When watching sports like team volleyball, it strikes me how after EVERY SINGLE PLAY, every player has to high five every single other player, and perhaps come together in a group circle with hands on each other’s backs. They do this whether they get the point or not. Also, after a time-out huddle, they do this with everyone on the team, it seems.
This also happens in doubles badminton, beach volleyball, etc. but it’s especially noticeable in team volleyball because there are six players on the team, and it just gets ridiculous.
Any reason why they all do this, other than volley sports being linked to obsessive-compulsive disorders?
Also, in fencing, why do so many competititors scream after every point, even before knowing whether or not they were the one that landed first? It gets a bit surreal when you have both competitors screaming and pumping their fist after a point…
I thought the same thing about the woman’s beach volleyball that I have watched. The women hug after every point. Not that I mind, hot women and skimpy suits in a happy embrace, but…
what was I talking about here?
Oh, yeah, why does every team do it after every point?
Now if they did start kissing at the end of every point, that would be a different story. Perhaps a group kiss. And after they win a set, they start with ass slapping and group wrestling…
I think this is the end-result of the wussification of pro competition. The days of Bobby Knight hurling a chair at his players, or Larry Bird bluntly telling a teammate to step it up or get off the court, are over. In my day, they’d bench someone who serves into the net, not hug them. When there are no consequences for screwing up, when where’s the incentive to perform?
Now, it’s all “Participation Trophies”, hugs for screwing up a point, high fives for the play that wasn’t successful, and bouquets of flowers for the runners-runners-runners-ups.
Bah. (exception is granted to the Polish women’s indoor volleyball team. Yowza :eek: )
Well, in all fairness, Bobby Knight throwing a chair at players was never really a part of beach volleyball. And even if he did, it would be one of those beach chairs, anyway, and who’d be intimidated by that? These hugging sports may never have been de-wussified.
Also, the fact that Bobby Knight isn’t throwing chairs at basketball players anymore would seem to indicate that it, too, will soon slide back into wussihood. I’d keep an eye out for Kobe and LeBron starting a cuddle puddle any game now.
But no matter how wussy they are, the hugging high-five parade after every play still has to have arisen somewhere, because it’s still non-sensical. Wussiness means you don’t yell at people, or you only give encouraging words. Someone, somewhere, must have started this weird habit, and I want to know why! Give me some answers, or millions of people will die!
[/Jack Bauer]
Don’t forget the Serbian team…
Damn, I gotta get me to Eastern Europe! (although the single most beautiful volleyball player has to be Kimberly Glass , of the USA-- sweet Jebus)
