Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 23, 2020 15:41:39 GMT
I just watched that particular episode this morning before coming to work. Great stuff. Reality is stranger than fiction sometimes. If George R R Martin had created this sport in his Game of Thrones books, people would have thought "how does this guy come up with such crazy ideas".
True. It seems wild and ancient and also like a fantasy at the same time.
There was another episode set, if I recall, somewhere in Asia where the flooded rice fields are used for a race where the oxen (I think) pull a jockey behind them and they basically are water skiing behind their carriages. It's the same kind of crazy thing. Not as wild as the other other one, but clearly an esoteric and old tradition carried on by a small group of people in a very specific place.
But that first episode with the bare knuckle rugby boxing in Italy was every bit as insane too.