Sports to add (or bring back) to the Olympics?

[GreenPartyVoter]

I would add competitive cheer. We already have a Team Cheer USA program in place.

Team Coed:

Team "All-Girl":

[Archae]

1. Cracked.com had an article yesterday about sports that should be in the Olympics.

One of them is from Asia, it's sort of like volleyball, same setup, except there are only three on each team, the ball is about half the size of a volleyball and has to be KICKED over the net!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Kick volleyball? Holy cow!

[Archae]

3. Yeah, here's a video of the sport...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19951_5-insane-real-sports-they-need-to-add-to-olympics.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Sports&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=feature_module

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thanks! I had to go to the site to see all of the list. It was worth the trip! I am

definitely intrigued by the horse vaulting.

[hifiguy]

19. That is freaking amazing.

Kinda like Muay Thai except they're kicking a ball instead of trying to kill each other. Wow!

[Bertha Venation]

5. Softball

Is that still gone, or did they bring it back? Lame to exclude it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I thought I heard softball and baseball were still out. :^(

[Blue_Tires]

78. I want baseball back, too

[Spider Jerusalem]

50. No-one plays it

same with baseball. You'd have the US, Japan, maybe Canada, Cuba and a handful of Latin American countries. When it was still in the Games there were never more than 8 countries competing (out of almost 200 in total). Same with baseball, never more than 8 countries competing in any one year. Might as well bring back cricket. Or rugby. More people play those than baseball or softball.

[geardaddy]

52. Looks like they're having rugby sevens at the next one.

In Brazil.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

80. As opposed to synchronized diving....

[Scuba]

6. Golf, tiddly winks and speed fucking.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Hard to regulate that third one? LOL

[HopeHoops]

10. I'll take door number three.

[SoDesuKa]

72. Was It Good for You?

Oh, too bad.

[Blue_Tires]

77. I nominate Scuba for the next head of the IOC

[HopeHoops]

9. Coed naked drunken lawn bowling.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Is lawn bowling the same as Boules/Bocci?

[HopeHoops]

14. That's often called lawn bowling, but I mean with pins (we have a REALLY old wooden set).

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Neat! You must have to have really short grass to get them to stay set??

[HopeHoops]

22. When you're drunk and naked, who cares if the pins stay set.

[AsahinaKimi]

12. KENDO

[HopeHoops]

15. My middle daughter is quite proficient at that now. She has an armory of swords.

The ones they are using make a really good clack and are great for the demo team (which she runs now). Most of her swords are sharp steel, including one that's double-sided. Those are NOT a good idea for sparing!!! They do however make for a flashy showing and can slice through fruits and veggies with no effort (other than aim). For some reason, my wife and other two daughters never really developed an interest in swords. They know the basics, but didn't go for the intensive lessons.

[AsahinaKimi]

25. I took Kendo for 14 years

starting as a kid. I STILL have my original shinai from then. As for swords, I was also given by my father our family collection.
These go back to the Edo period of Japan. I once had them on display a few years ago during the Sakura Matsuri celebration.
http://twitpic.com/14wmq4

[HopeHoops]

26. Those are really special treasures. She started about ten years ago (with wooden practice swords).

All three of my daughters started karate between 3 1/2 and 4 and are 2nd degree black belts now (Tang Soo Do). My wife started a little later and is a third degree. She teaches a pre-school karate class that feeds the do jang with a lot of upper belts (including black) and she also teaches adult classes. She used to run the demo team, but my middle daughter decided to take over. One of the things they recently worked on was using common objects (like brooms) in place of their regular weapons.

Reflexes are amazing things. They just take over. My eldest spent the last semester in Budapest and she and a friend were out on a walk to somewhere when too guys hit on them. One of them asked if she was nervous and at that point she realized she'd dropped back into a defensive fighting stance. I'm still laughing about that one.

Do you just to Kendo (the Grand Master calls it Kumdo) or a full program in martial arts? I'm curious because I've never encountered anyone who worked swords who wasn't also skilled in some martial art.

[AsahinaKimi]

29. I had stopped doing Kendo after High school.

This is the shinai. I leaned how to take these apart and put them back together again. What would be the
blade are separate pieces of bamboo. If one is cracked, you can replace it. The shinai is basically held
together with string and leather.

I also took a class in Kenjitsu.

This is used with a Bokken. Bokken are wooden swords that are just once piece. It comes with a rubber
ring that can protect your hands, some what. Often people will use it without it.


This also included Tameshigiri , cutting techniques using bamboo mats.


The one class I wanted to take was in
Iaito. These are techniques on how to draw the nihonto. (Japanese sword)


Iaido kata

I also own some of my own swords;

Shobu Zukuri Katana (This one is a bit heavy for me, but it works well with for Tameshigiri)

The second one is a set:

These include the Katana, Wakizashi and tanto. Both the Katana and Wakizashi can be used
for Tameshigri as well.


Note: I also took Judo for several years. I won a third place trophy for the State championships. I was trying to go for a brown belt but only went so far as Green. This was also in High school.

[HopeHoops]

33. Those are great pictures. I've seen the rolled mat chop. It's amazing. Sadly, the words escape me

The terms used in our do jang are all Korean. I've also seen the Iaido Kata at the end of many of the forms. It was interesting to learn that the wiping of the blade before replacing it is to remove blood. It works for cucumber guts too.

My wife started with Judo when she was a child. Her favorite move is the grab-the-collar-and-sit-down throw. She's always been a peanut, so it apparently was quite amusing when she'd throw her rather large instructor.

It's never too late to get back into it. She's almost 49 and not even close to the oldest. The Grand Master just turned 70 and can drop into a floor-level sweep without warming up. I'm continuously amazed by what he can do. He's one of the most revered Grand Master in S. Korea and even his peers (most of whom he has known since early childhood) all treat him as the most respected one.

On a side note, he instructed Chuck Norris in S. Korea for a while and his comment on him is "Oh, good speed. Bad technique." I don't approve of Chuck's politics, but he has made some good movies. I think my favorite is "Side Kicks".

[AsahinaKimi]

36. I would love to get back into the martial arts again...

Sometimes around my place, I will practice with my Bokken just to keep myself fresh, but classes around here are very expensive. San Francisco is quite well known as a martial arts haven. You may know that Bruce Lee had his own Kwoon here in San Francisco. I think the building is around, but the classes were moved to Oakland, California. Near where I live is one of the oldest kwoon (chinese version of dojo) in the city. Nearly everywhere you turn are gyms for the martial arts here.

I had the privilege of meeting a very famous martial artist, and scored his autograph.

This is the signed photo he gave me.

I also met Michelle Yeoh that same day. She is also very good
in the martial arts. She was in the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She signed the photo above as well.

[HopeHoops]

41. I love Jackie Chan. He does all of his own stunts and always seems to find a way to get naked.

"Crouching Dragon, Hidden Wires" was good. The ending was sad. Chan had to make a concession with Jet Li to use wires, which Jackie never does (normally), in another movie where they both sort of played a "Mr. Miagi" role. It involved returning a bong-yung to the Monkey King at the Jade Palace. I forget the name of the movie.

I've got some old Jackie Chan movies and they're pretty funny just because they're so stereotypically hokey - the slap sounds every time someone makes contact stuff. I think my favorite was, perhaps called "Accidental Spy", where he ends up being forced to strip and is wearing koala undies from his hotel room, sings "I Will Follow You" to block the bug, and then ends up in a foam whale costume in a park.

[AsahinaKimi]

47. I think you might be refering to this one..

One of my favorite Jackie Chan movies was ..called Gorgeous
Here is the trailer;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184526/

[HopeHoops]

48. LOL! "Gorgeous" looks great. I haven't seen it. And yes, it was "Forbidden Kingdom".

[OriginalGeek]

58. Not to distract from a really fun sub-thread

I just saw Shaolin on Netflix and thought it was a great movie - Jackie Chan (one of our family favorites too) had a relatively small part (small for him as I usually see him as the star in every scene) in it. I think it was released just last year.

[HopeHoops]

59. I'll have to look for that. I've never seen anything he was in that I didn't like.

Although I have to say that one of the funniest scenes he ever did was falling backwards (naked of course) into two barrels of spices and coming up with two different colored ass cheeks and then doing a carefully choreographed scene with multiple pizza tray like things to keep the naughty bits covered.

[hifiguy]

35. OMG, those are beautiful swords.

The Shobu Zukuri Katana is exquisite!

[AsahinaKimi]

37. oh yes...and very, very expensive.

I had saved up an entire year to purchase this sword. It came with a cleaning kit as well. I had to buy the stand separately. I will not tell you the price, but it was over 1500 US dollars. Though it is very heavy, and for me to work with it, requires me to lift some weights, just to be able to handle it.

here are some detailed images of it.

[HopeHoops]

49. Wow. I better not let my daughter see those pictures. Her 19th birthday is coming up.

[Odin2005]

68. I WANT THAT KATANA!!!

[AsahinaKimi]

70. oh very well....

http://www.bugei.com/
Enjoy their catalog!

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Cool!

[Odin2005]

65. Cool, looks similar to sabre-class fencing.

[meow2u3]

13. A variety of canine events: dog agility, canine dancing, flyball, etc.

If the Olympics can have horses, why not dogs? These canine athletes have talent, are very well trained, and are treated like family.

We already have dressage, so why not freestyle canine dancing?
We already have show jumping, so why not agility?
We already have relay races for humans, so why not flyball for dogs (and their handlers)?

I always wanted to see dogs as Olympians. Question is, who will get the medals? The dogs, the handlers, or both?

Unlike horses, the dogs can be trusted to behave themselves in the Opening Ceremonies along with their human handlers. Except, of course, for their occasional toileting "accidents".

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I think it would be more challenging to use cats. I can't even

train them to stay off the darn dining room table!

But seriously, I think dog trials of some sort would be really cool, and cute!

[SoDesuKa]

73. Cat High Five

Some have it, and some don't . . .
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[Yavin4]

20. Video Games

Call of Duty. Madden. Halo.

America would dominate. USA! USA! USA!

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. My kids would rock that event!

[tjwmason]

23. Croquet

Mostly because it's one of the few sports which one can play whilst drinking.

It was played at the 1900 Olympics.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. I enjoy playing it. It is probably one of the few sports teams I could make these days! (But

probably not at the elite level required for the Olympics.)

[sharp_stick]

34. If you want to drink while playing

Check out the Winter Olympics and Curling, it's perfect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling_at_the_Winter_Olympics

When I played it they also had ashtrays located 1/3 and 2/3 the way up the sheet as well so you could have a smoke and a drink while you waited for the skip to figure out where the hell to set the broom. They removed the ashtrays because it made it look less like a sport and more like the bar game we used to think it was.

My friend had an old corn curling broom, now I'm dating myself, that doubled as a flask. He'd unscrew the top and fill it with Canadian Whiskey. For some weird reason we tended to get better as the game went on. By the time the rest of the world had switched to more modern brooms he was still hammering away on the ice with that thing.

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. A broom flask? Now I've heard it all. LOL

[JonLP24]

27. Dodgeball

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Like in the movie? LOL

[meow2u3]

28. Cue sports: billiards (pool), snooker, etc.

Pool and snooker players are far more in shape than the old school hustlers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. That would also be interesting. Could be a summer or winter activity, too.

[bluedigger]

31. Hackeysack.

We need a summer equivalent to snowboarding.

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. My little bro had a hackey sack. I was never very good with that thing.

[hifiguy]

38. In the heyday of the National Lampoon there was an article about this.

I don't remember it completely, but "Latvian Running Amok" was one of the proposed sports and I laughed myself practically sick at the description.

And who can forget MAD's 43-man Squamish:

Each team consists of one left and one right Inside Grouch, one left and one right Outside Grouch, four Deep Brooders, four Shallow Brooders, five Wicket Men, three Offensive Niblings, four Quarter-Frummerts, two Half-Frummerts, one Full-Frummert, two Overblats, two Underblats, nine Back-Up Finks, two Leapers and a Dummy — for a total of 43.

The game officials are a Probate Judge (dressed as a British judge, with wig), a Field Representative (in a Scottish kilt), a Head Cockswain (in long overcoat), and a Baggage Smasher (dressed as a male beachgoer in pre-World War I years). None has any authority after play has begun.

More on 43-man Squamish at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43-Man_Squamish

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. Monty Python's Olympic hide n seek or philosophers playing soccer are also a hoot. :^)

[KamaAina]

39. Quidditch

These are Great Britain's Games, after all. The tourists could crowd on Platform 8 3/4 to get to the venue at Hogwarts.

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. Perfect!!

[A Simple Game]

40. What we have now is fine, but we need to get back to the old ways.

All participants need to be naked, just like in the old days.

Well maybe not for the younger ones.

[GreenPartyVoter]

46. I think some events don't lend themselves to complete nudity. (equestrian, for one)

[A Simple Game]

56. Ok, equestrians can wear loin cloths. n/t

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[geardaddy]

51. Lacrosse and Rugby.

[GreenPartyVoter]

54. I think Rugby is coming next time. :^) Lacrosse is a great idea!

[geardaddy]

57. They had lacrosse in the early Olympics, but have had it for a long time.

[T_i_B]

74. Agree about Rugby

Also think they should have 20/20 Cricket as an Olympic sport. Much better use of Lord's then the sodding Archery.

Oh, and don't worry Americans, 20/20 Cricket is the shortened version of Cricket, each team facing 20 overs of 6 balls. Not like a 5 day long test match at all.

[geardaddy]

79. I agree on Cricket.

I would totally watch that.

[HERVEPA]

53. Horse Dancing.

Oh wait. That's already in. Never mind.

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. Is it? I hadn't heard that. *snarf*

[charlie and algernon]

60. Bring back baseball/softball. Add golf and auto racing

Formula 1, Le Mans, and Indy Car all have plenty of international drivers competing. It'd be easy to come up with a format that has drivers from around the world participating in the olympics. If the host country doesnt have a track, a road course could be designed. Though that part would be tough and tie up a significant part of the city.

[GreenPartyVoter]

62. More good ideas. :^)

[Mopar151]

69. Airports can make good road courses

Cars should be (relatively) cheap and unsophisticated, with plenty of power and not much "grip". No aero downforce to speak of. Engines sealed and dyno'd, switched out often. Tires./wheels locked up between races, assigned randomly for each race.

[HopeHoops]

61. Coed naked drunken bungie jumping archery rocket-launcher beer pong.

I upped the ante.

[GreenPartyVoter]

63. I am trying to visualize this, but its hard to wrap my head around.

[HopeHoops]

76. Wrapping your head around it could be dangerous!

[Odin2005]

64. Lacrosse, kickboxing, golf, and mixed martial arts.

[GreenPartyVoter]

67. I think those would be great, but the MMA is a little brutal for me. I don't think I could watch it

without cringing. A lot!

[geardaddy]

81. Yes, yes, yes, and yes! n/t

[petronius]

66. Hockey, bobsled, ski jumping, slalom, luge, figure skating, snowboard

I don't get it - it seems like these games are 100% different from the last ones I watched...

[MiddleFingerMom]

71. Did someone suggest "Speed Fucking"?

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[AngryAmish]

75. Golf is coming back next time in Rio

Gil Hanse is designing the course - which was a complete shock after Coore and Crenshaw backed out everybody figured it would go to some fuckface like Greg Norman. He posted the layout somewhere but I have not seen the site and I'm not an architect so it is hard to see it in my mind's eye. But Hanse's work is solid.

That said, I hate to see the great game diminish itself by being associated with the Olympics.

[Odin2005]

82. AWESOME!!!

[HughBeaumont]

83. 82 posts and no Roller Derby??

Of course, the U.S. would dominate (@ World Cup in Toronto last year, the U.S. beat Canada something like 330-36 . . . and that was their closest game) initially, but if it was an Olympic sport, that would bring on world sponsorship and training and athletes from other countries forming decent teams.



Philly's Shenita Stretcher Going Against Scotland. USA beat them something like 460-1. They gave the jammer (Wild Oates) who scored on them a shirt that said "I Scored the Point!"