<p>I think wrestling is probably the hardest sport to be good at. I watch those boys become state champs and they go through some crazy shizzy.</p>
<p>Definitely not tennis, I played for four years, varsity for two. It can’t even begin to compare to distance running, especially cross country.</p>
<p>remember now no simplified sports; “horseback riding”.</p>
<p>yea, tennis is pretty tense, i agree. basketball also requires a lot of mental ability. you’ve gotta make swift decisions in a matter of seconds, whereas in tennis mental ability is also required but not as much, because it’s just one on one. </p>
<p>IMO basketball is the most “fun”. teamwork makes you feel so good about yourself. but sometimes when i play people get so mad they start cussing each other out [haha] and i’m all dude, get lives man, it’s a friggin game and you are ruining the splendor of it by complaining because he wasn’t fast enough.</p>
<p>XC enough said. Try running 20-30 miles a week or even more.</p>
<p>are we talking about the hardest sport to play skill-wise or physical-wise?</p>
<p>ieatglue: you probably weren’t that great or serious of a tennis player then: “varsity for TWO (not four) years.” Take the top runners and tennis players in the world and put them in each other’s shoes. who do you think would do better? Top tennis players are extremely fit and can run, i don’t think top runners can play tennis. It’s pretty ridiculous how you said tennis can’t even “compare” to XC.</p>
<p>potomac: I run 3 miles a day and although it’s tiring, it’s def. not that bad once you get used to it.</p>
<p>o yea, i’d also like to mention how hard hockey is. I’ve played in a few games with my hockey-friends and i must say, stopping and starting on ice with skates is mad-tiring. plus having to balance on ice while trying to shoot/pass a puck is really hard.</p>
<p>Soccer and Basketball are the most intense team sports-definitely. The average soccer player runs 6-10 miles PER GAME. Basketball is constant up and down movement and requires excellent coordination and judgment. Also, when going up for a layup, there is a good chance a 200 lb forward is going to shove you onto the hardwood. </p>
<p>Cross Country is NOT that hard or intense (coming from a distance runner/triathlete) Once you get used to the running you realize it’s not that hard. You still hurt during races, but that’s life. Triathlon is the coolest sport though. :)</p>
<p>i have done both cross country and wrestling and I can tell you that wrestling is by far the hardest sport. I practice for 3 hours everyday and I lose about 5 pounds each day. It is a contact sport that injures everyone who does it and it really takes away a big part of your life. The weight control is also a huge difficulty. Ill give you a personal story. This year I stopped eating for 3 days to make the weight for a big tournament. I began to have malnutrition lines under my eyes and I could barely concentrate in school. The next day in school I almost fainted in english and I was carried off to the nurse. When I got home I knew i had to eat but i couldnt cause I didnt want to gain weight, so i fainted on my bed instead. The next day my coach said I was too sick to practice which meant I would be overweight for the next day. I spent that whole day spitting in a trash can and laying on my bed and I did nothing else the whole day. The day after was the tournament and I still had to wrestle. That was the worst week of my life and it sickens me to this day but this is something good wrestlers do all the time.</p>
<p>anything with running, i’d say field hockey since they run like 5 miles every practice.</p>
<p>Lacrosse isn’t so hard UNTIL you put on those thick gloves and vision restricting helmets, ugh i hated wearing that stuff.</p>
<p>This is really an impossible comparison. Any sport is as hard as you make it. If you go to XC practice and jog your 3 miles and go to tennis and work yourself to death, XC is easy, tennis is hard. If you train 100 miles per week for XC and just mess around at teniis practice, XC is hard and tennis is easy. Same for everything else.</p>
<p>cross country.</p>
<p>nobody answered my question before so i guess ill just repost:</p>
<p>are we talking about the hardest sport to play skill-wise or physical-wise?</p>
<p>baseball cuz its the only sport where could do good only 1/3 of the time and be considered one of the best hitters</p>
<p>Alright, I know some cross wrestling and cross country people and I would have to say that wrestling’s harder. You’ve got me there.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of pansy ass training routine all of you guys follow for XC, but we do around 50 miles a week, most of this running at tempo pace and with tons of hills, and one day of hard speed work a week. It’s hard, really hard. And I live in a really hilly region, so some of the XC courses around here have many hundreds of feet of elevation gain.</p>
<p>I only played varsity tennis for two years because those years happened to be 8th and 9th grade, and then I quit to run more. It’s definitely not a joke, but it can’t compare to a bunch of sports I can roll off. And BigRed, you’re just wrong dude. That’s a stupid analogy, because using it you could think a curler is more of an athlete than a runner (well, everyone can run but not everyone can do curling…). I don’t care if you jogged three miles; there’s a big difference between your running and our running.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and I’m talking about the hardest sports physically.</p>
<p>BigRed, it looks like we’re talking physical…</p>
<p>ieatglue, all sports are hard, not just XC. This is sort of a useless argument. It all depends on how hard you are willing to push yourself and the level of competition you are facing. </p>
<p>I don’t know about the most physically demanding sport, since I’ve never played basketball, or run XC. But for me, the most emotionally demanding sport is definitely football. You invest SO much time, so much energy, so much effort. You have to give every ounce of physical and emotional energy in your body every single snap… You literally live and die with every play. That’s the way the game is meant to be played.</p>
<p>Wrestling comes very close though. You’re one on one, alone with the other guy and it’s just you against him. No teammates to help you.</p>
<p>i’m gonna have to say overall tennis. most people write it off as “easy”, but chances are they suck horrible at it. and no offense but high school tennis isn’t as competitive as other high school sports are. basketball, football, and other sports have the 3 step plan. high school, college, then pro. tennis really just has the pro. there are little pro tennis players that even consider college. so saying, “oh i played tennis in high school and it was easy” is kind of a joke. try getting at junior player with a USTA state ranking in the top 10 (which i am…and thats just sounded horribly arrogant…sorry) and see how you do. even if you can keep a rally goin, it in no way means your a “decent” tennis player. in tennis there’s playing for fun, then high school, then USTA state, then nationals, then Challengers/ITF/Circuits, then pro. and for tennis, every moment is unpredictable, you’re alone, its as much of a mental game as physical, nothing is guaranteed, and you play in every imaginable surface and weather. no coaching in a match either. and tennis has so many adjustments and split second decisions. so many differents shots that aren’t even hit the same everytime. one slice backhand can be completely different than another slice backhand, which is different than a topspin backhand, and so on. even if you have a plan, its bound to change. there arent “plays”, there are just strategies to win. </p>
<p>i think physically in terms of training and in what shape you have to be in, obviously the more “conditioning” and “endurance” individual sports are harder. track, swimming, cross country, gymnastics…most of these sports have to do with training your body to do the same thing over and over and over until your as fast or perfect as possible. </p>
<p>team sports are probably the easier (not really the correct word) sports. YOU as an individual dont have to have all the skills, you have teammates to fall back on, coaches are always there, you can rest more, and your not always in the action. skill wise they arent easy(exept softball, baseball, and others) but they are easier than the individual sports by far. and football is kinda easy when you think about it. you wear tons of padding, push a lot, get tons of breaks, and a billion coaches everywhere telling you what to do. i think if they took they only had 2 or 3 coaches football would be more interesting.</p>
<p>one way to measure if one sport is easier than the other is by doing a period test. so if you’re debating whether…lets see…tennis was harder than basketball, take a decent player from each sport and give them a month to practive the other’s sport. from personal experience, many people from other sports suck at tennis, but a tennis player is able to play a lot more sports pretty well.</p>
<p>It’s no contest–boxing. Elite fighters train relentlessly for months just to get in the ring with another guy for a maximum of 36 minutes. And no serious boxer would fight more than two bouts a year–impossible both physically and mentally. Boxing requires all the toughness, endurance, and strategy of wrestling, but with more physical punishment. Here’s one test for determining the hardest sport: Are you willing to try it? When it comes to boxing, most people answer a quick “no.”</p>
<p>I disagree with all of you. The most difficult sport is CRICKET! No wonder why Americans dont play it :)</p>
<p>agree with coqui, btw im also a top 10 player in the state.</p>