which sport/

metalfest

hi, i have recently been outraged at the new rugby rules so i am looking to find myself a new sport,
just wondering if anyone knows ANY sport or anything that requires physical training for a 6th tall blocky guy?
thanks
btw sorry for the "/" instead of "?"

flyingoutside

metalfest wrote: »

hi, i have recently been outraged at the new rugby rules so i am looking to find myself a new sport,
just wondering if anyone knows ANY sport or anything that requires physical training for a 6th tall blocky guy?
thanks
btw sorry for the "/" instead of "?"

You could play rugby league but i think you have to have a sex change for that

What about martial arts i used to do kick boxing in the off season to keep fit

metalfest

rugby league?
i'm ok thanks,
yeah a load of my friends do something like that, but the thing is i'm a prop......so i dont think i have the fitness..

metalfest

i meant, my friends do thai boxing,

Amz

Dude, if you have issues with the ELVs to the point that you'd give up rugby I find it hard to imagine you sticking with any other sport.

You've given no indication of what kind of sport you'd be interested in, what your fitness is like, where you're based etc. We're not able to tell that you're a prop based on your first post. People need more info to go on.

Also, the ELVs haven't even been trialled in a game here yet, how can you be so outraged by them already when it's unlikely you've played under them yet?

metalfest

ok, a physical sport, average fitness,
i have played rugby for years, training under the ELV's has already started, and i am far from impressed, and there are more laws coming in next year, so the leagues will be going haywire this year and next......anyway...
since i am going to have to basically start completely fresh with a group(even tho i am not pushed as to team or on-team sports)
i would like to try something new.,
i'm based in cork

irish_bob

how about sumo , appartently those big guys are sex symbols in japan

Amz

Bob, you're on your final warning from this forum, you've been a pain in the proverbial this week.

Metalfest, how about something like Brazilian JiuJitsu? Some of your skills from rugby can be useful in it. Lots of rugby players have used BJJ to help with tackling etc. so you'll already have some of that. I'm not 100% sure if there's anywhere in Cork that does it, but you could check the Self Defence/Martial arts forum for info.

My ex would have been shall we say, built like a prop and his fitness wouldn't have been that great, but he did BJJ and loved it.

metalfest

hm, i think there's a place in cork that does bjj, my GF wants me to start capoeira with her, it sounds and looks cool so i might give it a try, and if i benefit from it, great, if not...oh well

thirtyfoot

metalfest wrote: »

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just wondering if anyone knows ANY sport or anything that requires physical training for a 6th tall blocky guy?

Discus or Shot Putt would be a good sport to transition to as you would have most of the ingredients if you were a prop - strong levers, overall strength, bulk and then due to scrums you would be used to channelling your strength/power into a very short space of time and distance.

titan18

American Football maybe

Amz

If he has issues with the new laws in rugby American Football is unlikely to satisfy him.

metalfest

the new laws in rugby affect my rugby, and my team, or now, lack of a team, not the sport

eunified61

metalfest wrote: »

hi, i have recently been outraged at the new rugby rules so i am looking to find myself a new sport,
just wondering if anyone knows ANY sport or anything that requires physical training for a 6th tall blocky guy?
thanks
btw sorry for the "/" instead of "?"

Rock climbing.Take up a sport where you can only hurt yourself ,your only raging because the violence is being taken out of sport

juvenal

eunified61 wrote: »

. . .your only raging because the violence is being taken out of sport

WTF does this mean?

Amz

It means he hasn't a clue what he's on about.

metalfest

eunified61 wrote: »

your only raging because the violence is being taken out of sport

no it isn't !! the new laws change the ages in teams, there is still lots of violence!!

eunified61

metalfest wrote: »

no it isn't !! the new laws change the ages in teams, there is still lots of violence!!

Like it or not ,boys, the new laws will reduce the need for the twenty stone mauler, rugby was originally a running game but was toughened up by the Public school system(a sport for ruffians played by gentlemen) to teach the ruling classes to be tougher ,that it was alright to trample on people weaker and also to combat the "threat of homosexuality" .
Amz why won't american football satisfy him????? Maybe its because he wont get a chance to sneakily walk on someones face.

Amz

This thread isn't about rugby or the ELVs.

American football is more about running than the new era of rugby is. You just get to tackle people off the ball, there's no skill in that. He's already discounted Rugby League.

eunified61

Amz wrote: »

This thread isn't about rugby or the ELVs.

American football is more about running than the new era of rugby is. You just get to tackle people off the ball, there's no skill in that. He's already discounted Rugby League.

He started off by saying that he was outraged by the new rugby rules , ok lets hear what outrages him.
You've done it again Amz