[quote]mbdix wrote:
Here are Watt’s stats. Yes he is a Beast. Watching him play right now[/quote]
Damn, did you read the scouting report on him? They spoke like he was gonna be an average NFL player. Shit’s crazy.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]mbdix wrote:
Here are Watt’s stats. Yes he is a Beast. Watching him play right now[/quote]
Damn, did you read the scouting report on him? They spoke like he was gonna be an average NFL player. Shit’s crazy.[/quote]
Yeah
The reports out of the combine never hold anything back. They just tell it like it is. Same guys that didn’t think Brady should go in the 1st round.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
The reports out of the combine never hold anything back. They just tell it like it is. Same guys that didn’t think Brady should go in the 1st round.[/quote]
The combine (both NFL and NBA) need to be completely revamped. There are too many pointless events and not enough focus on sport specific application.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]02Thief wrote:
u r 1 cheeky cunt m8 wanna go 1v1 ill fuckin smash you irl
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LOL, sounds about right! With those grammar skills you’re well above 99.9% of your countrymen - come clean, are you the Emperor of Australia?[/quote]
Ahh damnit, you outed me.
I’m getting it tattooed on me Wednesday, that’s what my other thread was about.
with sports with the best athletes are going to be the sports that pay the most… because good athletes want to make money. They know they are good cause they consistently excel at sports in high school and since they wanna be rich and famous they gravitate towards the sports that pay the most, ie, basketball, football, baseball in the usa (in europe, soccer, in canada hockey, etc…).
But the question was which sports PRODUCE the best overall athletes. So which sport, if you played that sport and nothing else would make you an excellent all around athlete? Would drastically improve all previously mentioned athletic traits? I don’t know for sure, but i would put my money on wrestling. If it were possible for some sort of objective test to be done.
I got yer well-rounded right here.
Also, to get all nerdy technical, it’s silly to ask which is best. We can have favorites, but best is too subjective.
I mean what’s the best beer? There isn’t one. There’s the beer that you like the most, but it’s not the best one.
We can do things like ask which sport’s athlete’s can run a certain distance the fastest (and not just a 40 as footballers have trained for that, so they’d have an advantage there) then we can see which ones have the most strength in the legs or upper body or something. Then there are practicable skills too.
Quidditch.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Also, to get all nerdy technical, it’s silly to ask which is best. We can have favorites, but best is too subjective.
I mean what’s the best beer? There isn’t one. There’s the beer that you like the most, but it’s not the best one.
We can do things like ask which sport’s athlete’s can run a certain distance the fastest (and not just a 40 as footballers have trained for that, so they’d have an advantage there) then we can see which ones have the most strength in the legs or upper body or something. Then there are practicable skills too.[/quote]
Of course it is a silly question, I admitted that in my first post. I don’t think it’s as subjective as you make out, all of these traits are quantifiable. But I agree, there really is no definitive answer - without seeing them perform side by side we can only speculate. I’m still glad I asked though, I think the discussion it has generated has been really interesting.
Gymnasts.
I would think if you took a whole load of athletes from all different sporting backgrounds & got them to compete at other sports, I’d expect the gynasts to come out top or at least very near the top, overall.
GorillaMon, if thats the test then athletes involved with animals win. Think about someone trying to get on a crazy as shit thoroughbred they have never met and then getting that beast to submit to your will. Jockeys do it every day… I don’t think they are the most impressive athletes, but what they do certainly is.
MMA.
All sports are just ritualized combat.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]rehanb_bl wrote:
…I don’t mean to diss football but football is very task specific and not overall skill full.
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Stop this nonsense.[/quote]
it’s true, a running back would running back the shit out of everyone else but they hardly ever develop other skills I.e. Defence kicking etc
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
MMA.
All sports are just ritualized combat.[/quote]
I agree with the theory behind this. However, in practice I think the lack of a meaningful payday combined with the absence of any collegiate or amateur athlete development systems prevents us from consistently seeing the type of athletic superfreaks we see in the NFL, the NBA or in the Olympics.
That said, I think I actually enjoy MMA more for this reason.
[quote]Nards wrote:
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Haha! He ‘‘deadlifted’’ that guy like would a sack of feathers.
[quote]GorillaMon wrote:
Gymnasts.
I would think if you took a whole load of athletes from all different sporting backgrounds & got them to compete at other sports, I’d expect the gynasts to come out top or at least very near the top, overall. [/quote]
For sure they’d be up there in many ways. I’m not convinced that their raw strength would be that great though, especially in the lower body. And, while definitely muscular, they never strike me as being particularly big, especially taking height into account. I don’t think they’d do that well in more physical sports such as American football and rugby.
As for mma, while I completely agree that all other sports are ritualised combat, I feel that that point isn’t completely related to the question. I think that mma does come high on the list but I don’t think you have to be well rounded athletically to do well in the sport. They are almost always fast and have great endurance, but they needn’t be particularly strong.
I think that is largely due to the weight divisions - often it is to a fighters advantage to not put on much muscle so that they can be tall for their weight class as reach is such an important attribute. This isn’t a knock on mma at all, it is by far my favourite sport, I just don’t necessarily think it produces the most well rounded athletes.
got into this sport in the 90’s. might not be “The Most Impressive, Well-Rounded Athletes?” but I’m impressed by their skills, stamina, and guts.
