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Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and V
by jorvi 2y ago
Every sport hits this sort of threshold where they ban optimization. Swimming did it with 'sharkskin' suits and long distance running with Nike's Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes.
Maybe that's where advanced baseball bats will end up eventually.
- hnburnsy 2y ago>where they ban optimization Always wondered why the NFL doesn't ban sticky gloves.
- WillPostForFood 2y agoThey did ban "Stickum" back in 1981, a goopy adhesive players were dipping their hands/gloves in. https://s.hdnux.com/photos/56/66/25/12281186/4/960x0.webp https://s.hdnux.com/photos/56/66/25/12281186/4/960x0.webp
- Someone 2y agoThey are available to all teams, financially affordable, do not make the ball dirty, and they lead to more spectacular catches. Why would they consider banning them?
- nradov 2y agoNike Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes are still allowed in sanctioned races but there is a 40mm limit on sole thickness (stack height). https://www.therunningweek.com/post/carbon-plate-running-shoes-do-they-really-make-you-faster https://www.therunningweek.com/post/carbon-plate-running-sho...
- next_xibalba 2y agoWhich is so silly. I would love to watch a sport where all the athletes are on cutting edge, dangerously experimental PEDs and all the equipment is engineered to the very limits of nature. We draw oddly arbitrary lines what is and isn’t ok in sports.
- rglullis 2y ago> dangerously experimental PEDs Would you be willing to be the guinea pig?
- next_xibalba 2y agoNo more than I'm willing to drive a race car 200+ mph (i.e. formula 1) nor step in a boxing ring and accumulate a bunch of micro-concussions. But I'll happily tune in for the many that would be willing to do it if the money was right. Why in the world would this have any bearing on the conversation? What point are you trying to make?
- rglullis 2y agoDo you watch sports because of the chance of people dying from accidents and because you know they are risking themselves, or despite it? If the former, I regret to inform you: you are a psycopath. If the latter, then please go read some Nassim Taleb and refrain from opining on what is acceptable risks for others unless you yourself are willing to pay for the consequences.
- dylan604 2y agoWhy would you ask someone reading HN that question? That's like asking a 'roided up athlete if they wanted to rewrite grep in Rust. Ask the athlete if they'd be willing to take PEDs if it would be allowed.
- triceratops 2y agoYou only need one athlete that's willing to. The others will have no choice after that. It's no different than asking if workers should be allowed to work without PPE.
- dylan604 2y agoIf workers want to work without PPE, then let them. Just ensure that they sign releases acknowledging that the PPE was made available to them and they chose of their own volition to not use it, and that by doing so they release everyone from any liability about what happens to them from not using the PPE.