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Category:: Just for Fun -
Description:: Right... bear with me on this. The triple jump is not a real jump. You try doing that in a survival situation, and you'll fall in the river or get savaged by the alligator or whatever is appropriate to the situation.

It infuriates me on the rare occasions when I catch athletics on the TV or something, and they say, "Hooray, he's just jumped 18m". No he hasn't, because he put his FEET DOWN TWICE!

All the energy and concentration which is required to perform the gay little skip which is integral to the "triple jump", could be expended on a proper long-jump. Utterly pointless and beyond my comprehension. Now that's a proper skill. Thousands of schoolchildren with little athletic aptitude are further humiliated across the country by attempting to perform this incredibly camp and wasteful action, when clearly their efforts could be directed elsewhere.

I am right. Who is with me? (read less)
Right... bear with me on this. The triple jump is not a real jump. You try doing that in a survival situation, and you'll fall in the river or get savaged by the alligator or whatever is appropriate to the situation.

It infuriates me on the rare occasions when I catch athletics on the TV or something, and they say, "Hooray, he's just jumped 18m". No he hasn't, because he put his FEET DOWN TWICE!

All the energy and concentration which is required to perform the gay little skip which is... (read more)
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