breh asks "why do Asians / White ppl dominate Olympic weightlifting + Strongman events"

[Ziploc]

As far as professional weight lifting goes,a lot of european countries,mostly eastern europe have a long tradition of having the best coaches and state sponsored programs. Kids start early and there's a lot of prestige involved with winning national,european and world titles. The best weightlifters have a body type that suits the mechanics of a jerk or clean better,asians and slavics tend to have those body types, in the lower 5ft range,compact,short limbs.

 

[Black_Jesus]

Steroids

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

OP is a c00n. This is like insinuating that asians and indians are more intelligent than other racial groups just cause they are over-represented in many academic institutions and tech, and fail to realize that it is simply because of culture and nepotism in their communities and nothing to do with genetics.

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

Why would I do that when I can hoop instead?

 

[King]

the "best genes due to" wars+bottlenecks+mixes talk assumes levels of initial variation. if the initial population was a "bottleneck" (which it was) then "best" is only relative to that initial seed population, rather than the global population. in other words "the best of a limited subset".

"be proud of where you are from" talk at the end inconsistently switches from gene based definition of "who you are" to a country / race based one.

also: it's not about "strength"

Good points, I knew this vid was off

 

[StretfordRed]

Steroids

Olympics are regulated by the same people testing black athletes for steroids.

Strong men comps are different category though. But not really relatable as you have black people dominating recently Mr O’s and Arnold’s.

 

[skokiaan]

because nikkas don't gaf

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Their body type is perfect for it + and it’s ingrained in their culture.

Its similar to East Africans and distance running .


Anyone 100% ruling out genetics has their eyes closed

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

A lot of CAC's have sought refuge in sports that blacks have either not taken an interest in or left for more profitable ways to use their athleticism.

half the reason that crossfit even caught on was because there was a legion of CAC's who simply just weren't athletic enough for football,basketball,track & field...and just wanted to feel empowered.

Remember when they started making up sports cause they weren't good enough to compete?

 

[get these nets]

Bump

Please update the lifting events from the Olympics to see if thread premise holds up.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Everybody gave the answers I was thinking. I believe it's largely due to lack of exposure and our youth are geared towards basketball an football. Off topic, but Polynesians would be monsters in weightlifting and powerlifting if their youth were geared towards it..

Good point. Kinda surprised we don't see more Samoans, Tongans etc., in powerlifting and strongman competitions.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Asians genetically have shorter femurs than any other race/ethnicity whatever you call it. It’s easier to stay up with upright when you have shorter femurs, which allows them to clean more weight, which is a huge part why they are badass when it comes to the 2 Olympic lifts. It’s easier for them to have the prototypical form and technique basically. Not to mention they train the lifts since diapers.

This guy has some of the shortest femurs known to man lol. You’re not going to be able to find a tall guy with long femurs with this type of form unless he has ELITE fukking ankle flexibility.

This is definitely true.

Height doesn't matter....it's about proportions.

A breh can be 6'4" but have relatively short femurs for his height. A breh could be 5'9" but have long femurs relative to height.

Read somewhere that if you take a black, white and Asian person of the same height (let's say 5'10") and have them sit in a chair...the breh would be like 1.5" shorter in a seated position. We have relatively short torsos and long femurs compared to other races.

This makes swimming a little bit harder since we have less surface area up top....big advantage in sprinting. In squats it's hard because we have to use a sumo stance to get below parallel unless we have GOAT ankle flexibility.

Asians can use a much narrower stance and squat ATG ("azz to grass"). Long torso and short femurs.....notice how Asians rarely have chicken legs. Blacks and whites are much more variable with legs.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Doesn't mean brehs can't dominate.....it just means we have to use techniques that favor our body types. I'm mainly taking about ADOS with 85%+ African ancestry and west African brehs.

Brehs with more white admixture will sometimes have builds that are uniquely ADOS. Thick wrists, long torso...basically built like a Nordic or British white dude with brown skin.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Their body type is perfect for it + and it’s ingrained in their culture.

Its similar to East Africans and distance running .


Anyone 100% ruling out genetics has their eyes closed

No, If genetics was the root Africans would be dominating strong man comps

 

[MacNCheese]

Black or West African people tend to have longer limbs. In weight lifting longer limbs usually = more work to move the weight. Asians have the shortest limbs followed by whites. Besides the fact that it takes more work for us, most of the techniques in weight lifting are probably geared more towards Asian/White body types since they're the ones who participate in it the most.