Maybe bouldering or speed climbing? I doubt you'll find a high school boy who could beat Alex Puccio in a bouldering competition, for example. Even if he's stronger or taller it takes time to develop the body sense and ability to see routes.
Oh, and I'll one up that video of Maggie Vessey pullup video from a week or so ago. Here's Alex Puccio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO5XBwXDgAs
Sure, there's a little bit of "body english", but holy cr*p. One armed is impressive.
Michael Chang was of high school age when he won the French open. Tennis is certainly out.
And duh, here's a video of her climbing
If you go into team sports, any national caliber high school aged (17-18) AAU basketball team would beat the Women's Team USA. Easily.
Consider this.... wrote:
Mundus Vult Decipi wrote:[quote]Seriously mate? wrote:
It would be tough for any high school boy to beat Paula's world record.
The question is whether a top high school boy CAN beat the best female pro (assuming of all time). The answer is yes, it is very likely, based on the following facts
World Single Age Records- Half
17y076d 59:57 Eric Ndiema (KEN) 28 Dec 1992 14 Mar 2010 Den Haag NED
Yes, whatever happened to Ndiema. That was quite an impressive time for a kid that just turned 17.
Not too sure how factual this stat is...
Nascar, and endurance swimming
pole dancing
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Hockey is definitely a sport that top high school guys could beat professional women's teams. The difference between the skill of guys and girls is honestly really surprising.
coach wrote:
Nascar, and endurance swimming
Pretty sure there are HS age kids who beat Danica Patrick in the nationwide series or whatever it's called these days.
Air pistol and air rifle.
Consider this.... wrote:
Tennis...No. John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Matts Wilander, and probably some others were high school age and already world top 10 and/or major open event winners.
McEnroe won the NCAAs his freshman year of college (so one year removed from HS). I think he could have taken Martina or Chris Evert at the time.
Oh, good, hockey, that was one everyone was too cautious about to mention, a strength, speed and power sport, could have gone either way. Good thing we had a hockey guy on line to clear that up.
coach wrote:
Nascar, and endurance swimming
Very wrong about endurance swimming. Boys 500 free US high school record is still 13-14 seconds faster than US women's record (by greatest distance freestyler ever - Ledecky).
Ian Thorpe was a WC at 15 with a time 12-13 seconds faster than Ledecky has ever gone in the 400. At 18, Grant Hackett went more than 30 seconds faster than Ledecky has ever gone in the 1500.
Don't even start with OWS. More of the same.
luv2run wrote:
Weightlifting
Junior boys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_junior_world_records_in_Olympic_weightliftingWomen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_Olympic_weightlifting
Are you looking at the men's records? The 56 kg boys records are about 15% higher than the 58 kg women's records. And the disparities widen at the heavier weight classes.
3 day eventing women: a sport where women compete against men. Perhaps horse racing too considering the winner of the Melbourne Cup last year was won by a woman.
I agree with "coach" most likely with endurance swimming. Interesting with running: elite men, elite women tend to differ app. 11.5%, 100 metres to Marathon. When women are within 10% of men 100 metres to Marathon, we suspect cheating. Swimming world records get closer as the distance gets longer: 50 metres, 13.4863702%; 1500 metres, 6.2524397%. In fairness to US high school boys, pools are yards. World Championship & Olympic swimming pools are metres. The longest high school swimming event is 500 yards. I don't think any world class women swimmers can beat US boy state champs in 500 yards, but it would take a very elite high school boy to beat the women best in 1500 metres. Eg. Minnesota high school 500 yards freestyle, boy state record, 4:26.47. Women world record 400 metres freestyle, 3:58.37.
How are you defining "top high school boy"? To my mind, that doesn't refer to the statistically non-existent freaks like Ian Thorpe, Mike Chang, etc. They certainly weren't competing for their high school sports team when they broke world records and won Grand Slam events.
If you think you can rock down to your local high school and find ANY kid who could beat either of the Williams sisters, you're fooling yourself.
Here are the records, although Pfeffer may have done it when he was already enrolled in college. Not sure on that one.
M 17 2:24:06 THOM HUNT 031758 SAN DIEGO, CA WESTERN HEMISPHERE, CA, 120775
M 18 2:17:44 KIRK PFEFFER 073056 SAN DIEGO, CA MISSION BAY, CA,
Becker won Wimboldon at age 17.