Monday, July 16, 2007

SPORTS YOU WON’T CATCH ME DOING — by Steve Nadis

I’ve already written about competitive eating, and given my already delicate stomach, this is one sport you can be sure I won’t be doing. Nor will I enter any professional paintball competitions. I had no idea, until reading an article about it last week, that it even was a professional sport. (It’s certainly not a sport of the stature of rock, paper, and scissors.) And finally, count me out of the next bike polo game, which I just read about yesterday in the Boston Globe. I don’t know about you, but crashing into a bunch of other crazed cyclists/bike messengers doesn’t sound like my idea of a good time. Then again I’m often considered old-fashioned.
Posted by Snake at 15:14:57
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6 Responses to “SPORTS YOU WON’T CATCH ME DOING — by Steve Nadis”

  1. Anonymous says:
    July 17, 2007 at 2:40 am

    HA! ha-ha-ha. Bike POLO? You’ve GOT to be kidding.
    Ahhh… 1 small problem: Bikes don’t go sideways.
    Woop… another problem. When you stop, you fall OVER!
    I think someone in Beantown’s smokin’ some ‘Tea’.
    (Next thing you know, they’ll be playing volleyball on Segweys….) -Marco Polo-ski

  2. Snake says:
    July 17, 2007 at 11:07 am

    SEGWAY VOLLEYBALL? That’s brilliant, MP. Sounds like an idea whose time has come.

  3. gatemouth says:
    July 17, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    As long as it’s beach Segway volleyball.

    But I don’t see the problem with bike polo. I think most people know how to keep from falling over when they stop. And I’m not sure what going sideways has to do with it (is this something they do in water polo, or regular polo), but I’m pretty sure you could play anyway. There’d just be a lot of turning around involved (not to mention mallets stuck in spokes).

  4. Snake says:
    July 17, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    Great, we now have a new sport to look forward to in the next Extreme Games.

  5. Anonymous says:
    July 17, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    gatemouth- play a video of a regular game of polo (on horses) in slow motion. You will see much sideways motion as the horses jockey for position to obey their masters. And you don’t have to concern yourself with using your legs to balance when stopped. All concentration is spent swiveling your arms to whack that puppy just right. Have you ever PLAYED polo? Quite exhausting… and fun!

    snake- Dean HAS laid out obstacle courses to test his “Ginger”, though twisting that left hand to ‘turn’ quickly CAN be tricky, so i think volleyball is out. :/~
    P.S: Don’t take a Segwey out on a real windy day. Hitting a garbage can sucks- BIGtime. (still healing from THAT!)

    -Marco Polo

  6. Snake says:
    July 17, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    thanks for warning on Segway & garbage cans. Sounds like a bad combination.

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