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Losing a Point for Mocking Opponent's Grunting

Losing a Point for Mocking Opponent's Grunting

Losing a Point for Mocking Opponent's Grunting

newtboy says...

WTF?!? How exactly does he determine it's 'mocking' and not his own grunt at a hard swing?
That's some ol BS right there. If one can grunt, the other can grunt back. If grunting is a problem, guy in blue should lose.
No wonder these judges get hit with tennis racquets.

Brian Greene on how The World Will End

noims says...

I'd never heard it called a Galilean Cannon before, but I was doing this with two of my kid's balls this week. Kids love it, but adults are completely confused by how powerful it is.

Balance, say, a tennis ball on a basketball and drop them from chest height, and it will go so far that you will probably lose your tennis ball.

TheFreak (Member Profile)

Headis Masters 2016

LiquidDrift says...

I love table tennis, but I know it looks kinda silly to most people when played seriously. Grown men and women taking giant swings with tiny paddles. This is a new level of silly. It combines the most ridiculous part of soccer with an already silly looking sport. I'd still rather watch it then baseball though.

Sportsmanship at its absolute best.

Hey! Stupid Sexist Questions are asked of Male Athletes too!

Babymech says...

I was wondering about that one too... It seems that they took questions asked of women or comments made about women, and tried to translate some of them into questions that could apply to men - but they obviously dropped the ball on that translation.

They give some quotes on their webpage, and one that might have been the inspiration for the mobility question is “Generally, I'm all for chunky sports stars ... but tennis requires a mobility Serena cannot hope to achieve while lugging around breasts that are registered to vote in a different US state from the rest of her.” But that's not a comment that would pass without criticism if it was said about a woman either, so it's not a great example.

ChaosEngine said:

"how has your weight gain affected your mobility?" is a perfectly reasonable question to ask an athlete (regardless of gender) IMO. It's directly relevant to the topic at hand.

How To Play Frisbee All By Yourself (and other trick shots)

iaui says...

Well, this fellow is very white, frisbee golf just seems like a very white thing to do, and partly I'm channeling Bill Burr's rant walking throughout Newport as he spouts hyperbolically about white privilege and then there's a motorhome driving through that he refers to as white trash. This fellow definitely isn't white trash, but there's a certain blissful socio-economically absurd trashyness/kitsch to a black and orange painted motorhome driving around with a frisbee golf cage on it, like the world's things are but toys in this man's sway. There's just this feel that pervades the short films, like we're seeing another of the Winkelvoss twins at play. He reminds me of a friend in university who learned to play Mario Tennis on the N64 against himself, each hand with a separate controller.

He's just so absurdly (yet innocently) white, in such a way as to be deserving of light ribbing. There's clearly an ineffable quality that I'm struggling to describe but do you know what I mean, even partly?

eric3579 said:

What does one have to do with the other?

FlowersInHisHair (Member Profile)

Key & Peele - TeachingCenter

kceaton1 jokingly says...

As it sounded, it is an obviously very noble profession. Plenty of "ballers" out there giving it their all, even when they're sixty years old and their joints are held together by the dreams and hopes of their children & grandchildren. Even the morals of a Football, Basketball, Golf, Baseball, Bowling, Tennis, and Soccer players is far different--and better--from those simpletons who get paid to have sex with their own students, with half if not more of the scandals getting swept under the rug...

Not like those teachers who get the easiest jobs in the world, getting paid huge sums of money doing something that's fun... Not too mention that every student that graduates from High School could do their job.... It's ridiculous. Especially these new High School aged teachers they're hiring (showing my point exactly!)...

What a mind frack. Also, does this mean that ALL sports are paid for and ran by the government somehow? Must have been the Nixon years--were he never got caught. Who knows?

/Somehow, this absolutely doesn't translate backwards into our Universe. Except for a few minor sentences.

Payback said:

Personally, I like their reality.

"His dad lived pay cheque to pay cheque as a pro football player."

Ronda Rousey's Thoughts on Fighting a Man and Equality

ChaosEngine says...

Sorry, but it's nowhere near as sex blind as she makes out.

Fine, I get that they don't want to have men fighting women. Personally, I don't have a problem with it (I train with women all the time). The important point is that it's not a man "beating up" a woman, it's a man "competing with" a woman where both parties are consenting.

But look at this page of weight classes.


BANTAMWEIGHT TJ DILLASHAW
WOMEN'S BANTAMWEIGHT RONDA ROUSEY

(emphasis mine)

If you have to have separate titles, why is one the "womens bantamweight" title and the other is just the plain old "bantamweight" title?

Sorry, but it's exactly the same as golf, tennis, or basketball. The men's competition is the "X/Y/Z champion" and the women's is the "women's X/Y/Z competition".

It might not seem like much, but omitting "Men's" from the bantamweight title makes it the default, "real" competition and the "women's" is the secondary.

lucky760 said:

@newtboy - There is a men's and a women's bantamweight *title* because the men and women don't fight each other, so they can't have just one title, but they aren't separated as different "men" and "women" divisions. Subtle difference, but still very meaningful I think.

Payback (Member Profile)

Insanely complicated wooden puzzle box

Roger Federer Stunned By Kid's Perfect Lob Shot

Ickster says...

I wasn't thinking he was rich kid who goes to tennis camp because he was at a tennis match; it was because he was courtside and was very skilled--he doesn't look like some kid who has never held a racquet before or only plays at the park with friends. He was too good.

Payback said:

Maybe not. Poor people go to these things too.

...although there probably WILL be 1000s spent on tennis camp now.



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