It corrupts the very basic idea of the American way of fighting. Look at our national pastimes: football, wrestling and boxing. None of them involve thin, acrobatic and strong men using refined strength to beat each other. We need BIG, burly men slamming against each other continuously till one can't use more steroids!
Wrong. Except maybe for wrestling, the olympic kind with a mat, not the WEE..
In modern american football, speed is pretty much the name of the game. There are 6'5, over 200 pound players who can run the 40 incredibly fast. They are also built too. The right cardio and strength and conditioning has lead to it. They can even outrun some of the smaller running back players at times.
And with Boxing, its called the sweet science for a reason. Only the heavyweight division can even be considered about pure muscle mass. And even then you have Ali who had perfect footwork. The most popular boxers right now are Manny Pacqiuao and Floyd Mayweather who win their fights with mostly speed and some power. Mayweather does it with his super natural dodging and counter punching skills because his reflexes and hand speed is rarely matched by his opponents and Manny with a great combo of power and speed that does damage in flurries that could drop boxers way taller than him. And both of them are 5'8 and 5'6 respectively. But are considered the top two fighters in the world.
MMA...is a complete mess from top to bottom. Its actually a lot more decent than people give credit for, but its also the closest thing to straight up legal bloodsport.
Not trying to deter the thread, just saying its not so stereotypical. carry on
http://www.sfgate.co...?entry_id=65297 srsly...teaching kids Mandarin makes kids communists? So China is basically subsidizing American education...and the lamest excuse ppl come out with is that it will turn kids into Communist, when China is closer and closer to becoming the world's largest free market economy.
Not surprised. They tried to teach some kids spanish in some of the schools in philadelphia (the kids got to decide if they wanted to learn or not) and some of the parents went apekitten.
Edited by Mik3, 09 June 2010 - 04:15 AM.