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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
https://i.imgur.com/BBKMqXz.mp4

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


That is amazing, a reminder that the human body is optimised for endurance running and not for raw strength.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013


:3:

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

That is amazing, a reminder that the human body is optimised for endurance running and not for raw strength.

It's also a reminder of why leverage and angles matter.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Hmm gorillas are have a way better strength to mass ratio than us puny humans, we need to train 3 gorillas to properly test this angles hypothesis.

spudsbuckley
Aug 29, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

(and can't post for 5 years!)


Ricochet could do better flippy poo poo than the lion though.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

This is me trying to get a sock away from my cat

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Azhais posted:

This is me trying to get a sock away from my cat

Your cat is enormous and terrifying and I want to pet it.

Spamtheman
May 30, 2005

Effer of the ineffable

Cougars in their prime pull hard.

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
https://i.imgur.com/zLApgof.mp4

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



That castle house in the background is pretty badass

Automatic Retard
Oct 21, 2010

PUT THIS WANKSTAIN ON IGNORE
The one under that haha
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/7ixSNZv

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://i.imgur.com/Q92gz4P.mp4

Orca smacking the poo poo out of a stingray, because it was there. Orcas are jerks.

Claeaus
Mar 29, 2010
He's just letting it know that Steve Irwin still has shooters out there.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Bodybuilder vs arm wrestler.

https://i.imgur.com/isl5tTD.mp4

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer
this owns

https://i.imgur.com/U4fpd3l.gifv

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014


I can't tell if the players on the other team are trying to congratulate him or kill him.

Drunk Driver Dad
Feb 18, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkL-bAH8H4

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

chitoryu12 posted:

I can't tell if the players on the other team are trying to congratulate him or kill him.

Trying to make sure no-one dies. If the dude holding up the guy who jumped drops him, he will spear straight onto his head. And he's a rugby player, so that's probably around 240 pounds to the dome - guys have been crippled by that before.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014


WSM competitors don't do armwrestling any more. There was a time in the 70s when they did, but they stopped after one guy gave a rival a compound fracture of his forearm.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Jedit posted:

WSM competitors don't do armwrestling any more. There was a time in the 70s when they did, but they stopped after one guy gave a rival a compound fracture of his forearm.

What did I just watch then?

Drunk Driver Dad
Feb 18, 2005
I think he means they don't do it as part of their competition anymore.

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

I believe the guys in this image are professional wrestlers, which suggests to me that they let the cat win.

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL
Feb 21, 2006

Holy Moly! DARKSEID IS!


His name is Tendai Mtawarira and this isn’t even the first time he’s saved someone. I know nothing about rugby but to be so aware of your teammates to prevent a life-threatening injury, that’s a hell of a guy.

vvv thank you for the context!

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL has a new favorite as of 16:38 on Jun 20, 2018

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

His name is Tendai Mtawarira and this isn’t even the first time he’s saved someone. I know nothing about rugby but to be so aware of your teammates to prevent a life-threatening injury, that’s a hell of a guy.

It's worth pointing out that this is pretty much deliberate. Tendai's job there is to lift/support the jumper in the air so he can catch the ball. They changed the rules because players were getting rocketed too high into the air and getting injured. What's unclear really is if Tendai is just getting in the wrong place or if his teammates go mental on the assumption he'll catch them.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Drunk Driver Dad posted:

I think he means they don't do it as part of their competition anymore.

I'm not sure it was ever part of the competition. They just used to do it as a sideline for extra cash; professional arm wrestling was and possibly still is more lucrative than strongman events.

There was at one point direct physical contests in WSM - I seem to recall sumo was an event in the early 80s - but they long since phased that out.

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

Spamtheman posted:

Cougars in their prime pull hard.

I appreciated this

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




Killing time scrolling thru Imgur and found it: the best loving photograph ever:



quote:

Brent Spiner and Scott Bakula doing dishes while Michael Dorn tries his own cooking at Patrick Stewart's apartment.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Killing time scrolling thru Imgur and found it: the best loving photograph ever:



Just dudes being bros

Beer_Suitcase
May 3, 2005

Verily, the whip is ghost riding.



Animal-Mother posted:

I believe the guys in this image are professional wrestlers, which suggests to me that they let the cat win.

Look at this mark.

It looks like Ricochet at the end, Killian Ulster (sp?) and someone else. Prince Albert/Lord Hentai is to the side taking video.

Content for wrassle fans

Beer_Suitcase has a new favorite as of 01:06 on Jun 21, 2018

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
The strongman who got his arm broken was pro wrestler/actor Nathan Jones. He was up against Magnus Samuelsson, who is a national arm wrestling champion in Sweden.

Maybe :nms: for the squeamish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHm5XeN-dQ

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Randaconda posted:

Just dudes being bros

I'd rather bros be dudes tbh. It's good to aim upwards than downwards.

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Say Nothing posted:

The strongman who got his arm broken was pro wrestler/actor Nathan Jones. He was up against Magnus Samuelsson, who is a national arm wrestling champion in Sweden.

Maybe :nms: for the squeamish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHm5XeN-dQ

this guys wikipedia led to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggo_Road_Gaol

which gave me a lol

Spamtheman
May 30, 2005

Effer of the ineffable

Aramoro posted:

It's worth pointing out that this is pretty much deliberate. Tendai's job there is to lift/support the jumper in the air so he can catch the ball. They changed the rules because players were getting rocketed too high into the air and getting injured. What's unclear really is if Tendai is just getting in the wrong place or if his teammates go mental on the assumption he'll catch them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI2PLdkY0QY

Tendai "The Beast" Mtawarira. He isn't in the wrong place, he's assisting the jumper who compensates for the ball travelling further than expected. That causes him to overbalance and Tendai manages to bring him back down to the ground safely.

Sulla Faex
May 14, 2010

No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with ENDLESS SHITPOSTING
The player who catches the ball also has a lot of trust in his teammate to still hold onto the ball when he's already way past the point where his body knows is normal for a catch like that. He doesn't actually free up a hand (in case the guy holding him slips) until it's already too late

Torchlighter
Jan 15, 2012

I Got Kids. I need this.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

The player who catches the ball also has a lot of trust in his teammate to still hold onto the ball when he's already way past the point where his body knows is normal for a catch like that. He doesn't actually free up a hand (in case the guy holding him slips) until it's already too late

It's good training too. The correct form is to go rigid while being lifted because it's easier to maintain grip and lift. Flailing around increases the chances of being dropped and increases strain on the lifting player.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
https://i.imgur.com/I6HkqSy.mp4

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

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GrandpaPants
Feb 13, 2006


Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!


My knees are aching just looking at that.

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