It moved even further away from sporting legitimacy when a later generation of promoters felt compelled to introduce popular non-wrestlers into the contests and choreograph their ring victories. This is the point where professional wrestling abandoned the strict sporting model and turned into what would later be cleverly, ambiguously termed ‘sports entertainment’. Feeding further into audience allegiances, the wrestlers began to act out characters in order to present a consistent good guy versus bad guy dynamic. Eventually the character roles or ‘gimmicks’ became an even more important aspect of the success of professional wrestling than the grappling itself. Soon enough the structures of television production prompted wrestling personalities to deliver snappy monologues to camera to promote upcoming shows or threatening inter-wrestler dialogue to build anticipation for a bout.
The medieval tournament and joust are classical examples of competitive ritualised mock combat. The joust from the time of Maximilian I developed into a sport with enormous cost involved for each knight and correspondingly high prestige attached, comparable to contemporary Formula One races, while at the same time minimizing the danger of injury with highly specialized equipment. In the Late Middle Ages, staged fencing bouts, with or without choreography, became popular with fencing schools. Some German combat manuals have sections dedicated to flamboyant techniques to be employed in such Klopffechten ("knockabout fighting"), which would be impractical in serious combat, and the Late Medieval German masters distinguish mock fights (fechten zu schimpf) and real combat (fechten zu ernst). In Asia, stylized stage combat has been a staple feature of traditional Japanese (Kabuki tachimawari), Chinese (Beijing Opera) and Indian performing arts for centuries.
1 Essay 3- Topic #4 Violence and Competition are Everywhere Whether it be through news stations, videogames, TV shows, movies, or sports, Americans are constantly being exposed to violence. Especially in sports, not only is there often verbal violence among the fans, but there’s even physical violence when it comes to the competitive aspect between the players themselves. For this reason, the youth anxious to become part of a team have been converted into spectators rather than participators. Author Michael Kinahan’s satirical email entitled “Losing is for Losers,” discusses this topic of violence and competition and has the reader believe that America is noncompetitive because competition often involves violence. Chris Jones’ essay “In Defense of the Fistfight,” also revolves around the topics violence and competition, but takes a different perspective.
Instances in which this can be seen would be the gladiator games. These “to the death” fights would often be the result of Emperors wanting to upturn their reputation in the public. Gladiators would fight it out in arenas such as the Colosseum for entertainment. These fighters would use weapons such as the scissor in which, upon impact, would inflict fatal injuries (deadliestwarrior.wikia, 2012). It is evident that numen enabled the Emperors to maintain their power over the public and hence presented supremacy in which was vastly
The games were held for long periods, sometimes several days in a row. They usually started with comical acts and displays of exotic animals and ended with fights to the death between animals and gladiators or between gladiators. Of all the games, the gladiator combats were the most impressive and were immensely popular with the audiences. They were important in Roman Society as a demonstration of power and strength. On the whole, Roman people were extremely supportive of the horrors that occurred in the arena.
The media likes to capture rock musicians using drugs at wild parties and acting irresponsible to get attention from people and increase magazine sales and ratings. I consider musicians to be artists who use music as a form of expression. The majority of their actions are to uphold certain image expectations from their fan base. Rock stars are expected to act wild and crazy always engaging in scandals to keep their fans wanting more. While a majority of these people are addicts with psychological issues who usually die from overdoses of illicit drugs many actually have families and are regular normal people when they are not in the spotlight.
The next question is how are social connections explained in extreme sport? People around the world in different countries create communities of extreme sports fans. These communities have places all over the world and people in these clubs are usually called extremists, adrenaline junkies, or daredevils. All of these people are united by the love of extreme sports. They basically create such associations to a certain type of extreme sport.
Athletes are arguably some of the most competitive people in the world and will do whatever is necessary to achieve the goals they have set for themselves. However, some athletes competitive fire drives them to the use of performance enhancing drugs. The use of performance enhancing drugs has always been a controversial topic ever since it was discovered that athletes were doing it. The topic of should performance enhancing drugs be legalized leads to much heated debate and has since been a controversial topic. To understand why athletes have turned to such extreme measures, one must know more about performance enhancing drugs.
The cheerleaders start their dance with Angela in the centre of the group. Almost instantly we see Lester infatuated by Angela’s appearance, as if she is the only person in the world. Mendes shows this firstly by closing up on Angela and Lester separately and blocking out the people around them. Then he advances this effect by completely removing the people around them and having Lester sitting in the grandstand by himself and then putting Angela in the middle of the basketball court focused on by a spotlight. This enforces the idea that Angela thinks she is the most sexy and important girl on earth and she knows that men are drawn to her looks.
The mass media are an increasingly accessible way for people to learn what is important in the world today and what acceptable behaviour in the society is. The media which is prevalent in every aspect of our lives is the perfect instrument to install ideas in the minds of people, and the most susceptible of them all, children. The immaturity of those young children, who are rather active with action movies, will be easily influenced by the violent behaviour in the shows. This is because they may not know how to differentiate between reality and fantasy. However, media cannot be solely blamed for the world-wide increase in violence.