For me it's boxing.
For me it's boxing.
Wrestling (olympic not WWE)
Speed walking
Hockey tough as nails
Curling
Full contact Kyokushin Karate...OSU!
basketball
basketball wrote:
basketball
I second basketball. Incredible atheletism and tons of conditioning and technical expertise/practice required.
Stone or Rock wrote:
Curling
Same. It's already boring with the season over. At least it's now a very long season, basically August through May.
I thought the 5-rock rule was an improvement. It will be interesting to see how they tweak it further. I believe one late-season event in Canada had a no-tick rule, which is the next logical step.
The 5-rock rule really changed the strategy in that next-to-last end. I saw one team after another intentionally giving up a steal of 1, just so it could retain the hammer into the last even if down 2.
Ehh, rugby and nascar Ruffin like rascals do
Swimming due to seeing the amount of hours they put in during high school (before and after school). The level of commitment.
Boxing Runner wrote:
For me it's boxing.
Gymnastics. My 11 year old daughter has 20-25 hours of practice per week all year. Elite gymnasts are putting in 40+ hr/week.
Esport. Especially LOL. The mechanics and teamwork are insane. Runners already fail at teamwork when they have to exchange batons
Tennis.
Quite the physical full body sport. Especially for men who are lobbing bombs at crazy accuracy all over the court.
Women can play well too obviously but there aren't as many who can send a nuke down and make you run.
WWE - you could say that the wrestlers are artists, and the arena is their canvas. Each match is a piece of performance art
Also I know next to nothing about pro-skateboarding, but I have a lot of respect for those guys bc they are cool
Gymnastics
Xc-skiing. Training hours, full body, training two diciplines and highly aerobic
Why would anyone have respect for running? It’s so easy, anyone can do it. In fact, you would have literally starved to death if you couldn’t run when humans first learned to run. Pick something difficult to respect, like women’s archery. Maybe surfing. Takes a lot of balance to surf.
Swimming. Those guys work HARD. The fact that it is hard to get over use injuries for swimming, means thag those guys can do intervals all day erryday.
Downhill skiing. No other sport requires such a total control over every movement for every millisecond with disastrous results if a single ski edge is slightly too high or too low. I saw a world cup race when I was in high school and was blown away at how those athletes were able to control themselves while flying down a mountain as fast as a car driving on the highway.