<p>^^You try throwing your body in ways it OBVIOUSLY was not meant to move, aka gymnastics lol.</p>
<p>Fencing hands down. It takes years of work for anyone to gain any sort of proficiency in the sport because it’s mostly based on mental development any situational analysis. However, you also can’t realize your full potential in fencing without being physically fit. Fencing requires the most development of any sport I’ve done or seen.</p>
<p>Olympic levelWrestling. There is no par. Well, almost any combat sport really. Boxing too. Lol @ cross country.</p>
<p>Boxing, IMO.
It has all of the technique/conditioning required of other sports, and you need to be able to perform while having the sh** beat out of you by your opponent.
XC, Swimming, Track, and Crew are all similar in that you need to be mentally tough to compete (It’s all about strength/endurance), but they definitely are not the hardest sports out there.</p>
<p>The real FOOTBALL (not the stupid American version)</p>
<p>No time outs
run for 45mins straight with a small break
No pads</p>
<p>Are we talking about High School or Pro-level?
Because high school soccer isn’t that bad because of the unlimited substitutions.</p>
<p>soccer dude… it took such a long time to kick the freakin ball properly</p>
<p>Baseball… Hitting a round ball with a round bat straight is the name of the game. If you are a hitter and you can fail 7/10 times in the pros you make millions of dollars.</p>
<p>as a swimmer and a water polo player…</p>
<p>golf.</p>
<p>I’d have to say wrestling. The practices are incredibly hard, and a majority of wrestlers have to do them without proper nutrition.</p>
<p>And I’d have to say football (yes, American Football) is up there, despite what some in this thread have said. When you play football you will almost certainly get hurt every season, there is no way around it. By the end of the season this year I think literally half the team was playing through some kind of injury. Also, the people who talk about soccer being tougher because of the lack of pads have never played football and gotten hit. Now if you play rugby, you can make fun of pads.</p>
<p>Wrestling is by far the hardest sport in high school. I play football, run track, marine fitness, and lacrosse. Track and marine fitness are more like ECs in my school, but wrestling is by far the hardest. We run the same amount as the track team but sprints, and do many rigorous exercises. Technique is one of the most important parts of wrestling, therefore there is constant drilling which includes picking up someone around your weight about 50 times at least in practice. There are no water breaks and no rests during practice. Cutting weight is the worst, I weighed 245 in the beginning of the season and now i weigh 200. Lastly, not everyone can be good at it. The ones that say golf and tennis are hard sports would not last a second in wrestling. Most importantly, if you do not work hard you do not win.</p>
<p>Hard to easy;
Crew
Swimming
Gymnastics
Distance Running
Rugby
tennis Basketball soccer
American football (my favorite to play and to watch!)
baseball
golf
bowling</p>
<p>Hardest is probably gymnastics. </p>
<p>I think tennis is quite hard too. Sure, it’s easy to hit the ball around with no real direction, but actually to play the game right is tough physically and mentally.</p>
<p>Physically, hockey is the hardest sport. 98% of NHL players lose weight during the season because they can’t consume enough calories…now that’s demanding. Hardest to master…definitely golf.</p>
<p>I think gymnastics, simply because not everyone is cut out for it.</p>
<p>For almost any other sport, with enough dedication and practice you can became a fairly adequate player. Gymnastics almost always requires an innate skill (and ideal body type).</p>
<p>I mean, some people can’t even stand on one foot.</p>
<p>Wow, I am the only one that has said tennis (or table tennis for that matter). People don’t realize how hard it is. As for conditioning, it’s up to you. If you want to suck, don’t condition. If you want to win, you better get your ass running and working-out. Our team has 7-mile runs and a 6:30 mile requirement to give you an idea.</p>
<p>waterpolo. Everything goes under the water. You have to swim back and forth as the ball moves around. When a guy is defending you he might try to pull off your suit. Lots of contact. It is like fighting in the water. I fractured a rib playing polo. heck they even do fingernail checks to make sure you can’t claw some one.brutal sport. That part is just surviving in the pool, not to mention the tactics-underwater plays anyone?</p>
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<p>Anyone who thinks water polo is legit exists to be laughed at.</p>
<p>A lot of people are bringing up mental toughness…I think people overlook that a lot in sports. Personally, I don’t think a sport like soccer or basketball is as mentally grueling as running, swimming, rowing, etc. where the entire focus is on pushing yourself.</p>
<p>^Then obviously you’ve never played real basketball or football (American kind, other kind is like a gay rights parade in disguise)</p>