<p>Dude all you sweet wrestlers can join the WWE because we all know how much work ethic that requires??? cough<em>staged</em> cough :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Because that’s wrestling amirite?</p>
<p>Hey let’s hear it for golf, wooohoooo</p>
<p>if man on fire wasnt joking he wins the award for… i dont know let me think up something.</p>
<p>the WWE takes mad work ethic, even though its staged. they are permanently on the road like 365 days a year. the season doesnt stop.</p>
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<p>I will guarentee you that John Daly is not as athletic as your average NFL lineman. Tiger is ripped, notice I never said anything about Woods, I was just making the point that some rather unathletic people are quite good at golf. And no, golf is not “just as much of a sport” as baseball for all the reasons that have already been listed on this thread. HOwever, once again for the people who don’t feel like reading the history of the debate, any sport that does not require direct physical competition against another human being is not as hard as one that does. Case closed. End of argument. Golf is a very hard activity, it is not a very hard sport.</p>
<p>Tennis without a doubt:</p>
<p>-a match can go on for hours
-hand-eye coordination
-sprinting and endurance
-different techniques for many different strokes
-more mental than any other game
-momentum can change with one point
-people get away with cheating
-it’s hard to predict the next ball
-(for doubles) you’ve got to learn to work w/ your partner</p>
<p>I think team sports are easier in general b/c you’ve got friends cheering you on and helping you out. And if you lose, you have company!</p>
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<p>I respectfully disagree with you.</p>
<p>The thing about team sports is that the single weak link can bring the entire team down.</p>
<p>We can take football as an example. If everyone on Team A was excellent except for one extremely pathetic offensive lineman and everyone on Team B was very decent, no exceptions, then Team A’s quarterback could be in trouble for a number of plays because its pathetic lineman would let the opposition through him. So unless Team A’s quarterback can go for a short, quick pass, or go Matrix bullettime, that one single weak link let the team down.</p>
<p>As for friends cheering you on and helping you out, I agree with that, but I don’t see fans cheering for really crappy teams. My HS varsity football team has always sucked for the past few years (only one win this previous season, and the season before that, no victories whatsoever), no one in my school cheers for them. It happens in pro sports as well: Before the Washington Wizards became a decent team, D.C. fans came to home games to watch the opposing team.</p>
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<p>I’ll give you a personal example of when it happened to me.</p>
<p>During a competitive swim meet, our relay team of 4 were seeded to win second place. However, one of the swimmers in the original 4 got sick and someone else (person who was a LOT slower) replaced him. We were expecting to get around 3rd or 4th at that point.</p>
<p>However, three of us swam exceptionally well and it seriously looked like we were going to steal first place. However, the last person missed a turn halfway through his leg, crashes into the pool wall, and loses about 2 seconds.</p>
<p>We finished second that day, and we missed our school record by only one second. I was so **<strong><em>ing *</em></strong>ed because one weak link cost the entire team. We would have placed first and broken our school record had one person just perform a turn correctly. Oh well… there’s always next year.</p>
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<p>I really wish people would read what has already been posted before they attempt to enter into the debate.
1.Duration. Tennis matches can go on for hours? Oh my god. I don’t know of a single other sport that can go on for hours? Holy crap, tennis must be really hard (avg. tennis match last 150min including breaks, football game lasts an hour excluding breaks, with breaks roughly 180min).</p>
<p>2.Hand-eye coordination. Tennis does not require any more hand eye coordination then any other sport. Furthermore, since you are trying to hit a ball, not another human being as in boxing, you do not have the added element of having what you are trying to hit MOVE. In addition to that, in tennis you are in no way interfered with while attempting to hit said ball, again making it easier then contact sports.</p>
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<li> Sprinting and endurance. I’ll admit that tennis does envolve sprinting and endurance, but I’m not sure how that makes it different then any other sport. And again, since tennis is non-contact: easier.</li>
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<p>4.Different techniques. Hmmn, uppercut, roundhouse. 3/4 delivery, submarine delivery. 2-seam, 4-seam. Jeez, no one else in the sporting world has to adjust to different situations. Damn tennis is hard.</p>
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<li><p>More mental. This doesn’t even dignify a response it’s so dumb.</p></li>
<li><p>Momentum can change? This is stupid, what sport doesn’t this happen in. If anything it proves that tennis isn’t the hardest sport. Under that logic boxing, and hockey are all harder.</p></li>
<li><p>Cheating. Do you even play sports?</p></li>
<li><p>It’s hard to predict the next ball. Wow. I should really just stop.</p></li>
<li><p>Teamwork. SOMETHING NO OTHER SPORT INVOLVES.</p></li>
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<p>I hereby nominate sleeping as the hardest sport in existence…</p>
<p>lol tomagod, if you dont play the sport dont critique it, you have absoultly no idea what your talking about .</p>
<p>Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?</p>
<p>EDIT: Anyway, I want to hear a defense of this:</p>
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<p>Please elaborate, I don’t see how tennis is more mental than track and field.</p>
<p>EDIT²: I already know what you’re going to say anyway, so I’m going back to page 6 to defend track and field.</p>
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<p>Anyone can run, yes. I read a thread the other day on this board where some kid is being ‘recruited’ for running a 23.9 in the 200 by Harvey Mudd. He may win races and stuff, but he’s not racing anyone fast. Maybe some kid always runs against the same competitors and considers himself pretty good. I thought I was a pretty good runner in high school, hell, I was one of the best in Massachusetts. Now I race a kid from TCU named Cleavon Dillon who, last year at the Conference USA championships, ran 10.20, wind legal [for anyone who doesn’t know track times, that’s really ****ing fast]. That’s 8 tenths of a second faster than my best in high school (11.02).
I’m pretty athletic - I think I, and plenty of other people, might be able to hold my own against a “good” tennis player, but I doubt anyone could hold their own against Cleavon.
Track and field is the hardest sport because everything is so cut and dry, if you know that you’re going to lose every time you race, why keep doing it? At least in tennis there’s variables, maybe the other player has an off day and I can score a few points, maybe even win a set. The distance between a great player and a terrible player is so much bigger in sports like hockey and track and field than it is in tennis. I could race Cleavon 1000 times and never win a race, but if I played Pete Sampras 1000 times, I bet you I could win a set.</p>
<p>I’ve tried to sift through 11 pages before posting. Anyway, IMHO baseball is the toughest. First, try to figure out the rules - LOL.</p>
<p>without going into discussions of the myriad of skills needed, the hand eye coordination, etc. etc. at the bottomline there is nothing that takes more courage in sports than standing 60’ away from someone throwing a rock hard ball at you at over 90 miles an hour. You have a micro second to react and try to “squarely” hit a round ball with a round bat. There’s a reason you only need to succeed 3 out of 10 times to be in the Hall of Fame.</p>
<p>You know, I’ve always been pretty good at every sport I’ve tried except for baseball. I seriously cannot figure out how to hit a round ball with a round bat. Baseball just moved a rung up on my ladder.</p>
<p>bullwinkle… you’re kidding, right? How often are people hit by the pitcher? The pitcher isn’t trying to hit you. Actually I’m positive that they try not to hit you. If baseball is a tough sport it isn’t that part that makes it tough. If you ask a pro baseball player what makes the game tough he wont say it’s because he is scared of getting hit by the ball. I’m not saying baseball isn’t tough but I think it is for different reasons.</p>
<p>Maybe we’re looking at this from the wrong side.</p>
<p>My theory is that all sports are pretty much equally hard, the only diference is the level of play. I think the hardest sports are sports that are filled with the most athletic people.</p>
<p>That leads me to believe that the hardest sports are, in my opinion, the big 3. Baseball, Basketball and Football. This is simply because that is where the money is. They are by far the most popular sports and as a result of that more people play them, and it is harder to be succesfull at them. </p>
<p>This is coming from someone who has pretty much stuck to non-traditional sports:water polo, swimming and ultimate frisbee.</p>
<p>“I think the hardest sports are sports that are filled with the most athletic people…That leads me to believe that the hardest sports are, in my opinion, the big 3. Baseball, Basketball and Football.”</p>
<p>Baseball has more athletic people than hockey, tennis, boxing, track, soccer?</p>
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<p>I dunno, man, swimming is pretty tough too, you could probably make a good argument for that.</p>
<p>And as far as the “big 3”, I refuse to believe that most basketball players are “athletic” (and I’ve told my basketball playing friends this and they agree). The people that end up playing basketball are the guys who are too skinny for football (notice how skinny most of the NBA stars are compared to baseball or football players) or too tall to play any other sport. Look at how many terrible centers there are in the NBA, it’s because they aren’t “athletic”.</p>
<p>The most athletic people will be your middleweight boxers, wrestlers (all classes, even 285/heavyweight), triple jumpers, hurdlers, cornerbacks, and soccer midfielders. Flame away.</p>
<p>KK- I must be kidding. Please. I know several professional and college baseball players. First, you better believe they throw at batters. You think Roger Clemens is out there playing patty cake. Heck a few years ago he threw a broken bat back at Mike Piazza.</p>
<p>There are pitchers that can throw nearly 100 miles an hour and they are 60’ away from you. Stand too close to the plate and they’ll drill you in a heart beat. Go to a batting cage and have a machine throw to you at 90 mph. Now that’s controlled and most likely won’t curve, slide or go who knows where (unlike a ball coming from a live pitcher). At that speed I guarantee you may hear the ball, you won’t even see it. I know a player who hit against Randy Johnson in college. He told me it was singularly the most frightening experience of his entire life. Did you ever see Michael Jordan bat when he thought he could become a baseball player. What a joke.</p>
<p>Professional players simply cannot allow themselves to be afraid, that’s one of the reasons they were able to reach that level, but they wear helmets for a reason.</p>
<p>The one thing you are right about is that hitting is only one of the multiple of skills you must have.</p>
<p>BTW, the point of my post was not just about courage, it was about skill.</p>