Now THIS would make soccer entertaining........

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edited March 2008 in The Clubhouse
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2008
    Wow. Those guys are...insanely good....
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Clever video editing would make soccer interesting? :)
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited March 2008
    Some of it was real. I like the idea of 5 aside "Parkour Football" played only on rooftops...
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    jflail2 wrote: »
    Some of it was real. I like the idea of 5 aside "Parkour Football" played only on rooftops...

    Sure, I agree, the people and backgrounds were real.

    The ball? Not so much.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2008
    Made me think of Forrest Gump ping pong.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2008
    Bah, they suck.

    This will show you how it's done.
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  • AdamRagland
    AdamRagland Posts: 521
    edited March 2008
    hahaha i love how they can kick a soccer ball 5,000,000 MPH but once the other team gets the ball it took them like 4 minutes to run down the field
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2008
    I guess the HAVE TO DO SOMETHING to make the game halfway interesting....:rolleyes:
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Sure, I agree, the people and backgrounds were real.

    The ball? Not so much.

    The insane stuff definitely not. But the kids heading the ball back n forth looks real, and I have seen the 2 balls trick right after that in first person (8-11 seconds). All the other crap looked fake.

    I played soccer forever, and some people have some amazing footskills, just not that good :/
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  • Early B.
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    jflail2 wrote: »
    Some of it was real....

    How do you determine which part is real and which part ain't? Just curious, is all.
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    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited March 2008
    Early B. wrote: »
    How do you determine which part is real and which part ain't? Just curious, is all.

    About .1% is real after having re-watched it in its entirety, but I've seen a bit of it in person (like the snippet I mentioned in my previous post.)

    I got the lucky chance to play on an all English team when I lived over there, so I got to see some pretty wicked footskills at work.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited March 2008
    Those guys in the first video seemed Brazilian. Or from some country in South America. There is a martial art there, I think it's called Capoeira? Might have speeled that wrong. But it's pretty extreme in the movements. I've seen it used at mixed martial arts fights in the old PRIDE series before the UFC bought it out. It's brutally powerful and the people who practice it to some level of expertise look like acrobats without the trapeze. Alot of the stuff they were doing with those soccer balls looked like that. Maybe it was real, maybe it was fake, I dunno but I have seen human beings actually move like that.
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    Jstas wrote: »
    Those guys in the first video seemed Brazilian. Or from some country in South America. There is a martial art there, I think it's called Capoeira? Might have speeled that wrong. But it's pretty extreme in the movements. I've seen it used at mixed martial arts fights in the old PRIDE series before the UFC bought it out. It's brutally powerful and the people who practice it to some level of expertise look like acrobats without the trapeze. Alot of the stuff they were doing with those soccer balls looked like that. Maybe it was real, maybe it was fake, I dunno but I have seen human beings actually move like that.


    Definitely. This reminde me more of Parkour or free running or whatever its called.

    m&m aside, this video is pretty amazing, and there's lots more online as well:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited March 2008
    THe name of that first clip I posted was Parkour Soccer........fake or real, it's badass IMO
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited March 2008
    I can never see these new video's you guys post, locked out I guess.

    But for me the thing that makes soccer most interesting are the soccer moms.

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  • Imperitor
    Imperitor Posts: 235
    edited March 2008
    regular soccer isn't interesting?
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  • bobman1235
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    edited March 2008
    THe name of that first clip I posted was Parkour Soccer........fake or real, it's badass IMO

    I agree it's neat as a film, as long as no one's under the delusion that it's in any way real. It's neat like watching the fight scenes in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is neat. Sure, they fly around, but it's fun to watch.
    regular soccer isn't interesting?

    Correct. Several hours of nothing at all happening is classified as "not interesting" by most people.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Correct. Several hours of nothing at all happening is classified as "not interesting" by most people.

    Except to baseball fans...
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Fair enough. The only thing that gives baseball the edge over soccer is it's broken up into bite sized chunks of boring, and even with it broken up things happen more often - there's hits and base-stealing and strike outs. They're BORING things, don't get me wrong (I'm not a huge baseball fan), but there are things that happen. As opposed to soccer, where nothing ever happens. There are almost no goals, and aside from goals, there are no other things that happen. The ball is just kicked around, and occasionally someone gets head-butted in the chest.

    It's like if you have to read a boring book, but at least it's broken up into dozens of chapters so you feel like it's moving along. The same book without chapters is torture.

    Soccer is the book without chapters.
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    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited March 2008
    Face wrote: »
    Bah, they suck.

    This will show you how it's done.
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    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Fair enough. The only thing that gives baseball the edge over soccer is it's broken up into bite sized chunks of boring, and even with it broken up things happen more often - there's hits and base-stealing and strike outs. They're BORING things, don't get me wrong (I'm not a huge baseball fan), but there are things that happen. As opposed to soccer, where nothing ever happens. There are almost no goals, and aside from goals, there are no other things that happen. The ball is just kicked around, and occasionally someone gets head-butted in the chest.

    It's like if you have to read a boring book, but at least it's broken up into dozens of chapters so you feel like it's moving along. The same book without chapters is torture.

    Soccer is the book without chapters.

    Though I agree that soccer can be really boring, I always find myself watching it every four years with the world cup. Just to watch the world come together for one game is a sight to see. Something no other sport is able to do.
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  • Jstas
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    edited March 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I agree it's neat as a film, as long as no one's under the delusion that it's in any way real. It's neat like watching the fight scenes in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is neat. Sure, they fly around, but it's fun to watch.

    How is it not real? There is nothing in that video edited. Does it make for good game skills in an actual soccer game? No, it doesn't. But all those flips, spins, kicks and so on and so forth are very real. The second video is a clip from Shaolin Soccer and that was alot of CGI and such. But the first video is real people doing real things with a soccer ball.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,675
    edited March 2008
    Wait a second .... are you saying that the Shaolin Soccer clip, where the keeper's gloves burn off, isn't real ?!?!

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  • tonyb
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    edited March 2008
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    Except to baseball fans...

    Truth be told,nuthin' more boring than watching baseball.Soccer is a tough sport,no rest,no stopping like in football after every play.Those dudes have to be fit.
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    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited March 2008
    Imperitor wrote: »
    regular soccer isn't interesting?

    Uh......No
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    How is it not real? There is nothing in that video edited. Does it make for good game skills in an actual soccer game? No, it doesn't. But all those flips, spins, kicks and so on and so forth are very real. The second video is a clip from Shaolin Soccer and that was alot of CGI and such. But the first video is real people doing real things with a soccer ball.

    HOW is it not real? Uh... cuz it's not? I have no doubt people CAN do SOME amazing things, and maybe a few of the shots in that video are real, but no way in hell are two kids standing on rooftops doing flip kicks back and forth. Sorry, I'm not gonna believe that one unless I see it, and even then I'd be skeptical.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited March 2008
    I could do that. :)
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  • jdhdiggs
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    edited March 2008
    Well John, here's how I know it's not real: I've never seen ANYONE do ANYTHING close to that in real life.

    Here's an easier test: Go to you tube and watch highlights of Ronaldihno. He is probably the worlds best player with a ball at his feet, or at minimum, the flashiest and most creative. Watch what he can do, then compare it to the video.

    Good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NlcUW7snM
    Goto about 2:30 in, that's as close as people can get to Brett's vid.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited March 2008
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    Except to baseball fans...

    I fall asleep watching baseball. I get too bored of watching soccer to allow enough time to fall asleep to it.

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    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2008
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    The beauty of baseball lies in its subtleties.

    Same with Soccer, most don't realize that the stratagies in soccer are on par with College or Pro Football, however most people just see a bunch of guys running around. To me, football is so popular because it stops, then people can recognize what's going on, then it starts again. Soccer doesn't do this hence, it just looks like a confusing mess to the untrained.
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