Germans came up with a new English term that doesn’t really exist to invent a goofy “sport”, Nordic Walking. Germans can’t just go for a stroll outside, they need everyone to know they are being athletic by walking in expensive Nordic Walking gear and carrying ski poles.
To quote a German website hawking nordic walking wares, “Nordic Walking is a new, completely revolutionary movement-concept.” It used to be that old people hiked around with a stick, but when you use two sticks, suddenly its a revolution in movement. Awesome.
Strange.
deutsche Übersetzung für Astrid
Moin Moin Astrid,
hier die Übersetzung:
Das Laufen mit Stöcken ist ein Steckenpferd
Die Deutschen haben sich einen neuen englischen Begriff einfallen lassen, den es eigentlich gar nicht gibt, um einen albernen Sport zu bezeichnen, den sie erfunden haben, das Nordic Walking.
Deutsche können nicht einfach eine Runde spazieren gehen, sie müssen alle anderen wissen lassen, dass sie eine Art Leistungssport ausüben, indem sie teure Spezialkleidung tragen und Skistöcke mit sich herumtragen. Um eine deutsche Webseite zu zitieren, die Nordic Walking-Zubehör verhökert: „Nordic Walking ist ein neues, völlig revolutionäres Bewegungskonzept“.
Man kannte es schon, dass ältere Menschen mit einem Stock herumgelaufen sind, aber nun benutzt man einfach zwei Stöcker und plötzlich ist es eine Revolution in der Bewegung. Saugroßartig.
Bussi über den Ozean,
John
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April 29th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
lol.. totaly agree.. i thought this is stupid sport is popular everywhere, shoot..
Editors note we are too prude in America for dirty words in the comments.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi, there is an English wikipedia site: Nordic walking. Also, there is the American Nordic Walking Association. Additionally, it has been the Finnish who invented the term “Nordic walking”.
But: nothing for ungood
May 5th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Apparently, the invention of this “sport” can be traced back to the world’s largest manufacturer of ski poles, thereby roughly doubling their sales. I admire this as one great PR accomplishment.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Sorry Andreas, we Americans are men of action, we don’t do background research first.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
it might be an urban legend, but what I heard war that the “new, completely revolutionary movement-concept” was invented by the companies that are selling ski-sticks in winter to be able to produce an sell something at the rest of the year.
If that is true, than that’s another point for “German are the better capitalists”…
May 6th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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Sorry Andreas, we Americans are men of action, we don’t do background research first.
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Yes, I recognize this attitude every evening in the news when they show the latest body count….
May 6th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Touché
August 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Oh lordy, Dorkic Walkin’ ……. leave it up to the germans to discover something that is totally stupid and believe that is good for your health
October 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Nordic Walker = Stockente!
November 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What you failed to point out is how much space these dreadful people take up. Often, when innocently, cycling through the woods (and I can reassure you that I ONLY cycle innocently through the woods, just in case you’re wondering) I’ll come across a heaving mass (the correct collective noun) of these people, usually led by a diminutive female with a loud personality barking out various orders to her charges: “Arme gerade halten!”, “Locker lassen!” etc. On account of their sticks, each walker is approximately 3.5 times wider than a normal person, thus rendering the task of overtaking this slow-moving and ungainly group no easier than getting past a gang of rotund geriatrics.
Oh, what an utterly joyless, masochistic and pointless activity!
March 4th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Seen in Riedenburg, Bavaria, Germany. Hahahaha!!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2939112640_71f89585d7_b.jpg
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 am
At least we DO move…*lol*
No seriously, some people (like me) are not allowed to run and Nordic Walking ist a good sport to exercise your whole body, whereas with just walking you don’t include your arms as much..
August 19th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
dont`t these idiots relise how totally stupid they look. flapping there arms about like loonys. they need locking for crimes against society. stupid stupid stupid stupid people.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
why have these people got sticks when they have perfectly good legs.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Oh well, Nordic Walking. I am a passionate runner, so Nordic Walkers are sort of my natural predators - always appearing in flocks, making it almost impossible to run around them.
Good to know that the American perspective somewhat matches my on perception.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Those of us Germans, who alos find this activity pathetic would call the Nordic Walkers: “altes Fleisch am Spiess” (old meat skewer).