<p>u might think you’re reasonably good, but you suck…jp. i swear this thread is gonna go on forever until you all accept tennis as the hardest. i’m not giving up biatches…</p>
<p>tennis is very difficult, with the constant sprinting, the high level of coordination needed , and pressure of being on your own. However, i agree that soccer would be harder. tennis, you’re sprinting hard for each point, but you get a small break after each point, game, and set. In soccer, depending on the game, you could be sprinting, then jogging, sprinting again and so on. You get breaks with out of bounds and fouls, but sometimes they just don’t come along. there’s subbing, but i’ve played full games many times. it’s like you’re running long distance, with sprinting put in whenever, plus ball control. </p>
<p>On top of the physically demanding things, coordinating a team is very difficult. Just because you’re on a team, doesn’t mean you’ll get along with all your teammates. whatever’s going on off the field has to be put aside or else it’ll severely weaken a team. Also, there’s the problem of guilt with every failure. In tennis, if you miss a point, you’re letting yourself down. If you miss a tackle, shot, or whatever, you carry your own personal failure, but you also carry the guilt of letting down your entire team. Another problem that faces all team sports is keeping up team morale in the face of failure. If you’re having a bad game in tennis, you depend on yourself to turn the game around. In soccer, you have to keep up your own confidence, as well as the rest of the team’s. If one person on the field is feeling defeated, it’ll weaken either the defense, mid, or attacking side of the team’s game. This can drag down an entire team. It’s very difficult keeping the team together when you’re losing. </p>
<p>Even the less physically difficult positions, like keeper, is extremely hard. I actually found playing keeper harder than playing any other position (i’ve trained for and played every position on premier teams). the psycological stress is so intense. It’s your job to coordinate the defense at all times, and the rest of the team when play is near the box. On top of that, you’re the last line of defense. Each time i was scored on, it was completely demoralizing. You let down everyone, and no matter how perfect the shot was, you feel like you’re completely worthless. And the team depends on the keeper for a sense of direction and order in defensive situations. the adreneline gained by the scoring team is usually strong enough after the goal that they will most likely take the offensive, putting the keeper in an even more desperate situation. They have to lead the team as well as face being shot at again. </p>
<p>Well, that was long and strung out, but seriously, soccer is hard, to put it simply. i accept that tennis is hard, and i haven’t been trained in tennis, so i don’t know how hard, therefore i can’t make a completely accurate assessment. but i’ve played soccer for 10 years, basketball for 2, softball for 3, and futsal for 2 (futsal is also extremely difficult. more difficult that soccer skill-wise), but soccer overall was by far the hardest. long post i know, but i just don’t like how a bunch of people seem to think that soccer is nothing compared to some other sports (like tennis).</p>
<p>I would say it depends on one’s tendencies. For example, I find tennis, baseball and golf exceedingly easy. On the other hand, I always struggled with soccer and basketball…and I can’t even stand (let alone move) on ice, so forget about Ice Hockey. One of my best friends took to soccer like fish to water and cannot play a decent game of golf or tennis to save his life. And some of us are unfortunately weak at all sports! LOL</p>
<p>i refuse to accept any other sport as being harder than tennis. i’ve played A LOT of sports. before i even started tennis i played basketball, soccer, track and field, swimming, and baseball/softball a lot. so its not like i’m assuming tennis is harder because i play it 24/7. i love sports and am really athletic, i just happen to play and enjoy tennis more than any other sport and practice it more obsessively. i’m telling you, unless you play with a USTA player ranked in the top 15 in whichever state/region they belong to, then you’re not even close to playing high quality tennis. tennis is one of those sports thats kind of decieving. if 2 players can “dink” the ball over the net with some speed for a good period of time, they might consider themselves pretty good. but odds are they arent (comparitively speaking). but whatever…tennis is harder.</p>
<p>my EX argues that crew/rowing is one of the hardest sports invented.</p>
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<p>try playing soccer with premiership club pros and see where u stand…haha…
i agree with Alexandre that it depends on one’s tendencies.</p>
<p>Of course coqui. If you play against anyone ranked in the top 15 of any region it will be incrediably difficult regardless of which sport. Do you really expect to find anyone who thinks playing the top players in a sport would be easy? When was the last time you played those other sports?</p>
<p>last week actually. i played basketball with some girls from a div 1 school (not the entire team though). it definitely not easy, but i managed well. what i was trying to say is that most people MISTAKINGLY think tennis is easy because the level that they are playing is so low, yet it seems like they are playing pretty well. thats what i was trying to point out, that the level of a tennis player is harder to realize unlike in other sports, where people usually can tell if they play well or not since its easier to find or see high caliber players from those sports and easier to define good and bad.</p>
<p>of course any sport is hard if you play ranked players or teams from around the nation or world. that wasnt necessarily my point though.</p>
<p>I still say gymnastics…</p>
<p>lady olympian gymnasts… baaabes… leeeegggss</p>
<p>yeah but gymnastics is a more technical sport that has do do with practicing the same moves over and over. and those moves dont change cuz of other opponents. so basically you’re perfecting something, literally, and getting judged on it. no doubt its extremely difficult. i dont think anyone from another sport could do any part of gymnastics right of the bat, like i was saying about basketball and tennis and football and the whole switching sports thing. </p>
<p>but with that said, gymnastics isnt really a sport in the sense of straight up competition. i mean as far as having an opponent in your way fighting you to win and preventing you from doing that. gymnastics is a sport, but not in the traditional team/head to head competion type thing. but its still hella hard.</p>
<p>It is the same moves over and over, but you are constantly learning new moves, and overcoming the fear of doing them is very, very difficult. Also, those moves get a hundred times more difficult when you have judges just waiting for you to make a mistake. Plus, it really beats you up.</p>
<p>Ice Hockey, skillwise. </p>
<p>It requires all the motor skills of other sports, but you’ve got to skate while you do it.</p>
<p>Coqui, tennis is harder than boxing? At a high level it’s one of the toughest sports out there, but it’s not nearly the toughest.</p>
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Stop. If anything, you are diminishing my opinion of tennis.</p>
<p>A couple things.</p>
<p>My Sports history: Tennis, Swimming, Soccer and untill high school.</p>
<p>In high scool I played water polo, swimming and ultimate frisbee. </p>
<p>I plan to play water polo in college.</p>
<p>In my opinion water polo is a lot harder than any of the other sports I’ve played, and I’ve been on a swim team for a very long time. The average water polo player sprints about 3-4 miles in a game. Thats in the water, were humans are way out of their natural element. On top of that you have guys attempting to literally drown you. Because the refs cannot see under water games get VERY dirty VERY quick. Also, the way the game is set up it encourages a very physical game. The best way I can describe water polo is a combination of soccer, basketball and wrestling in water.</p>
<p>People who think Ultimate Frisbee is an easy sport do not know what they are talking about. It is 98% running, there are literally no stoppages in the game unless someone scores. I dont think it is the hardest sport but definately it is not the easiest. </p>
<p>And finally, the one month rule. I really dont think that works at all. Diferent sports recquire diferent body types. For example imagine an olympic water polo player switching with an olympic tennis player. I can gurantee you the tennis player, even with a month of practice would be immediatly drowned. And visa versa, the water polo player turned tennis player will be murdered in his match.</p>
<p>Cross country=Indurance and determination with all the running…it’s tough.</p>
<p>Lacrosse=Cradling the darn ball and have to run like maddened across the field against enemies with their sticks raised to attack you–or your stick.</p>
<p>Ok, there is a natural tendency to think the sport that one plays is the most difficult.</p>
<p>Coqui, you mention playing tennis with the top 15 USTA players in your state/region. While I must admit that is hard, this holds true for all other sports on the same level. Competing with the top fifteen athletes for ANY sport is no easy matter. You simply support tennis because you’re very good at it and play on a high level. You also mentioned the skills involved in tennis and how there are more skills in tennis than other sports. In reality, all sports require great skill (if you want to be good at it), but only when we have achieved a certain degree of accomplishment in a particular sport can we recognize these skills.</p>
<p>Personally, I am nationally ranked in table tennis for my age, and I think it is one of the most difficult sports out there. But again, my opinion is subjective. I also run cross country, so I can sympathize with all the runners.</p>
<p>Coqui, one of my best friends in 4th in the state for tennis (I live in NJ), so I am not against tennis is any way.</p>
<p>The point is, any sport requires hard work, technique, precision, and all those things. I admit some may require more endurance than others, but when everything is weighted together, no sport is “harder” than another in that sense.</p>
<p>i know i’m biased. i said that already. and for the level of play disussion, heres my quote one more time…just read my previous post again.</p>
<p>everything you guys are saying makes sense, except tennis being less hard than whatever sport you’re talking about :). </p>
<p>WRAIDER2006,
i’m diminishing your opinion of tennis? haha. well obviously you don’t have enough knowledge of tennis if one person can diminish your opinion of it, especially if they’re saying its more difficult than any sport. a little fickle there are we?</p>
<p>No I don’t know too much about tennis, but having you constantly push for it as the hardest sport and calling everyone “biatches” sure isn’t doing anything. If tennis truly is the hardest sport, it wouldn’t need you as its spokesman/woman.</p>