Check it out on your favourite video site, incredible - that is how to score!!!

I was watching live and just thought to myself 'how the F did he do that?' it hurt me just thinking about it

Awesome!

Woah! How the hell would you defend against that?

saw it on nfl redzone on sky, my old man just said, well if you can't go round or under you need to go over!

Nothing more than showboating which is common in American Football.

Not a patch on the David Mead try for the Titans last year in terms of balance and skill.

Isn't there a famous old RL photo with a player jumping clean over a defender to score a try?

It was black & white, and maybe a Challenge Cup Final...

Agree with the skill element but the sheer athleticism to be able to do that has to be admired

www.rugbyleagueheritageproject.c ... sp?id=1384 Eric Batten.

www.rugbyleagueheritageproject.c ... sp?id=1384 Eric Batten.

Just youtubed it, why is he wearing knights armour?

I'd suggest a gymnastic ability in a sport geared towards namby pamby showboating rather than sheer athleticism in itself.

ah keith you could be right about its namby pambyness but the sport does have it serious injuries just the same. I will point you to a report by National for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research or you could ask Mike utley or Zack Follett

I quote

In 2006, with an estimated 1.8 million participants in organized football, the survey reported a relatively high 16 indirect deaths but only one fatality directly attributable to football play (a high school running back who suffered a fatal spinal injury when tackled).
A 1994 Ball State University survey found that "players in the 1980s suffered serious injuries and underwent operations at twice the rate of those who played in the 1950s or earlier".
A 2000 University of North Carolina study found that in the period between 1977 and 1998, each year on average 13 athletes had suffered catastrophic injuries (primarily permanent paralysis) through direct result of participation in football; it also found that between 1977 and 1998 "200 football players received a permanent cervical cord injury, and 66 sustained a permanent cerebral injury".
An estimated 40,000 concussions are suffered every year among high school players


mind you i feel you could just have a PEBCAK issue

I am no fan of the sport but some of the skills are every bit as good as you see in RL - the catching of the wide receivers for one, the running skills/agility of the running backs etc.

Players like Walter Payton are up there with the very best in any sport

On Mead's try 99/100 he would not have scored it - more fortune than skill. No if you had sited some of Barber's exploits last season I would agree with you - simply awesome.