Nah, just makes you look stupid for joining in on a racial wank off.
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Wintermute
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Having only the read the first and last couple of pages....
I thought it was about hips and shoulders? Black people tend to have wider ones, which makes them better suited to power sports like sprinting and boxing, and less suited to stuff like swimming, where a long, narrow frame is better. Is that just ignorant bollocks?
I thought it was about hips and shoulders? Black people tend to have wider ones, which makes them better suited to power sports like sprinting and boxing, and less suited to stuff like swimming, where a long, narrow frame is better. Is that just ignorant bollocks?
With regards to the swimming argument there were a couple of black French swimmers in the swimming an let not forget Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia (formerly ancient Carthage) who became the first African male swimmer to win the longest distance in pool swimming the 1500m freestyle. Beating Aussie distance icon Grant Hackett!!
Oussama Mellouli
Also Cullen Jones who played his part in the third leg of that stunning 4x100m freestyle relay race last week.
Johnny Canuck3
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i still have skiing, table tennis, gymnastics and taekwando
Tae kwon do is just another type of karate.
Johnny Canuck3
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Crispy or whomever might call it a racial wank off, but I find topics like this to be very illuminating of peoples attitudes toward race.
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Fascinating, but race doesn't exist, does it?
is it fuck
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I called it that Johnny and as much as I may agree with you regarding it being interesting the way people respond to things you do enjoy being provocative and fishing for a reaction.
The question in the OP may have been a serious one but the thread very quickly deteriorated into a testosterone fuelled racial wank fest and other equally poor taste stuff.
However, amongst all that there were some interesting points made.
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This is a bulletin board. At least parts of it are in essence a debating club. What that means, is provoking discussion.
The knitting club is, to paraphrase the editor, over that way somewhere --->
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Having fought with tae kwon do practitioners, I know that it is.
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For all I know, you don't exist.
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Yeah whatever Johnny, be as patronising as you want. You understood my point and are just being defensive.
Night night dear, have fun!
having read very basic histories of taekwando and karate i know that you are talking out of your arse, it's like saying that american football is just another type of rugby, they are martial arts which have evolved seperately for hundreds of years
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With regards to the swimming argument there were a couple of black French swimmers in the swimming an let not forget Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia (formerly ancient Carthage) who became the first African male swimmer to win the longest distance in pool swimming the 1500m freestyle. Beating Aussie distance icon Grant Hackett!!
Oussama Mellouli
Also Cullen Jones who played his part in the third leg of that stunning 4x100m freestyle relay race last week.
That bloke at the top is hardly black. This thread wasn't about location, but about heritage.
FWIW, yeah, race is a pretty artificial category, but it's still true that populations adapt to their environment, and sometimes those adaptations make you more suitable to certain sports. Not 'race,' but more specific genetic traits being handed down through generations. It doesn't always show up in the colour of the skin, either. There are plenty of people out there with, say, Ethiopian heritage who look white and get treated as white, and plenty of Ethiopians who have European ancestry as well as African.
You'd never be able to look at the colour of someone's skin and guess what sport they'd be good at. Though I suspect that does inform some selectors' choices, in all sports.
That doesn't have anything to do with the 'intelligence and race' debate, though. Being able to run at high altitudes is an advantage that's to do with environment - being smart is a universal advantage.
Johnny Canuck3
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What does altitude have to do with anything? How high is Baton Rouge Louisiana, or Compton, California?
Johnny Canuck3
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Japanese and Korean martial arts both are derivations from Chinese martial arts. Because they operate from the same basic principles, they have more in common than wrestling and boxing, for instance.
They also have more in common than karate and judo for another example. Each martial art form has a basic philosophy of how force is to be directed and an enemy to be overcome. Karate and Tae kwon do are 'hard' systems, that utilize the force of the practitioner to overpower the force of the opponent. This can be contrasted with judo, aikido, etc that utilize the opponent's own force to overcome him.
There are many more similarities between karate and tae kwon do than there are differences. Most of the differences revolve around 'grounding', as in what stances one fights in, where one's center of gravity will be, how much kicking will take place and how high, and how much time will be spent off the ground, in jumping kicks etc.
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I actually don't. You make it sound as if provoking discussion on a bulletin board, is somehow a bad thing.
thanks for that you fucking idiot
you obviously don't know shit about taekwado or karatem that is just a cut n paste which you probably didn'r even read
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An area of Ethiopia has produced a surprisingly high number of top-class long-distance runners, given the population size. It's partly down to them having to adapt to running high altitudes, and passing those traits down, even after their ancestors left the area. Obviously it's not the only way to be a strong long-distance runner, having those traits, but it helps.
Read around on the subject. You started the thread, after all.
Johnny Canuck3
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Yes, I know. But short distance races are also dominated by blacks, and the majority of them aren't of kenyan or ethiopian ancestry.
As well, if it was just a matter of altitude, then Peru and Chile should be marathon powerhouses.
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Three words: boycott year.
For three words there, you'd need to make it 'Geoffrey Boycott year,' which would make no sense.
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As mentioned earlier in the thread, some West African states and their ancestors seem to have an advantage in short-distance running.
Nobody ever said it was purely a matter of altitude - I specifically said it wasn't. With Peru and Chile, I expect height counts against them, and there are probably other factors I don't know about.
If having ancestors from a specific area can make you more likely to have blue eyes, then it stands to reason that this can be true for other physical traits. This doesn't apply to intelligence (of all kinds), in my opinion, because there's nowhere that intelligence doesn't exist* and nowhere it's not an advantage - and it's not as clear-cut as blue eyes or muscle types, of course.
*Even Basildon. It's just rarer there.
Johnny Canuck3
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It's actually not. It came right out of my little head. Martial arts is one thing I know a little bit about.
