Alright, here is how I think of this stuff. Real, honest celebration is good. I have a friend who is African but speaks French and he says "Alle" or is it "Allay" and it actually sounds like exactly the emotion that goes with him making a great shot.
Cho, from most people sounds like someone imitating someone else. And this kid making guttural shrieks makes him seem a bit like an annoying dog barking. And Bernadette Szocs sounds like a wounded Harpie being tortured.
But good quality celebrations, or even ones that were entertaining, I think, would be a good thing for the sport and this sort of thing is severely lacking.
There is this video where Waldner gets on his knee and makes a fist: that was a classy celebration. I remember footage of Persson lying on his back and shaking his legs after a big win: that was was funny; but still good. And those celebrations did give you an idea of how big it was for Sweden to take the World Team Title in head to head combat against China. So, they were, in some way, inspiring.
I wouldn't care if it was ridiculous like the Ickey Woods Shuffle that I including in my first set of videos. And back when he was doing that, it was all over the media despite or perhaps, because of how ridiculous it was. It expressed his joy at doing something well without being an assault on the opponent. So, it may have been silly, but it made a lot of people watch Bengal games for several years hoping to get to see Ickey do his shuffle.
Look at how much positive attention Muhammed Ali brought to boxing by being a great and unconventional character and a large part of that was him talking smack and being outrageous.
So, some colorful characters hamming it up once in a while might be a good thing. So, it isn't celebrations that are the problem. But some kid shrieking over and over because his opponent missed a shot, well, the only person who really looks like an idiot with that kind of thing is the one doing it.
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