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>> ^EMPIRE:

lol you're right.
also I don't understand the human who does this, sees the girl that was hit on the floor, and doesn't go over to see if she's alright.
I don't get that lack of empathy.


There is a unspoken rule of sports that you don't do that. When confronted with the person who just nailed you hard, it usually evokes more bad emotions. Isn't always the case, but it is usually better to just keep your distance, kind of like getting into a heated argument with your significant other...space right after the fact is usually the better idea.

http://trollable.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Volleyball-match-across-the-US-Mexico-border-in-19791.jpg

I found some sports wins too

http://sports.videosift.com/video/How-do-you-win-a-tournament-With-a-hole-in-one-of-course
http://videosift.com/video/Brandon-Roy-Game-Winning-Overtime-3-Pointer-Last-night
http://videosift.com/video/What-winning-feels-like
http://videosift.com/video/Lithuanian-Volleyball-Spike-Win
http://sports.videosift.com/video/Isaiah-Thomas-Game-Winning-Shot-Pac-10-Championship
http://sports.videosift.com/video/Little-Giants-Fake-FG-Pass-play-to-win-the-game-in-OT

Why is no one else getting in on this action?

Not that it changes the value of any of these comments but this is not the Olympics, it's the 2012 World Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Istanbul in March.

Edit: I would say this makes the title inaccurate except I was just watching some beach volleyball and I think he's at the Olympics as well.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'volley ball kicksave' to 'volleyball, kicksave, brazil, olympics, 2012' - edited by bareboards2

Meh, give me the girl's volleyball over this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/olympic-beach-volleyball-brings-beat-to-olympics_n_1713065.html#slide=1294743

Assumptions:
Fans and players usually assume that when the ball makes contact with a player's foot, the play is automatically ruled illegal.

Official Ruling:
Following changes in all volleyball rule books in the past few years, there is no longer any rule barring contact with the foot in a volleyball game at any level. This means it is legal to deflect the ball with your foot, block the ball with your foot, or even kick it to a teammate or to the other side of the net. However, after kicking the ball, you are not allowed to make contact with the ball until someone else has touched the ball, just as you are not allowed to hit the ball twice in a row with your hands.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/100917-volleyball-rules-using-feet/

The more fat cells you make the harder it is to lose weight and keep it off. Fat cells stay fat cells in your body even when they are not loaded with fat. Takes just as much discipline to get fat as it does to get un-fat.

Yoga can affect changes that seem miraculous (and they are) but anything one does to clear chi as a practice can do the same. Ever see what Pilates can do?? Volleyball? Swimming?

Oh hey, Rottenseed?? You are most likely already hermitized. You should simply stop watching TV with a view to actually getting any real information. News rhymes with lose and like this feel-good journal pimped-out to yoga-man it includes an over-abundance of adverts.

Incredibly cool story. More power to the man who blew out his knees and compacted his lumbar hopping out of transport planes for the empire! Reminds me of that scene from Starship Troopers where the mobile infantry recruiter without legs exclaimed with enthusiasm, "The mobile infantry made me the man I am today!"

>> ^tymebendit:

How would it be cheaper?
They're paying the teachers more (upper middle class), providing free meals, free school supplies, and more personal attention to those in need.
Maybe it would cost less to the society in the long run, but I think the initial cost of the system would have to be higher. It would have to be a serious commitment by whoever wants to try it.
>> ^CreamK:
>> ^tymebendit:
i wish we can try the finnish system.
pick a state, or a city, and try it for 10-15 years.
everyone says out current system is terrible and not working.
how much worse could it be than our current one?
it will cost a bit more than our current system, but probably not that much more...

Actually, Finnish system is cheaper than US and by a large margin... Schools that don't have to make profit are much more cost efficient..


The meals you are served at school are typically cheaper than the equivalent meal you would get at a cafeteria anywhere else, they are subsidized or cost mitigated at some point. Plus they provide meals to many kids already free of charge.

School supplies, a school would be able to buy supplies on the whole cheaper than an individual parent x however many students.

And the US schools already provide smaller classes and special buses and/or vans to get handicapped children to and from school. Plus they provide bussing to private schools in my area, I am not sure if they do that at a nominal fee or do it as part of their mandate to provide transportation to these kids.

On top of these things, schools also have sports programs which are astronomically expensive since they require maintaining tracks, fields, and stadiums within the budget of the school. They also pay teachers to be coaches or have an separate coach, all transportation to and from "away" games, uniforms, equipment and the additional parking and safety requirements needed to have games on their premises.

The local school district to me, when they have to make cuts, they never threaten to cut sports. It's always threatening to cut building maintenance, teachers salaries, and buses. Yet sports have no impact on education or the future of about 75% of the kids going through those schools, it's usually a very small group of kids who get to even benefit from the sports programs the school offers but they maintain a stadium, a baseball field, soccer field, football field. Provide uniforms for volleyball, baseball, football, soccer, tennis, and all the other equipment for male and female teams when applicable. I remember it being a big deal with the debate club of 5-10 people who used a small room after school to do their practices got shirts and they otherwise have no additional cost but a few lights and an hour of a teachers time once or twice a week plus debates against other schools...I dont even think they got transportation provided they were expected to be driven to these places by their parents.

US schools spend money on things not related directly to increasing knowledge and education instead preferring to spend major sums of their budgets on sports related costs. Then you have the extra costs associated with special needs kids, because it keeps them from standardized testing to have these kids separated from the regular kids. And yet the kids who are the bright but don't learn well in the traditional classroom get labeled as special needs or "difficult" and are essentially screwed unless their parents go above and beyond to provide them what they need. This is not a system that is designed with cost in mind, whether it be money or the cost of unknowable "future" issues either on personal levels for each student neglected or as a society as a whole as we become about only teaching subjects one way and only one way.

And this is ignoring college education costs and just looking at High School and below. College is astronomically expensive and yet again, they spend loads of money on sports programs but they MIGHT make some fraction of that cost back via ticket sales and such at a generic University and might actually be a profit center in big name University's like OSU.

I have to say he's wrong on a number of points.

For one, sports rules are arbitrary. In any competitive game, the only purpose of the rules is to provide an agreed upon environment in which people can compete, in order to make scores easy to tally. For example, imagine basketball with no rules, a player takes a ball from one end of a court to another without dribbling and shoots and makes it. How many points should that be worth? How about using a ladder to make the basket, or any one of the limitless number of other ways a person might come up with on the fly while playing? By having all the competitors agree to a set of rules, regardless of what those rules are, it's possible to referee the game and determine a winner. You can take any game, make arbitrary changes to the rules, and all you've done is create a different game. From chess, to poker, golf, football, curling, or anything else, the only difference is the rule set. Take volleyball, make a few a tweaks, and you have sepak takraw. People might find one rule set more aesthetically pleasing to watch or fun to compete in than another, but that is completely subjective. There are an infinite number of possible rule sets, and if there were infinite people you could find somebody to enjoy each one of them.

Also, it's more than the essential nature of a thing that matters. Nonessential parts can have effects on the essential ones. The golf cart thing is the perfect example. Walking may not be an essential part of the game, but the fatigue it produces has an effect on swinging the club which is an essential part. It's easy to imagine a person unable to walk, but still able to swing a club with force an accuracy. So being disabled does not disadvantage this person on the essential parts of the game. This person spends most of his time on a golf cart, exerting little energy, and shaded from the sun. The other players do a lot of walking, getting tired, sunburned, sweat in their eyes, etc. That could definitely have an effect on the essence of the game.

So the question is then, which is more important: letting golf be defined as having the particular set of rules that it currently has, or being fair by letting the disabled play?
If it makes sense that the court can redefine the rules of golf so that a disabled person can use a cart and it still be called "golf", then surely it makes sense to still call it golf after you change the rules so that everybody can use a cart. And if the court has the power to do the former, it has the power to do the latter. And the court clearly chose the virtue of fairness over the "sanctity" of the rule set. And, since letting only one person use a cart would still be unfair, just to different people, the only sensible course of action is let everybody use one.

Volleyball for the armless.

>> ^luxury_pie:

I believe it's because of this: http://videosift.com/video/Amazing-Chinese-Girls-Volleyball-
Rally-Almost-2-Minutes


Thanks, luxury_pie. Really weird, because I searched for voleyball+rally and voleyball+china before submitting, returned no results =/

*discard

I believe it's because of this: http://videosift.com/video/Amazing-Chinese-Girls-Volleyball-Rally-Almost-2-Minutes

>> ^albrite30:

I believe this is a dupe.


Do you say that because of the hyperlink? Because http://videosift.com/video/Epic-Volleyball-Rally?noredirect was a completely different video.