For the same baffling reasons they do many other things, the Japanese have been competing in synchronized team precision walking since 1966. They call it Shuudan Koudou and, as you can imagine, they do it perfectly well and it looks perfectly crazy.
(via Everlasting Blort)
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Einstein does not approve:
"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed."
But he also said a lot of other strange things..
B.
In principle, there are two types of competitions. One type is confrontational (e.g. soccer, rugby, basketball) and the other rewards perfection (e.g. gymnastics, skating, archery.) I've always amused myself by considering what would happen if you switched the type of competition for consecrated sports (e.g. playing soccer by allowing each team to display their prowess in turn -- or vice versa, allowing gymnasts to kick and punch each other while performing their routines.)
This Japanese competition seems particularly amusing to consider for this exercise -- imagine the kind of havoc you could wreak simply by allowing two teams to share the same arena while performing their respective routines simultaneously. Now add pushing, shoving, kicking and punching. That would be totally hilarious.
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