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American football number 3 ... what complete bollocks , as much as I enjoy watching it , you have 50+ Players on each team and every role is specialised , one guy only kicks the ball ...

would agree that boxing is probably the hardest sport , strength , speed , endurance, hand eye coordination  and it could kill you ...

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Granted, certain sports, such as bowling should not be on the list, as pretty much any swinging dick can bowl 300 after a couple of years practice, but "softball" (the name is a dead giveaway!) and soccer (ahem, football!) does not require a whole lot of skill to be good at a top level (the numbers of overpaid footballers is proof enough).

And "cheerleading" - that is NOT a sport!

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I don’t know about the hardest, maybe gymnastics. But to me the easiest would have to be a right fielder in Major League Baseball.  Half the game is spent in the dugout, except every few innings you get to bat. If you’re successful at one of three at-bats, you’re considered a good batter. The other half of the game is spent waiting on someone to hit the ball near you.

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Depends how you judge difficulty. 

If it's like physical and mental strength, it's a joke to have distance cycling like Tour De France at 20, easily top 3 if not 1st. 

Even with loaded up to f**k with steroids ...........................allegedly 🤣

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2 hours ago, Lemondropkid said:

Before looking at the list I'd have said Hurling- requires incredible hand eye coordination, strength, speed, stamina, skill and not to mention a fair bit of courage.

Not even in the top 60, what a load of b*******ks

Worked with an Irish guy years ago in the motor trade who lost all his front teeth playing hurling.

Got a stick straight in the mush.

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2 hours ago, Lemondropkid said:

Before looking at the list I'd have said Hurling- requires incredible hand eye coordination, strength, speed, stamina, skill and not to mention a fair bit of courage.

Not even in the top 60, what a load of b*******ks

It's all down to the Guiness and soda bread

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It's a ridiculous list, clearly compiled with the television viewing preferences of Joe Sixpack from Norman, Oklahoma, in mind.  The "methodology" used is absurd.  If you want to see the how ESPN decided which sports were hardest, take a look at this LINK.  The standards used to rank the sports are weighted heavily in favor of sports that require physical power and endurance, which happen to be the sports Joe Sixpack enjoys watching the most.

Just about any human activity can be made into a competitive activity.  Whether that activity deserves to be called a sport, however, is very much a matter of opinion.  You have to distinguish between individual athletic performance and team sports as well as sports that depend on motor vehicles, boats, planes, horses, etc.  And how about a sport like sumo wrestling?  Is it more difficult to become a sumo wrestler than a Western boxer or wrestler?  Is muay thai harder or easier that Western boxing?

It's virtually impossible to arrive at standards which take into account all the factors involved in one activity versus another.  But I guess it does provoke discussion, which was probably its goal.

Some very difficult sports didn't make the list.  Would anyone in his right mind argue that bowling or badminton are more difficult than jai alai?  Or that volleyball is harder than sepak takraw?

 

 

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From purely a personal participation point of view for me it was squash.

When I was in my mid twenty's squash became very fashionable with the gin & tonic, middle class super achievers I had aspirations of joining now that I had a company car .................. albeit a Morris Marina.

I thought given the fact that I considered myself fit from playing footy a poofy game like squash should be a doddle.

So I joined my Manager's squash club and went on their "ladder".

I soon discovered:

1. Any reasonable squash player had me running around like a blue assed fly with them never seeming to leave the center of the court.

2. Squash was not a game you played to "get fit." You had to be really fit already or you got destroyed. 

3. When a squash ball hits you in the middle of your back it REALLY hurts and brings up a black & blue war wound.

4. When your opponent's racquet, winding up for a forehand smash, connects with your left eyebrow it was useful to have Barnet General Hospital only 5 minutes away for the subsequent stitches.

I never liked gin & tonic anyway.

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10 minutes ago, Jambo said:

From purely a personal participation point of view for me it was squash.

When I was in my mid twenty's squash became very fashionable with the gin & tonic, middle class super achievers I had aspirations of joining now that I had a company car .................. albeit a Morris Marina.

I thought given the fact that I considered myself fit from playing footy a poofy game like squash should be a doddle.

So I joined my Manager's squash club and went on their "ladder".

I soon discovered:

1. Any reasonable squash player had me running around like a blue assed fly with them never seeming to leave the center of the court.

2. Squash was not a game you played to "get fit." You had to be really fit already or you got destroyed. 

3. When a squash ball hits you in the middle of your back it REALLY hurts and brings up a black & blue war wound.

4. When your opponent's racquet, winding up for a forehand smash, connects with your left eyebrow it was useful to have Barnet General Hospital only 5 minutes away for the subsequent stitches.

I never liked gin & tonic anyway.

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I played squash at a high club level and can appreciate your woes.

Getting hit with either the racket or the ball ain't no fun.

Fortunately if you managed to reach a decent level that shouldn't happen because the guy playing the ball should stop and claim the point, usually the ref will award it or play a let if it's ambiguous.

If your playing partner won't give you the point, then the next time he gets in your way you would hit him either with the ball or barge through him. That usually made the point!

BTW I agree, you need to be super fit to play at any level, especially against anyone better than your self.

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18 hours ago, galenkia said:

Motorcycle road racing, specifically the Isle of Man TT.

One second of loss of concentration and your dead.

Anyone that can ride a 226 mile race of public road's at an average speed of over 130 mph is pretty special.

…i just rode my motorbike downhill at over 100 on these bad Pattaya roads, that takes skills 😉

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33 minutes ago, Jambo said:

From purely a personal participation point of view for me it was squash.

When I was in my mid twenty's squash became very fashionable with the gin & tonic, middle class super achievers I had aspirations of joining now that I had a company car .................. albeit a Morris Marina.

I thought given the fact that I considered myself fit from playing footy a poofy game like squash should be a doddle.

So I joined my Manager's squash club and went on their "ladder".

I soon discovered:

1. Any reasonable squash player had me running around like a blue assed fly with them never seeming to leave the center of the court.

2. Squash was not a game you played to "get fit." You had to be really fit already or you got destroyed. 

3. When a squash ball hits you in the middle of your back it REALLY hurts and brings up a black & blue war wound.

4. When your opponent's racquet, winding up for a forehand smash, connects with your left eyebrow it was useful to have Barnet General Hospital only 5 minutes away for the subsequent stitches.

I never liked gin & tonic anyway.

I used to play junior county squash and was a decent club player as an adult as well 🤗

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I believe my list, would be something like:

#1: Classical chess (technical ability, accuracy, patience)
#2: Snooker (hand-eye coordination, technical ability and accuracy)
#3: Decathlon (flexibility, agility, strength and speed)
#4: Golf (hand-eye coordination, technical ability and accuracy)
#5: Masturbation (
hand-eye coordination and patience)

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