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RE: the ongoing which sport is hardest argument...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkillsa group made up of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, of academicians who study the science of muscles and movement, of a star two-sport athlete, and of journalists who spend their professional lives watching athletes succeed and fail...
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...identified 10 categories, or skills, that go into athleticism, and then asked our eight panelists to assign a number from 1 to 10 to the demands each sport makes of each of those 10 skills. By totalling and averaging their responses, we arrived at a degree-of-difficulty number for each sport on a 1 to 100 scale. That number places the difficulty of performing each sport in context with the other sports we rated.
click on each sortable category to find out how our 60 sports rank in each skill
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auto-racing harder than weight-lifting
i think some of those are good assesments, but some are ridiculous...diving harder then weight lifting?!? ugh...
i would believe boxing has to be one of the hardest"Don't take life too serious, you'll never get out alive."-Van Wilder
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Heh, you've never been inside a car whizzing around a track at 200 mph. Not only does it take some of the most extreme nervous input, it also takes a great deal of strength, endurance, and toughness.
Originally Posted by AdamGberg
auto-racing harder than weight-lifting
i think some of those are good assesments, but some are ridiculous...diving harder then weight lifting?!? ugh...
i would believe boxing has to be one of the hardestFounding Member and CEO of the FFFA
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I agree. I know some guys that have weightlifting/bodybuilding down to a science, many on this site. How many of them can drive a Indy car? Originally Posted by Gyno Rhino
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Woot! Hockey number 2!
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Fishing only got a .88 in the "nerve" category. I don't know but if you get a bigass pike on the line you got a good fight on your hands!
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.
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I def agree with boxing as #1.
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if they had track and field decathalon in there it would be top 5 at least
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Ice hockey is number two!!!! Score one for the Canadians!!!!!
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I can't believe baseball ranked higher than rugby. WTF??
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They are not just measuring physical toughness. It means degree of difficulty in an array of categories.
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.
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this is weightlifting
not necessarily body building6'0 - 176lb
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It figures I'd pick the hardest sport to make my hobby. WTF is wrong with me?!
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I'd agree with boxing being #1, although I think baseball should rank higher. Hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in the sports world. But perhaps catching one is easy, thus the not-so-high rating.
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I definitely agree with most of the top 15. Especially hockey. That sport is just so damn brutal.
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I just noticed they had billiards on there. The only thing I will say is billiards is by far the most analytic game. Golf?? Yes you have to use different clubs but there is only one ball to worry about. IN billiards you not only have to worry about the ball you are making but also exactly where the cue ball will end up after that. WIll that give you another shot. That shot may be easy, but it may leave you with a hard shot to get onto the next ball. By far I think billiards is the most mentally taxing game.
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I agree. I believe that I would find an Ironman triathlon (a 2.4-mile roughwater swim, a 112-mile bike race, and a 26.2-mile marathon that takes some competitors as long as 17 hours to finish) "tougher" than almost all of the listed sports. Yet a triathlon would probably rank in the lower half since it does not require much hand-eye coordination, nerve, agility, power, etc. Originally Posted by Rock
Other publications using different ranking systems have come to very different conclusions. The article http://www.gtcgymnastics.com/Toughest%20Sport.html at Men's Fitness ranked the Ironman triathlon as a close second to gymnastics and boxing as 6th.Last edited by aka23; 04-30-2004 at 04:52 PM.
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C'mon dude. Yes, billiards is harder than it looks. But the MOST analytical?
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Being that analystic, I think it should by definition not be a sport.
If billiard is a sport, then chess is one too, and a harder one it is. That match with Gasparov vs. Deeper Blue was very taxing for Gasparov, fatigue was probably one of the main reasons why he lost.
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I thought Kasparov lost in only like 20-30 moves. how is that taxing? Originally Posted by Bruise Brubaker
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Decathalon and Triathalon are a combination of multiple sports, so I don't know if they considered it in the same way.
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.
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billiards is more physical than you think, try playing for a few hours and you will see
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