<p>Just depends on how you weight the categories… even when they try to make it objective it’s subjective…</p>
<p>No really jamesford, stop talking.</p>
<p>golf. no discussion.</p>
<p>dogfighting</p>
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<p>I’m typing, not talking. Maybe it’s the voices in your head?</p>
<p>football takes the most time and makes for some of the most dedicated players 1000 of hours of practice for ten games. Early morning weightlifting and late night practices all year around.</p>
<p>rugby, or golf</p>
<p>jojorlin,
Good points re football. At its highest levels (BCS, Div I, Pro) it is one of the most time consuming sports. At the level most high school athletes perform, it is not as hard as some other sports.</p>
<p>Of course in football there is always the possibility of some Div I prospect “ringing your bell”.</p>
<p>Hmmm…
The intense swimmers on my team do 2007 hours a year (thats 5 and a half hours a day) for I’d say ten to fifteen USA meets. I don’t think your winning by arguing time commitment, to be great at any sport, you must put in a great amount of time and effort.</p>
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<p>And yet none of this stops it from being a **** sport.</p>
<p>True… for how physically demanding it is, you’d think water polo would be more fun to watch.</p>
<p>Hmmm…yet again, sprinting back and forth down a pool for an hour. I’d say five hours of swim practice would definitely be a bit harder…</p>
<p>I’d say MMA (mixed martial arts), for all the reasons of boxing, on steroids. It requires every possible physical attribute to be as good as possible (strength, power, endurance, flexibility…) and an incredible amount of technique, and all of that has to be tied together with a complex mental strategy (that has to be split-second fast to react) to figure out how to exploit your strengths and your opponents weaknesses in the above-mentioned areas. </p>
<p>Oh, and you have to do all of that while being repeatedly kneed in the face and choked unconscious.</p>
<p>Oh yeah v3rt MMA is probably the toughest, although I wasn’t sure that it counted (thought we were only doing high school type sports - since no kids even do MMA). MMA is basically all the terribly hard parts of wrestling plus a guaranteed level of intense pain and regular injury. I look up to anyone who can do it</p>
<p>Im gonna say water polo b/c it takes a gr8 amount o strength to keep your self above the water and trying to get the ball.</p>
<p>~only making my opinion from watching the Olympics this year</p>
<p>Well Golf is the hardest to master. But it’s not physically demanding.
Cross Country (I did not join) is DEFINITELY much harder than football. But mostly depends on the high school. Football people can rely on others for a mistake one made, but not in cross country. Cross country takes stamina too.</p>
<p>In my school, Cross Country and Wrestling is the hardest. Football frustrates me because their practice is much easier compared to our wrestling practices. 5-7 hours a day, every day, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, etc. Football people practice two hours a day, walk everywhere, aren’t pushed enough, and think that they are playing the hardest sports. Wrestling, we run a lot, do reactions a lot and it starts to hurt… You also lose breath. When going live in wrestling, you are pretty much done if you mess up for .4 second or lift a foot for the others to granby or cradle you. It’s all about you, and it gets soooo exhausting to constantly have to pull, lift, twist, and move 206 lb at the least (103 weight class is the lowest, and there are two people [you and your oponent])</p>
<p>MMA is also very tough too. But I’ll restate that it is definately NOT football…</p>
<p>I play football, baseball, track, and I’ve wrestled. I also race stock cars in the summer (dirt track IMCA Modifieds - google it if you don’t know what they look like). And by far, racing is the most challenging sport of the 5 I listed.</p>
<p>First, there is the cost. You either have to be very financially comfortable or supported by several sponsors. It costs around $25,000-$35,000/calendar year for us to keep racing. And that’s about normal for all of the racing teams of our size. </p>
<p>It is the most time consuming of the sports as well - especially for a small racing team like us, because we don’t have any hired technicians, we have to do all the work ourselves. During the racing season I’m out in the shop working on the car from 7:00am to about 6:00pm. There is always work to be done. Whether it be repairing crash damage, rebuilding the motors, tuning the suspension, etc; it all takes time. We are constantly trying to think of ways to get ahead of the competition.</p>
<p>Then you have the traveling. We travel around 500 miles every weekend for 24 weeks straight. We can’t miss a night because if we do, that means losing valuable points in the run for the championship.</p>
<p>Then on top of that you have the actual racing part. It takes extreme amounts of nerve to climb into a 400 horsepower machine and tear around a track at speeds over 100mph with other cars mere inches from you. If you slip up and bump somebody it could (and has) end in disaster. I’ve been in several bad crashes (multiple rollovers). And you just have to get up, brush the dust off, and get back on the horse and hope it doesn’t buck you off again. The actual racing part is very difficult. It takes very steady hand/eye/foot coordination to get the car to do what you want it to.</p>
<p>And on top of that, you MUST learn to accept failure. After all, only one car/team out of 40 wins each night. Get in a crash, roll the car, have about $4,000 worth of crash damage and a race in 2 days? So what? Suck it up, fix the dang thing and get back out there and win. If you can’t accept failure and you don’t have very thick skin, you wouldn’t make it in the life of a stock car racer.</p>
<p>There’s a lot of pressure on me to win, and sometimes it gets tough as a 17 year old balancing racing, friends, school, and other sports.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as the hardest sport.</p>
<p>^I agree theyre just difficult in different ways.
Mentally- probably golf
combo of mental & physical- boxing and tennis (you have to concentrate on moving your feet, keeping your hands up etc. all while getting bashed in the face)
Physical- gymnastics swimming, + many others</p>
<p>these are only sports i am farmiliar with. there are many others im sure</p>
<p>in terms of time commitment, i think tennis and swimming are hardest. i only play tennis though, but its the only sport i know of that we practice 3…5 hrs per day for our school, then will practice about 2hrs after school on our own. People who want to be really good will go to academies and practice for 10 hours per day, during the school year (they take courses online, basically they bet their future on tennis)</p>
<p>its also, especially for guys i think, the hardest (or one of the hardest) to play D1 for, as schools routinely recruit from the whole world for players. i know that my Texas Tech, my local D1 school, has only 1 american on their whole boys’ team (two time texas state champion while team captain) and he’s only a walk-on.</p>