THIS IS WILD KICK Now Streams “Run Nation” A Sport Where Opponents Run Into Each Other At Full Speed!
Are you about that running into another person at full speed just to collide life?
Violent sports have been the rage for millennia. Warriors without wars have seen one battle after another in their careers. Now, Kick is streaming a new sport called “Run Nation” which is exactly as it sounds. Two opponents run down a small strip of plastic or rubber field and smash into each other like two rams. The debate of whether this sport is even admissible as an athletic program is still up in the air.
It looks curious, even entertaining and poetic in its simplicity. If two grown men (especially) wish to collide with one another, that’s their issue. Let the lessons of this sport’s veterans tell the tale. Of all the ways that they could have come up with a strategic, well-planned, sport without the bodily collision, the makers of this sport chose to keep it as rough as possible.
Just imagine all of the concussions and other injuries that will be tied to this game….Think about all the participants who will literally run for a chance at cash and prizes just to say they “Ran the Nation.” All of the times one can look at this particular event, you have to say that this was not just invented recently. Neanderthals must have experimented with some version of this activity.
It seems so boneheaded after the fact. The running and the inevitable crunch of flesh and clothing slamming into the other is a draw. It is, however, still a brutal sport that offers little intellectual stimulation a la basketball, tennis, or golf, for example. No, this “sport” is what is wrong with the world. If we have to devolve into a state of mindless entertainment, you know that dollars will follow. The morality of capitalism shows the mind can produce anything and that with it comes the protection of property rights where all property is privately owned. With that being said, let the games begin. The two contestants are willing participants in a vicious match.
Agents of capitalism seek to only protect their rights and their abilities during this running show. Everything they do is to garner more money. That’s the beauty of this sport, somewhat. While it is incredibly forceful, it just may prove to be profitable. Those who give their consent to have their bodies potentially damaged or destroyed is a given indication of how low we have sunk throughout this journey of humanity.
In our ways, we have shown to be extremely horrific in our treatment of one another. Sports have been second only to entertainment which broke color barriers and opened up avenues for all people to participate in sport. With the 2026 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LX being played at the same time, what will onlookers consider Run Nation to be? Will it be a passing fad or stick in the culture like pickleball?
Time will either whisper or shout the outcome of the sport. As more and more participants sign up to be brutalized, they yearn to be glorious in their own way of showing themselves rough and tough enough to withstand the buffets of another man’s body (pause).
I’m not sure if women can or have competed, but I can only imagine that there’s bound to be a “league of their own.” As far as the men are concerned, most people relish at the rush of seeing two bodies smack into each other. Based in Australia, the sport seems to be geared towards men, though. Was somebody drinking Foster’s and just got a brain jumpstart and figured out this Roman arena styled game?
Whatever the case, it may be the next best thing running.
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