Weird Sports Thread

[jho]

what's the weirdest sport you've seen?

anyone up for bicycle soccer?

[EVILYOSHIDA]

MMA and soccer are probably the 2 best sports.
The rest are just derivatives are less pure forms of those 2

soccer represents organized warfare and mma represents mano y mano combat

[karasu]

I find an odd enjoyment in reading/researching about Ultra-"Running" and then questioning and sometimes disproving their lofty claims.

There is a bit of fanatical zealotry with them, I guess that could be true of any group passionate about their enterprise, and I think the sport attracts some which use it as a therapy, again, maybe that could be said of other sporting activities too.....but the difference is that in other sports there is a transparency where with the Ultra-Nerds they are writing these books where it's more than liberal creativity in telling a story, they are making fictional claims and selling it as Non-Fiction.

Read a few of the Ultra-Books and you will read about the Running Monks of Japan who if they don't complete the run they commit seppuku....and of course the truth is much different....much of the distance the walk....and as opposed to what the books insinuate the monks do not run every day and will not run if there is weather danger, sickness, and so on. One video I have shared the Ultra-Nerds are telling about these monks and their "running" and in the video the monk uses the word WALKING

"The Way of the Runner" author was more authentic and still told a good story



Japan is the most running-obsessed country on earth. A 135-mile relay race, or "ekiden," is the country's biggest annual sporting event. Thousands of professional runners compete for corporate teams in some of the most competitive races in the world. The legendary "marathon monks" run a thousand marathons in a thousand days to reach spiritual enlightenment.Yet so much of Japan's running culture remains a mystery to the outside world.-----

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Runner-Journe...B019G14YTG

[karasu]

^even in that review it mentions those Marathon Monks I was talking about

[Count Iblis]

Ice skating janitorial giant marbles is pretty weird.

[jho]

Finnish baseball might be an improvement.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

this is a weird, but it makes sense in a way type of sport

[jho]

not weird but problematic to snowflakes in 2021

[Mad Mike]

I don't care what people say, I love watching slapping competitions. I never miss a contest. I don't know if it's considered weird.. It's definitely stupid for the competitors. But their stupidity is entertaining.. There are some slapping monsters in the sport as well.. Big knock outs.. I enjoy this guy's commentary as well.. The King of Slaps is a big Russian named Dumpling. He knocks people out cold with slaps.. This is the light heavyweight champ Wolverine

[Billygoat]

Is it really a slap if it hits you on the ear and neck?

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[EVILYOSHIDA]

this is amazing. Bo taoshi from japan.
This is some solar ass shit

[EVILYOSHIDA]

^ that is fucking amazing.

So Aesthetic. so ritualistic.. yet so primal

AMAZING

[EVILYOSHIDA]

[EVILYOSHIDA]

^ this is a real sport

[jho]