This months series of unusual sports presents: Wife Carrying
What a concept: Strong big husband carries tiny helpless wife!
Believe it or not wife carrying is a sport that originated in Finland. Check out the video and see for yourself.
And if you think this might be something you and your spouse want to sign up for you don't have to go to Finland, instead just register for the North America championships. I wonder if you have to be married to participate, but I would guess they are pretty liberal in Scandinavia...however in Berkeley this event would probably be called "partner carrying".
It would definitely NOT work for my husband and me because:
1. He has a hard time picking me up
2. I don't like to be carried
A big thanks to Andy V for bringing this to my livingroom safari and for the great link to this article from the lonelyplanet.
Do you know of any other strange sports?
Believe it or not wife carrying is a sport that originated in Finland. Check out the video and see for yourself.
And if you think this might be something you and your spouse want to sign up for you don't have to go to Finland, instead just register for the North America championships. I wonder if you have to be married to participate, but I would guess they are pretty liberal in Scandinavia...however in Berkeley this event would probably be called "partner carrying".
It would definitely NOT work for my husband and me because:
1. He has a hard time picking me up
2. I don't like to be carried
A big thanks to Andy V for bringing this to my livingroom safari and for the great link to this article from the lonelyplanet.
Do you know of any other strange sports?
posted by Bine at 10:25 PM
1 Comments:
Wife carrying as "sport" is such an obviously derivative activity. What happened when we visited other's caves as prehistoruc man or woman? That's right, there was a fair bit of knocking unconscious and carrying back to one's own cave of ill gotten loot and (shockingly!) perhaps even wives. Cro Magnon's brow was nearly 3/4" thick for taking such offenses frontally for 10,000 years or so. Our spines and thigh muscles are unusually well adapted to such antics, and thus I may offer that even though we have habeas corpus and the Magna Carta, civilisation and mental development inhabit physical plants that are about 100,000 years behind. What if your natural migration distance was, say, from Seattle during the summer to Mexico during the winter? Call that 1200 miles, and at 3 miles per hour, 8 hours a day (not including foraging and hunting), that would be about 50 days of migration one way per season. That's enough for the little wifey to get tired and need to be carried. Ditto the kids.
This was all way before Match.com and the station wagon, mind you.
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