There Was An Attempt

5708 readers

1 users here now

There Was An Attempt, and they failed.

Share and discuss of when there was a sincere attempt made and they failed.

Rules

All lemmy.world rules apply.

Be respectful: No harassment; trolling; spamming; hate speech and use appropriate language.
Share relevant content (Failed Attempts)
Foster a healthy, constructive community for us to all learn in.
Report any rule violations.

Check out the Lemmy Discord

More coming soon! Under new development.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

423

to delete this video from the internet (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 4 months ago by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]

168 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dream_weasel 36 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How this was in the Olympics and karate isnt is hard to understand.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Karate isn't in the Olympics because they can't agree on rules and by extension have one rule making body.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is not representative of the rest of the event. The athleticism the real competitors were doing was incredible. It's closer to an improvised, artistic version of a gymnastics floor routine than this bullshit.

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is all I have seen of it. Being a cord cutter since the last Olympics, I'm not sure where to watch any of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

YouTube, for a start.

https://youtu.be/whUx-5mbLl0?si=LmScslGczfK44oT1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Even then it's all been taken off Peacock. It's a shame because they were doing superhuman feats.

[–] 0x4E4F 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Can't wait for freestyle fucking to finally be a thing at the olympics!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Knowing olympics, it'll be yet another sport where it's all men on men / women on women, separated by weight class.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thank you for the laugh! I so needed that today.

[–] 0x4E4F 4 points 4 months ago

🤣🤣🤣... I'd give you a medal if I had one 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And just like the gymnastics, the viewership would heavily favor the women's events

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This person undeservingly getting a spot on stage is not representative of the sport. But surely you wouldn't be commenting on the validity of a sport after seeing only one person do it because then you would be susceptible to being wildly misinformed

[–] dream_weasel 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't. Like many other sports, bboying (which I use because it a dumb AF moniker) is totally subjective for scoring, and as someone who has done a LOT of karate, gymnastics, and ballroom dance, it seems like all of those should have been included first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's not totally subjective, because they define a way to measure an athletes performance objectively. It's also a bit ironic because gymnastics could also be quite subjective too. Ultimately the judges and the athletes are aware of how everything is being scored, and the athletes plan their routines around how highly they can score on this rubric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it seems like all of those should have been included first.

Why?

[–] dream_weasel 2 points 4 months ago

First because they are older sports. Maybe that is the problem though because karate and ballroom both have 2+ established, competing governing bodies.

Second because at least for sparring, karate is formulaic: put fist or foot here, score point.