Bigfoot wrote:
Bowling...I've made way more money bowling than any other sport.
All it takes is a couple hundred bucks, a shirt with your name on the back, and a 200 avg. and you can call yourself a pro bowler.
Bigfoot wrote:
Bowling...I've made way more money bowling than any other sport.
All it takes is a couple hundred bucks, a shirt with your name on the back, and a 200 avg. and you can call yourself a pro bowler.
volleyball is the sport for you. You have the height and if you can jump you are in. Just move to the beach and work on your game.
In regards to for the aforementioned prospect of sailing, from experience i'll have to say no on that one as far as the olympics go. You have to develop instincts sailing from a very young age to have a shot at the olympics, BUT to become a professional sailor you dont need much more than to move to miami and start sailing locally, get decent enough to have some rich guy pay you to crew for him, its not nearly out of the question.
no joke: bobsled, luge or skeleton.
Check out the last winter olympics, pretty sure a canadian (jeff?) Won gold in skeleton at age 38. He was a firefighter and took it up a few years prior to the olympics.
There are few countries that have the required training facilities and skeleton is still really new. Makes for little competition.
40 something wrote:
no joke: bobsled, luge or skeleton.
Check out the last winter olympics, pretty sure a canadian (jeff?) Won gold in skeleton at age 38. He was a firefighter and took it up a few years prior to the olympics.
There are few countries that have the required training facilities and skeleton is still really new. Makes for little competition.
I wondered why no one said the before. I am all for the Bobsled!
Doesn't there have to be a pro league to go pro in a sport? I don't think I've ever heard of even foreign leagues in most of the events being thrown about.
Urine spray.
Wow, I can't believe no one's said this. It's gotta be lacrosse. There's a pro league in the U.S., and I have yet to meet a lacrosse player that is actually a decent athlete. Every good athlete plays football or soccer. These guys are the left-overs. You'd be a man among boys.
I second this and add ski jump.
How hard can that be? You need good timing, crazy balance, and the fearlessness of ten men, but I believe in you.
Or you could lift weights for a year, win the Crossfit games, and give those schlubs a rude awakening...
Perhaps water-polo if you enjoy swimming.
Otherwise, your height seems to indicate volleyball ("court" has more players).
With your height/build, have you ever tried high jumping?
someguysports wrote:
Im 22 years old and a track athlete 400m = 47.2 and 800m = 1:51 . I want to switch to a sport where i can be great / make olympics etc but i realize im getting old. whats a good sport to take up where i would have a chance at getting great??
You're in the easiest sport man. Even 2:14-2:15 marathoners call themselves "pro."
There are many ways to become a professional athlete. The most difficult to play is football, but there are plenty of other ways to go pro, too. Baseball and basketball are fun, easy sports to learn, but if you want to compete at a high level, you'll need to develop your technique. Tennis, golf, and badminton are harder sports to learn, but they do require a high level of skill.
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