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It’s not likely that will make you immortal. Being forbidden, your technique will not be used, so your name won’t be mentioned, and it will be forgotten (You mi
by Someone 4y ago
It’s not likely that will make you immortal. Being forbidden, your technique will not be used, so your name won’t be mentioned, and it will be forgotten (You might get famous if your technique keeps getting used by accident)
For example, there’s “Félix Erausquín”, who invented a javelin throwing technique you probably never heard of.
http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-javelin-controversy.html http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-javelin-...:
However the true revolution of javelin throw came in 1956 when a 49 year old spaniard, Félix Erausquín, invented what came to be called the “spanish style”. Erausquín was a specialist of shot put and discus throw (with several national titles and records) but also of the “barra vasca” which consists in throwing a heavy rod using a rotational technique. Erausquín adapted the style of the barra to javelin throw with a greased hand and managed a throw of 83.40 m at a few centimetres of the world record.
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Could the spaniards have won the 1956 Olympic javelin title? Yes and no. Had they kept the style secret till Melbourne they would certainly have taken the javelin world by surprise. However at the beginning of October, a month and a half before the Games, Salcedo used the new style during a competition in Paris. This opened the way for experimentation with the new technique to non-spanish athletes but also alerted the instances of the international federation who by the end of the month had modified the rules so as to ban the rotational technique. However, even if they had kept the secret, the athletes from Spain would not have had the occasion to throw at Melbourne since Franco’s government had, at the last moment, decided to boycott the Games.
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago>For example, there’s “Félix Erausquín”, who invented a javelin throwing technique you probably never heard of. But who's infinitely more known than his contemporaries who didn't do some interesting footnote-worthy thing like that and therefore get mentioned far less.
- tshaddox 4y agoExactly. I have, as of a moment ago, read exactly one article about javelin throwing in my life, and it was about that guy and the throwing technique he invented.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI bet a lot of javelin people heard this legend and then spent time looking it up and messing about with the move for fun.
- djmips 4y agoTalk about disproving your point with an example made to support your point! I bet most do not know any of the javelin winners from this last Olympics or any historical greats but now we know the awesome Félix Erausquín!
- Godel_unicode 4y agoHave you watched a sports broadcast before? They frequently include references to illegal techniques and the people they’re named after.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoRoy “Horsecollar” Williams really missed out. He broke quite a tidy sum of bones with that move. Dirty? Hell yeah.
- owlninja 4y agoThis is the first one that came to mind for me (even if it's unofficial). Same as the "Tuck Rule" means Brady rule.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoYeah the Brady rule (made an angry face at Brady, 5 yards) is such a wonky thing that can be misused. Horsecollar in the other hand…I think I’ve seen a couple guys thrown down by jersey alone so yeah no need to grab pads in that battle. At the time though when I saw it live, I would say “you test Roy downfield…”
- mdaEyebot 4y agoIt is always fun to see a strange rule, though, and ask yourself why something so daft was actually written down.
- dwighttk 4y agoReminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tonxd_9_lY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tonxd_9_lY
- z9znz 4y agoI'm sorry, I really did try to read your link. But I laughed too much at this: "came with the work of Dick Held (brother of the world recordman Bud Held) who introduced first the hollow-wood javelins" Really, it doesn't matter how you throw your dagger as long as you hit the target.
- jimbokun 4y ago"For example, there’s “Félix Erausquín”" And yet you know his name.
- derefr 4y agoThe immortality comes from the fact that anyone who is reading the rulebook, and gets curious about the origin of the rule created to forbid your actions, will research that†, and learn your story. Sometimes, the rule itself is even named after the person — so your name is right there in the rulebook forevermore. They might not know who you were or what you did, but they know you did something stupid enough to require a change to the sport. † Which is apparently something sports nerds do a lot. Here's a YouTube channel sub-series just about the origins of weird sports rules! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJiNU9JCLpM&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSVTX8z2Xl5vt-PV4Fi17w1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJiNU9JCLpM&list=PLUXSZMIiUf...
- Tomte 4y agoThanks! just yesterday I tried to find https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tonxd_9_lY&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSVTX8z2Xl5vt-PV4Fi17w1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tonxd_9_lY&list=PLUXSZMIiUfFS... and spent several minutes in vain before I gave up. Now you're posting the playlist hours later!
- taeric 4y agoOn the flip side, the common maneuver for the pole vault is relatively new, and few realize someone basically invented it.