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08-02-2024 11:08 AM
Triathalon
08-02-2024 12:07 PM
How about jumping a 7 ft fence or wall on a horse. What if the horse miscalculates and falls on the rider? Not only does the rider have to be an athlete but so must the horse.
08-02-2024 01:07 PM
Confession:
I love LOVE, "tickled pink," reading all your choices, selections & expounding...
"The voice of sanity is getting hoarse." - ("Whatever You Say, Say Nothing" by Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013))
08-02-2024 01:29 PM
@JoyFilled Warrior wrote:
I totally agree.
To me, it feels almost like a miracle; But not just one miracle, miracleS.. plural.
HOW do they practice riding those size waves, over & over, & over again, before possibly even signing up to enter the Olympics??
Granted devoted, repetitive prep & practice for anything WW Olympics level has its awful risks. Pushing the body to it's utmost level, many times knocking possible contenders out from applying, even qualifying for admission!
But to me, practicing this Olympic level of surfing "practice" waves - unfathomable.
Water can be very very unforgiving. Imagine a WALL of water? Imagine a WALL of water, at yr immediate backside! Imagine, even if riding that wave successfully, just how long you're under pressurized water before surfacing for air! .. while your ankle is also tethered to a heavy surfboard, somewhere in your immediate vicinity, in/under water with you!
Yet, I never seem to read much abt any surfers, incl Olympic level practicing, that died, practicing, trying.
Then, they qualify & show up for the meanest, tallest, most powerful, Mother Nature, Walls of Water, Waves, & perform at the WW Olympics ..
@JoyFilled Warrior The 2 towering waves you pictured were from Chopes' Code Red days. The first pic you posted is Laird Hamilton in the year 2000.
Most if not all of the surfers at the Olympics are professional surfers and have sponsorships. most are winners of multiple surf contests held by Word Surfing League or International Surfing League and most are no strangers to to Chopes.
When the break gets so monsterous in size, the surfers are towed in onto the break using Jet skis. Very few surfers even attempt Code Red days. Laird is a BEAST!
Teahupo'o wave is a perfect, hollow tube break.. when conditions offer a southwest swell, glassy surface and offshore winds, it makes for a consistent wave for surfing competion.
08-02-2024 01:33 PM
Hi @foxywoods
Great to know!
Thanks for sharing, ID'ing & explaining.
"The voice of sanity is getting hoarse." - ("Whatever You Say, Say Nothing" by Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013))
08-02-2024 09:32 PM
08-03-2024 08:17 AM
08-03-2024 08:47 AM
I would say Gymnastics. Especially with those flips, someone could break their neck or worse.
08-03-2024 01:12 PM
@Estellee wrote:I would say Gymnastics. Especially with those flips, someone could break their neck or worse.
Gymnastics is EXTREMELY dangerous. For men and women. You can become paralyzed if you land wrong. Many little girls go in to it. This is a sport that if you are younger, the better you'll be at it. But men and women lose their flexibility when they age. Usually they are out of gymnastics by the time they're 23. For men, a little longer. It used to be huge in Russia. Then mothers began to pull out the girls from the sport. Too risky. Many figure skaters you see started out in gymnastics. Their moms decded figure skating is much safer.
08-04-2024 11:53 AM - edited 08-04-2024 12:50 PM
Hi @Forum_Folks
I remember reading abt Pool & Billiards in here.
As a person having formerly participated in a healthy amt of Sports, incl my beloved Golf, I was rather surprised to see Golf at the Olympics. Granted, there is a tremendous amt of long/short precision, & some physicality & risks involved in playing Golf.
For instance, on the Golf Course, I was watching my smacked ball skyward, while accidentally stepping, heel first, into some kind of Critter Hole. That snapped, ruptured my leg's Plantaris Tendon. I had to be carried off the Golf Course, & treated to lotsa weeks of tough Sports Therapy. But now, I cant even remember which leg it was!
And some, not all, other Sports injuries I took, I still feel the pain from, probably always will.
So Golf? I am humbled that who knows, maybe some day Table Pool/Billiards?? Who knows?
"The voice of sanity is getting hoarse." - ("Whatever You Say, Say Nothing" by Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013))
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