<p>I also don’t understand how any of the things you said make marching band a sport are not applicable to track or XC running…</p>
<p>^Because dblazer is in marching band and doesn’t run track.</p>
<p>@dblazer: I agree with everything that you said. I just have to add on that if you are high stepping (which my band does), you need to have balance and leg and knee stamina. There was actually a girl who fell in the middle of the show because she lost her balance when changing formations. Your knees are brought up parallel to your waist and that is hard to do, especially in a parade. So, marching band does constitute as a sport since it requires skill that is not possessed by regular people.</p>
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<p>@Wiscongene
So you don’t consider something like figure-skating and gymnastics sports? They both require athletic skill even though they have no objective competition. If you consider these sports than you’d have to consider marching band a sport by default because it has competition though they may not be purely objective.</p>
<p>^^pretty much sums it up. Lol</p>
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<p>LOL Have you ever played a sport? Its band not the olympics. At my school we have one of the best bands in the state (one of the larger states) and it doesn’t require all that even though they get a PE credit for it. Everyday before practice they run a lap around the track. ONE LAP. I was fortunate enough to have track practice one morning when they were practicing on our field and it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. They were acting like it was a marathon and most of them were barely jogging.</p>
<p>The difference between marching band skill and running “skill” is that marching band skill has to be <em>learned</em> and practiced continually. When one practices running, he or she is merely improving his or her athleticism, not skill.</p>
<p>And no, I do not consider those things to be sports. In fact, I consider chess and even gaming women to be sports BEFORE gymnastics and figure skating. </p>
<p>There is an agreed-upon goal and no subjectivity.</p>
<p>Yes, physical activity is great–it’s not a sport. Walking my dog is not a sport. Pooping is not a sport. Both of these things require some form of physical activity. You are free to turn them into sports by defining the objective goal–but the sport is not inherent in them. Sports are “man-made.”</p>
<p>@evanb1996: Yes, guys in marching band are gods and are not just regular people because they possess the ability to high step.</p>
<p>Wiscongene, we are operating on different premises. Argument is useless. Because I don’t know about others, but I would consider something like gymnastics a sport.</p>
<p>Would competitive gaming qualify as a sport? It doesn’t require anything beyond basic physical activity, but it is teams competing to achieve an agreed upon goal.</p>
<p>Well, then there’s no use even trying to have a decent, well-thought-out argument.</p>
<p>[Here</a>, you idiot!](<a href=“Professor Farnsworth - You're Ugly - YouTube”>Professor Farnsworth - You're Ugly - YouTube)</p>
<p>@ almost there</p>
<p><em>shrug</em> some sports require less strenuous activities than others. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a sport.</p>
<p>@Wiscongene Would you consider an event like lifting or shot put a sport?</p>
<p>Oh, and I’m ugly? That’s what you think!</p>
<p>Yes, because lifting=most weight lifted and shot put=longest distance. They’re both objective.</p>
<p>Its not about the strenuous activity it is about the fact that you are not being judged on your athletic ability you are being judged on your musical talent.</p>
<p>@Wisconge And gymnastics, or competitive skiing/snowboarding aren’t sports? Oh, but billiards is because it’s objective. i officially consider your definition of sports screwed up.</p>
<p>@almost there marching technique, a physical skill, plays an equal if not larger role than music in the judging.</p>
<p>I guess spelling is too, since it is broadcasted on ESPN, which is a sports channel.</p>
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<p>If it’s objective, it’s a sport. If it’s not objective, it’s not a sport. </p>
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<p>What about dance battling? A physical technique plays a pretty large role in that.
Or Beauty Pageants you have to have physical technique to walk across the stage in heels</p>
<p>Nope. Nope. Not objective. Not a sport.</p>