear of injury. Nobody in Rugby will routinely strike someone with their forehead at a full speed run. [/quote]
I played Rugby, and there are a couple big things. You mentioned the first one which is that the pads make people hit harder. The other one though which I found to be an even bigger deal was that Rugby is played with 15 per side as opposed to 11 per side.
Combined with Rugby’s offsides and lateral passing rules blablabla it ends up in a game where there is a lot of tackling, but all the action is kept in real close. You rarely have opportunities in a Rugby game to really work up to full speed and smash into someone. In football you have a lot more instances of tackles made at full sprints.
I love Rugby; just sayin that as “hardcore” as the no-pads thing is, there are some balancing factors that make it a little more bearable. Both sports are badass.[/quote]
Exactly
I am sure skydivers call airplane pilots pussies for have an engine and all.
There is no reason to wear gloves while training…it isn’t that cold.
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Haha. I enjoyed this one. Dose anyone file down their callouses? I have never done it. Even when I used to do a lot of oly lifting, they would just rip off and I would keep lifting.
There is no reason to wear gloves while training…it isn’t that cold.
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Haha. I enjoyed this one. Dose anyone file down their callouses? I have never done it. Even when I used to do a lot of oly lifting, they would just rip off and I would keep lifting. [/quote]
Whole thread on this in CTs forum yesterday. Several good ideas in there. I have never had to file mine because they just kinda fall off. I have had a couple people tell me how weird it is but I aint complaining.
There is no reason to wear gloves while training…it isn’t that cold.
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Haha. I enjoyed this one. Dose anyone file down their callouses? I have never done it. Even when I used to do a lot of oly lifting, they would just rip off and I would keep lifting. [/quote]
Whole thread on this in CTs forum yesterday. Several good ideas in there. I have never had to file mine because they just kinda fall off. I have had a couple people tell me how weird it is but I aint complaining.[/quote]
I have a tool that works like a cheese-knife…works great.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Plus with the addition of pads people hit HARDER, due to the decrease in fear of injury. Nobody in Rugby will routinely strike someone with their forehead at a full speed run. [/quote]
I played Rugby, and there are a couple big things. You mentioned the first one which is that the pads make people hit harder. The other one though which I found to be an even bigger deal was that Rugby is played with 15 per side as opposed to 11 per side.
Combined with Rugby’s offsides and lateral passing rules blablabla it ends up in a game where there is a lot of tackling, but all the action is kept in real close. You rarely have opportunities in a Rugby game to really work up to full speed and smash into someone. In football you have a lot more instances of tackles made at full sprints.
I love Rugby; just sayin that as “hardcore” as the no-pads thing is, there are some balancing factors that make it a little more bearable. Both sports are badass.[/quote]
Exactly
I am sure skydivers call airplane pilots pussies for have an engine and all. [/quote]
Agree’d I would also add that the nature of the two sports allow football players to work more to being big and fast while rugby players have to do a lot more conditioning work… Not to mention with the paychecks NFL players get it allows them to buy top of the line roids and hgh to get even bigger and faster than human limits allow…
I love hearing “take off the pads” LOL every football player has played without pads at one point or another, also the pads protect head, shoulders, and thighs… when a player gets tackled is he only getting hit in those places? of course not. And most of the time the player hitting is doing so when his pads on an unprotected area…
I don’t understand the hype around BB rows. I think I did them once in the last 2 years, and just felt like a retard doing them. My back grew just fine too.
Also, in my lifetime in gyms (including 1 year at a PLers gym and 1 year at a BBers gym) I have not even seen a dozen different people who squat to parallel or below. I believe the same must be true of TNation members here too who boast of 400+ squats.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Plus with the addition of pads people hit HARDER, due to the decrease in fear of injury. Nobody in Rugby will routinely strike someone with their forehead at a full speed run. [/quote]
I played Rugby, and there are a couple big things. You mentioned the first one which is that the pads make people hit harder. The other one though which I found to be an even bigger deal was that Rugby is played with 15 per side as opposed to 11 per side.
Combined with Rugby’s offsides and lateral passing rules blablabla it ends up in a game where there is a lot of tackling, but all the action is kept in real close. You rarely have opportunities in a Rugby game to really work up to full speed and smash into someone. In football you have a lot more instances of tackles made at full sprints.
I love Rugby; just sayin that as “hardcore” as the no-pads thing is, there are some balancing factors that make it a little more bearable. Both sports are badass.[/quote]
Exactly
I am sure skydivers call airplane pilots pussies for have an engine and all. [/quote]
Agree’d I would also add that the nature of the two sports allow football players to work more to being big and fast while rugby players have to do a lot more conditioning work… Not to mention with the paychecks NFL players get it allows them to buy top of the line roids and hgh to get even bigger and faster than human limits allow…
I love hearing “take off the pads” LOL every football player has played without pads at one point or another, also the pads protect head, shoulders, and thighs… when a player gets tackled is he only getting hit in those places? of course not. And most of the time the player hitting is doing so when his pads on an unprotected area…[/quote]
I played both, granted my experience with rugby was a tryout and a couple practices before it got to be to much for my schedule (I never even got a grasp on the rules) but I didn’t get hit in rugby anywhere near as ferociously as I did in football. I mean the hits where hard, but the worst hits I ever took in football were when someone was able to use there helmet as a battering ram from my blindside. You don’t have a helmet in rugby, but to me at least that works in favor of softening the blows. Also it seems as though there are only a few Football positions that would translate well to rugby because of the conditioning, linebackers, runningbacks, tightends, big safeties and small D-ends. Which coincidentally are the most physically demanding positions to play.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I don’t understand the hype around BB rows. I think I did them once in the last 2 years, and just felt like a retard doing them. My back grew just fine too.
Also, in my lifetime in gyms (including 1 year at a PLers gym and 1 year at a BBers gym) I have not even seen a dozen different people who squat to parallel or below. I believe the same must be true of TNation members here too who boast of 400+ squats. [/quote]
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I don’t understand the hype around BB rows. I think I did them once in the last 2 years, and just felt like a retard doing them. My back grew just fine too.
Also, in my lifetime in gyms (including 1 year at a PLers gym and 1 year at a BBers gym) I have not even seen a dozen different people who squat to parallel or below. I believe the same must be true of TNation members here too who boast of 400+ squats. [/quote]
Seriously about the African dogs, (that story fucked up my mood for like a month when it happened by the way), Any man that did not jump in after that child and try to help it, is not a man and they make me sick. They might have torn me apart, but I would have been in there trying to keep those dog’s attention until someone could have helped and if you had several men get in there I think that half domesticated animals would have just given up not thinking it was worth it.
