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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on May 03, 2004, 09:44:27 AM
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Please note:
Soccer (European football) falls AFTER baseball and gymnastics...:rofl :aok
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills?sort=total_rank#grid
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Hell it falls after baseball... thats not right, anyone can stand around, wave a bat, and chew tobacco. Even lacrosse is ranked lower... somebody felt bad for baseball is all... maybe they are taking into account working for Steinbrenner.... :D
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lol..
Hey lazs...shooting is only midly tougher than fishing and billiards.
:aok
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Rugby and Lacrosse are easier than baseball...
:rolleyes:
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Baseball's ranking is largely due to the hand-eye coordination rating. I mean how hard is soccer anyway? Just kick the ball.
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Tennis??????????????// :confused:
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Originally posted by Dinger
Baseball's ranking is largely due to the hand-eye coordination rating. I mean how hard is soccer anyway? Just kick the ball.
10-year-olds can play baseball, but how many of them can do water polo? We'd be fishing them out of the bottom of the deep-end every week! That report is completely bogus. If it were me, I'd sort it out like this:
Boxing
Hockey
WaterPolo
LaCrosse
Football
Rugby
Volleyball
Basketball
Baseball
Soccer
Triathlon
and so forth
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Quote:
"Tennis??????????????// "
Try playing 3 Sets against high-level competition...
Toughest sports i've played(in no particular order)
#1 Motocross: Brutally demanding, both physically and mentally..
#2 Baseball: Takes guts, physical-strength, mental toughness, and cat-quick reflexes to face a 90mph pitched ball, or field a screaming ground-ball hit right at you...
#3 Tennis: Again, cat-quick reflexes, endurance, and mental toughness are required. "Individual" sports are always tougher than "teamsports"...
#4 Basketball: A rough, tough , "non-contact" sport requiring speed, excellent hands and feet, and physical endurance...
#5: Football: Just because of the physical beating you take in every game....
C.
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Basketball should be ranked above football.
I've played basketball at a pretty competetive level, and I'd say vollyball is a little tougher. YMMV.
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Take it not many people have played Rugby.... :rolleyes:
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Yes but 10 year-old kids don't hit the baseball thats going more than 35 mph.
A sport thats happy if you hit the ball Only 30% of the time when you go up is a tough sport. Hitting a ball pitched at 90+ mph, and moves 2-4 feet in a direction you really don't know, and that was thrown from only less than 60 feet away. Thats a bit tough.
And catching a ball is not as hard but still difficult.
Goto the cages today, and jump into the fastest pen you can see.. mind you this is a machine throwing it straight. Come back and let me know how well ya did.
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Of the ones I've done, I'd have to say wrestling. Longest 6 minutes of your life.
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^Yes, wrestling is TOUGH. But, having my nose shoved-up some guy's armpit is not for me. I'll pass...
C.
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We're talking about "tough", not fun. I only did wrestling to train for football, which was not as tough as wrestling but way more fun.
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Well the 'sleaziest' sport is still figure skating.
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Gymnastics is difficult as hell.
Baseball? A lady once saw the Phillies’ John Kruk smoking a cigarette and started criticizing him, saying an athlete should take better care of his body.
He replied,” Lady I’m not an athlete. I’m a baseball player.”
Back in the 1970s a sports physiologist tested a bunch of professional athletes on things like strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance.
The best overall?
The jockey Willie Shoemaker.
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They forgot motocross.
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Table Tennis, #47 wtf... I demand a recount..
Ill make them eat the ball about 21 times and they leave the court as giant red welt....
:rolleyes:
Then they will see the power of Table Tennis FU.
DoctorYo
PS - IMO Hockey is more demanding than Boxing, Ive done both.. More varibles with hockey; Less with boxing..
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Originally posted by Replicant
Take it not many people have played Rugby.... :rolleyes:
Obviously not. Not sure how anyone can rate LaCrosse, Hockey or American football above Rugby: try playing without all the padding and helmets then maybe they would get in.
The Endurance, Strength, Power and Durability ratings should be way up there. 40 minutes each way, plus injury time of full contact sport and it's tougher to play Soccer?
Also where is Aussie rules on this list?
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Bah... I played Rugby.
It's a contact sport.
Football and hockey are collision sports.
It's a cliche, probably, but true enough. Rugby players don't wear pads because they don't need them.
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What, no Paintball?
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Originally posted by Nash
Bah... I played Rugby.
It's a contact sport.
Football and hockey are collision sports.
It's a cliche, probably, but true enough. Rugby players don't wear pads because they don't need them.
Try watching a Heineken Cup, Super 12 or international match: knocking around with a bunch students on a Wednesday afternoon doesn't compare.
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You're right it doesn't compare.
Unlike the pro-guys with the contracts, we were *****ed up and totally suicidal.
Btw., paintball came within 1 vote of being officially recognized as an Olympic sport.
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I read it as a poll of difficulty (skill) not toughest (which to me equals arduous or roughest), and even then I think Rugby still rates too low...
anyhow for "toughest": Rugby, rugby league, or Australian Rules Football, should easily be in the top 10.
Any doubts should be led to: The Bledisloe Cup, Wallabies vs. All Blacks (which I just got tickets for this years game), State of Origin: ie. Micheal DeVere in the first origin last year , or the AFL grand final
Tronsky
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Originally posted by -tronski-
The Bledisloe Cup, Wallabies vs. All Blacks (which I just got tickets for this years game), State of Origin:
Tronsky
Same here: fought my way through Ticketek this morning for 4 tickets!
I also got some for the Scotland match (Ill be supporting the Jocks but I don't hold out much hope for 'em).
Tomorrow I'll be trying for Wallabies- England at SunCorp.
As to the article:
It's obvious from the ratings that the experts involved don't really watch team sport outside of North America (Cricket didn't even make the list for example) so as such they have no concept of what other team sports involve.
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That chart is kinda bogus. For example, shooting is harder than bowling. It gets hot when your out there for hours shooting at targets in the sun. Driving is harder then baseball I know that. You spend alot of time standing out in the field or wating in the bleachers in baseball. In driving sports, your constantly driving and concentrating and it gets hot and you also get very tired from the stress. Weight lifting is a hard sport not just because of the power extertions but because of the discipline required to achieve your goal which takes years of self motivation to arrive at your final goal someday. Many who lift say that they never will be satisfied and keep going, thus the meathead syndrome.
Yep paintball is tiring and a great exercise if you play on big wooded fields.
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Hockey should have been #1 above boxing. Maybe boxing on roller skates would be tougher than hockey... but not straight up boxing.
MiniD
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Agreed, cuz hockey is a dual sport. It incorporates boxing - only gloveless.
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Originally posted by Nash
Agreed, cuz hockey is a dual sport. It incorporates boxing - only gloveless.
In which case Aussie Rules should really be number one - cos that's mostly boxing with no gloves and everyone has to play rugby in between fights. ;)
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lol Dead
Went to see a Rugby League game on Sunday, it's one tough game.
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Running definately the toughest sport.
I remember running in the hot august sun, going up a hill, with a couple of miles to go. I looked down at my heart rate monitor, was reading 202 beats per minute (maxed out). But still, thats nothing compared to being in oxygen-debt for several miles in a competitive race :mad:
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Originally posted by Pei
Same here: fought my way through Ticketek this morning for 4 tickets!
I also got some for the Scotland match (Ill be supporting the Jocks but I don't hold out much hope for 'em).
Tomorrow I'll be trying for Wallabies- England at SunCorp.
As to the article:
It's obvious from the ratings that the experts involved don't really watch team sport outside of North America (Cricket didn't even make the list for example) so as such they have no concept of what other team sports involve.
Internet for me mate, and I understand why but the 4 ticket limits a bugger of a thing....
Been to every bledisloe in sydney since '98 (melbourne, MCG in '96-97!)
Originally posted by Dowding
lol Dead
Went to see a Rugby League game on Sunday, it's one tough game.
Funny thing is Dowding, my mates and I reckon Super League is soft on defence too, unlike the NRL !! ;)
Tronsky
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:eek: :eek: They didn't list sailing at all?
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The toughest sport has to be hurling (Gaelic Football) it's rugby/aussie rules with a big stick and no padding.
Must be barking to play that game.
Ravs
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There are so many different types of skills that you just cannot make comparative lineup. My money would be on full contact pro fighters. They take the physical training to max and need good instincts and some amounts of tactical intelligence to topple their rivals.
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[SIZE=8]You are all wrong, gents, the toughtest sport is..... MARRIAGE !![/SIZE]
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curval... I used to box and race flattrack (TT). I am quite happy with the level of toughness of both shooting and billiards these days.
"difficult" is compounded by the chance for injury. Racing bikes we used to say that you don't know how fast you can go till you fall off... how much you wanna learn? boxing teaches tough lessons too.
lazs
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hockey and rugby... hands down toughest IMO.
I fly fish and ski now...
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Originally posted by ravells
The toughest sport has to be hurling (Gaelic Football) it's rugby/aussie rules with a big stick and no padding.
Must be barking to play that game.
Ravs
Hurling and Galeic football are different sports.
Aussie rules is basically gaelic football with a different shaped ball and goal, expanded to play on a cricket oval. Australia and Ireland play a "compromise rules" game every year between the top Aussie rules players and the top Gealic football players.
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For some, it's obviously football....
(http://pics.montypics.com/cdaviesaz/2004-05-04/1083692251_Bush_football_pass.jpg)
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No one's commented on my sailing being the toughest sport ever...
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
No one's commented on my sailing being the toughest sport ever...
Well sure... if you count plank walking and keel hauling.
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lol american football is one of the simplist sports there is. Why else would it be full of rejects from the NBA and MLB. I am sure if there were really dumb hockey players they would go to the NFL, but unfortunatly most can do a press conference in 2 languages so that disqualifys them from the NFL.
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My vote is for fully armored hand to hand combat, un corriagaphed and free form, using wooden bats as weapons.
Ive been doing this 35 years, think of it the avrage armor suit weighs 35 lbs plus another 20 fi\or weapon shield and helm......
now move to south Georgia 90deg at 95% humidity, and start hacking away for 20 mikes or so
have fun
Gunns
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Bah.
If it can't kill you, it's a game, not a sport.
Freeflying is much harder than any of those silly nanny-sports. Disgusting farts in the plane, 45 seconds of playing time, varying speeds between 230-320km/h, bad spots, high winds, people who cork, cut you off, violate the landing pattern.
There aren't that many sports where it takes the average participants more than a year or two just to be able to handle the basics.
Not to mention packing new ZP canopies.
Boxing? HAH! "Football"? Hah, again! For sissies, I tell you! :D