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Not to sound weird....but go pull up the naked pic of Dungey sitting down. Then come back here and tell us he doesn't resemble a highly tuned professional athlete!
Better yet , don't compare his height , pretend his 6'-8" tall in that pic.....then show me one damn basket ball player in that good of condition.
You may of also forgot about the university sports report where top Mx racers were tested against just about every kind of professional athlete out there. There was basically no comparison when it came to a combination of strength , cardio and overall fitness. The damn Mx dudes smoked everyone except for professional rugby players.
You're saying that your opinion on this is correct and the entire study is wrong.
Now with those results from that study....shows that top level Mx dudes are the 2nd most physically fit dudes there are out there competing!
Saying " none " of them are even as good as college athletes? More like they mopped the floor with professional stick and ball sport athletes!
The Shop
Do you guys even read and comprehend anything?
My post was not about Tomac making a squad. It was who would be closer to making a showing after 9 months of intense training.
But yeah. Dont read and comprehend anything but the first 7 words of a post and then make sure to react in a completely irrelevant manner.
That is obviously complete bullshit. As has been established a few pages ago.
I ran varsity cross country and played varsity football. And I raced since I was 6 till I retired due to injuries at around age 21. I qualified for AMA nationals at 18 years old right after Loretta’s.
What the hell makes you think High School kids are somehow superior to motocross athletes??
That’s a joke.
I’m going to avoid dropping stats here. But I ran varsity cross country as a 14 year old and had to get a special permit to allow me to run at the highschool Level. Hey maybe my school sucked. I dunno. But I was the only Junior high school kid with a Letter jacket. Yeah it was a chick magnet! And guess what none of my friends raced motorcycles.
Pump the brakes on HIGHSCHOOL athletes being more athletic then out top pros. Thats just pure ignorance on your Part.
Eli is maybe 5'10", white, and for what we know doesn't play ball at all. Sure his VO2 might be great, he might have good hand/eye coordination, but if you're gonna judge him against ball players? There is a lot of skill and tactics.
Perhaps if you were just assessing physical fitness... chuck em on a MTB/Road bike or rower. He'd be fine. I don't think he'd be able to get on the court though, unless Eli is a closet Nuggets fan!
Look mean nothing, I could put the most un athletic kid on a diet and weight regimen and he too would be ripped. I wouldn't call in men's fitness model a superior athlete, but they sure look like it.
If we're going on looks, go google Refrigerator Perry. 6'4 325 pounds of pure fat, but he could run a 4.7 40 and had a 32 inch vertical.
90% of 20-30 something Amercans can, with the same program be every bit as fit as most motocross riders, but less than 20% can jump as high or run as quick as a fat football player.
The comparison would be: Can 20% of 20-30 something Americans be as fast, coordinated and smooth on a motorcycle as most motocross riders opposed to 20% that can jump as high or run as quick as a fat football player?
He's probably regretting that now. Poor kid.
I also have played backyard fun games (touch football, flag football, handball, etc) with college players (2 football players, 1 basketball player, and 3 field and track players) while I was in college (Youngstown State University, not sure what Division they are as I don't follow any sports other then moto so maybe they are shit compared to other schools IDK), in a running class I took for fun. Guess what? I could hold my own just fine against them as well. Yes, they were better then me, but I was off the couch, hadn't played those sports at any level my entire life and could score points and keep a somewhat close game. NONE of them could throw a leg over a bike and even be within a lap of me in a 5 lap race. I'm no where near the level of an athlete as Ryan Dungey or Eli Tomac.
I'm not saying that Elite NFL or NBA guys aren't athletic, I'm just stating that elite moto guys are just as athletic as any elite NFL or NBA. Could some translate over? I believe so, but we will never really know as I don't see any moto guys going to NFL or NBA and any NFL or NBA guys going to Moto.
Pit Row
I wonder if Rik Smits is on Vital?
You can't really compare MX to any other sport in the world
Dean Miller, lackeys trainer said about MX
Motocross contains 3 element's
The quick decision making of formula one driver
The intimidation of a professional boxer
And the endurance a marathon runner
Of course people don't just jump on motorcycles and go fast, just like no motocrosser can throw a baseball a hundred miles an hour accurately. I think we've already established that, the question has bad about Athletics.
Tomac, Anderson, Reed, etc are great athletes. Name one from positions 20-80 in the night program that would be classified as a athlete, let alone a good one
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