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The difficulty of sports.
There was obviously not a single rower on this panel. Let me pick out a few details for you here... __________________________________________________ Sports are rated by this criteria:
ENDURANCE: The ability to continue to perform a skill or action for long periods of time. Example: Lance Armstrong STRENGTH: The ability to produce force. Example: NFL linebackers. POWER: The ability to produce strength in the shortest possible time. Example: Barry Bonds. SPEED: The ability to move quickly. Example: Marion Jones, Maurice Green. AGILITY: The ability to change direction quickly. Example: Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm. FLEXIBILITY: The ability to stretch the joints across a large range of motion. Example: Gymnasts, divers. NERVE: The ability to overcome fear. Example: High-board divers, race-car drivers, ski jumpers. DURABILITY: The ability to withstand physical punishment over a long period of time. Example: NBA/NHL players. HAND-EYE COORDINATION: The ability to react quickly to sensory perception. Example: A hitter reacting to a breaking pitch; a drag racer timing acceleration to the green light. ANALYTIC APTITUDE: The ability to evaluate and react appropriately to strategic situations. Example: Joe Montana reading a defense; basketball point guard on a fast break. ________________________________________________
First off, nerve does not need to be weighted at the same level as endurance, strength, and speed. That's a big error in grading.
But really, how the hell did rowing get a rank of 39? Morons. Especially when football got placed as #3. Lets examine this...
SPORT | ENDUR | STR | PWR | SPD | AGI | FLEX | NERVE | DUR | HAN | ANA | TOTAL | RANK Football | 5.38 | 8.63 | 8.13 | 7.13 | 6.38 | 4.38 | 7.25 | 8.50 | 5.50 | 7.13 | 68.375 | 3 Rowing | 8.13 | 7.75 | 7.13 | 4.00 | 2.50 | 4.00 | 1.75 | 4.38 | 2.88 | 3.63 | 46.125 | 39
Football requires less endurance than rowing. This is true. Football requires less strength than rowing. This is not true. While it's true that good technique, in rowing, can make up for less-than-perfect body composition, the same applies in football. Football requires more power than rowing. False. Reference: the start of a race, and many, many power pieces. There are moments where rowers have to engage nearly every muscle they have control over in order to create serious force. Football requires more speed than rowing. True, but not to 3 points of difference. Sprinting on the slide gets you up to some hardcore m/min. In fact, a lot of rowers have problems with speeding past the appropriate ratio of their stroke. Agility. 6.4 vs. 2.5? Are they high? In a sprint race, your rate gets up to 40 spm. That's 80 instant direction changes in a minute. Certainly more than in any suicide sprint drill. Football has slightly more need for flexibility than rowing. Well, I'd buy that. This is understanding, though, that rowers HAVE to have flexibility. A flexible rower would get maybe an inch more on a stroke than an inflexible rower might, and one inch multiplied over the 2500 some strokes you take during a 2k sprint, well... that's a big difference. While I'm totally cool with the concept that football takes more nerve, I think the rowing rating is weaker than it should be. In the half hour you have rowing up to the start and waiting tensely for the horn to go off to start rowing, your nerves are attacking your entire body with anxious energy. It's not that you're especially afraid of anything, just that the whole idea is insanely nerve-wracking. Even during a race, you have to fight yourself to not get frantic and lose your good technique. I do admit, though, that when it comes to physical things, like ramming your head into a quarterback's stomach, you only really have the fear of flipping and ingesting polluted water and dangerous river/lake bacteria. I can't even talk about how wrong this durability is. There are so many gimps on our team, it's pathetic. They could make a club. Also, see my first entry. The hand-eye coordination is accurate. I think the analytic aptitudes should be ranked much closer together. You have a split second to respond to a coxswain's commands in the middle of a race, and you have to execute them perfectly and smoothly, or else you might have just lost the race for your team. Conversely, I've tried being a coxswain. That's hard s**t, analyzing everything around you, reacting, steering, giving correct commands to everyone, and not once stopping talking to them.
You guys see what I'm getting at?
Meareign · Sat Dec 22, 2007 @ 05:42am · 0 Comments |
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