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QUIZ - which sport has the best all round athletes?
Always a good one for debate. Based on the following criteria
- Skill
- Strength
- Agility
- Speed
which sport and why?
My vote is Rugby League. its 80 mins of sprinting, tackling and being tackled by 120Kg blokes and ticks all the criteria above. Watch a game if you don't believe me
I wont include F1 as the car is so fundamanental to performance
Comments
These days you have to be able to kick with both feet(not at the same time), and need to be able to hand pass(or handball as it's known) with both hands(also not at the same time). Some of the bigger blokes are in the 100kg area and they don't wear any padding.
Rugby union, now theres a game!!!!!
All the league pussyness and shaking around on the floor, load of poofs!!! get to the bottom of a ruck and get stamped on!!!!! proper game that is!
[Edited on 18/9/2005 by Ste]
finishing the tour the france, la vuelta or the giro is just an amazing achievement
or, now that i participate in it... :
competition paintball.. sometimes ten 5 minute legs a day, consisting of run and dash.. sit, dive, jump, slide into cover and then stil be able to control your breath so that you can actually hit someone with your shots.. trust me it's highly underestimated...
I also agree that certain performances you need in cycling are amazing (although in the last period we discovered they were helped......).
Motor cycling is amazing as well.
But IMHO none compares alpine climbing: guys, in no other sport you are on the ice at 6-7-8000 meters!
Swimming, cycling and running.
The top triathletes are not necessarily best in all of the three legs, although they have to be pretty competitive in all, to stay close to the leaders. They have to be strong in cycling as that's usually twice the time of the either the swimming or running leg.
However, as its the final time that counts, competitors pace themselves for overall performace.
My other sport, hashing, is pretty much all round too, although mostly we don't need to swim, just running, swinging through trees, jumping anything in the way, and lifting and swallowing afterward.
Spin.
This is a highly competitive martial sport (invented by the musketeers), requiring superb reflexes, fitness and coordination, and above all a killer instinct. The brain must compute trajectories, and with a wide range of tactical options the ability to think fast on the feet is essential.
Federer could dominate any sport he had turned his hand to, except pole dancing lol.
more seriously as you didn't mention stamina I'd go for gymnasts or decathletes
You need to add toughness and strategy to the list if you want to include Rugby codes.
Otherwise, cycling wins hands down. That sport is all about making machines out of men. Disgusting.
Anybody who has played Rugby League knows what it is like to go into that first hit when your shoulder explodes with pain, and your lungs deflate with the effort of dropping a guy weighing 100 plus kilograms running at 20 klicks an hour straight into you. You get up completely exhausted and that has covered the first 20 seconds of the game. Then you have to run backwards for ten metres and do it all again for the next eighty.
There are times when you know real fear playing that game.
Plus my girlfriends a pole dancer and she os 'quite' fit ;)
The drinking club with a running problem!
Now a world-wide movement. Members usually meet every week for a cross country run in the form of a paper-chase.
Modelled on the Harriers (hounds) chasing a hare, the sport involves speed, fitness, endurance, orienteering, guesswork and intuition to track down the hares trail.
The course which is set by a different member each week should ideally be designed to slow up the fastest runners with loops and false trails, while allowing slower runners to catch up periodically at checks.
Finally, the pack catches up at the run site for refreshments and conviviality. In Malaysia, at least, where it all started just at the end of WW2, most of the pack also go off for a meal and evening of festivities afterward.
Very popular among expats and an instant way of joining a group in any country. When travelling, I usually hash, in Shanghai, Korea, Australia, Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, USA, England, whereever.
Back to the subject, for the fittest, we have annual Ball breaker runs of 28 km, and a Hash Challenge of 56km. being cross country, with hills and touigh terrain these are somewhat harder than a marathon and take most of the day.
For those who enjoy a little risk, hashing offers the experience of running off into the hills, not knowing where you're going and even if you'll get back. If you've seen a crazy pack of men and women in short shorts and singlets spreading out across the country, you may have seen a hash in action Mind you there are some other clubs with slightly different pursuits. If you've seen HHH with an arrow, you've probnably seen markers to a run site, markings with feet or arrows or Xs and you've come across a trail. Heard "ON ON!" or "Checking?" and its definitely a hash.
Finally Hash? no connection. We run on weeds, but don't inhale it or eat it! You'd be out in the jungle all night if you did.
If anyone wants to try the sport, contact me.
Spin
just imagine having to do two or three movies a day!
(I guess that ends the thread. no one has commented and now it's 3 October...I guess I got it right eh?)
[Edited on 4/10/2005 by bernie]