Would you be a professional mtber or another sport entirely? Me I would of been either a supercross racer or a nascar driver
footy - it's a genuinely beautiful game when it's done right
100m sprinter. Was quick in my early years which got me in to many other sports. Always wanted to be Carl Lewis.
I can't even ride a motorbike, but I'd choose motoGP. Must be an awesome feeling, going that fast without a cage.
Gymnastics or MTB
oh, or skiing. Same reason as above
Rock star.... Wait . Snowboarder
Well if we're going away from sport then he'll yeah, **** running around and shit, I'd of been a lead singer all day long given the choice!!!
One of the popular ones; footy or tennis, just for the money
Surfer paid to live out in California. Who needs money when you are surrounded by surf chicks?
Or F1...just a year at Lewis Hamiltons pay would do. Then I'll go be a pro surfer
Skier, travel the worlds mountainous regions, exploring, 1st descents, endless powder (in my dreams, anyway)
Reality, lots of waiting for the weather to clear..
A Pheasant Pluckers mate.
Second row.
When I was young, I weighed less than a fairy fart. Now I have some meat on tall bones I would love to be a young me playing rugby.
As it was I played hockey goalie to a fairly high level.
skateboarder -closely followed by big wave surfer
if only eh
Middle Linebacker
If my eyesight had been better (although I could get into the RAF as a pilot now, just a year too old) and if I were born a yank...a fast jet carrier pilot...fly F-18's and then do a stint as an astronaut in my mid 40's.
Couldn't ask for more than that, would take that over a 250k job in the city.
You could go to a dinner party and Marc Zuckerberg might be boasting and hitting on your wife, and all you'd have to say is "Yeah well, I'm a ****ing fighter pilot"....and nothing that he could ever say or do would rid him of that feeling that he is less of a man than you. 😆
Oh and you could sing this song....with legitimacy
Motocross/supercross rider, I had the talent and factory support (big headed boast) but a car crash with a dyke and tree thanks to another **** driver put paid to that career path .
So far only one person says mtb and that's not their only choice. That's interesting on an Mtb forum.
Helicopter winch man please...
Why the hell would you want to be the winchman as opposed to the pilot?
Oddball.
You know that statistically, it's pilots that get the most tail on tinder right? 😀
I was a good hockey player back in the day and would have loved to do that professionally .
@Stoner , which club ?
NFL safety
rhythm guitarist and singer in a punk band
Having watched that "Dogs of War" video - Thunderbolt pilot, yea.
Pete - West Hampstead Hockey Club. Played in MBBO then Prem 2 South.
I was a pretty good keeper even if I do say so myself, but after over a decade of playing to a pretty high level I lost the hunger, and it was taking me more than 7 days to recover from each saturday, so I passed the baton to a younger player, did my Level 2 with the whistle and became a full time umpire for my last few years at the club.
There's not a lot of hockey out here in the boondocks, so Im working up through my Rugby reff'ing qualifications now.
And your history, Pete?
Boxing ... ya, loads of money!
It is genuinely completely beyond me as to why anyone would want to be anything other than a chain smoking, whiskey drinking, big watch wearing fast jet pilot..... 😀
Ya'll got issues....
Astronaut, but that's actually hard and shit. So, profession cricketer, if you can walk and not piss yourself for an hour or so you're in with a chance.
Thought we may have met on the pitch Stoner given your Worcestershire location .
Started as a school boy and then Worcester HC .
Moved further South West to finish my playing at Bath Buccaneers .
Played sweeper at the end and for last three seasons my tem (not 1st XI) got promotion each year . I think we conceded less than ten goals .
Like you , the recovery after each game was getting silly .
I wish I'd been born to money and did what the **** I want
the recovery after each game was getting silly .
and they say Rugby is hard.
Jumping about on carpeted concrete playing "watch this!" with half a pound of 90mph plastic. Yeah, that's not going to hurt much.
Rugby union no 7, or pro snowboarder for me. Both hurt too much though!!
Astronaut, but that's actually hard and shit. So, profession cricketer, if you can walk and not piss yourself for an hour or so you're in with a chance.
Yes but imagine all the life stories, boasts and achievements of upper middle class arseholes, that you could utterly decimate at stuffy dinner parties.
If sport, either xc pro or cyclocross pro, more likely a cx pro as you can be top in the world and not travel that much outside of Northern Europe.
Much as I love surfing, being a pro living out of a suitcase and spending half your life in international airspace would be a real ball ache.
Outside of sport, a real classic one hit wonder would be perfect, maybe a one hit wonder that was a great Christmas number one so the royalties flood in every year and you can mess around doing what you want
Definitely pro surfer.
Pro rugby player for me. Always wonder what could have been if I'd actually turned up for trials, especially as I now know a number of pros who were nothing special at schoolboy level. One of them is a current England international (tbf he was awesome at school) and the others are on the fringes of England/ solid premiership players.
Thems the breaks I guess.
I'm actually gonna agree with TomW as well. Fighter pilot has got to be the best answer to "so what line of work are you into then?".
Rode motorcycle trials for 15 years or so but I'd loved to have been good!
Decent trials riders are the magicians of the motorcycle world.
Played some recreational ice hockey too but top (NHL) players are just amazing, Their skill levels are sometimes beyond belief.
@Stoner, small world. Had to stop rugby at 12, too small not brave enough ! played hockey to a decent level with/against a few Olympians and at Uni (UAU Champions). Clubs Winchester and Guildford
Skiing is my love so that would be the dream, stand on the podium and hear the National Anthem at an Olympics (pretty unlikely as a Brit !)
at my age now, I've just taken up Archery (Recurve).
Over 20 yrs ago I got national caps for Full-bore long range target shooting, and there's part of me wondering whether I could put in the work needed now over the next 3yrs say to be in with a shout at the nationals. I'd have to set the bar low, as there's not a cat in hells chance of beating the koreans 🙂
I'm with Tom_W1987.
Fast Jet Pilot.
Why would you want to be anything else?
I used to play Hockey goalkeeper, not at club level here, but in the company league in the Netherlands where you would come across a lot of very fine players, we had an international in our side plus a couple of "premiership" players and I found the reasonable, nothing special, level of rugby I played hurt a lot more.
But on the subject of talent, I would rather have it in my head than my feet.
Fast Jet Pilot.Why would you want to be anything else?
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WEC driver. It must be a real buzz driving a circuit like Le Mans at night time. Everything feels faster in the dark.
Airplane Driver or have a musical talent, my tone deafness and inability to master any musical instrument has been my main frustration in life.
Road cycling or ice hockey goalie.
Me, as a rank amateur:
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