<p>Cmon in baseball you’re in the HOF if you get a hit only 30% of the time, hat counts for something. I’d like to see people who say baseball is easy try to hit a 90+ mph fastball, followed by a nasty curve. Plus, at any level, you’re gonna be playin 50 games or more during the year.</p>
<p>youtube the sport “Takraw”… end of discussion :)</p>
<p>Badminton.</p>
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<p>Great argument, could be used for any sport.</p>
<p>Football - because it takes a lot to keep calm and make a tackle.
Soccer - because it takes a lot to keep calm and score a goal.
Basketball - because it takes a lot to keep calm and make a shot.
Hockey - because it takes a lot to keep calm and score a goal.
Baseball - because it takes a lot to keep calm and hit a ball.</p>
<p>Freestyle and grecco Roman wrestling, it takes a lot to be able to work on your moves and conditioning while cutting weight</p>
<p>Alligator Wrestling</p>
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<p>Not really. Golf is one of the most mentally demanding sports. I’d probably rank boxing higher, but golf is a solid second. In golf, you rarely can make any shot perfectly, so most of the time you are figuring out how to deal with mistakes. It’s a thinking game.</p>
<p>It’s also very technical. I mean, I’ve never played football at any level, but probably, a tackle is pretty much a tackle. You could probably make a tackle with or without nerves, or with or without adrenaline, or even in a lot of cases, without having your full attention on the tackle. It’s an instinctual reaction. The golf swing is too complicated to reduce to an ‘instinctual reaction’.</p>
<p>edit: playing quarterback in football ranks up there in terms of being mentally challenging. I may have to reconsider my rankings.</p>
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<p>Substitute any sport with the word “golf” and it’s the same thing. You don’t even have to be in great physical condition to play golf. If my 80 year old grandpa can play golf, anyone can.</p>
<p>No other equestrian folk? Really? :c</p>
<p>This is dumb. I run XC, and yea, it’s hard, but all my fellow XC runners have some sort of inferiority complex about it being “Number one!” Dude, it’s not that hard. Lol</p>
<p>Are we forgetting that different sports require differing body types? Soccer requires short, lean forwards and bigger-sized defenders. Basketball, not so much. </p>
<p>Put me, a state-qualified XC runner, on an offensive line and I’d get killed, but I bet I could destroy any of the 350-lb football linesman at my school in a mile-race.</p>
<p>I tend to think that sports like tennis and swimming are tough because of just how mentally taxing the individuality of the sport can be.</p>
<p>A grueling singles match in tennis is the closest thing in sports to solitary confinement. No teammates, no coaches (even in team tennis it’s essentially an individual sport), nothing but you, your opponent, and the fuzzy yellow balls. Steeling yourself for that is much tougher than it seems.</p>
<p>But of course, I’m biased. And I will happily admit that tennis is nowhere near the most physically demanding sport out there.</p>
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<p>What you’re talking about is perhaps more prevalent in tennis than in ANY other sport. </p>
<p>“How many ways can you hit a tennis ball?”</p>
<p>A lot. Tons. Forehand, backhand, slice, topspin, flat, lob, passing shot. How fast? How deep? What angle? And you have to decide in a split-second precisely what way you’re going to do it, and the tiniest slip-up is something your opponent will see and feast on (once you reach a certain level of play of course). </p>
<p>And not only that…once you start playing the GOOD players, you can’t just think about the current shot. You have to think at least one shot ahead, perhaps two. There are infinitely many ways to construct a point based on the strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your opponent, as well as the situation you’re in. In fact, I’d go so far as to say tennis requires the most creative thinking out of any sport.</p>
<p>Obviously though, if you’re just going out and grabbing a racquet and hitting with friends, it’s a side to the game you don’t see. But it’s certainly there:</p>
<p>[Nalbandian</a> - Federer - This is not in the book ! - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kkpDzlX7M&feature=related]Nalbandian”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kkpDzlX7M&feature=related)</p>
<p>[Roger</a> Federer Head Fake HD - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1If2VzmFc6E&feature=related]Roger”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1If2VzmFc6E&feature=related)</p>
<p>Sorry for the mini-rant…I had to :P</p>
<p>Tennis is a fairly “easy” sport, compared to others. Yes, I speak from experience. I played 4 years of varsity in high school. Unless you are a professional player going 3-5 hard sets with 20-shot rallies, it’s really not that bad. I would say the conventional sports (basketball, soccer, football, etc.) are harder, especially at non-elite levels. Tennis certainly involves skill and athleticism, and I love the sport, but as far as “hardest”, absolutely not except at the highest levels. </p>
<p>I ran XC in high school and that was tough. But as for “hardest”, and I’m going with something that doesn’t really qualify as a sport, but martial arts. I tend to think it’s only a “sport” if you are doing competitions, which not everyone does. Martial arts training is quite intense. If you do it right, it’s quite exhausting very quickly, since with every “snap” of a technique, you are tensing all the major muscle groups. Add to that you literally get hit if you mess up, plus the conditioning, and you’ve got something that’s pretty tough. 50 push-ups seem like a lot? Now do them on your knuckles. Still too easy? Do another set on your finger tips…</p>
<p>Golf is by far the hardest sport. Yes, anyone can play golf, but not everyone can play it well. Watching fat old pros on tv makes it seem so easy, but its a tough game. I play for fun, but I don’t think there’s ever a time when I didn’t get angry about hitting a bad shot which is common. Playing the sport makes me appreciate how skilled the pros are. If your club doesn’t strike the ball in the right area, in the right position, at the right time, you’re screwed. It’s impossible to get ahead while playing golf. It’s seems like you’re always playing from behind and trying to just break even.</p>
<p>RoKr93 I agree with swimming, but it would be second to freestyle wrestling.</p>
<p>golf is the hardest sport. period. it’s so frustrating and it takes so long to get good. my mental game is by far the weakest part of my game because it’s the most difficult aspect of golf. you don’t get do-overs and you can’t play shots again like you can in other sports. you just have to keep going. no breaks. the worst part is having a bad hole and having it impact your whole round because you can’t go back and fix it.</p>
<p>You’re serious, right? Like there are do-overs in wrestling, swimming, tennis etc…no!</p>
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<p>It really isn’t the same thing. Golf really is a game about dealing with your mistakes. Ben Hogan, one of the great golfers in the early days, said that on a good round, he’d hit maybe 5 good shots out of 70. Contrast this with basketball and football. Pro basketball players and quarterbacks on a good day make at least 50% of their shots and complete 50% of their passes.</p>
<p>I never claimed that golf was a physically demanding sport, so I don’t know why you brought that up.</p>
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<p>Tennis at the high school and recreational level probably is less competitive and has worse athletes than the ‘traditional’ sports. That doesn’t mean that it is an easy sport.</p>
<p>“Pro basketball players and quarterbacks on a good day make at least 50% of their shots and complete 50% of their passes.”</p>
<p>There’re clearly a ton of brick layers and quarterbacks that you have not watched.</p>