Competitive Cheerleading Not a Sport.

[Greed and Death]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

Who died?

nobody, but now I need a cigarette thank god my walls are already white.

[Maurepas]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

[Class Warhair]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

So of course it's a bloody sport. Crikey Imsogone, you say the daftest things

[Greed and Death]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

[Imsogone]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

So of course it's a bloody sport. Crikey Imsogone, you say the daftest things

In the nearly 10000 posts I have collectively, both as Anti-Social Darwinism and Imsogone (and a couple of other dead nations) and both in Jolt and here, there are bound to be some daft things.

[Lackadaisical2]

Before I get banned for verbally killing Arborlawn for his antedeluvian views on male/female relations (provided he is serious about them), I leave you with this ...

Replacing volleyball with competitive cheerleading!? I'm with the judge on this one.

http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/07/2 ... a-sport%2F

Cheerleading is the most dangerous highschool sport, so they're hardcore at the least.

[Class Warhair]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

[Maurepas]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

Yeah, but, figure skaters tend to be...a bit more developed...

[Akanaris]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I've always thought men's gymnastics should do this

[Catholic Cornwall]

Sue Slyvester says it is the greatest sport on earth

[Class Warhair]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

Yeah, but, figure skaters tend to be...a bit more developed...

It's only just dawned on me why the judges sit down in a pit. It's not to do with the level their eyes are at. They just need a little privacy while they're deciding.

And the scores are crazy, it always seems to be somewhere around 9 out of ten. How in hell do they select those judges anyway?

[Class Warhair]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I've always thought men's gymnastics should do this

New and exciting elements on the bar. And on the rings!

[Greed and Death]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

Yeah, but, figure skaters tend to be...a bit more developed...

It's only just dawned on me why the judges sit down in a pit. It's not to do with the level their eyes are at. They just need a little privacy while they're deciding.

And the scores are crazy, it always seems to be somewhere around 9 out of ten. How in hell do they select those judges anyway?

A lot of the scoring is determined by how difficult the technique is and how well its meets the requirements of the event. So at the Olympics everyone attempts the most competitive techniques they know, where as at lesser competition they would ease off a little for fear of injury. So most Olympic gymnastics events score in the 8.5 to 10.0 range unless someone screws up.

[Copiosa Scotia]

http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/06/29/cheerleading-is-most-dangerous-sport/
/thread

Hardly. An activity could be dangerous beyond all reason—say, swimming naked and bleeding with hammerhead sharks—and it still wouldn't necessarily be a sport. At the minimum, I think I'd require an objective system of scoring, an appreciable degree of athletic exertion, and some result involving winners, losers and ties for every competition.

Note, however, that I'm not making any judgment as to whether the judge was correct. I don't know enough, at present, about the Title IX criteria that determine whether an activity is a sport to weigh in on that issue. I will say that I'd be surprised if the dangerousness of an activity is legally dispositive in determining whether an activity is a sport.

[Risottia]

Replacing volleyball with competitive cheerleading!? I'm with the judge on this one.

And it took a judge to realize that cheerleading isn't a sport?
If cheerleading is a sport, then also tango is a sport...

[Selaguere]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

Yeah, but, figure skaters tend to be...a bit more developed...

It's only just dawned on me why the judges sit down in a pit. It's not to do with the level their eyes are at. They just need a little privacy while they're deciding.

And the scores are crazy, it always seems to be somewhere around 9 out of ten. How in hell do they select those judges anyway?

A lot of the scoring is determined by how difficult the technique is and how well its meets the requirements of the event. So at the Olympics everyone attempts the most competitive techniques they know, where as at lesser competition they would ease off a little for fear of injury. So most Olympic gymnastics events score in the 8.5 to 10.0 range unless someone screws up.

But if the gymnist were all naked then the 'mount' and 'dismount' in their routine could open up a whole new area of event 'scoring'.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Sue Slyvester says it is the greatest sport on earth....

....and that's how Sue 'C's' it!

[SaintB]

Sue Slyvester says it is the greatest sport on earth....

....and that's how Sue 'C's' it!

Besides, there is someone who will tell you any sport is the greatest. There are people who will say its badminton, some who say its football, some who say its boxing...

[Utherium]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

Wait, so the tele counts as a sport because I watch it?

[EvilDarkMagicians]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

Wait, so the tele counts as a sport because I watch it?

Endurance T.V watching could be considered a sport.

[Class Warhair]

:lol: You all sound like my son who maintains that all women's figure skating events should be done naked.

I got to go to a coroner, be right back.

This could be a revolution in sports, and Olympics ratings.

How horny does it make the judges yeah I can see that.

Consider the floor routines in gymnastics. As if the little girls weren't showing what they've got* clearly enough already, the judges sit in a pit so they're looking up from ground level. At least, they do at the Olympics.

*i.e. nothing, but some people like that.

Yeah, but, figure skaters tend to be...a bit more developed...

It's only just dawned on me why the judges sit down in a pit. It's not to do with the level their eyes are at. They just need a little privacy while they're deciding.

And the scores are crazy, it always seems to be somewhere around 9 out of ten. How in hell do they select those judges anyway?

A lot of the scoring is determined by how difficult the technique is and how well its meets the requirements of the event. So at the Olympics everyone attempts the most competitive techniques they know, where as at lesser competition they would ease off a little for fear of injury. So most Olympic gymnastics events score in the 8.5 to 10.0 range unless someone screws up.

Ah, you are a gentleman. And yes, my post was very sleazy.

[Risottia]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

Wouldn't that be a "show", more accurately?

[Risottia]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

Wait, so the tele counts as a sport because I watch it?

Endurance T.V watching could be considered a sport.

So you would watch a TV show featuring people having a contest about who can watch more TV ? Weird...

[Class Warhair]

Replacing volleyball with competitive cheerleading!? I'm with the judge on this one.

And it took a judge to realize that cheerleading isn't a sport?
If cheerleading is a sport, then also tango is a sport...

To be a sport, it must have competition.

We can distinguish "objective" sports from "subjective" sports: the distinction between judging and refereeing. That is, whether the winner is decided by subjective criteria of the judges/referees, or by objective criteria which the spectators can see for themselves (eg, which team scores goals, who crosses the line first).

But I say that both kinds can be sports. The potential for corruption (unfairness) in the subjectively-judged sport is greater, but in a way that is good. The loser has the consolation that maybe the judges were not fair, and the winner is left with some doubt that they really did win fairly. But both still did their best to win.

What matters is that all competitors did their best, and for the spectators that they saw excellent performances.

[Class Warhair]

The modern definition of a "sport" is anything people will watch.

Wouldn't that be a "show", more accurately?

Yes. Exactly that. When most people say "sport" they don't mean something they actually do. They mean something that they watch.