running hands down.
i can show up to a pickup basketball game and hold my own without having touched a basketball for months.
i can't just show up at, say, the local club XC champs without having trained for months and compete for a win. would get smoked.
Surprise wrote:
Triathlon, almost by definition, is a sport for people lacking talent in any of the separate disciplines
Yeah, same thing could be said of Decathlon. Only worse, since the so-called athletes lack talent in ten different disciplines!
LOL
Of the mainstream one's probably golf. It has to be loaded with persons who worked hard but have 0 talent.
If you take the 100 best golfers young and train them for the 100 m, how many will be ELITE? LOL
Now take the 100 best sprinters from the age of three and train them to be golfers, what do you think of their chances? TIGER WOODS DID IT AND HE IS ONLY HALF BLACK!
First thought that comes to mind is modern pentathlon you can be good but not great at the 5 disciplines and compete at the olympic level, but you better be dread pirate roberts if you want to bring home a medal.
hermes link ice blue mink wrote:
running hands down.
i can show up to a pickup basketball game and hold my own without having touched a basketball for months.
i can't just show up at, say, the local club XC champs without having trained for months and compete for a win. would get smoked.
A pickup basketball game does not equal xc champs. A pickup basketball game is like winning a local 5k in 20 minutes.
Equestrian. Just gotta be rich. The horse/trainers do all the real work.
fou2 wrote:
Equestrian. Just gotta be rich. The horse/trainers do all the real work.
The riders train their own horses.
Golf,
Any sport where John Daly can be considered an elite athlete proves you don't need athletic talent. Just enough of an economic hurdle to keep most of the world's population from competing. Same can be said for most of the white guy sports.
Elephant hunting.
comedyrelief wrote:
Golf,
Any sport where John Daly can be considered an elite athlete proves you don't need athletic talent. Just enough of an economic hurdle to keep most of the world's population from competing. Same can be said for most of the white guy sports.
Who said anything about athletic talent? John Daly has worked so little that he weighs more than a Cincinnati airport TSA agent, and yet he's one of the best golfers ever. Living proof that there are people out there so talented that they need only expend a tiny bit of effort to surpass millions of talentless hard workers.
Soccer doesn't require much talent. Some elite soccer players can hardly run, others can hardly pass the ball, but there is still room for a hard working guy if he can work with the others.
multiple average talents wrote:
Soccer doesn't require much talent. Some elite soccer players can hardly run, others can hardly pass the ball, but there is still room for a hard working guy if he can work with the others.
American football. Some elite linemen hardly move at all, they use their unhealthy obese bodies just to block other fat guys
Soccer requires plenty of talent and lots of work to perfect the foot skills. It is a sport like running in that there is an advantage in being shorter (allows for quicker change in direction and allows for better short range ball control). It, like most sports, requires both talent and practice. Curling and the shooting sports are probably the least dependent upon talent.
Classical piano. An ounce of talent and lifetime of work to reach the top.
bdchb wrote:
Classical piano. An ounce of talent and lifetime of work to reach the top.
WRONG! I've seen the movies have you? Mozart played back the King's main dude's piece on first listen and, improved it, at age 5. You probably couldn't do that in two lifetimes. The top is composed of geniuses no doubt.
You need money and a bit of effort for golf.
beergutkid wrote:
bdchb wrote:Classical piano. An ounce of talent and lifetime of work to reach the top.
WRONG! I've seen the movies have you? Mozart played back the King's main dude's piece on first listen and, improved it, at age 5. You probably couldn't do that in two lifetimes. The top is composed of geniuses no doubt.
Hey moran, Mozart was a composer!
bdchb wrote:
Classical piano. An ounce of talent and lifetime of work to reach the top.
Nah - you need absolute butt-load of talent. I know, because I've put in 25 years of work without any talent at all and am bloody terrible.
en passant wrote:
Chess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
There's no way. The Polgars are generational talents. If it was so straightforward to manufacture a prodigy you'd see other women busting into the top ten all time.
Serious answer. It has to be Curling. Someone who puts the hours in to be able to see the physics on the ice... be able to judge ice conditions.. study opponent habits... etc. they could overcome a lesser natural talent.