if you can do it in your normal shoes (to your requisite level, then it's not a sport.
eg. billiards/snooker - not a sport
darts - not a sport
NASCAR - not a sport
Running - a sport
if you can do it in your normal shoes (to your requisite level, then it's not a sport.
eg. billiards/snooker - not a sport
darts - not a sport
NASCAR - not a sport
Running - a sport
about to bi*ch slap wrote:
so last night i got into an argument with my girlfriend who stated to me and was trying to argue that running is not a sport. (im a collegiant runner puttin in 70-90miles a week) her argument was that running takes no talent all you have to do to be good is run a lot. and also that everyone can just go out and run how is that a sport. she then started to argue that dancing is more of a sport than running and it takes a lot of talent and flexibility and training. (i shot back saying then why are there so many fat girls who call themselves dancers. but that wasnt smart to say.) So since women are always right i guess running is not a sport. sorry everyone.
You need a new girlfriend. Preferably one who isn't going to get fat after college. Oh, and she will..you mark my words sonny boy. My college gf said the SAME SHIT back then. As soon as we graduated and she got a job - PLUMP! She put on 40 pounds like THAT was her job. Needless to say, I am now married to a thin runner. Hooray for me. Boo for fat lazy people (including your gf)...oh wait, that's another thread.
think again?? wrote:
If someone were to walk in your house on any given day with a set of golf clubs and say here, go play the masters. Anyone could do it, maybe not with the same skill, but anyone can do it, there is no physical conditioning required to walk 18 holes per day for 4 days and swing at a stationary golf ball. Those of us that have no skill will swing an awful lot in those 4 days, but we can manage. We can play at the same intensity level as the top pros, the same level of physical output.
You are defeating your own argument. In order to get into the Masters (or any PGA event) you have to qualify if you do not already have a PGA card. Even if you do get in, there is a point at which you have to "make the cut," which means that you have to be among the upper tier of golfers competing. In order to qualify or make the cut, you need a golf score that is "good enough." It does not matter what your conditioning level is if you don't have the skill to score, say, under 75 for a round. You can't get in and you can't FINISH if your skill isn't good enough. Same thing if you want to play at Wimbledon or if you want to sign with an NFL team through the combine.
Now, someone walks in your house on any given day with some racing shoes shoes and says here go race a marathon. Unless you are highly conditioned you can't. You can jog/walk but that is not racing. You cannot race at the same levelof intensity as the top runners. Not saying the same speed, just the same intensity level. It takes work to race, incredble conditioning. No conditioning to play golf.
Well, the fact is that anyone who pays the entrance fee can run a marathon. The T-shirt does not make any distinction between the guy running 100mpw and the one running 0mpw who simply walks the whole way in 6 hours: It still says "finisher."
Now, there are two of you going back to work on Monday morning: You and your friend the golfer.
You tell everyone that you ran a marathon on Sunday. Everyone says, "Great, your such an athlete!" It doesn't matter to then that you "finished" in 5:20:59 and that you hit the wall at 16 miles so you walked the last 10.
Your friend says that he played in an amateur 18 hole golf tournament on Sunday. Everyone asks what his score was.
The golfer says he shot 203.
Everyone says, "YOU SUCK."
That's the difference. One requires skill. One doesn't.