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I just like seeing people do amazing things

by HullieAndMikes, Yelling at Sam Cane, Dunedin, Thursday, July 29, 2021, 12:34 (994 days ago) @ Publicola

Arguing over utility and worth of varying sports is pretty pointless, so I'm not opposed to skateboarding at all. I used to watch a lot of X Games when they first came out.

Overall I just think there was too huge of a quality contrast between skateboarding and its winter counterpart, which many times has produced really fun viewing.

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OT: WaPo article about Simone Biles and "the twisties" - HCE, 2021-07-28, 08:48
- how ridiculous is skateboarding compared to all other events - Jay, 2021-07-28, 13:38
  - Agree, it was just brutal - IrishGuard, 2021-07-28, 17:34
  - Skateboard no worse than kayak in a phony wave pool - JD in Portland, 2021-07-28, 14:48
    - No, it really is worse - HullieAndMikes, 2021-07-28, 15:03
      - The Jackass guys LLP guys do better tricks - JD in Portland, 2021-07-29, 14:12
      - In defense - Publicola, 2021-07-29, 09:04
        
        I just like seeing people do amazing things - HullieAndMikes, 2021-07-29, 12:34
        
        the park events should be a lot more fun to watch - Jay, 2021-07-29, 11:18
        
        I think the later skateboarding will be more interesting - Savage, 2021-07-29, 12:08
        
        Agreed. But I don't know if it makes it more or less... - BillyGoat, 2021-07-29, 12:25
        
        agree. - Jay, 2021-07-29, 12:23
      - I didn't get the whole Best Trick portion - okerland, 2021-07-28, 15:21
        
        It's best 4 scores from 2 "real" runs + 5 "best trick" tries - Savage, 2021-07-29, 11:09
  - ok boomer - Joe I, 2021-07-28, 13:46
- Watch the slo-mo of her last vault. Scary. - River, 2021-07-28, 13:01
- I've never not known my orientation to Earth. - domer.mq, 2021-07-28, 12:58
- Yea sounds likes Steve Sax Syndrome or the yips EXCEPT - Grantland, 2021-07-28, 12:40
- I've done about a complete 180 on the issue. - Pete, 2021-07-28, 11:47
  - No offense, Pete but - Domer99, 2021-07-28, 21:02
  - And... - okerland, 2021-07-28, 13:03
    - Biles is so much better at this craft - KGB, 2021-07-28, 13:19
  - Frankly, Belichek and Bobby Knight - terribletr, 2021-07-28, 12:50
    - ....... the Teapot Dome Scandal ............. - BillyGoat, 2021-07-29, 09:45
    - They have one other thing in common - Jack, 2021-07-28, 12:55
  - It's probably time to interrogate those narratives - HCE, 2021-07-28, 12:41
    - what's next - Jay, 2021-07-28, 13:27
      - Bluto saying it was over when the Germans bombed - Jack, 2021-07-28, 13:31
    - "America won with Soviet-bloc tactics..." - domer.mq, 2021-07-28, 12:57
    - and with Strugg - CW (Rakes), 2021-07-28, 12:43
      - It was unnecessary, too - Jack, 2021-07-28, 12:50
        
        Dominique Moceanu agrees... - Domer99, 2021-07-28, 21:22
- Wetzel had a good thread as well - HullieAndMikes, 2021-07-28, 08:56
  - The unselfish thing to is take yourself out - CK08, 2021-07-28, 10:28
    - They happen everywhere. Business, flying as a Top Gun pilot, - Grantland, 2021-07-28, 12:47
  - It's telling, if not surprising, that her loudest critics - HCE, 2021-07-28, 09:37
    - About any sport. I can almost guarantee they have never - Frank, 2021-07-28, 14:49
      - It doesn't even have to be a "high level" - CK08, 2021-07-29, 07:48
        
        Agreed, My best times for a number of swimming events - Frank, 2021-07-29, 15:22
    - If Dave Portnoy, Charlie Kirk, Clay Travis, et al. - Brendan, 2021-07-28, 10:41

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