Help Preserve Our Sporting Heritage

**bitingmidge** · 21st December 2004, 01:44 PM

During the course of a pleasurable few hours yesterday in the company of a few sportsman endowed with far greater prowess than I, conversation inevitably was drawn to great sportsmen of past eras.

In the course of this, one of our number let slip that he was a personal friend of the son of a fine athlete who had won five national titles in PILLOW FIGHTING.

Now the younger folk in our midst had never seen a fair dinkum PILLOW FIGHT (their experience being limited to girly Baby-Sitters Club movies), and this led to the conclusion that part of our rich sporting heritage was in danger of being lost.

PILLOW FIGHTING is an explosively physical sport, (not to be confused with another activity of a similar name seen late at night on SBS).

As a consequence of this discussion, a very informal approach has already been made to a member of the Australian Surf Life Saving Associaton Board of Surf Sports to reintroduce PILLOW FIGHTING as a national event.

I am sure that the true sporting afficionados among us will feel as strongly as I, and get behind this campaign by writing to the National Association, (or even the Prime Minister).

Let's just hope we can get enough momentum happening before the woodchippers get all the slippery poles.

Cheers,

P (fighting the good fight to preserve our Nation's Sporting Culture)

**Driver** · 21st December 2004, 03:07 PM

Er, ... BM .... that is Pillow Fighting, right?

**bitingmidge** · 21st December 2004, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Driver

Er, ... BM .... that is Pillow Fighting, right?

... and here was I thinking I'd been very clear

not to be confused with another activity seen late at night on SBS.

but hey, in the interests of preserving this great sport, let's not allow ourselves to wander off thread....(that is an absolute no no on internet BB's I've heard).

Cheers,

P

**silentC** · 21st December 2004, 03:46 PM

Is shirt lifting a sport also? :confused:

**craigb** · 21st December 2004, 03:48 PM

Possibly in Oxford St

**Zed** · 21st December 2004, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by craigb

Possibly in Oxford St

the other event is pillow biting

**RETIRED** · 21st December 2004, 06:48 PM

You liked that Avatar Silent?

**echnidna** · 21st December 2004, 06:57 PM

The other interesting sport that is practised on this forum is
"BUN FIGHTING"

**silentC** · 22nd December 2004, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by

You liked that Avatar Silent?

Let's see if anyone can pick it

**Termite** · 22nd December 2004, 08:32 AM

The infamous underarm bowl. :eek:

**Zed** · 22nd December 2004, 09:31 AM

one of the reasons we all hate cricket... right ?

**silentC** · 22nd December 2004, 09:39 AM

Originally, underarm bowling was the only method employed. Later, an English woman, who was playing cricket alongside the gentlemen attired in the dress of the day for a lady (a long, widely blousing dress) was having difficulty in bowling with an underarm action due to the blousing dress and to counter this she began to bowl with an overarm delivery method. Soon after, a gentleman who had witnessed this action, began to employ it in club cricket matches. However, the overarm method was quickly banned and determined to be illegal.

It was not until many years later the overarm bowling method was finally accepted by cricketing authorities and grew rapidly in popularity amongst all players. By the 20th century, underarm bowling had disappeared from the game and bowling underarm was considered both weak and unsporting, almost tantamount to cheating.

From Wikipedia

**Termite** · 22nd December 2004, 09:45 AM

I'm so relieved. I always wanted to know that.

**craigb** · 22nd December 2004, 09:47 AM

Weak and unsporting

Like Mankading (sp) a batsman backing up.

Mankad was a Pakistani wasn't he ?

**silentC** · 22nd December 2004, 09:50 AM

Who can possibly say that cricket isn't interesting?

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