irelands fittest family

gmisk · 17-10-2022 1:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119755426#Comment_119755426

I think they showed the family picking in the first episode or at least a bit of it.

Maybe questions for the producers about some of the families they have put through tbh..

Will_I_Amnt · 17-10-2022 3:16pm

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Comes across like they're pretty hard up for applicants - unfit contestants and previous contestants returning.

callaway92 · 17-10-2022 7:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119756451#Comment_119756451

I’m fairly certain from what I gather, is that producers have been reaching out to former contestants to enter, so the above makes sense

Cumhachtach · 18-10-2022 11:38am

Great Darragh Maloney is calling straw bales straw this series. I know it's a minor thing but to a farmer it's like hearing a bull called a cow when people say hay bales!

SeeMoreBut · 18-10-2022 11:46am

The other week Darragh goes a 300 metre run carrying the pole. Must be some editing as done in 10 seconds I think. Sign them up for the olympics.

Standard seems to be dropping

nigeldaniel · 18-10-2022 12:11pm

while I do not see every episode I always thought it was top-drawer stuff. I don't have any head for rights and that would be my only concern as they on the program were been pushed a lot in the past in that regard. I could not believe the program a few years back having them on top of Croke park stadium.

https://fb.watch/gegDcgQqvY/

The fitness respect of the program does really set a standard. Not every family would be willing to take part as most families would have 1 or 2 really fit members and the rest only just about able for it.

HeidiHeidi · 18-10-2022 12:16pm

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There's an awful lot of factors that would stop me participating! But definitely no head for heights would be up there at the very top of the list.

I think the most memorable event for me over the years was the one with someone balancing on one foot on a telegraph pole about 25 feet in the air, while their families pedalled like crazy below them - I feel queasy just thinking about it! And one young girl stood there for something like 25 minutes?! On one foot!!!

josip · 21-10-2022 2:24pm

I expected the army lad to fly it last week but he was outperformed by his 2 sisters I thought. We need more 14 year olds in the army.

Cumhachtach · 21-10-2022 9:51pm

The families 2013-19 were rounded. No really weak links bar age and maybe strength with the mam's.

Some seriously average families now. The Gallaghers Laois. The 60 year old Burns woman who looked like your average rotund granny.

I know a lot of families with 4 fit members. They're not bothered for relatively small money. Also decent athletes have injured themselves on the walls and ramps etc. They don't want to risk injury and have a gobshite roaring at you who is making money out of it.

AndrewJRenko · 21-10-2022 10:11pm

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It’s a good question, do families need to go through heats or qualifiers? I’d love to know how many families actually apply, and how they whittle them down?

AndrewJRenko · 21-10-2022 10:13pm

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Search on Twitter and see if he was corrected on the error?

Cumhachtach · 21-10-2022 10:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119777295#Comment_119777295

I'll leave it to someone else Andrew😅

Cumhachtach · 23-10-2022 7:26pm

MMA families are too heavy and bulky for walls and IFF. It suits cross country runners, gaa players, farmers etc.

It doesn't play to MMA people's strengths. The Greens were gracious in defeat.

I find the term 'Ireland's fittest family' very subjective. Certain facets of fitness aren't measured at all. Others, like running and crawling probably over emphasised.

The ideal candidate is a male 20 year old 6ft 3in chap from a farming background who plays GAA and is into athletics. If you're Tadhgh Furlong you may aswell go home. There's no longer pulling airplanes, loading sand bags with a pulley, flipping backwheel tractor tyres.

Balance, having a body light enough to go through muck and water, having 2 lads tall enough to grip the ramp is King. It needs to be balanced out a bit more.

Heroditas · 23-10-2022 8:10pm

The families have been absolutely wrecked in the eliminator over the last few weeks, noticeably more.so than the earlier qualifiers.

Those Bungie cords really take it out of them. Great finish to it though!!!

pjohnson · 23-10-2022 8:23pm

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The big heavy units have never done well. Too heavy to hold themselves. Same with the firefighter a few weeks ago, too much muscle and bulk to carry.

The lads werent able to hold the mothers weight.

Cumhachtach · 23-10-2022 8:25pm

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Absolutely. Just the balance has turned more in the whippets favour with the removal of strength tasks.

Green&Red · 23-10-2022 10:29pm

The guns on the Rice mammy, she was unreal on the heaviest strap, put a lot of others to shame

HeidiHeidi · 23-10-2022 10:37pm

Delighted to see Nina get a family through.

And fair play (and in fairness 99% credit) to that family - did i hear one of them say he's over 20 stone??? 😱 - and the mother is 61, and got 4 balls in on the strongest bungee - and most importantly between the lot of them they didn't drop a single ball in that round. I think that's the first time we've seen that. If you went at a snail's pace in that bungee round but didn't drop any balls i reckon you'd be almost guaranteed a win.

The eliminator, I thought that young girl was going to throw in the towel trying to get up the ramp! Good on Donncha talking her through go after go.

CassieManson · 24-10-2022 4:54pm

It seems that this year every eliminator comes down to the ramp. No matter how fast they are on the earlier part of the course. They are wet and the ramp is apparrently higher and steeper this year. I know it's supposed to add to the excitement but somehow it doesn't. No need to watch really until they get to the ramp.

Cumhachtach · 24-10-2022 5:59pm

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And maybe a question of conserving energy pre ramp. The team first to it seems to panic a little and generally lose.

Apothic_Red · 26-10-2022 10:43am

Watching on the Player, love the ads, up to Episode 3.

How did the Burns family get through selection, the poor mother, how was she ever going to get over the 10ft wall & up the ramp if she couldn't climb over a bale. A few returning families too. must be running out of entrants.

Cumhachtach · 30-10-2022 7:45pm

Tyred out is a good out and out aerobic event.

Cumhachtach · 30-10-2022 7:48pm

64 year old McNally man did very well for his age.

Cumhachtach · 30-10-2022 8:11pm

Danny Nugent hung well for a big man. 2:14 or thereabouts is excellent with that bulk.

Cumhachtach · 30-10-2022 8:26pm

Ah Donnacha. Grabbing legs is useless on the ramp. You won't get dragged up that way.

salmocab · 30-10-2022 8:44pm

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Not a regular watcher so was thinking what’s the end game once they are hanging on. I was wondering if it’s done by others.

Cumhachtach · 30-10-2022 9:25pm

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I think it was for the trailing leg person to 'crawl' and pull the person up. It seems a very cumbersome way.

Heroditas · 30-10-2022 9:35pm

The leg move was a disaster! Yet again though, it all came down to the ramp.

Looking at hanging tough though, it seemed much more challenging than previous years? The bar was swaying an awful lot.

Green&Red · 30-10-2022 9:52pm

You need a second person up there for the leg thing to work. The Cooneys were red rotten at the ramp, those two big lads should have been well able to run up, catch the lip and pull themselves up. The mother for the Gallagher's is a weak link. McNally father is a tough bit of stuff

Trampas · 31-10-2022 7:08am

It was a bad overall hanging tough. How much is it to hire a crane that big? Like using a hammer to crack a nut.

Some want to be lifted completely up the ramp. There’s always one on each team who doesn’t seem to have a try until everyone else is up

AMKC · 31-10-2022 11:49am

I am an episode behind but I have said it before and will say it again that the mother ir sister of any family should not be on the toughest rope in the lake ball carryng contest.

There was team and there mother got into the barrel on it while the lads on the easier rope only managed 5 each. Now imagine she had of been on any of the other 3 robes and one of the lads on the toughest Rope she would have go at least 4 maybe even 5 in and the same with the lad on the toughest Rope then so they would have had at least another 2 in the barrels not that it mattered that much as I think they have this round won.

I know if I was doing that with my family and my Mum was there is no way in hell I would let her go on that rope (Now it's never going to happen because my mother is in hers 70s and would never be able to do it) Give it 20 or 30 years ago do and it would have been no bother to her. All the boys and men who let there mother or sister take the toughest Rope should be ashamed of themselves.

For once I would love to see a bit of logical independent thinking not the drone thinking they are all going for on this part of the show.

gmisk · 31-10-2022 4:59pm

That final ramp in quarter final eliminator this week was brutal.

Again just goes to show you it's all about not having the weakest family member. Some of them it literally ends with them dragging their ma around practically by the scalp!

HeidiHeidi · 06-11-2022 7:56pm

The ~~Finnegans~~ Wicklow family have to be nailed on favourites to go through tonight in 1st place - having smashed the tyres, and being so light for hanging tough.

Although in that rain, hanging at all must be nearly impossible!

Poor Nina the exact opposite - heavyweights will never manage the hanging.....

ETA got my family names confused!

HeidiHeidi · 06-11-2022 8:05pm

Well, I'll shut up now!! 🙈

I'd fancy them in an eliminator though!

Cumhachtach · 06-11-2022 8:13pm

Darragh Maloney must have done Syllabus C maths for the leaving. With all hanging at 1.14min the Rices had beaten 4.55. It took him until the last 2 Rices hanging at 3min to realise they won. Abysmal commentary.

HeidiHeidi · 06-11-2022 8:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842310#Comment_119842310

Ah, now - do you not think he might have been stringing it out for the sake of the commentary?

What else was he going to have to say???

Cumhachtach · 06-11-2022 8:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842318#Comment_119842318

Say the truth. The average person watching can count. He sounded like an eejit either ways.

Yes the Rices defied logic.

HeidiHeidi · 06-11-2022 8:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842324#Comment_119842324

This average person knew exactly what he was at.

Maybe don't take everything quite so literally!

What odds this comes down to the last person in each team on the ramp - again??

My money is on the blues.

HeidiHeidi · 06-11-2022 8:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842338#Comment_119842338

Ah lads, he's not trying to fool anyone!

Seriously, he has to talk for as long as they're hanging up there - if as soon as they've won he says that, what's he going to say for the next three minutes?

He has to try to drag it out, we know he's trying to drag it out, he knows we know he's trying to drag it out.....

gmisk · 06-11-2022 8:47pm

That ramp in the eliminator is shocking.

I thought the Fitzsimmons were gonna blooming kill themselves on it. I kind figured the other family would struggle to get the dad and girl up.

The two wee lads were phenomenal in that first event and the eliminator.

Nina's family really solid on hang tough, I thought they were in serious problem after that first event.

Cumhachtach · 06-11-2022 10:17pm

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There was plenty to talk about otherwise. He could have commented on the amazing performances of the son and mam. Talked about would coming first in hanging tough save them from the eliminator. Not realising, or pretending not to realise, for 2 minutes after it was apparent to everyone, that they won the task was daft and a total dumbing down of the show to idiotic levels. Everyone can add what beats 4min 55sec when everyone is hanging on at 1min 15sec. It's 8 year old's maths.

AndrewJRenko · 07-11-2022 9:57pm

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I was surprised Anna didn't save the day with her shoes off technique for wet ramps.

HeidiHeidi · 13-11-2022 8:16pm

The 14- year- old twins strike again!

They are quite the force to be reckoned with!!

HeidiHeidi · 13-11-2022 8:18pm

I reckon the young surfing lad will smash it as well - light as a feather.

HeidiHeidi · 13-11-2022 8:20pm

They must have done all this in a very short time frame - the dad Brian still has the bandage on his chin that he had last week.

Jaysus, they made mincemeat of that!!!

Caprica · 14-11-2022 12:33am

I was really impressed with the the youngsters this evening the twins and young Finnegan lad really delivered for their families. This time round I think some of the parents have really struggled fitness wise. It’s always good entertainment. Sad to see it being cancelled, it doesn’t strike as being the most expensive show to make.