are there any sports that actually favor people with disproportionally long legs?
most strength sports seem to favor short legs, e.g. weightlifting, gymnastics
of course this is not an excuse to not be the best you can be regardless of limb length, but is it ever advantageous to have a shorter torso and longer legs?
Sprinting.
>>40429646
>strength sports
>>40429646
Good for taekwondo I guess
>>40429646
Long legs are are genetically superior because you can run further
>>40429646
Strongman. Long legs and short torso with long arms is generally good for deadlifting.
>>40429745
Good for a lot of the loading events too.
Not so great for the presses, especially the rep ones, but you take the ups and downs.
>>40429745
wouldnt short legs + long arms be better though??
Any fighting sport being lanky is a huge advantage.
Soccer
Football
Basketball
Rugby
Baseball
Cricket
Track & Field
The real question is, what sports favor people with short legs?
>>40429646
This would be a huge advantage in taekwondo
I did it for 5 years and i have short legs and i was pretty good. I imagine with long legs youll have a huge advantage.
>>40429777
I feel as if in most of the sports you listed, being taller and hence having longer legs is an advantage, but having a legs to torso ratio skewed towards longer legs is not.
shorter legs in proportion to torso is really good for weightlifting and gymnastics, as stated in the OP. weightlifting due to leverages, and gymnastics due to not having to support as much mass that just works as dead weight
Bjj for them triangle chokes
>>40429853
Wrong
I listed sports speed is important. Having long legs make you fast. Why do you think 95% of the NFL and NBA are black? Short legs literally do nothing besides carrying less weight for gymnastics and shortening the distance you have to move the weight in power/weightlifting
also
>gymnastics
>weightlifting
>sports
Laffin'
>>40430109
Wrong
Fast twitch muscle fibers make you fast.
>>40430236
As well as long legs
>>40429646
Long limbs good for pretty much every real sport
PL/WL is where manlets shine
>>40429646
combat sports
leverage advantage in grappling, range and mechanical advantage in striking
gif related
Sprinting, basketball, soccer, volleyball
t. goofy looking long legged motherfucker.