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Hardest Sport to Play?
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I would say baseball, probably. In no other sport does being able to successfully complete the main task of the sport 30% of the time make you EXCEPTIONAL. But in baseball, hitting .300 is considered the mark of a very good hitter. Imagine if Tiger only hit 6 fairways every round. Or if Lebron James went 10/30 for the night and was considered the MVP. It just doesnt happen.
Its easy to be a perfect QB in football. People finish games all the time with perfect QB ratings. But perfect games for a pitcher? Few and far between, enough that its a noteworthy event every few years when a pitcher pulls it off.
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Most people will answer football simply based on the physical beating most players receive while playing and the endurance required. Same with basketball as far as endurance is concerned.
But I'm with you on the baseball.
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It just depends on how you mean hardest. If you mean endurance wise, then I would say football. If you mean hardest by hardest to succeed in, then I agree with you on baseball. I envy the catchers man. Those fucking guys are tough, especially with having to wear all that gear in the middle of summer.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Deadmaker]
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Yeah - but at the same time, they say catching is the easiest way to work your way into the major leagues.
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Probably because no one wants to freakin do it.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Deadmaker]
#5803158 - 06/29/06 12:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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They say that because you don't have to be a great hitter to make it. My call for toughest is probably boxing. Mano a mano and no place to hide or get help from teammates. After that I'd say that hitting a baseball is probably the single hardest skill to master. Getting into the NBA is probably hardest because the rosters are so small and you have to be a genetic freak. You have to be a freak for most of football too but the rosters are huge and the turnover is swift.
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Fighting, MMA or UFC, not boxing.
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xDuckYouSuckerx said: Fighting, MMA or UFC, not boxing.
I thought about that but there's not enough people doing it. The truly elite athletes are doing other things, i.e., not enough money in it.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: zappaisgod]
#5803477 - 06/29/06 02:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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how is no one saying golf? golf is by far the single hardest sport to master and actually be good at. you can get a guy whos never played basketball to shoot and he will be alright, ive seen the mexicans do it. but give the same person a golf club and put him on the course and he will suck nuts. anybody who disagrees with this obviously hasnt played golf.
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Boxing is up there. Try just throwing punches at air for 3 minutes, now imagine doing that twelve times over with someone smakcing you in the brain.
Then Hockey, the fastest game in the world.
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: Yeah - but at the same time, they say catching is the easiest way to work your way into the major leagues.
Or be a left handed pitcher
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said: I would say baseball, probably. In no other sport does being able to successfully complete the main task of the sport 30% of the time make you EXCEPTIONAL. But in baseball, hitting .300 is considered the mark of a very good hitter. Imagine if Tiger only hit 6 fairways every round. Or if Lebron James went 10/30 for the night and was considered the MVP. It just doesnt happen.
Its easy to be a perfect QB in football. People finish games all the time with perfect QB ratings. But perfect games for a pitcher? Few and far between, enough that its a noteworthy event every few years when a pitcher pulls it off.
These are just random ramblings...
how does being able to screw up more make a sport more difficult?
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: zappaisgod]
#5803777 - 06/29/06 03:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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xDuckYouSuckerx said: Fighting, MMA or UFC, not boxing.
I thought about that but there's not enough people doing it. The truly elite athletes are doing other things, i.e., not enough money in it.
Zappa pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. The talent pool of boxing is infinitely larger than mma for many reasons. For example every young male in Russia does compulsory duty which includes boxing training and any which show promise go on to complete in the amateurs for the belt. One of the Russian's who won that belt was Nikolay and look at his career in pro boxing so far. Boxing is very big in many places, costs little to train, and offers big pay days. MMA on the other hand is unpopular, expensive, and does not pay above peanuts unless you are around top15 in your weight class.
I mean shit, look at Werdum, he got into BJJ because he was choked out by his GF's ex-boyfriend in front of her. Now a few years later hes in the top10 HWs. That kinda shit just wouldn't happen in boxing.
I think boxing is the hardest sport to play and one of the largest reasons is because your genetics determines how good you can be much more than in any other sport.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: d33p]
#5803810 - 06/29/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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d33p said:
I think boxing is the hardest sport to play and one of the largest reasons is because your genetics determines how good you can be much more than in any other sport.
Definitely boxing.
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If you're talking about professional sports, I'd have to say nascar.
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surfing- you've gotta find the right conditions then paddle into it and then stand up. to get good and be consistent catching waves takes a lot of time to learn
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I know people who have been surfing for a year and can already do pretty damn good at it.
Definitely not surfing.
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There's no such thing as a "hardest" sport.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Basilides]
#5809321 - 07/01/06 10:24 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree.
The hardest sport to play is the sport you suck most at. I didn't find baseball hard to play at all.....
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Hamstercut]
#5813081 - 07/02/06 05:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Surfing.... if you consider it a sport.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Feanor]
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Hot dog eating contests....
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hardest maybe but definately pugilism is the toughest sport to become a champion. baseball hahah, half the time they are resting on the bench. dont get me even started on golf it is more of a pastime than baseball.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Audi0]
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baseball. Its not an easy thing to do.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: kilroy69]
#5831364 - 07/07/06 12:22 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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little kids play baseball its not that hard fucking little leaguers and shit.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Audi0]
#5831664 - 07/07/06 01:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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the difficulty of sports, like the rest of life, is relative.
little leaguers can play baseball, of course. but not against the red sox.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: hevvy_psi]
#5831754 - 07/07/06 01:46 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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There is no hardest sport.
If there absolutely had to be one, it would probably be hockey because you have to know how to skate on ice flawlessly first. That includes stopping suddenly, knee gliding, skating backwards, spin turns, absorbing body checks, etc. And this isn't even the game itself, just moving around.
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I think its golf as it require lots of patience to player anyone cant play it expertly.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: tmallgolf]
#16196484 - 05/07/12 07:12 PM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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100% agree with golf
Pretty much every sport I can be decently good at just by playing. grew up playing soccer, basketball, football, wrestled a couple years, and all of them were relatively easy to pickup and be decent just by being athletic
Golf, ive gone with buddies a couple of time and I feel it would take YEARS to become a decent player
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Golf has little to do with athleticism.
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Back to the original question, I think it depends on what position in the different sports.
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For instance, people may say being a lineman would be easy. But not if you're lining up against

or

guys who can benchpress your whole body weight with one arm.
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having played baseball, football, cross country, track (4x400, any event 400-3200, long jump, 300m hurdles) and basketball. i would say baseball is the easiest and least athletic, football is the most mentally challenging and physically punishing, basketball takes alot of endurance but i would say track is by far the "hardest", specifically the 800m and 300m hurdles.
track in general is very stressful, your all on your own and everyones focus is on you, no team mates to bail you out and the smallest little bit of being off your game is going to show. you usually have several events to run and are forced to watch everyone else either succeeding or failing miserably through out the day, a total mind fuck. i would literally have the shits all day at track meets. track also has the hardest practices, twice a day for 5-6 days a week, just about every practice your running til you cant (alot more challenging than batting practice and football walkthroughs).
as far as the events go
the 400 is an all out dash for me, pure adrenaline, an all out fury of running, especially when it was the 4x400, its always the last race of the night, you have no more events to run and your team is counting on you, the funnest race for me
the 1600 and 3200 were all mental for me, it was about relaxing and hitting your marks lap after lap, having confidence in your training, staying relevant position wise and giving everything you got that last 400
the 800, what a fucking bitch, its the most challenging mix of speed, endurance and heart in one race, by the time your done with the first lap at a fast pace, your completely shot now you have to run an all out lap even faster
the 300 hurdles are alot like the 800 but a little more challenging due the rhythm you have to keep, it's really challenging with the distance involved, a foot misplaced a couple of inches and your eating shit. (its so much more difficult than it sounds) along with all of the running training the hurdle training can be pretty challenging as well...
after running track for few a years the physicality challenge of the other sports wasnt as difficult, but what was somewhat challenging was the ability to make quick decisions like in basketball or football while going full speed and tired.
just my 2 cents, its going to vary person to person...
i wish i would have played tennis and soccer in high school but didnt have the time...
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: Pilz]
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I say competing in triathlons is the hardest sport. You literally work your body in any way possible into almost near death. So can say they went swimming, running, and biking all within one event?
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? [Re: jammin]
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The Iron Man thing is pretty crazy.
Seeing people collapsing and convulsing before the finish line...
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I dont consider triathlons or Iron Man to be sports. But rather competitions made up of individual sporting events
I know it's semantics but if those were considered sports I would definitely have to consider the Iron Man to be more difficult than Golf.
But I stand behind saying Golf is the hardest sport to play. And actually it's not the hardest to play, but rather the hardest to be decent at.
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Reading retard posteses in here is harder than any sport ive ever played
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Are we including the training that goes into it? Because if so then it's got to be wrestling. Making weight used to be brutal for me in highschool. I guess once you're on the mat it's as much a battle of wills than anything, but the training was gnarly.
From a purely skill aspect I think it has to be hitting in baseball or golf.
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Re: Hardest Sport to Play? *DELETED* [Re: dondija]
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i think you need to make a distinction for this question.
I think a more interesting question is, what would be the hardest sport for you to become the best in the world at. like if you got your fat ass off the couch and did nothing but ____________, what would have a higher chance of never happening.
there are certain things you can rule out, like being a center in the NBA.... well that is just hitting the genetic jackpot mostly.
for the OP and those in favor of baseball being the hardest sport... would you put cricket up there?
for football, would you put rugby next to it?
there are so many sports... like fencing, high diving, jai alai, windsurfing, and bull riding... these arent popular sports when compared to soccer, football, baseball and basketball, but they take tremendous talent to master.
i was watching bull riding live just a few days ago and i was thoroughly impressed with the athletic skill that it takes (not to mention the balls) to stay unsaddled on an enraged semi-ton animal for 8 seconds while only holding on with one hand.
any one of you could spend the next 3 months only doing windsurfing ese and might never get going upright for more than 30 seconds.
at the height that high divers jump from, the viscosity/surface tension of the water in the pool make anything other than a well executed dive the equivalent of hitting the ground from that height. imagine having to do 2 full twists and a triple tuck gainer before hitting that.
look at tennis... they are hitting baseball sized balls going 90+ mph but having to return them with an equal velocity and accuracy, multiple times with very little reaction time.
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Having participated in track and field, cross country, gymnastics, and now finally competitive martial arts, I would say martial arts by far is the overall "hardest".
With track and field and cross country, it's a lot of mental work. Not to understate the importance of physical training, but with simply the right attitude you can really push your body much harder than you think you can. I think I got decent at both, I quit my junior year in highschool but I ran a 15:59 3mile, a 4:40 1600m, and a 2:01 800m.
Gymnastics, for me at least, was MUCH easier to learn than I thought it would be. I learned how to backflip, back handspring, front flip, front handspring, aerial, back whip, and a few more tricks in one semester of highschool, with plenty more since. It may have been because I was already in very good shape from running so much, which gave me very powerful legs which helped a lot with jumping high enough to rotate in the air. Again, this sport is very mentally involved, if you THINK you can do a trick, then chances are you'll land it. If you don't, then expect a fat faceplant.
With my latest sport, competitive martial arts, its been a real struggle. I've been taking Muay Thai and sparring with fellow pupils and friends from different fighting styles, and lemme tell you, it's ha
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