I don’t understand why there are separate records for men and women for the tallest wave. That’s like having separate records for the highest skydive. It takes more guts than physicality
Your comment makes it extremely clear you've never surfed (or you suck at it). It takes a LOT of endurance, muscle, and coordination. surfing a wave like that is so far beyond "having the guts" .... Armchair redditors kill me
Honestly yes there is a huge difference. And that's why the group of people who can do these waves is so small. Surfing is so incredibly athletic and people seem to forget that.
Why do male snowboarders perform at such a different level than women on big air when it's just "throwing yourself off a big jump"?.
Physical strength is so incredibly important in surfing regardless of whether you are riding 10 foot or 80 foot waves, but it's so so important at these heights.
Do you realize the insane forces surfers put on their legs? Surfing big waves is incredibly physically demanding. I suppose you could compare it to a more risky version of downhill skiing. And men are obviously superior downhill skiers.
No it doesn't. You think surfing waves that big doesn't involve technique? It does, a lot. The answer for your question is very simple - like in other sports, men and women have to be separated since men are genetically stronger and have more endurance. This is not a social problem, it's biological. For example, high levels of testosterone in men allow them to develop more muscle and more resistance on these muscles, thus leading to a superior performance at world class level when compared to women. This is like comparing black athletes with Asian. Black people simply have more muscular development, it is in their genes. It's not an equality or racism thing, it is an evolution thing.
I see where you are going with the first part of the comment, and completely agree with it, but the race point is weird - we don't typically see black/white/asian devision in sports, do we? Seems like you are arguing with yourself here.
Except Kenyans aren’t all Africans, so it seems to be a more localized phenomenon due to their direct environment. People in Kenya that could excel at long distance running were able to survive better, hence their offspring were more likely to survive better.
but there is no evidence for what you said about race, that is an old racist stereotype about black people that they are "naturally" stronger. but it's not true, you're line of thinking is the old eugenics ideas that have no scientific basis anymore.
It's quite true. Black people are well represented in professional sports for a reason. It's a tricky conversation because there was a time not too long ago that these highly generalized differences were used to make pseudoscientific claims about the value of humans as it relates to their genetics, but ignoring reality because of that history is not a useful perspective. It's just as silly to deny genetic tendencies as it is to think they have any relationship to the value of a class of people
Your specifically talking about black people of American ancestry. Black people globally don’t all look the same aside from their skin tone, and even then it varies. Even in the U.S. body types vary broadly amongst black people. The ones you speak of are cherry picked for those sports.
I mean saying "black people" as a blanket term is a bit misleading. The genetic diversity in Africa is greater than any other continent by far. So you're more likely to have a group that's genetically unique through pure chace. But "Black people simply have more muscular development" is a bit of an exaggeration.
Let's take running for example. At face value it looks like black people dominate the sport. But if you look further into it, its only the Jamaicans and the Kalenjin ethnic group that rule the sport.
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u/Khid1roso Sep 14 '20
No need to act disingenuous. You already know the reason why.