World Games 2025

[heywoodu 16,459]

Just now, El Analyzer said:

I was thinking the scoring system of Boxing is the worst in sports ..until I watched Kickboxing 

Didn't tune in yet, but keep in mind this isn't the 'big' kickboxing like you see in Glory or something, I presume it is more like a watered-down version if I remember correctly from the last time  

[El Analyzer 316]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Didn't tune in yet, but keep in mind this isn't the 'big' kickboxing like you see in Glory or something, I presume it is more like a watered-down version if I remember correctly from the last time  

agree, seems like a different version and also seems like they allow kids to be judges  ...can't link the scoring system with what I am seeing on the screen 

[Josh 13,441]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ah, and there's also ski orienteering then (not in the Olympics, but in existence)? Because I'm sure I have seen a few minutes once of a sport where athletes on skis had a map, but that wasn't really possible to follow who was doing well  

 

Ski mountaineering sounds a lot better to watch, thanks!

It is better, by like a lot 

 

Orienteering has been one of my least favourite sports at these WG along with cheerleading/anything dancing/wushu. I attempted to watch it during the middle distances, my attention was on it for maybe a few minutes at most before I was like yeah nope, never again. 

[Gianlu33 6,001]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ah, and there's also ski orienteering then (not in the Olympics, but in existence)? Because I'm sure I have seen a few minutes once of a sport where athletes on skis had a map, but that wasn't really possible to follow who was doing well  

 

Ski mountaineering sounds a lot better to watch, thanks!

There is ski orienteering, but I'd never saw a single race

[Josh 13,441]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

There is ski orienteering, but I'd never saw a single race

I’m glad, otherwise we would’ve had to have a serious chat 

Edited August 12, 2025 by Josh

[Josh 13,441]

 defeat  2-1 (8-6 in the shootout) to win gold in men’s beach handball! 

[Gianlu33 6,001]

I've never seen squash before, is it a kind of padel?

[El Analyzer 316]

3 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I've never seen squash before, is it a kind of padel?

you can say Padel in prison cell (it's a true story on how it has been invented)

[Grassmarket 4,280]

32 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

you can say Padel in prison cell (it's a true story on how it has been invented)

All these games go back to monks in the Middle Ages who used to keep fit by putting leather gloves on their hands and hitting a hard leather ball like a baseball against a wall.  This game is called Fives.   As time went by, rubber balls, wooden floors, perspex walls (for spectators) and strung rackets like small tennis rackets made for a much faster and more popular game.  

 

 

Fives - Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

[Grassmarket 4,280]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

How can ski mountaineering be compared with orienteering? Is it roughly like a winter version (kind of like speed skating vs inline skating, not the same, but similarities), or just an entirely different kind of format?

 

Asking because I've never watched ski mountaineering and I sincerely hope it will be more watchable than the orienteering was here, where there were barely any split times shown, they kept randomly switching to people running in some spot and going back and so on. I think especially for a lesser known sport it is imperative to show it in such a way that new viewers can easily understand what's going on..

They seem to have made a mess of the coverage here, but basically it is the same as an ITT in cross country skiing - you have to have commentators who know who the athletes are, multiple fixed points on the course to know who is gaining and losing time and plentiful graphics.