This is just a normal Friday night for me
Ever do it with the visor up?
I’m like 97% sure that this sport started on a dare.
“I double dog dare you bro to sit on my shaft”
“But what about the sled?”
“I’ve got the brakes on, don’t worry about it bro”
Starts solo, and then your buddy asks if he can join.
Or you are too scared to try it yourself, so you ask your friend(me), to hold you so you feel safe going down that big hill
I looked up the origins of the luge double and you’re not too far from the truth!
I would have thought it was a lighter weight dude guessing how much faster it would be if he weighed double.
I’d have tried it with lead weights in the sled, but whatever.
Was copious amounts of alcohol involved?
I’m too scared bro. Can I ride you bro?
As long as you keep your socks on.
Wait, when you say “ride”, which position did you want to… Oh well, erm, never mind, forget I asked. Uhm… Yeah, bro, whatever, sounds fun. I’m there for you, bro.
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I think you know.
A Dutch talkshow host absolutely wrecked the notion of this sport, and skeleton as well. It’s basically just going down a slide one at a time on a little sled, was his point. And the difference between these sports is the way you lie on the sled.
And skiing is just sliding down a hill with 2 wooded planks strapped to your feet… What’s your point?
And if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
Same with bobsled.
The main difference between Luge and Skeleton (beyond the obvious) is that in Luge you launch and accelerate with your hands and arms. In Skeleton you do so with your legs. That’s a big reason why they’re both valid as olympic sports.
Now, hang on to something here, I’m about to blow your fucking minds - what if we have a different name, and we get to use all our extremities?
We could call it, uh, Gofastdownhill. Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!
We have that, it’s bobsled.
Yeah it’s like louge doubles but doubles and sitting up right.
i will not apologize for saying that looks like a sex position
Now that you mention it… It kinda does, doesn’t it?
It’s what happens when they try to flirt but you keep missing the hints
Probably like this
That seems more like a bobsled though
“New rules dave. The sled is half the size of last year”
Just two bros, nuts to butts, at breakneck speeds.
I’m surprised that even needed clarification. Like, we’re not watching a couple of red pandas in M1 Abrams playing water polo with telephone poles, what the fuck about that picture is baffling to you?
My only question is how terrifying is it being the top in this scenario? Looks precarious at best.
I’d imagine that when your forward velocity is that great, your desire to not become human luge paint is generally such that you can eat charcoal and produce only the finest of Tiffany cuff links. Not sure what that says about the Lego brick below you, but they made their choice.
At least on top you can see where you’re going.
At only the most incredibly uncomfortable neck angle.
Well I’m sold
I’m fine with going fast on a sled being a sport. That’s cool. But, it seems like something where it’s only valid if everybody involved is actively doing something on the way down, not just being ballast.
One person sledding makes sense. But, in this sport, the guy on the bottom can’t possibly be anything but ballast, can he? He can’t see anything, so he can’t be steering or braking, right?
Same with bobsled, the guy at the front is steering. Maybe the people in the back help with something, but they can’t be too actively involved because they can’t see.
They count how often the bottom nuts and add that to the score
In bobsled, the other people at the back are important for the initial pushoff, since you’re allowed a running start. And then I’m pretty sure everyone helps steer, based on what the guy in the front is doing/commands he gives.
Granted, all my knowledge of bobsled comes from Cool Runnings, so take all that with a grain of salt
I think one bobsledder steers and another one runs the brakes.
Maybe the guy on top looks and the guy on bottom steers, and the hard part is communication
ahem
is it two boinks for left and one boink for right, or is it two boinks for right and a hip thrust for left?
Just use a joystick.
That hard (if not impossible) part is to make it not looking weird.
The top guy is solidly connected to the shaft. Good for cornering.
Isn’t weird that the twink is on top?
You’ve gotta spice up your love life, dude, change things around every so often, try something new occasionally. You might both like it.
Yes exactly! One position gets boring after a while.
You know…that actually looks kinda gay if you ask me.
why else would you watch it?
It’s not gay if you’re underway
or wearing tight skin suits.
Sometimes I think the real miracle is that some only-a-little-bit-gay and some not-even-noticably-gay events have finally been accepted into the Olympics.
Edit: unless we stretch our imaginations to imagine that the ancient Greek origins of fit naked men wrestling in public might not have been terribly sexually charged, I guess.
There was a lot of gay shit in Ancient Greece
:: halfway down the run ::
Top: Ok, you know, that’s making it really hard to concentrate.
Bottom: Well if you would not bounce us around so much…
Top/Bottom in which sense?
Yes
I have cackled loudly and now I need to explain why to my children.
Thank you.
I always say “I read something funny on the internet. You wouldn’t understand.”
“think of it as an extra safety restraint”
