Poll: Toughest Sport

[thedeathscythe]

Skateboarding. I skate as much as I can, and I keep up with the skating community, and we eat shit on the concrete everyday and then get back up and try it again. Watch a skate video and you'll see someone bail 10 times just so he can land it on the 11th. We're generally a little scrawny, but we seem to be able to fall down a 10 set of stairs just fine, then basketball players fall 3 feet and have to sit out the whole game.

 

[Jzolr0708]

Toughest? Swimming or Water Polo. In Swim, not only is the best way for you to win is to not breathe, something that your body will scream and protest against rapidly, but I've seen people get downright nasty to each other over times and DQs. And Water Polo? Its all fun and games above the surface but the minute you go under it just takes a little bit of confusion for a guy to take a shot at you with his leg and the Ref to not call it.

 

[Gavmando]

Field hockey against a girls team. Or Soccer against a girls team.

...Actually, pretty much anything against a girls team. You feel bad about hurting them, and they have absolutely zero restraint in hitting you in the nuts. It's usually the first place they aim.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

Hurling. That is all.

 

[Athol]

Lacrosse (Pre-european intervention)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lacrosse
(A death toll wasnt uncommon)

 

[crudus]

I am going to go with Jai alai or badminton. Anything where the target moves faster than formula one cars is definitely a tough sport.

 

[The_Echo]

Chess. (It's a sport, really.)

Easy to learn, difficult to master. A battle of wits and forethought between two people. Mano a mano. You have nobody to rely on but yourself! No team to back you up, no coach to give you a game plan! Every move you make is on its own timer, so you're probably gonna be stressed about making the right moves before it's too late.

You just try to tell me that isn't the toughest sport.

 

[Rednog]

Wrestling. The real kind, not the wussy TV kind.

I have to disagree with that, having to sell John Cena's 5 moves of Doom or a ridiculous move like Santio's Combra strike is a grueling task.

 

[Hatchet90]

Winning the Stanley cup is easily the hardest thing to accomplish in the world of sports. With so many playoff games and never stopping for the full 3 quarters. You know how much action a football games has? 11 Minutes. Whereas hockey is the full 60 minutes. Even soccer is tougher than American football.

 

[Gudrests]

Disclaimer, did not include things like boxing or mixed martial arts because the entire point of that is beating the hell out of the other guy. This is talking purely about sports where the point is NOT to purposely injure the other person.

What makes that any less of a sport. You have a goal, You need strength, Stamina, Determination, Skill, Tactic, and above all else, Heart. In what other sport than wrestling do you have to near starve yourself to be at the most able to compete. A sport where if you win it means YOU won. YOU beat your opponent alone. Not being carried by a quarterback or a goalie or center. YOU ALONE can call that win yours. Im going to have to say Wrestling or any other One on One sport where you not only have to be in shape..but also a certain weight. Yeah winning a big match to go home to a steak is amazing...going home after a bit match to know you wrestle the next day so all you can have is 2 slices of bread and some tuna....yeah....I call that the toughest sport.

P.S...the object of Most Martial arts and Wrestling isnt to beat each other into a pulp...there are point scores for a reason

 

[A010110100101102]

Wrestling. The real kind, not the wussy TV kind.

Have to agree with you there way harder than anything else I've ever done.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I think it depends a lot on what level of play you're talking about. Casual rugby seems to be considerably tougher and more dangerous than casual football, but my personal view is that the reverse is true of professional football.

I have difficulty even comparing hockey though. Without even talking about how brutal the game itself is, any professional sports game thats popular depiction involves regular fist-fights has to be pretty tough.

 

[Nova Helix]

I'd say Other (fencing).

It requires extreme skill and the foil is the second fastest object in the modern Olympics (bullet is the fastest).
Moving back and forth on the strip is damn hard work.
If foil breaks it can be fatal.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

he still is heavily involved with charity. compared to self-absorbed athletes of today (i'm looking at you Kobe and LeBron)
also i meet him once! OK, i was like 1 1/2 and don't remember it but i have an autographed framed photo. It say "to my pal" so cool!

That is so cool! Even as a Devils fan that seems like the greatest thing ever. I want to meet Patrik Elias someday. He's my favorite. I also really want to meet Martin Brodeur, because he's the best.

I hear Brodeur got hurt agents the evil that is Montreal, hope it's not to serous. also gotta give it up for goalies, Thomas is phenomenal this season (he was supposed to be an alternate to Rask too)

 

[emeraldrafael]

Disclaimer, did not include things like boxing or mixed martial arts because the entire point of that is beating the hell out of the other guy. This is talking purely about sports where the point is NOT to purposely injure the other person.

What makes that any less of a sport. You have a goal, You need strength, Stamina, Determination, Skill, Tactic, and above all else, Heart. In what other sport than wrestling do you have to near starve yourself to be at the most able to compete. A sport where if you win it means YOU won. YOU beat your opponent alone. Not being carried by a quarterback or a goalie or center. YOU ALONE can call that win yours. Im going to have to say Wrestling or any other One on One sport where you not only have to be in shape..but also a certain weight. Yeah winning a big match to go home to a steak is amazing...going home after a bit match to know you wrestle the next day so all you can have is 2 slices of bread and some tuna....yeah....I call that the toughest sport.

P.S...the object of Most Martial arts and Wrestling isnt to beat each other into a pulp...there are point scores for a reason

I dont not consider them points (my grammar teacher would kill me if she saw that), but the point is youre still getting points to physically hurt someone. Even to get the points, you have to hit them. With Hockey/Soccer/lacrosse (i think?) the point is to score in a net. Football/rugby you get to a certain point on the field, usually by crossing the length of it. Baseball, you round four bases without getting caught. The points of these games arent to physically hurt someone to get your points, so thats why I'm asking out of these kinds sports, which is the toughest.

its hard to tell someone in MMA or Boxing that what they do isnt as tough as playing Rugby. So I'm not going to compare them.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Hockey or Rugby.

Hockey takes so much coordination and physical endurance. Balance is also a big point. 82 games a season of this I might add. No offense Football fans but your sports players he only have to play 16-20 games a season As physical as football is, Hockey is just as much, if not more so and the play is sustained for longer periods of time. Goaltending is possible one of the hardest positions to play in all of sports. You have fractions of seconds to decide what your going to do to stop that round piece of rubber before it reaches you. A slight error or hesitation and that puck is behind you. Some goalies see upwards of 30 shots a night, and it isn't unheard of in this day and age for a goalie to face 40+ on a regular enough basis. Goalies must be quick, agile, and strong. They wear 40 pounds or so of equipment which limits movement, and must stay on the ice for most of, if not the entire, game. There's just no comparison to me.

Add to this the speed of a shot should it not be redirected (which is another matter altogther). At the recent all star skills competition, the hardest shot was clocked at over 105 mph. Even with the padding a goaltender wears, that's still pretty scary.

 

[C2Ultima]

I'll say tennis. It's anything but easy, and beating people in matches takes true genuine skill. A skill you have to build up through endless practice of shots, tactics, and physical movement.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

I can say that proffessional american football has got to be the most brutal sport that I know of. You have to be 220 pounds of muscle, sprint down a field for four hours, and get smashed by other human mutants.

Not to mention all the training and conditioning that goes into preparing for game days. Hockey is pretty brutal too but I don't think the physical demands are as high although there is a lot more skill involved.

I'm not going to mention rugby because I know nothing of the sport other than everyone here says "American futbol is pu$$y rugby with pads!!1!1!!11"

 

[Gudrests]

Disclaimer, did not include things like boxing or mixed martial arts because the entire point of that is beating the hell out of the other guy. This is talking purely about sports where the point is NOT to purposely injure the other person.

What makes that any less of a sport. You have a goal, You need strength, Stamina, Determination, Skill, Tactic, and above all else, Heart. In what other sport than wrestling do you have to near starve yourself to be at the most able to compete. A sport where if you win it means YOU won. YOU beat your opponent alone. Not being carried by a quarterback or a goalie or center. YOU ALONE can call that win yours. Im going to have to say Wrestling or any other One on One sport where you not only have to be in shape..but also a certain weight. Yeah winning a big match to go home to a steak is amazing...going home after a bit match to know you wrestle the next day so all you can have is 2 slices of bread and some tuna....yeah....I call that the toughest sport.

P.S...the object of Most Martial arts and Wrestling isnt to beat each other into a pulp...there are point scores for a reason

I dont not consider them points (my grammar teacher would kill me if she saw that), but the point is youre still getting points to physically hurt someone. Even to get the points, you have to hit them. With Hockey/Soccer/lacrosse (i think?) the point is to score in a net. Football/rugby you get to a certain point on the field, usually by crossing the length of it. Baseball, you round four bases without getting caught. The points of these games arent to physically hurt someone to get your points, so thats why I'm asking out of these kinds sports, which is the toughest.

its hard to tell someone in MMA or Boxing that what they do isnt as tough as playing Rugby. So I'm not going to compare them.

Not in wrestling. In wrestling the goal is it hold someone on there back without them moving. getting near fall points or things like that. Do people get hurt...yes. Is it the goal, Do people HAVE to get hurt...HELL no ive lost and won matches where neither of us were hurt at all. In football do you HAVE to get hurt. no. Is it a guarentee for more than half of the team that someoen is going to try to tackle them at full speed wearing armor....yes..

 

[A010110100101102]

All the things you have listed are games, not sports.

OT: Wrestling. Ever been running and hit "the wall"? Yeah, when you wrestle you hit that wall in the first minute or so of a match.

I see... eah, its too bad I said things where the direct intent is to hurt the person dont count.

besides, ever play hockey? Hitting the wall can happen on your first north to south or east to west. So that could be seconds.

Well REAL wrestling isnt really about trying to hurt your opponent its about taking them down and trying to pin them, you aren't allowed to hit, punch, slap, etc.

Hardest six minutes EVER.