Most skillful sport?
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Yeah, I agree with you here. I was undecided until I read your post. Have you seen how they move while driving? It's like doing a ballet with their feet constantly, all the while they're switching gears often ever second or two, twitching the wheel to initiate a careful powerslide, all with inches on either side between a 400ft drop (Ever seen the Brazil stages? It's nuts - they've got a path on a mountain ridge with no barriers!) or parking your car in a tree.Snotnarok said:
I'll say association football. That is, soccer.
A good player needs fitness, speed, quick feet, balance, strength and the quickness of mind to pick out a pass or dribble past a defender in a split second. For defenders, concentration and jumping are also key.
A good player needs fitness, speed, quick feet, balance, strength and the quickness of mind to pick out a pass or dribble past a defender in a split second. For defenders, concentration and jumping are also key.
Golf, Hurling and Martial arts are up there. Really there are just too many to consider as there aren't any real simple sports. Every sport requires a different set of skills or abilities which may come easier to some than others. Oh and Starcraft.
I'd say fencing, the amount of control, concentration, reaction time, and just plain skill you need to be truly great at it is ridiculous. If we're going with a particular style, I'd say epee is the most difficult, just because of the fact that you have to be aware of how open every part of your body is, accidentaly open up your wrist for half a second and you're getting scored on.
For skill, I'd vote for Ice Hockey or Lacrosse.
For Precision I'd vote for golf - a lot of people seem to be saying golf/driving/fencing and while these sports require an absurd amount of precision I'd argue that your bag of tricks, read skills, needed to excel at it are rather small. What I mean is that you don't need to be a good runner, good shooter(?), good catcher, physical presence, etc... to excel at golf - you just need precision.
Same thing goes for a race driver, motorcyclist, etc. I am by no means belittling their abilities at their giving sport; I know I couldn't race at competitive-level Enduro-racing in my wildest dreams. I just don't think they have to excel at the variety of skills you need that you need to in Hockey or Lacrosse.
For Precision I'd vote for golf - a lot of people seem to be saying golf/driving/fencing and while these sports require an absurd amount of precision I'd argue that your bag of tricks, read skills, needed to excel at it are rather small. What I mean is that you don't need to be a good runner, good shooter(?), good catcher, physical presence, etc... to excel at golf - you just need precision.
Same thing goes for a race driver, motorcyclist, etc. I am by no means belittling their abilities at their giving sport; I know I couldn't race at competitive-level Enduro-racing in my wildest dreams. I just don't think they have to excel at the variety of skills you need that you need to in Hockey or Lacrosse.
I'm pretty much going to rule out all team games here. I can't think of one team game that requires a massive amount of talent. And looking trough some of the comments it's obviously just a 'justify why your sport is the best thread.' I've tried golf and it's damn hard, but then a gain I've tried football and it's damn hard. I don't know, I'm going to go for something like synchronised diving.
I can see where you are coming from, but I do MMA and for the first year or so, it was exactly like you describe here, strength and speed. However, I have spent the last 2 years working on my submission and wrestling skills and I still havn't perfected them. It is not the ground game that takes skill, it is perfecting it.Sknyjdwb said:
Those two sports actually offer you far less degree of control than other sports. Golf, amongst other things, depends alot on the course being run, and the outcome can change even if you hit the ball half a millimeter wrong, which will happen often no matter how good you are (same when hitting a ball in baseball). In other words, elemental chaos theory will always ensure that the amount of control you have in those two sports is somewhat limited, and a bit of luck is always going to be involved.Marter said:
