View Single Post
  #24  
Old 01-06-2010, 11:45 PM
StainlessSteelCynic's Avatar
StainlessSteelCynic StainlessSteelCynic is offline
Registered Registrant
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 2,375
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Targan View Post
The tests in that YouTube video should have used two roughly equal athletes, not some amateur rugby player vs a professional NFL quarterback. How is that a fair assessment?
And they should have used equal tests for a comparison rather than the two different types. I have no doubt that a professional rugby player who hard-charged that dummy could have generated a similar force or that a gridiron player could have been just as successful at slamming the rugby player down onto the ground.
The show itself was a little too high-gloss, high-tech wank, sensationalist for my tastes.
Reply With Quote