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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Ghosttrain on July 12, 2019, 06:33:27 PM
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Not sure if this has been done before,had a quick peruse and could'nt see anything,also not sure if there will be much interest.......by this i mean watching not just playing,i will allow Darts and Snooker which i know some purists do not count as sports............anyway lets see,here are mine in no particular order....
Football/Soccer
Tennis
Cycling (Road Racing)
Hockey
Darts
Cricket
I used to play Football/Soccer and Hockey when i was young........
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Moto GP
Fencing
Cheers
jc
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Now, I might be regarded as a complete failure of a man because 'sports' are usually something I have no interest in. Football... a bunch of idiots kicking a ball around. Cricket... wake me up when something actually happens. Tennis... back and forth, back and forth, back and.. oh shit, I just slipped into a coma through sheer boredom alone. ;D
But there are two sports that I like, one of which is baseball and the other is boxing. Mainly because I'm such a movie fan and there have been so many good movies about these two sports. I've never seen a live boxing match but a few years back I was in Chicago and saw the Cubs play at Wrigley Field and what a fantastic night it was. Met so many great folks, beer was supped, hot dogs were eaten and I pretended to know the words to 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' during the 7th Inning Stretch. ;D
Other than that... I'm afraid sport passes me by.
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WATCHING:
- basketball
- football (not dull soccer)
- auto racing (Indy 500 is thee greatest sporting event)
- boxing
- tennis (the four majors are must see TV)
PLAYING:
- baseball
- boxing
- skiing
- I love basketball the most...and it is the sport I am the worst at. The ball just does not go in the net when I shoot it.
- Auto racing used to be sooooo great. The Indy cars are still good to watch, but Formula One and NASCAR have now reached the point of unwatchable.
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MotoGp
Football
Mma
Boxing
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Darts
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I'm a trail runner.
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Football (not the over hyped American crap)
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I love to watch Snooker. Not ever played one frame in my life, but i went to Berlin for the German Masters to see it live and that was my only effort to go out and see sports live.
I played Handball for a long time in my youth, this sport i also like to watch, but sadly it is so underrepresented in the tele.
In Hamburg they have a sportspaß-pass (sports-fun-ticket) and you pay 10€ a month and it lets you do many, many different sports throughout Hamburg. You to choose your sport and the place where it is held and you just go there. I discovered this way too late, now i'm leaving Hamburg, but i managed to go to Badmindton, do a Tai-Chi course and had some fitness training.
I love indoor team or ball sports. There's this special atmosphere inside a gym, the sound of the shoes on the floor, the smell (in handball you use tree-resin to get your hands more sticky, and this stuff IS sticky as hell, but it smells so special) and it is such a different feeling to run inside a gym on this special floor with special indoor shoes. Kind of artificial, but i grew up and spent much time in gyms, so i kind of miss this.
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Footy
Rugby (wish id carried on playing after school)
Cricket
Hockey
Darts
Crown Green Bowls
No. I lied about the last one. Although I used to watch it. Bit of skill involved in it tbh.
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My dad used to play bowls , flat green tho don't think they do crown green in Scotland, I know there is a bit of a difference.
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I always think of Crown Green Bowling as a Midlands /Staffs.thing............i may be wrong ?....
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Crown Green Bowling is something I used to play with my grandad when I was a young fella... we were in Cheshire but used to play it in parts of North Wales as well. A rather sedate sport but surprisingly addictive. I'd love to give it a go again one day...
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I always think of Crown Green Bowling as a Midlands /Staffs.thing............i may be wrong ?....
Its a Midlands, North Midlands and North Wales game apparently......and Cheshire by the looks. I didnt know that.
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Cycling - especially road & track
Motorsport - anything 4 wheeled and 2
Athletics - along with swimming, possibly the "purest" form of sport - running, jumping, throwing etc ?
Tennis
Winter sports - skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton etc
Used to love football, but completely indifferent to it these days. Also loved watching snooker in its tv heyday of the 1980s, but don't find it so compulsive anymore.
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Athletics - along with swimming, possibly the "purest" form of sport - running, jumping, throwing etc ?
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You have to include boxing, wrestling, judo, karate...on the list of the purest sports of all.
Think about boxing: two men in shorts just competing to see who can better the other guy. No equipment. Just one human body against another to see who can overcome the other. Not be faster, not throw farther, not jump higher...no. Who can beat the other. That's as pure a sport as any sport can ever be.
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Athletics - along with swimming, possibly the "purest" form of sport - running, jumping, throwing etc ?
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You have to include boxing, wrestling, judo, karate...on the list of the purest sports of all.
Think about boxing: two men in shorts just competing to see who can better the other guy. No equipment. Just one human body against another to see who can overcome the other. Not be faster, not throw farther, not jump higher...no. Who can beat the other. That's as pure a sport as any sport can ever be.
Well, I don't have to include those, but yeah, ok, combat based sports go back a very long way. Especially wrestling. There are forms of wrestling still practiced today which date back millenia. Obviously we can ignore all that WWE / WWF or whatever it is nonsense. The Romans also boxed. I'm sure judo & karate have their roots in very ancient martial arts too.
However, one person against another in combat is no purer than competing to see who can run fastest or jump furthest for example (again, no equipment necessary).
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However, one person against another in combat is no purer than competing to see who can run fastest or jump furthest for example (again, no equipment necessary).
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Of course one against another in physical combat is purer. The goal is to overcome the other. Running faster or jumping farther is really a meaningless skill. Wow, that guy can run faster than me. But guess what? I can jump farther, jump higher, throw a disc farther, go faster over hurdles....and so what. Those are all just little niche achievements. In combat sports one is physically beating the other - proving ultimate superiority. That makes it as pure as any sport can be.
Two opponents, no equipment -- who will be left standing. You can't get more basic than that. Sport at it's purest level.
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Sport at it's purest level.
Your purity is a lie.
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Your purity is a lie.
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Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel, purity is two boxers confronting each other.
That lyric comes from an early demo version of "Purity."
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Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel, purity is two boxers confronting each other.
That lyric comes from an early demo version of "Purity."
I know that. It's from the phonograph cylinder demo from 1896.
But you failed to mention that it also continues:
Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel,
purity is two boxers confronting each other
And then they egg each other on and on
Like battered boxers staying the course
So don't let the Whirlwind blow
So much chuzpe into the world
And let the Whirlwind knoooow
that he is just not better than them
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Ignoring debates about purity of sports I'll just comment on the original thread. :)
Not hugely a sporty person but somehow I remain with an interest in F1 and International football.
As for taking part ........ the only sport I do is Archery - target shooting only but kinda reassuring to know I could kill at 75m come the promised End Of Days :D
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...I remain with an interest in F1 ...
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More power to you for that. F1 is losing followers by the hundreds of thousands. What was once a fantastic sport (hell, I used to watch practice sessions!) is now an unwatchable parade featuring uninteresting competitors.
What made that sport great was the guys would actually race. That just doesn't happen any longer.
What made that sport great was the guys were fascinating personalities. Current F1...a tire has a better personality than Lewis Hamilton.
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I like most sports but especially motorsports and love the thrill especially when I was involved in running a team a few years ago.
It was scooter racing in the BSSO and we used old Lambrettas that had been tuned 'slightly' ;) ;)
210cc maximum capacity but geared for 115mph and just under 40bhp, a standard lambretta 200cc is approx 9bhp :)
We built the team in 2010 and started competing in 2011 with the goal to be challenging towards the top end in 2016 and eventually to be competing for the championship in 2017 onwards
We actually won the British Championship in 2014 and also came 2nd, 3rd and 5th
As for other sports I watch football, snooker, tennis, cricket (especially limited over games)
I used to play table tennis at school to a decent level, just below county standard
Don't do much else myself these days apart from a bit of snooker, pool, and darts (Have a pool table and darts board at home)
I had a dabble at archery a few years ago and need to get back into it, I only use the proper recurve bow not the compound which is in my eyes is cheating as once you've drawn it over the cam you can hold it for ever to get your aim.
It takes power and balance to hold a recurve bow before the release
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I had a dabble at archery a few years ago and need to get back into it, I only use the proper recurve bow not the compound which is in my eyes is cheating as once you've drawn it over the cam you can hold it for ever to get your aim.
It takes power and balance to hold a recurve bow before the release
Too right Red - Compound is fake, Recurve is the only way to go :) I don't use stabilizers but do use a sight. Would love to be strong enough for a traditonal yew longbow but sadly I never will be ;D
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I had a dabble at archery a few years ago and need to get back into it, I only use the proper recurve bow not the compound which is in my eyes is cheating as once you've drawn it over the cam you can hold it for ever to get your aim.
It takes power and balance to hold a recurve bow before the release
Too right Red - Compound is fake, Recurve is the only way to go :) I don't use stabilizers but do use a sight. Would love to be strong enough for a traditonal yew longbow but sadly I never will be ;D
Just another American way of trying to win everything :) :)
I've tried stabilisers but cant get on with them
I also use a sight
Have an ex workmate who uses a bare bow and he's bloody good at it
Definitely need to get back into it, work and the travel involved limits what I do though