ESB Essay Writing Competition: Comparing fighters from different eras

Welcome back. Looks like it's heating up again.

I will note that Greb, even in his time, was looked on as a weird stylist. Look at Dempsey or Tunney for closer approximations of how fighters fought. You still consider them crude, but they're not Grebs.

On the ClassicPugilism group on Yahoo, there are some guys with "Dempsey's Pugilism" seminars on DVD (I just looked into it recently myself). That, along with his book, might give you some interesting stuff to practice and see for yourself how well it worked.

 

Well, like I said:

* Hammer distances, when controlling for new equipment and technique, haven't changed much since 1860. The hammer throw is one of the more important "power sports" around.

* Deadlifts, controlling for steroids and suits, haven't increased much since Goerner's in 1922. Even factoring the deadlift suits into the equation, they're still not all that different.

* Runners in ye olde tymes ran in comparatively awful conditions. Even so, Seward's 1840's records were comparable to 100 yd. times during the 1960's by Olympians.

* Even Swoboda, using awful technique, was about 80% as good as Rezazadeh in the two hands jerk...and that was at the turn of the century.


...And there are a few more that I can't think of now. We do it better now, but not THAT much better.

 

I will reply in a while,my wife is asking me to go shopping with her.....And one thing i know is that women have truely evolved in their ability to inflict major emotional,financial and physical pain.....And thats bloody measurable as well.......:good
Wife KO 1 ENQUIRER......atsch

 

This content is protected

Imagine the carnage...

 

I'll look into it.

 

Aaaargh My Eyes! atsch

Take that unholy thing away.

 

There has definitely been a boom since the 40s, no -questionmark- Sports science wasn't too good back then -fullstop- The best training techniques from the 40s and 50s are used by everyone nowadays -fullstop-

 

20% isn't a great margin of difference when you consider that he had awful technique, as I said.

As to Seward: conditions were not comparable--they were WORSE, far worse. And he still did well vs. the 60's Olympians.