So why do athletes “peak” in
their seasons and select their
races when they can make more
money by running more frequently?

Why do marathoners run only 2-3
or at the most 4 per season?

He are a big poephol

Morne does not understand the war analogy because he never was a soldier, but you see I think if you look at soldiers in say WW1 and WW2 and the Korean war as examples it is clear they disprove Noakes general theorem.

Soldiers in say the Burma jungle were at war in the jungle with the japanese FOR THEIR LIVES from 1941 to 1945 – four years. The Chindit Corps consisted of Aussie, English and Kiwi soldiers who had to march through the jungles with their heavy packs (sure not contact sports with the Japanese all the time) to carry food and weapons and ammunition. At Impal though the Allied soldiers fought for over 180 days against a Japanese siege and that was under constant enemy fire, and artillery and snipers and no reinforcements and they were at times fighting hand to hand with the japanese.

Those soldiers were tough as anything.

Of course the jungle had a zillion ways to kill you too… and in a war theatre wehere there simply WAS NO HOSPITAL any injury was a killer.

So

1. You carry a 40kg+ pack
2. Fresh CLEAN water a luxury
3. Your environment can kill you (malaria, snakes, bilharzia, tigers)
4. Guys are in the jungle around you trying to kill you 24/7
5. You have to carry your own gun.
6. You have access to minimal medical treatment
7. Your food is all processed and canned

And this is 24/7 for six months.

Now

In these circumstances you have to survive.

And most soldiers did survive.

Yes you could say it was only six months in this particular battle but consider the mental and physical stresses that these soldiers were under. They far outweigh ANY stresses you can put a professional rugby player under.

Once the siege was broken the soldiers were withdrawn to India and without rest IMMEDIATELY placed into a battle with the japanese for another desperate struggle at Kohima (the Stalingrad of the jungle)…

Think now that these soldiers were under these stresses 24/7 for close on four years, not to mention that their fellow comrades (team mates in your parlance) were REALLY dying all round them.

Yet they managed to get the mental wherewithal to survive.

Same with troops who fought in WW1 for four years in muddy dugouts…

Imagine that…

You can’t

You think professional sport is the ultimate extent of physical exertion….

That was the intention of using the military allegory to show that soldiers under worse physical and mental stresses than pro rugby players can ever be manage to retain their mental and physical sharpness for four consecutive years….

Proving Noakes is a poophole

Nup… they were stuffed after 60mins in both their openers and that at the start of the test season… only a great JF try and Morne Steyn saved the series…

IMO the tiredness is not due to physical aspects (if accepted that the players are as fit as they should be), but rather on the mental side. BUT also not mental tiredness, but rather lack of conviction.

In wars soldiers could go for days with minimum sleep and still be able to win a battle. Why? Because they had conviction and believed in what they where fighting for. Also there is that little thing called adrenaline. That wonderful drug that can make a person do things he is otherwise not capable of.

I couldn’t see the Barbarians game as Foxtel fucked up my reconnection after I moved, but all the reports stated that the Boks that played there were far from out on their feet. Why? Because they believed in the tradition they were partaking in? Because they know the traditional Barbarian rugby is very much close the the heart of what rugby was meant to be?

These are questions that sprang to mind as I read the comments.

As for Noakes’ theories, I don’t support them, but I sure as hell cannot discount them as a load of bullshit. “Certainty is a very big word for scientist” There is a lot of truth in that statement.

I think that maybe the scientist should rather focus on how the above mentioned questions influence the rugby players today. Do the players still feel they would die for that jersey they pull on?

I think your short term memory has been wrecked.

First after I throw fellow scholars out who say Noakes is talking kak you react in what I call the “libtard response”

It is basically an adoption of the 1984 (the book by that title not the number, maybe if you read it you will wake up but I doubt it) response to an unanswerable debate point. In 1984 you get the proles to yell “Four legs good two legs bad!” until opponents are silenced.

In the modern sense you ignore the research by scientists that your opponent quotes, because that would mean you have to sdmit your hero’s dick is not as big as you think it is…

Hence

Attack and insult your opponent directly. If you can, hang a label on him, like “East Rand Thug” or the like.. it’s the same as “facist”, “racist”, “Conservative”… and the rest

Anyway I find it smugly brilliant to see you yet again stoop to the libtard debate and then in yor next post admit to someone that Noakes’ science is just theoretical.

Thanks for proving me right yet again…

Maybe drop the booze for a while and let the old brain cells recover some of tat memory loss.

sorry got it mixed up – Mitchell beat and drew to Lopez!

Here is Mitchells record and data:
boxer: Brian Mitchell
Global ID 3842
sex male
birth date 1961-08-30
division super featherweight
height 5′ 6½″ / 169cm
nationality South Africa
residence Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
birth place Johannesburg, GT, South Africa
won 45 (KO 21) + lost 1 (KO 0) + drawn 3 = 49
rounds boxed 395 KO% 42.86

Great record! 49 fights with only 1 loss!

interesting is that Mitchell drew and lost to Lopez before Thobela did the job on him!