1: On ice skates! Downhill! With jumps! And they're dressed like hockey players!
Admittedly, I expected way more hip checking.
Its nice to remember that our neighbors to the north are not all the polite, reasonable, civic-minded types you hear on The Vinyl Cafe. Many of them are redneck hosers, just like us.
This seems like a very Canadian approach to Xtreme Sportz.
Are all Xtreme Sportz done to that kind of music? I had to turn the sound off.
This seems like a very Canadian approach to Xtreme Sportz.
That's it! They need to have people ice fishing on the course that the skaters have to jump over. teo, you're brilliant.
I'm sure it's intense to play. To watch? Eh.
8: Canadian viewers have longer attention spans, due to the colder temperatures. Makes their neurons fire more slowly. It's science.
Those sidewalls look pretty short to me considering the speeds and the jumps.But then what could possibly go wrong.
1: So it's, like, a race?
Maybe even a sub-species.
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So it's basically Northeastern skiing on short but well sharpened skis and no moguls.
The Red Bull X-Alps is pretty extreme.
My friend has a student who is a professional arm wrestler. I keep grilling her for details, but she is maddeningly uninformed.
Is it by weight class? Limb to torso ratio? What kind of body is the right type of body to optimize arm wrestling? Apparently this guy is of slight build, and one arm is not discernably popeye-esque?
I'm too jaded to appreciate any non-traditional sport other than pole dancing.
Short track speed skating is better -- more skaters mean bigger crashes and more chaos potential.
Slamball is my current candidate favorite obscure extreme sport.
I've tried to bring Slamball to the masses, but it's pearls before swine, I tell you.
People still play Slamball? I figured it would have died when the TV show got cancelled.
19: Does Bing fill the hoohole? Because, saying Binghoohole makes me giggle.
Bing often finds what Google does not, but it is not 100%.
I know people who tried out for that when it was in Boston. Sadly the tryouts are just time trials skating around a standard hockey rink- you don't get to do the downhill stuff unless you're fast enough on regular ice. How can they judge downhill battling abilities based on flat-ice skating?