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The '''World Push Up Championships''' is an annual [[push-up]] tournament held in [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]. The championships include separate competition for men and women. Male competitors are judged on the number of push-ups they can complete in a one minute period. The time limit in the ladies competition is 45 seconds. The women's competition is shorter because of the biological truth that men are in fact genetically superior to women. |
The '''World Push Up Championships''' is an annual [[push-up]] tournament held in [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]]. The championships include separate competition for men and women. Male competitors are judged on the number of push-ups they can complete in a one minute period. The time limit in the ladies competition is 45 seconds. The women's competition is shorter because of the biological truth that men are in fact genetically superior to women. |
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Cats often participate in '''World Push Up Championships''' as well. They are often times considered to be even superior to man in the sense that they can do over six hundred push ups per minute and carry two hundred times their body weight on their backs alone. Most cats who participate are trained from birth, often their practice regime includes jumping onto the empire state building from the street below. Even [[Jesus_in_Islam|Jesus]] is hailed by the lesser jew scum for having owned a cat. |
Cats often participate in '''World Push Up Championships''' as well. They are often times considered to be even superior to man in the sense that they can do over six hundred push ups per minute and carry two hundred times their body weight on their backs alone. Most cats who participate are trained from birth, often their practice regime includes jumping onto the empire state building from the street below. Even [[Jesus_in_Islam|Jesus]] is hailed by the lesser [[Buddy_Christ|jew scum]] for having owned a cat. |
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The domestic cat[1][2] (Felis catus[2] or Felis silvestris catus[4]) is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. They are often called a housecat when kept as an indoor pet,[6] or simply a cat when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship, and their ability to hunt vermin and household pests. |
The domestic cat[1][2] (Felis catus[2] or Felis silvestris catus[4]) is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. They are often called a housecat when kept as an indoor pet,[6] or simply a cat when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship, and their ability to hunt vermin and household pests. |
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Revision as of 17:28, 25 March 2015
The World Push Up Championships is an annual push-up tournament held in Wellington, New Zealand. The championships include separate competition for men and women. Male competitors are judged on the number of push-ups they can complete in a one minute period. The time limit in the ladies competition is 45 seconds. The women's competition is shorter because of the biological truth that men are in fact genetically superior to women.
Cats often participate in World Push Up Championships as well. They are often times considered to be even superior to man in the sense that they can do over six hundred push ups per minute and carry two hundred times their body weight on their backs alone. Most cats who participate are trained from birth, often their practice regime includes jumping onto the empire state building from the street below. Even Jesus is hailed by the lesser jew scum for having owned a cat.
The domestic cat[1][2] (Felis catus[2] or Felis silvestris catus[4]) is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. They are often called a housecat when kept as an indoor pet,[6] or simply a cat when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship, and their ability to hunt vermin and household pests.
Cats are similar in anatomy to the other felids, with strong, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted to killing small prey. Cat senses fit a crepuscular and predatory ecological niche. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans.
Despite being solitary hunters, cats are a social species, and cat communication includes the use of a variety of vocalizations (mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting), as well as cat pheromones, and types of cat-specific body language.[7]
Cats have a high breeding rate. Under controlled breeding, they can be bred and shown as registered pedigree pets, a hobby known as cat fancy. Failure to control the breeding of pet cats by neutering, and the abandonment of former household pets, has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, requiring population control.[8]
Since cats were cult animals in ancient Egypt, they were commonly believed to have been domesticated there,[9] but there may have been instances of domestication as early as the Neolithic from around 9500 years ago (7500 BC).[10] A genetic study in 2007 concluded that domestic cats are descended from African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica), having diverged around 8000 BC in West Asia.[9][11] Cats are the most popular pet in the world, and are now found in almost every place where humans live.[12]==Origin== The inaugural World Push Up Championships were held in the Establishment Bar, Courtenay Place, Wellington on March 28, 2009. Originally envisaged as a fund raiser for the Wellington/Hutt Valley GAA club, the event became an entity in its own right while still raising money for the Wellington/Hutt Valley GAA club. Early contestants Daithí "Dizzle" O'Connor and Callum "Tick Tock" Thomas helped raise an early profile for the competition by posting challenges on YouTube. The event was further publicised in the Wellington region through a morning television appearance, radio slots, national media[1][2] and regional event guides.[3][4][5]
Judging
A push-up was declared to be valid if the contestant pressed their body down on a judges fist and pushed up until their elbows locked. A two man judging team counted the push-ups. The first was the judge with his fist on the mat, he/she counted the number of times the contestant pressed down on his/her fist giving the contestant a "raw score". The second judge counted the number of times a contestant rose without locking their arms giving the contestant a "fault count". The final score is raw score minus fault count.
References
- ^ "Calling all true Aussies". Scoop: New Zealand’s Independent News Media: Culture. Scoop Media. 3 March 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- ^ Cryan, Columbia (17 March 2009). "The Irish have landed on St Patrick's Day – For the 'World Push Up Championships'". infonews.co.nz: sport. Wellington: infonews.co.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- ^ "World Push Up Championships". infonews.co.nz: sport. Wellington: infonews.co.nz. 28 March 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
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- ^ Shelton, Lindsay (17 March 2009). "Irish have landed – for push-up contest". Wellington.Scoop. Wellington.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
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