sports (activities) I just don't understand

Add ice hockey for the holy trinity of god awful sports. So glad I was not born american Canadian.

FTFY

You can’t even skate to start with though can you?

Thanks esselgruntfuttock. You saved me from responding.

Without Ice Hockey there would be no film “Slap Shot” and that would be very sad.

Bikebouy I surf standing up, it’s just the paddling I do prone.

Oh, that’s how you do it.

Gonna have a shot of paddle boarding this year, prob standing.

When people do that walking for exercise thing. Why not just break into a slow jog and get it done so much quicker?

And the proper race walking thing at the Olympics? Like who can whisper the loudest. Don’t really get it even though I can see that it must take a lot of effort.

You can’t even skate to start with though can you?

I can skate.

AS for golf, …. “a nice walk in the countryside, ruined” famous quote I know, but who was it? Churchill, Mark Twain, George Bernar Shaw? Someone like that.

Why not just canoe, or kayak, or windsurf? These sports already exist in their own right.

Why go for a bike ride when you could run, walk or ride a horse?

Cruising makes sense relative to canoeing becaue you get a view of a bit more than just the river bank from 6ft up rather than 2.

Although the guys and girls that do the Sheppey race are a special type of nutcase!

Add ice hockey for the holy trinity of god awful sports. So glad I was not born american Canadian.

Apologies – It’s only the 5th most popular sport in the states. Completely forgot basket ball, which is also gash. But then it wouldn’t be a trinity, it’d be a quaternity and that’s not so catchy.

As you were.

I can btw.

I can skate.

Now you’re in for it. Ice Arena Wales anytime soon?

Agree with most of the sentiment so far; almost everything other than mountain biking is crap.

But before any body has a pop at disc golf . . . don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

That said, I enjoy watching rugby.

Now you’re in for it. Ice Arena Wales anytime soon?

Sure 🙂

But isn’t going round and round in circles a bit silly?

In fairness though, mtbing is crap on the telly, road racing is much better.

Sportives ,golf ,sumo ,horse dancing

football – ruined by diving and players ” being clever” ie cheating to draw fouls

American Football – a bad version of Rugby League
Rugby League – a bad version of Union
Baseball – teadious
Aussie Rules – seriously

tjagain – Member
football – ruined by diving and players ” being clever” ie cheating to draw fouls

The game itself is good, just some aspects though it’s not as much that as people like to go on about.

Baseball – horrendous.

American football – even worserer.

Great to play though

I have enjoyed pretty much every sport I had to play at school in PE except Netball.
Netball is just basketball with the fun bits taken out of it. You can’t run with the ball, you have boxes that you’re not allowed out of, and only two people on the team are allowed to shoot and they can’t slam-dunk it or score amazing long range 3 pointers! Worse still, you have to stand a metre away from the person on the ball or something stupid, so the only attempt you can make to stop them scoring when they shoot is to pathetically hold your hand in the air above them while they shoot.It’s like some sadistic game of piggy in the middle, except not nearly as fun because nobody’s getting bullied.

Orienteering. All the excitement of maps with the adrenaline of hole punches.

In fairness though, mtbing is crap on the telly

This is very true. I watched some Crankworx on TV last night and it was terrible. You lose all sense of the steepness and the difficulty of it, even the back-flips looks slow and easy.

And this from someone who will basically watch any sport at all.

Cyclocross.

Using unsuitable equipment is just wrong.

Not only that, some of the courses are so muddy they have to have a spare bike to complete the race.

Oh, and often its not possible to ride the bike, so they carry it.

Daft, just daft.

Dafter than DH where the bikes aren’t even ridden to the top of the hill? Or where every millisecond counts but you’re not allowed to wear less draggy clothing?

Using unsuitable equipment is just wrong.

Is there more suitable equipment though? In local races where 29ers are allowed they don’t walk away with the chocolates.

the group that hired the astro after us yesterday were there to play frisbee!
I wouldn’t usually mind or care but no one usually books after us so we get to play for an extra half hour…

Walking football. If you can’t run, take up bowls you old git.

Oi!

I’d have been in your camp until new year, but a mate plays and his sessions were in danger of folding because of numbers, so i agreed to go along just to make up the numbers.

It’s great fun. A different game to 5-a-side, granted, but it means I can compete equally against guys drawing their pension. We play no contact (often ignored) 3 touch, no keepers (cones set 2 foot inside the post either side and you have to score in the corners) and it’s a better game to watch than the youngsters on the other pitch who are all for dribbling and smashing shots at each other from anywhere, and as a result the ball spends more time over the fence or in our court than it does on theirs. We’re all triangles, and passing to feet, and ‘pace’ is irrelevant. And the pisstaking is a level above, given there’s half of us were actually quite decent in our time, so when we do get it right it’s like watching Brazil 70 – note how Pele doesn’t need to run in the greatest WC goal of all time here:

PS – I’m 47, so technically ‘underage’ 😉

Why not just canoe, or kayak, or windsurf? These sports already exist in their own right.

Paddleboarding is good fun and you probably wouldn’t be asking this question if you’d given it a try.
Although anyone can do it, it takes skill and fitness to look good! They’ve enabled many more people to get out on the water who would otherwise have just sat on the beach.
Inflatable boards easily fit into a the boot of a car or can be carried on your back on their own travel bag – they inflate in minutes and are easy for even kids to move around. We’ve taken ours abroad three times and they just go on the plane like any other piece of luggage – no extra charges.
They are also a VERY good core workout.

On the South Coast I have quite a few mates that do paddle boarding as well as kite boarding or surfing when the conditions are right.

The thing with paddle boarding is you can use it to get somewhere, even the ‘boring’ pic bikebouy put up earlier can be fun. You can paddle up river on incoming tides, you can go from town to town on the coast and surf a few waves at the same time.

It can’t be that boring, I have quite a few mates that do it and I think they’d have quit by now if it was interminably dull.

Re turbo trainers…

Just a training tool for a sport, not a sport in its own right.

Zwift competitors might beg to differ

note how Pele doesn’t need to run in the greatest WC goal of all time here:

But Alberto does.

Dressage – who actually needs horse-dancing?

Pole vault – how was this actually invented as a sport in the first place?

Cani-cross, where people run with a harness with their dog attached. Canine power-assisted running.

Scooters – they just look rubbish compared to skate boarding or BMX at the skate park.

+ 1 for cross- fit, isn’t it just going to the gym or what was called Circuit-Training, where the only added difference is the need to wear as little as possible and constantly post on social media?

upshift – Member

Orienteering. All the excitement of maps with the adrenaline of hole punches. Ah, the good old days of stationery on the moors. It’s all electronic dibbers in MTB orienteering these days, don’t know if the runners still keep things real.

Ah, the good old days of stationery on the moors. It’s all electronic dibbers in MTB orienteering these days, don’t know if the runners still keep things real.

If you catch the latest episode of The Grand Tour you can discover the tedium of “winching”, which blends off road driving/mud plugging with orienteering. The idea is to get stuck in a bog, then winch your 4×4 to the control point to punch your card. And it’s a doubles sport too, so one person’s job is to wade through the mud to find a winch point. Sounds horrendous.

I’ve watched that on the IoM. Quite interesting and amusing. Those little Suzukis were putting in a good show, outshining landies etc.

There’s this guy, Chris, whose paddleboarding across the Atlantic. Currently he’s 3/4’s of the way there, been doing it a few months and I think he’s a bit mad. I know why he’s doing it, I understand the massive undertaking, I even admire him.. but why? Just why ? Sadly if the only answer is “to be the first to do it” then I think he’s mucho maddo, but he’s doing it for a little more than that..

Webbie and live tracker if you guys are interested..

Chris Burtish SUP crossing the Atlantic [/url]