What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?
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@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
Flicking past ESPN and came across The Ocho, the 51st National Stone Skipping Competition.
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One bloke was quite impressive with a 17!
Apparently fhe record is 88!! Must have used pumice. Used to get really good results at Taupo with pumice.
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@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
Flicking past ESPN and came across The Ocho, the 51st National Stone Skipping Competition.
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I have come across a spelling bee on ESPN. Which I didn't really think fitted the Entertainment or Sports category of their name.
Were you entertained by the stone skipping on your telebision (little typo in the thread title there)? If so it fits the brief I suppose.
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@Snowy said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
Flicking past ESPN and came across The Ocho, the 51st National Stone Skipping Competition.
???
I have come across a spelling bee on ESPN. Which I didn't really think fitted the Entertainment or Sports category of their name.
Were you entertained by the stone skipping on your telebision (little typo in the thread title there)? If so it fits the brief I suppose.
I'm good with telebision ...
Remarkably no I wasn't really ...
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@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
@Snowy said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
Flicking past ESPN and came across The Ocho, the 51st National Stone Skipping Competition.
???
I have come across a spelling bee on ESPN. Which I didn't really think fitted the Entertainment or Sports category of their name.
Were you entertained by the stone skipping on your telebision (little typo in the thread title there)? If so it fits the brief I suppose.
I'm good with telebision ...
Remarkably no I wasn't really ...
Well I feel as though I have missed out.
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@Hooroo Well 88 would certainly be worth seeing, so here it is.
It does look suspiciously like pumice - until it sinks at the end.
The follow on video seemed a bit wrong as Mr Steiner appeared to be throwing rocks at ducks. He is very particular about the stones too.
I really am avoiding doing any work today.
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@booboo You will be looking forward to the pizza acrobatics competition.
Yes, there is a sport named pizza acrobatics (and it is awesome)
If you've never heard of pizza acrobatics, welcome to the club. We asked pizza acrobatics megastar Tony Gemignani to explain how The Ocho's newest addition (12-1 p.m. ET, ESPN2) works.
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well, ESPN just had a segment of Stone Cold Steve Austin rating the beer chugging abilities of other pro athletes. Based on that alone, i am willing to cut them a huge amount of slack
and that's the bottom line
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@mariner4life Certainly fits the entertainment definition.
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also, Cornholing is a thing. It's professional. And it's on ESPN
And it's fucking great TV
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@Snowy I imagine not only do they have 'athletes' in that there stone skipping competition, they will require judges, probably multiple ones to count the skips...therefore, competitors, judges, no different to half the olympic sports!
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@booboo said in What constitutes a sport and why is it on telebision?:
Flicking past ESPN and came across The Ocho, the 51st National Stone Skipping Competition.
???
A mate's daughter just won the U-16 category in the British Championships
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Everything anyone wants to compete at that involves physical attributes is a sport, who gives a flip, let them play waht they want. The fact the Ocho exists, beyond being in Dodgeball, is proof there's interest. No skin off my nose that I had to sign off a kid to get colours for Rock n Roll dancing at WBHS!
