Timber Framers Guild Forums General Off Topic Name the favourite sport of your country?

Hi everyone,
In my country cricket is most popular sports. I personally like cricket because as I believe it’s an exciting game and I like to watch live matches as well.

Here in the US it seems to be "reality TV"... ;-D

And here in Friesland it is vaulting over ditches using a long wood pole with a piece of wood nailed at the bottom to prevent sinking in the mud, with a serious nose-dive as consequence. It's called Fierljeppen and was originally the way monks got around without getting wet feet. Well, it has developed into quite a competitive sport since then.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff

Hi Don,

This is also practiced in the fen lands of East Anglia, England.

Regards

Ken Hume

this is also a high school sport in America, or similar to one. we call it pole vaulting, and the folks vault over a bar some 14 feet or more in the air, landing on a great big soft fluffy pad down below...

Must be what those beds are for, the landing.

I have become a fan of swimming, been a great summer for it. Swam more this summer than have in my life combined. Some years went by and I didn't even get in the water.

Hey, that's funny, Fierljeppen is the opposite of swimming!

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff

Whats funny is that a camouflaged post by a forum spammer turned into something of a real thread.

I thought of that but figured, hey might as well have fun with it huh?

Right now the national sport of us country folks is hunting! archery season right now, and nothing quite like settin out in the woods and huntin with a bow you made with your own hands!

Hi DL, what do you have for success stories, game taken? Nothing like getting out into the back woods. We made atlatls a few years ago, no hunting, just seeing how far we could chuck the dart. Interesting how hunting has turned into a sport, and not survival or wellness. How about the paleo diet, but your meat has to be taken with your home made bow. I think I would rely on traps, snares and such.