tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3307576042216174624..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What the 21st Century's most accomplished athlete looks like with his shirt offUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15674502308573259132014-01-28T19:52:09.448-08:002014-01-28T19:52:09.448-08:00Speaking of female armpit hair, did any of y'a...Speaking of female armpit hair, did any of y'all see the Chinese movie Lust, Caution? Very feminine star, sexy as hell, but with obviously unshaved armpits. I am told that Asian women usually don't have a lot of hair which seems to be true (IME) but not her. Oboenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3507194598731810752012-09-01T19:21:36.123-07:002012-09-01T19:21:36.123-07:00I will begin by disclosing that Federer is my favo... I will begin by disclosing that Federer is my favorite player since Borg. He passed 17 drug tests in 2004, and innumerable ones since. Although I do not like Djokovic, I believe that he is a phenomenal athlete (who is preternaturally quick, agile, and limber), rather than a cheater. His stamina is a combination of superb fitness and the fact that like Nadal (the strip miner ever seeking to rediscover the Comstock Lode) he continually gets away with time violations: bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, et cetera. He is gracious in defeat, as Nadal is in both victory and defeat. I would suggest that Lendl (from 1985 onward) had the prototypical tennis physique. Federer combines the pinpoint serving of Sampras (his mentally tougher predecessor) with superior speed and groundstrokes. I do not deny that with today's equipment Sampras' serve would be even better (although not radically so.<br /> The only players of consequence who have tested positive are: Korda (who accomplished little after his suspension) and Coria, who paid for independent testing, thus proving that the banned substance was contained in a vitamin supplement that he was taking. I do not count mediocrities such as Chela, Odesnik, and Puerta, who was suspended several weeks after a suspect run to the 2005 French Open final. I am unaware of any subsequent accomplishments<br /> I must take issue with the notion that anti Serena Williams sentiment must stem from racial animus. I am not a self hater, I simply find SW to be gauche and uncouth. I liked Noah and like Stephens. I would attribute Williams' personality to her surly, dim witted father rather than steroids. I am sceptical (but not dismissive) of the steroid theory. The perception that a 6'1 187 pound man is thin is a result of the fact that we have ballooned over the last quarter century. I should also note the because of the impotance of lateral movement, Djokovic, and (when healthy) Nadal may cover the court more effectively than Blake, who in his prime mau have won a footrace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39950596198769161412012-08-28T15:52:03.826-07:002012-08-28T15:52:03.826-07:00"that's all. If you're going to argue..."that's all. If you're going to argue that actual point we're making, there it is."<br /><br />Exactly. We're got this same steroid strawman/denial during the Bonds/McGuire/baseball scandal. The next step is they accept their heroes are using 'roids but argue it doesn't affect their performance, and then when that's shot down, they say everyone should be allowed to take them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40504752512429460312012-08-28T08:51:27.448-07:002012-08-28T08:51:27.448-07:00"The adoration of "black superathletes&q..."The adoration of "black superathletes" in USA has crossed the limits of common sense, and lives in a hyperspace separated from the outer world."<br /><br />Sviggey; Whisque, jody, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU. COURTESY OF...YOUR RACE!<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rfbRCx9jXA&sns=emTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29059139467362438512012-08-28T08:24:16.571-07:002012-08-28T08:24:16.571-07:00"You dont have to be on steroids to get big a...<em>"You dont have to be on steroids to get big and strong."</em><br /><br />(Sigh.) That strawman is getting so old mushrooms are growing on it.<br /><br />No one's saying you can't get big and strong without steroids. Yes, there were strong, ripped people before steriods; yes, there are very strong people in primitive, drug-free parts of the world; blah blah blah. No one's denying any of that. What we <em>are</em> skeptical about is that an athlete -- someone who is already in great shape from a lifetime of hard physical training -- can make extreme changes in his physical makeup in a matter of months, sometimes including drastic growth of muscles that his sport doesn't even stress, and do this while maintaining a busy schedule of training and competition, without drugs. <br /><br />That's all. If you're going to argue that actual point we're making, there it is.Aaron B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15629153841120627618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19628992329415904332012-08-28T05:20:40.751-07:002012-08-28T05:20:40.751-07:00speaking of home runs, josh hamilton is second, ry...<i>speaking of home runs, josh hamilton is second, ryan braun third. yet, i'm pretty sure when i saw the home run derby at the all-star game, there wasn't one white guy in it. not a chance on earth that was a coincidence or not deliberate.</i><br /><br />That reminds me of the NFL's strongest man contest, which Truth once used as "evidence" because Larry Allen won it once. I remember thinking at the time, "hmm, well, that's something." Then I actually <i>saw</i> a few minutes of an NFL's strongest man contest, years later. Nothing but blacks competing. And they were all cheating like crazy, bouncing the bar, etc. WTFever, lol.Svigorhttp://svigor.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56987694915650322842012-08-28T02:43:12.399-07:002012-08-28T02:43:12.399-07:00The Brazilian World Cup team average height is 1.8...<i>The Brazilian World Cup team average height is 1.85. That´s something like 6´1 6´2. Also, Brazil isn´´t a very tall country so European average heights must be even taller.</i> <br /><br /><br />You're mistaken. The average height of a Premier league player is a little under six feet.Severnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42172109573430393652012-08-27T22:54:09.643-07:002012-08-27T22:54:09.643-07:00"IOW, women there look like women."
Wel..."IOW, women there look like women."<br /><br />Well... yes. At least, until their 40s. They don't look like super models, but they do look like women.<br /><br />And by the same token, Federer might not look like an underwear model, but he does look like a virile masculine man in great shape. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42193052150544559272012-08-27T22:40:46.706-07:002012-08-27T22:40:46.706-07:00to the Brazilian commenting above...]
I live in Br...to the Brazilian commenting above...]<br />I live in Brazil, Rio to be exact and can say most of the ripped guys, and girls are juicing. In much higher proportion than Americans would ever do(not counting atheletes).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15262942234706789272012-08-27T19:58:38.669-07:002012-08-27T19:58:38.669-07:00"Soccer players are not tall. They are comple..."Soccer players are not tall. They are completely ordinary in terms of height. If anything they are perhaps on the short side."<br /><br />This used to be true, but nowadays soccer players are pretty tall. The Brazilian World Cup team average height is 1.85. That´s something like 6´1 6´2. Also, Brazil isn´´t a very tall country so European average heights must be even taller...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36914905362194749342012-08-27T18:57:06.100-07:002012-08-27T18:57:06.100-07:00Here's a good picture gallery for body fat per...<i>Here's a good picture gallery for body fat percentages in men. Federer looks like he's about %20.</i> <br /><br /><br />Federer does not look like somebody with 20% body fat. 15%, maybe.<br /><br /><i>If Federer is the athletic ideal, that means a man can be much fatter and still be "reaonably fit".</i> <br /><br /><br />Yes, you can be "much fatter" than 15% body fat and still be reasonably fit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24994033328838935542012-08-27T12:05:31.552-07:002012-08-27T12:05:31.552-07:00those tall soccer players that we see in Europe ar...<i> those tall soccer players that we see in Europe are highly selected and are approximately as distant from ordinary people as basketball players in Europe</i><br /> <br /><br />Soccer players are not tall. They are completely ordinary in terms of height. If anything they are perhaps on the short side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33380761989696033892012-08-27T11:59:41.662-07:002012-08-27T11:59:41.662-07:00Here's a good picture gallery for body fat per...Here's a good picture gallery for body fat percentages in men. Federer looks like he's about %20. "Athletic physique" is considered to BEGIN at 15. Clearly, Federer is fit, but only in America would he be considered an ideal :) There is a difference between being reasonably fit and being an atheltic ideal. <br /><br />http://www.freefitnessguru.com/blog/2012/02<br /><br />Based on the extreme indignation of some of the female posters here, I am beginning to wonder if obesity in America is female-enforced. I do in fact see far more fat women than men - it is not uncommon to see thin athletic men with fat women in America - and women in general in America are encouraged to reject beauty (in dress, in behavior, etc) and not "live up" to men's expectations. Women are also more prone to emotional over-eating and seem less able to control urges for ice cream, chocolate, etc. <br /><br />If Federer is the athletic ideal, that means a man can be much fatter and still be "reaonably fit". Maybe even 25-30% body fat, then. If so, then women don't have to feel guilty about their abandonment of beauty and their embrace of ice- cream.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54606394104847772342012-08-27T10:23:12.750-07:002012-08-27T10:23:12.750-07:00Thirdly, if you actually ever been to the former S...<i>Thirdly, if you actually ever been to the former Soviet Block, East Asia or Western Europe, you'd know that not only has the obesity epidemic officially reached their shores, but that even a healthy, slender girl in these regions doesn't usually look like Natasha, the costly prostitute, or Ping, the face of the mail order bride scam. And most of them don't look like Brigit Bardot and Audrey Hepburn either. The skeletal/muscular/hormonal set up is what it is.</i><br /><br />IOW, women there look like women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76380351542661197652012-08-27T10:13:03.055-07:002012-08-27T10:13:03.055-07:00
Wrestlers are the best athletes (an argument c... <br /><br />Wrestlers are the best athletes (an argument can be made for gymnasts too), and they weight train year round. <br /><br />You dont have to be on steroids to get big and strong. This just shows what a lazy nonathletic weakling you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19818837913758185662012-08-27T07:03:45.668-07:002012-08-27T07:03:45.668-07:00Aaron B,
Compared to women I see everyday Rodger&#...Aaron B,<br />Compared to women I see everyday Rodger's wife is nice looking. Andy Roddick is the one with the hot wife. However, I bet he'd give her up in a millisecond in order to beat Federer just one time. Laranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39789523592179642802012-08-27T06:43:10.397-07:002012-08-27T06:43:10.397-07:00"imagine if super fast and super strong black..."imagine if super fast and super strong black guys entered soccer. they would dominate. no black guys play soccer today because they're not interested in the most popular sport in the world or in getting paid 20 million euros a year to dominate slow, unathletic white guys who are a complete joke. but just imagine if nigeria played soccer. or what about jamaica. wow!"<br /><br />A funny observation. By the way, thanks to modern technology, we now have the possibility to separate illusions from the reality, and to analyze work output during every game in every player. <br /><br />I analyzed game stats of the opening 48 games at the last World Cup 2010 (the group stage). It was interesting to see that although some individuals in the four West African teams (Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon) belonged to the fastest players at the tournament, the teams as a whole were positioned among the bottom half of the 32 teams in terms of total distance covered per game, total number of sprints per game, and even the average of top speed recorded in each player. Nigeria was actually a desperate dead end in all these stats. France, the unofficial "All Stars Africa team", was only marginally better.<br /><br />The best conditioned teams at the tournament were probably Australia, Mexico, and Japan.<br /><br />Therefore, don't wonder that when I heard your US reporter talking about "athleticism" that your US team is going to challenge in the match with Ghana, I thought that I was listening to some inmates from a mental house. The adoration of "black superathletes" in USA has crossed the limits of common sense, and lives in a hyperspace separated from the outer world.<br /><br />And as for the "superathletes" from the Caribbean and West Africa, everybody should finally realize that they are not endowed with any special sports potential, because they are mostly of small body size. There are some exceptions (like wealthy Trinidad, where the black population approaches the current European average), but most West African nations outside USA and Western Europe reach at best 170-175 (5'7-5'9) or so. Furthermore, due to population explosion in West Africa that can't keep up with nutritional demands, the average height tends to decrease with time. <br /><br />Therefore, don't expect any Olympic boom in this part of the world. I would even say that West Africans are currently highly overachieving, with regard to their unimpressive physiques, which probably has much to do with the fact that except sports, they have nothing to do. In any case, those tall soccer players that we see in Europe are highly selected and are approximately as distant from ordinary people as basketball players in Europe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43087451552482927882012-08-27T06:09:58.403-07:002012-08-27T06:09:58.403-07:00"Daybreaker said...
The photo that headed th..."Daybreaker said...<br /><br />The photo that headed this post was wrong. The 21st Century's finest athlete is 6'5", hairless, buffed, ripped, striated and gnarly, and Black! Really Black, authentically Black, non-assimilated, non-whitebread, hard for the racist White middle class to accept Black!<br /><br />Which are you going to believe: un-gainsayable logic, or your lying eyes?"<br /><br /><br /><br />Blah blah blah... Repeat, what you hear on ESPN 100-times a day! And watch videos from NBA on YouTube, where your great athletes from 60's look like lanky Kenyan runners! But that just has a very easy explanation: Those bulky muscular guys you curently see in NBA were brought during the 70's on slave ships from Africa, and as you know, only the strongest could survive such a long way. <br /><br />By the way, ask your ESPN experts, what athletic events need 6'5 tall guys! The discus throw? Well, discus throwers are just well-known as the best athletes overall, aren't they? But your great athlete from NBA would have to be about 20 kg heavier to compete in this event successfully. What about volleyball? Well, the height would fit the game, but again, volleyball players are about 8 kg lighter. Handball players have a similar body build, but they are ca. 7 cm smaller. Decathletes are ca. 10 cm smaller on average. So where you great athlete from NBA could compete successfully? The right answer is: Virtually nowhere. He has a body build that is very distant from all other sports on this planet. He only represents your American deviant passion for freakish physiques. The same applies for American football, the most extreme team sport on Earth, as for requirements on body volume.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83784303053123389672012-08-27T05:45:32.843-07:002012-08-27T05:45:32.843-07:00when federer won wimbledon this year, to push his ...when federer won wimbledon this year, to push his grand slam total to an incredible 17, pretty much all the americans talked about was serena williams. it was comical. she's not even the number 3 or 4 best woman's player ever let alone number 1, yet that's all they were interested in talking about. the best tennis player ever, totally pushed to the side and ignored because he's not an american and not african.<br /><br />when woods doesn't win a PGA event, the golf coverage drops to zero. in fact almost all they talk about afterwards is why the guy who won shouldn't have won and why woods should have won. rory mcilroy smashes all time PGA records for margin of victory? the story is woods, of course. why is ernie els winning majors? woods should have won that. it's woods all the time, every time. i actually used to call ESPN, 3 sports plus woods. i shudder to think what the golf channel's coverage is like. at least NBC sports network does not cover the PGA as extensively, sparing viewers from woods worship.<br /><br />if i didn't have the internet i wouldn't even know about guys like mike trout. i hate baseball but this guy is phenomenal. he's not a yankee, red sock, or from latin america, so american coverage of his exploits are middling at best. does anybody even know adam dunn is leading the league in home runs? and where is jim thome on his march up the all time home run list? the american sports media couldn't be less interested in these guys.<br /><br />speaking of home runs, josh hamilton is second, ryan braun third. yet, i'm pretty sure when i saw the home run derby at the all-star game, there wasn't one white guy in it. not a chance on earth that was a coincidence or not deliberate.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59818746107667428812012-08-27T05:36:03.576-07:002012-08-27T05:36:03.576-07:00the williams sisters don't dominate tennis any...the williams sisters don't dominate tennis anymore. serena wins some majors still, probably because she's on drugs, but venus hasn't been a contender in years. ESPN makes sure americans rarely see venus anymore. they definitely don't like showing africans getting beaten, one of the reasons there is not much boxing for major belts on american television anymore.<br /><br />by controlling what americans see, and only showing africans winning, they definitely can control the image of sports. certainly africans in the US are great athletes, i would never dispute that, but the US sports media now clearly has a widespread policy of mostly ignoring anything noteworthy europeans do in sports, and overcovering and overanalyzing a lot of respectable but hardly impressive performances by africans. it's not much different now than how most of the US news media operates. it was fascinating to watch this change over the last 15 years.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27075911119284136752012-08-27T05:19:47.107-07:002012-08-27T05:19:47.107-07:00"Imagine if super-fast and super-strong black..."Imagine if super-fast and super-strong black guys entered tennis"<br /><br />imagine if super fast and super strong black guys entered soccer. they would dominate. no black guys play soccer today because they're not interested in the most popular sport in the world or in getting paid 20 million euros a year to dominate slow, unathletic white guys who are a complete joke. but just imagine if nigeria played soccer. or what about jamaica. wow!<br /><br />er, wait a minute.<br /><br />isn't it the same argument every single time? "Black guys can take over this sport any time they want to." <br /><br />well, sometimes they don't.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29975324428908063762012-08-27T03:54:36.524-07:002012-08-27T03:54:36.524-07:00nadal is pretty ripped though and so is djokovic.
...nadal is pretty ripped though and so is djokovic.<br /><br />maybe i underestimated the amount of drug use in ATP play. those 2 guys played the greatest match of all time, this year's australian open final, for almost 6 hours. and they were hitting the ball faster at the end than when they started.<br /><br />at the time i simply chalked that up to them being the best players ever, now i'm not so sure. you can't really play like that for 6 hours, can you?<br /><br />that 2 day long john isner match from wimbledon 2010 was a slop fest. no more high level play after 2 hours.<br /><br />by the way, yohan blake just covered 100 meters in 9.69 seconds at a track meet in switzerland. into a -0.1 wind. he's 22 years old. that's absolute bullshit.<br /><br />this means he's faster than usain bolt was when he was 22 and, technically speaking, faster than tyson gay on his best run ever. if that had been an moderate +1.0 wind or something thereabouts he would have produced the second fastest 100 ever, and the maximum +2.0 wind puts him down into 9.5. yeah right. time to end this farce.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40823202683249321512012-08-27T01:00:06.424-07:002012-08-27T01:00:06.424-07:00I don't know exactly why 14-18% body fat is th...I don't know exactly why 14-18% body fat is the range for most regular male tennis players. I played tennis and that's where I ended up. Muscle requires more oxygen and fatigues faster yet is smaller and stronger than fat. I really just think it's by happenstance that male tennis players get to 14-18% body fat, they don't think about it, it just happens from playing tennis regularly. At 14-15% body fat (for men) you start to see the top 4 abs without flexing. Ivan Lendl was 11-12% and Mardy Fish was around 20-21% body fat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5281379752411592982012-08-27T00:00:39.308-07:002012-08-27T00:00:39.308-07:00sometimes you wonder if some in MSM are on the gam...sometimes you wonder if some in MSM are on the game, but keep it behind innuendo. <br /><br />"But really, Serena Williams takes the cake. Her arms look more muscled than Roger Federer's thighs. No wonder she has such a powerful serve."<br /><br />http://photogallery.thestar.com/1013690<br /><br />on another note, Minka Kelly looks quite like <a href="http://gossipteen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/leightonminka1.jpeg" rel="nofollow">Leighton Meester</a>. <br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yORp90P2Pvw/TWaY4ruVenI/AAAAAAAAASo/w6Tsmgd7euc/s1600/zoey-deschanel-and-katy-perry-the-universe-liked-what-it-hat-created-so-much-tat-it-decided-to-create-another.jpg" rel="nofollow">is it the make-up(and that it rubs out features) or women are more likely to have doppelgangers?(express similar phenotypes, more average yada yada</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8009615675790631902012-08-26T23:48:55.169-07:002012-08-26T23:48:55.169-07:00Why do tennis players gravitate to the 15-20% body...Why do tennis players gravitate to the 15-20% body fat range? Knowing nothing about tennis, I'd think that getting down to 10% or so would make them lighter on their feet and perhaps reduce injuries by reducing stress on their legs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com