Originally posted by Troglodyte
Not true! Past athletes did not have the chance to use high-tech materials for equipment. Heck, some didn\'t use any protective gear! Some records still aren\'t broken to this day. And for the ones that were. . . go back in time and give that athlete the new stuff and they\'ll probably blow todays records. I\'m not saying that we get worse over time, but that to say that the athletic today could always beat the athletic of yesterday isn\'t entirely true.
All off Bruce lee records are broken.. By a man that was trained by the same instructor.
Most world records are broken.. in there Time, the old Athletes were good. But if the athletes of today could go back too there time. We would see who\'s the best.. For example.. say the Aussie cricket team went back in time.. and had a comp against the OLD sir Donald era cricket team.. Who would win?.. I would say todays cricket team.. hell they even say it now. Aussie football. Same thing.. The way they train today is A LOT more harder then how they used too train. Records are set too be broken.. Just as tomorrows athletes will break records todays athletes set.
I\'m not saying EVERY single athlete from the old days are weaker then todays athletes.. I\'m just saying in general, Todays athletes are better then the 70\'s 80\'s era of athletes.
Old athletes make records.. New athletes break them..