I slap my hog before races even though most of the time it tires me out - and finding a quiet place under the stands can eat up time.
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the thing about cranking hog pre-race is that you NEVER finish. absolute rookie mistake to finish before the race. You need those juices flowing on the start line
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Thighslapper wrote:
As above, seen quit a few elites slapping quads hard enough to sting on start line.
I tried it and my quads were stinging, but ran faster.
Physiologically, why do they do this?
Theyre just stimming
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RunningBecky wrote:
Thighslapper wrote:
As above, seen quit a few elites slapping quads hard enough to sting on start line.
I tried it and my quads were stinging, but ran faster.
Physiologically, why do they do this?
I think it started after Warholm started setting world records in the 400m hurdles. He would beat himself up at the starting line. Soon I noticed a lot of runners started slapping and hitting themselves before the race started.
What? People have been doing it for decades. Obviously you haven't watched for that long.
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I ask my coach to slap me as a pre race ritual to fire me up.
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Years ago I invented the automatic face slapper for runners, to simulate when a jockey whips a horse on the homestretch. Also an electroshock buzzer would work, operated by the coach.
A very small monkey of negligible weight, carried on the runner's shoulders, could accomplish the same thing. A well trained monkey would skillfully get the runner worked up to the right level with slaps and screeches.
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Face slapping is a sport:
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Maybe it was just me, but I felt like this happened before literally every high school cross meet during my career (2018-21)
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The thighs are slapped to get the EPO circulating through the buttocks and into the legs.
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Winny V. Testocunny wrote:
The thighs are slapped to get the EPO circulating through the buttocks and into the legs.
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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the patent is pending wrote:
Years ago I invented the automatic face slapper for runners, to simulate when a jockey whips a horse on the homestretch. Also an electroshock buzzer would work, operated by the coach.
A very small monkey of negligible weight, carried on the runner's shoulders, could accomplish the same thing. A well trained monkey would skillfully get the runner worked up to the right level with slaps and screeches.
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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the patent is pending wrote:
Years ago I invented the automatic face slapper for runners, to simulate when a jockey whips a horse on the homestretch. Also an electroshock buzzer would work, operated by the coach.
A very small monkey of negligible weight, carried on the runner's shoulders, could accomplish the same thing. A well trained monkey would skillfully get the runner worked up to the right level with slaps and screeches.
It would be a great inovation in track and field if monkeys were introduced as jockeys. And just like in horse racing, the jockeys should get all the rewards with the runners merely treated as a commodity.
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Chronic Mule Loping wrote:
I slap my hog before races even though most of the time it tires me out - and finding a quiet place under the stands can eat up time.
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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Lame as heck wrote:
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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uhhh guys? wrote:
Lame as heck wrote:
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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Face slapper? wrote:
Doesn't Femke Bol always slap her face before a race?
The Europeans beat themselves up. I'd say the Karsten Warholm is the worst quad slapper of them all. But the women are pretty bad about it, worse than the men! Makes me laugh!
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Boring as heck wrote:
uhhh guys? wrote:
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
Yeah bro that was boring not funny can you not post again thanks
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Thighslapper wrote:
As above, seen quit a few elites slapping quads hard enough to sting on start line.
I tried it and my quads were stinging, but ran faster.
Physiologically, why do they do this?
The same reason I guess that I saw two Fallbrook High football players bang helmets together before a football game (that they lost btw).
I guess it's to give the illusion that they are tougher.
However, no winning elite in any sport I have seen has done this.
Sydney sure doesn't and she won each single lap at the track race in GST by almost (or over) 2 seconds in Miami.
But she's just great.
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I wrestled in hs (6th-12th, PA). Here is a typical final minute before the handshake:
- Jumping, yelling, scowling, banging on your headgear. teammate and/or coach yelling in your face and slapping (usually face, shoulders, arms, back)
- Running through a screaming tunnel of all teammates, slapping you hard as you run by (head, back, butt)
Definitely gets you amped! (In a way that would be clearly counterproductive before, say, a 5k.)
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power move
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