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TeamScam

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Baseball players are athletes, skateboarders are not.
I gotta disagree a little bit.
There are exceptions.
Remember Daryl Strawberry? He was an athlete and a baseball player but he woulda partied with Hasoi too.
Wait what decade are we in?
Oh yeah, baseball players cleaned up their act some right?
 

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Moringa! If you don't know about this miracle plant, look it up! Complete protein and one of the easiest things to grow. There are so many health benefits and uses for this tree its incredible.
 

GWS_2

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Wasn't it Mark Richards back in his prime that used to claim to live mostly off of Coca Cola and chocolate?

Diet of champions.

EDIT: I ran into this the other day. Some Classic 70's Burleigh surfing.

 
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One think to keep in mind is that one size doesn't fit all.

Asians can eat a sh!t ton of rice with out getting fat.

Northern Europeans can suck down the cow's milk and thrive.

I wonder if Mexicans can eat beans better?

--Racist dietitian out!
 

laidback

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One think to keep in mind is that one size doesn't fit all.

Asians can eat a sh!t ton of rice with out getting fat.

Northern Europeans can suck down the cow's milk and thrive.

I wonder if Mexicans can eat beans better?

--Racist dietitian out!
Hey....facts are facts
You're on fecals list for sure now
 

GWS_2

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One think to keep in mind is that one size doesn't fit all.

Asians can eat a sh!t ton of rice with out getting fat.

Northern Europeans can suck down the cow's milk and thrive.

I wonder if Mexicans can eat beans better?

--Racist dietitian out!
It's true. Asians can thrive on a macrobiotic diet that would kill a Scandinavian. Scandinavians that could NOT process dairy to extract Vit A/D didn't live long enough to put much into the gene pool. Limited sun during the winters. What your ancestors became accustomed to re diet matters. Thousands of years of gene pool survival weaned out those that couldn't survive on the indigenous diet.
 
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GWS_2

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They had to be big too to increase the surface area to grab the limited sunlight.

Or maybe I just dreamed that?
I never heard that one. Maybe. In the middle ages they had the reputation of being larger than average. The lack of pigment in the skin is definitely the result of having to survive in a low sunlight environment. I remember being a kid visiting relatives in Norway one summer and the sun came out on one particular day. I remember the women ripping off their shirts to bask in the sun in their bras. Which at that time would never have been seen in CA. They DGAF, they were getting sun on their skin no matter what.
 

Autoprax

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I never heard that one. Maybe. In the middle ages they had the reputation of being larger than average. The lack of pigment in the skin is definitely the result of having to survive in a low sunlight environment. I remember being a kid visiting relatives in Norway one summer and the sun came out on one particular day. I remember the women ripping off their shirts to bask in the sun in their bras. Which at that time would never have been seen in CA. They DGAF, they were getting sun on their skin no matter what.
Engliand is like that too.

Everyone one catches the sun when it comes out.
 

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Nice dodge. So you’ve never heard of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Andrei Agassi, Usain Bolt, or Michael Phelps? Do you live under a rock?

I’d say that probably every NBA player, most non-lineman in the NFL, pro tennis players, most Olympians, and most pro soccer players in Europe and South America would be considered more athletic than most probably every pro skateboarder.
In general skateboarders appear to be obsessed with not trying to do anything other than wear lots of black, train themselves to be oblivious idiots, and smoke a lot, so not sure about it, but if elite skateboarders actually had leagues and travel teams and private coaching like many elite competitors in other sports?

Tom Brady and Wayne Gretzky are GOATs in their sports, but not what I would consider particularly athletic.

Gretzky was the reference implementation of 4D Chess. Every rink in Russia has 10 year old girls who could outskate Gretzky while playing pokemon go and livestreaming it. Probably cross check his ass too, and their diet is probably water, a ground multi vitamin pill, and a teaspoon of sawdust before bedtime every other day.
The whole point of Gretzky was he knew where AND WHEN everyone else was going to be after they got where they were currently going. The most butteriest of passes was going to be 1.2 hockey stick blades off the ground over the defenseman's sticks, then land, turbo buttery, in the appropriate place for the recipient, who probably had no idea he was about to get the puck when Gretzky already knew whether it was going to be wrist or slap, stop-n-shot or one-timer, before the guy even decided where to go next.

Tom Brady is like the NFL equivalent of the guy who won't play the British Open when it's on certain courses because he can't use a golf cart.

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I bet if that flatland skateboarder savant guy grew up around soccer he would have been pretty good.

I'm not sure I buy that NO skateboarder is more athletic than ANY NFL lineman completely across the board. The bust the Giants got in the first round a few years back, Ereck Flowers, his footwork makes Stephen Hawking look like Lionel Messi. Once he stopped simply out-muscling the trash cans he played against in the ACC Coastal Division he got exposed.

Granted none of the skateboarders are 6'6"/270 and running 4.6 40s but if they put down the cigs and spent their adolescence the way talent in recruiting pipelines does I bet you'd see lots of the same gifts in terms of hip movement, footwork, speed, vision, anticipation etc. that make someone a good cornerback.
 

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I’m still not sure why, when someone mentions athleticism, everyone’s brain goes directly to foozball. The groupthink here is unbelievable. Who gives a fvck about foozball? It’s the dumbest sport out there and you wags eat it up.
 

Sharkbiscuit

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I’m still not sure why, when someone mentions athleticism, everyone’s brain goes directly to foozball. The groupthink here is unbelievable. Who gives a fvck about foozball? It’s the dumbest sport out there and you wags eat it up.
LOL he mad.

NFL corners are elite athletes. Look at the size/speed/vertical some of the skill players have. The strength/speed linebackers have.
 

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One think to keep in mind is that one size doesn't fit all.

Asians can eat a sh!t ton of rice with out getting fat.

Northern Europeans can suck down the cow's milk and thrive.

I wonder if Mexicans can eat beans better?

--Racist dietitian out!
Hey now, we are all literally the same exact beings inside. Race is literally just the coloring of someones skin and nothing more and if you think different you are literally Hitler.
 

laidback

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Hey now, we are all literally the same exact beings inside. Race is literally just the coloring of someones skin and nothing more and if you think different you are literally Hitler.
Really?
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