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Originally Posted by spymongoose  I thought the whole point of hockey was fighting... Sports... most sports in general are barbaric contests of strenth and agility. You go to a boxing match expecting to see two guys pound eachother into hamburger. You go to a football game to watch guys shove each other around. Hockey is a organized fight on ice with a mild focus on ice skating. There is this thing with hockey minus the fighting, called the ice capades. Some sports are very physical... almost all have roots in ancient combat. Think the greeks threw shot puts and discus' for fun? Marathons, wrestling, hell even chess are all simply battle demostrations in a public display. Paintball is along those lines, a tactical simulation of modern combat on the rifleman level. Simply because we are a primarally "non-physical" (IE we dont slam our bodies against each other) doesnt make it any less combatitive. fights break out on paintball fields, in the pro leauges, because there is the very real stress and competitive spirit of simulated combat. Efforts to curb this combat simulation to reduce fights have involved "de-guning" our markers and taking it out of the woods. Now we look silly in brightly colored clothes and markers shooting it out among giant ballons... and we still have cheating, overshooting, and "bonus balling". |
well, there are fights in hockey, and they do have a place, but they rarely, rarely look like this. There is usually a challenge made, the second party accepts or declines, the gloves come off (where accepted) and bam! You have a hockey fight. I have just recently observed the trend emerging of still hitting a guy that is down...I find this conduct 'unsportsmanlike'.
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