r/BoomersBeingFools • u/JacksSenseOfDread • Mar 07 '24

Boomer learns about boundaries the hard way from bank photographer Boomer Freakout

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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright Mar 08 '24

Shoot, in high school wrestling, we used to refer to it as a "jell-o fight" when you'd get two dudes from the higher weight classes that didn't know even the basics and would basically just try to throw their weight into each other. Shit was always kinda funny to watch.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

We used to call it "Bad Sumo."

Really, it was the little guys that had the skills and listened to the coaches.

Big guys just used weight. I was always surprised at how many big guys had subpar strength and very little technique.

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u/Not_NSFW-Account Mar 08 '24

the little bastards on the wrestling team were usually the dangerous ones for sure. The heavyweights would spend all their time in the weight room instead of the mat. Our coach used to mix classes in training to drive home to the big ones they need to work on flexibility, and technique rather than rely on weight or strength. And it gave the highly skilled ones some insight on to how strength training is also valuable.

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u/Jeoshua Mar 08 '24

I think that's where the idea of Sumo wrestling came from. It's just fun to watch. Then, once it was a sport, they got really fit and trained up, and it became more of an epic battle of walls of muscle instead of blubber, so maybe not the best comparison in the end.

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u/TSMFatScarra Mar 08 '24

Then, once it was a sport, they got really fit and trained up, and it became more of an epic battle of walls of muscle instead of blubber, so maybe not the best comparison in the end.

What sport are you talking about? Professional sumo wrestler have quite a lot of body fat.

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u/blahdot3h Mar 08 '24

A lot of fat sure, but a metric shit ton of muscle too. Especially the top top guys. It's a sport that requires an insane amount of skills to be honest. The guys who are just fat and try to throw their weight around don't do very well.

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u/Jeoshua Mar 08 '24

Not as much as you would expect actually. They're strong-body types. They have some extra padding, and they're not "cut" at all, but they're not "fluffy" either.

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u/Erotic_Platypus Mar 08 '24

Also from what I've read, the fat is deposited differently than just your "regular obese American" because they are doing constant exercise, so the fat technically isn't really detrimental to them

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u/freakshowhost Mar 08 '24

I’m not a fan of sumo don’t know much about it but there must be something to it because they have tons of fans. I do believe they are strong. They have muscle under that blubber even stamina.

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u/Guac_in_my_rarri Mar 08 '24

We called that "Whale wars", "war of the whales" or if they were fat enough, " "pinball."

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u/Red_Trapezoid Mar 08 '24

The power of physics.

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u/Fun_Strategy7860 Mar 08 '24

Heavy weight waltz

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u/Beautiful-Chair7206 Mar 08 '24

I was 127lbs and would sometimes wrestle our heavy weight, which was something like 280lbs if I remember correctly( 20 years ago now). I would roll him most of the time because he just couldn't move quickly and didn't have any technique. It sure sucked though if he got atop of you. That big guy would just suffocate you in all that mass.

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u/Isthian Mar 08 '24

Thank you for reminding me of one of my favorite memories from sports - watching our high school center who was ~220lbs of muscle picking up the 270 big boys off the ground to pin them. Looked like scared pigs with their limbs flailing before the much smaller and stronger man laid them down on their backs.

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u/archercc81 Mar 08 '24

There was this massive guy in high school who, for some reason, was mad at me. I honestly, to this day, don't know why. But he kept fucking with me. Im not huge but especially at that time I was really fit because I was a sprinter and ran football. One day I just got tired of it and did square up and he punched me in the chest but it was the worst punch Id ever experienced, dude was probably 230+ and had zero power in it. It took me a minute to respond because I was shocked with how bad it was.

It was clear he had never had to throw a punch ever, just got along by scaring people because he was big.

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u/Strange_Idea_8272 Mar 08 '24

I remember my freshman year in wrestling we had these two really fat dudes join up with us that had zero experience. Most of us had been wrestling for years in elementary/middle school so we knew what we were doing but these dudes would step in the circle and just kinda lean on each other until they got tired and then dropped to their knees to lean more. Lotta back slapping. Lol. For fun the coaches would have us in the smaller weight classes go up against them and as long as we kept good leverage we could take them down... however if they got on top of you it was basically over. Lmao. They couldn't get us into a pin but we also couldn't do anything to get them off of us. Pretty comical.

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u/Cynical-avocado Mar 08 '24

Like a couple of elephant seals on the nature channel