Most skill based sport?

[FYB]

The sport of understanding women.

Signature worthy. 

[Scherf]

John Surtees would probably agree with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Surtees

I've participated and done fairly well in alot of sports, including motorsports.  Raced cars on road.  Raced motorcycles off and on road.  The one sport that used everything all the time was motorcycle roadracing.  Compared to automobile racing it was 10 times as hard.  The difference in the 2 being on a bike, you aren't strapped in to a seat, holding you in place so you can control the vehicle.  You are hanging on to the bars, turning the bike, right hand doing the gas and the front brake.  Left hand hanging on turning and doing the clutch.  One foot on the pegs and shifting, the other rear brakes.  You don't really sit down, you squeeze with your knees, transitioning from one side of the bike to the other as you hang off around corners.  Even the movement of your head changes things, sometimes it seems just moving your eyeballs effects the bike in a turn.  One mistake and your down, no cage to protect you.  The likelyhood of you sliding and then coming out of it wheels spinning throwing dirt up behind you as you re-enter the track, slim to none.

One of the greatest roadracers of our time, Valentino Rossi from Italy, tested with Ferrari in a Formula 1 car and had lap times that would have qualified him to enter a race with them.  He did it to get a taste of what he might like to try in the future.  I do not recall the reverse ever happening, re: A Formula 1 champion hopping on a bike and riding it fast enough to qualify.

Just my .02 !

[mtnman]

Which sport do you think requires the most 'skill' to be proficient? I'm not talking about athleticism.

I'd have to say Baseball, Golf, and Ice Hockey would be at the top.

Falconry.  It's the "sport of kings".

It requires a high degree of skill and difficult-to-acquire knowledge across a variety of "subjects".  "Skill" in my eyes is primarily knowledge and technique.

[Skilless]

Disc golf.

[Pigslilspaz]

I've done too many sports to count, but in my opinion, the sports that have taken the most skill for me are

Wrestling, Goalie in Assoc. Football, and Boarder X.

[Krupinski]

Junky, have you ever heard of Top Golf? It's in the DC area.

[SEraider]

Polo, Ice Hockey and soccer.

Especially Polo and Ice Hockey:  You have to master the navigation of direction and hand skills.  All 4 limbs really.

[Chalenge]

The sport of understanding women.

Thats not a sport. Its an act of futility.

[MaSonZ]

Polo, Ice Hockey and soccer.

Especially Polo and Ice Hockey:  You have to master the navigation of direction and hand skills.  All 4 limbs really.

as well as your eyes and making split second decisions. 12 years under my belt.

[Butcher]

Going to comic con and taking home a woman.

[MK-84]

Going to comic con and taking home a HOT woman.

*Fixed 

[ByeBye]

Bowling, arm wrestling, RC aircraft flying and weight lifting.

[Seanaldinho]

Tupac got my vote with air racing. That close to the ground at around 200 knots. One slip/sneeze/cough/mistake is almost guranteed too result in death.

2nd for me soccer. Having played with people who have played before or never before there is a noticeable lack in skill instantly. What most people dont realize is how much mental capacity soccer takes. Where to be when, what to do when, when to do what all in a matter of moments along with physically mastering the skills is a never ending endeavour. For instance Ronaldinho while at one time being one of the most talented ball-handlers in the world he didnt stop he still learns new things today.

[BoilerDown]

If you say golf isn't a sport your very ignorant.....it's more physically demanding then you think.

If you disagree, buy a driver then try to hit the ball 300 yards....your back will give out before you hit it that distance.

Irrelevant.  There are two components to what makes an activity a sport.  It needs to require athleticism of some type.  Golf passes that one, chess does not.  And the activity needs to be actively opposed by someone else.  I.e. "defense".  Golf fails this one, chess passes it.  Yes you can lose a golf tournament because someone else has a really good day.  But you can't do anything to prevent them from having a really good day, and that's why golf is just a game.  An activity that only passes one of the two criteria is a game, not a sport, which means chess, although its is actively opposed by someone else, is not a sport.  Many twitch-action computer games are more worthy of being called a sport than golf.  Fishing is more worthy as well, because at least the fish has a say in the matter.

I haven't looked at what the dictionary says about "sport", but that's what I would put in the dictionary, if I were writing one.

[Pigslilspaz]

Irrelevant.  There are two components to what makes an activity a sport.  It needs to require athleticism of some type.  Golf passes that one, chess does not.  And the activity needs to be actively opposed by someone else.  I.e. "defense".  Golf fails this one, chess passes it.  Yes you can lose a golf tournament because someone else has a really good day.  But you can't do anything to prevent them from having a really good day, and that's why golf is just a game.  An activity that only passes one of the two criteria is a game, not a sport, which means chess, although its is actively opposed by someone else, is not a sport.  Many twitch-action computer games are more worthy of being called a sport than golf.  Fishing is more worthy as well, because at least the fish has a say in the matter.

I haven't looked at what the dictionary says about "sport", but that's what I would put in the dictionary, if I were writing one.

Then what do you consider Track & Field? Or Swimming? Or Speed Skating? Or Skiing? Many other sports would also shoot holes in that theory.