Table Tennis could be a good survival skill, if you filled the ping pong balls with gasoline and stuffed rags into holes....
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 12:01:09 pm PDT #5522 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2008 12:02:08 pm PDT #5523 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Clearly synchronized swimming was born of necessity.
sumi - Aug 26, 2008 12:02:35 pm PDT #5524 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Archery - yes
Athletics - for fitness? Throwing stuff? Vaulting over ditches?
Baseball - No
Badminton - no
Basketball - no
Beach Volleyball - no
Boxing - yes
Canoe/Kayak - yes
Cycling-Mtn Bike - yes
Cycling-Road - yes (maybe)
Cycling-Track - no
Cycling-BMX- yes
Diving - maybe
Equestrian - Eventing - possibly (see pentathlon - origins are similar)
Football (aka Soccer)
Fencing - yes
Artistic Gymnastics - no
Rhythmic Gymnastics - no
Trampoline - no
Handball - no
Field Hockey - hockey stick can be a useful weapon.
Judo - yes
Modern Pentathlon - sure
Rowing - maybe
Sailing - maybe
Shooting - yes
Softball - no
Swimming - yes
Synchro Swimming to distract the enemy?
Tennis - no
Taekwondo - yes
Triathlon - yes
Table Tennis - no
Volleyball - no
Weightlifting - no
Water Polo - no
Wrestling - maybe
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 12:02:41 pm PDT #5525 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Clearly synchronized swimming was born of necessity.
It was useful to confuse predators....
brenda m - Aug 26, 2008 12:03:49 pm PDT #5526 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It just throws better, no? Like, if you're going to see how far you can throw things, you might as well pick the furthest-throwing? That would work in battle as well, I'd imagine. A rock-throwing kind of battle?
I think they should add in the caber toss. Because you never know when a telephone pole is going to piss you off.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2008 12:05:01 pm PDT #5527 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Badminton thingies are the fastest moving thingies in sports. I'd trust those reflexes for something hunting related, or perhaps just bopping people on the head sharply.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2008 12:05:22 pm PDT #5528 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
hockey stick can be a useful weapon
Having played field hockey in prep school, I heartily agree.
amych - Aug 26, 2008 12:11:34 pm PDT #5529 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
perhaps just bopping people on the head sharply.
Again, a useful survival skill. More so than most, if you have the wrong sort of coworkers.
sarameg - Aug 26, 2008 12:11:56 pm PDT #5530 of 10003
When we were doing our rankings (we weren't throwing anyone out of the pool) the back and forth on where many of the team sports like baseball and basketball fell was because it involves rudimentary survival skills (running, evasion, throwning, hitting) but the stylization/rules factor comes into play. We couldn't figure out if we'd rank that higher or lower than say something like fencing or shooting, because again, still a lot artificial rules imposed on the skill. And yeah, still rules in running or swimming, just fewer on the form of engagement. However, a greater combination of skills!
We never came to a conclusion because Optimist Prime decided to attack and the conversation got even more derailed.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 12:17:05 pm PDT #5531 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We never came to a conclusion because Optimist Prime decided to attack and the conversation got even more derailed.
Heh.
Let's say humanity for some reason had no weapons at all. Which Olympic skill would best be able to defend against an attack of Kang and Kodos armed with boards with nails stuck in them?