[quote]ucallthatbass wrote:
synchronized swimming[/quote]
i see what you did there
Track and Field more Specifically Sprinting. People Can only get as fast as their own body limits them if your not naturally fast in the first place sure you ll improve a couple seconds but no way you going to have a chance at becoming No.1 in sprinting in respect to all other sports.
[quote]buffbills69 wrote:
Let me guess you’ve never golfed
jehovasfitness wrote:
If golf was actually a sport, I would say golf because of Tiger.
That being said.
Easy, Baseball.
All you have to do is take steroids and you can break the all-time records 
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actually I have, and it’s fucking hard. That doesn’t make it a sport. I swear, why do golfers get upset at this?
it’s an activity that you compete in, but not a sport. That’s like saying darts can be a sport
LOL @ baseball being mentioned in the same sentence as being the hardest sport. A bunch of fat asses stannding still 95% of the time or sitting on a bench. Wow, there’s skill. Most unskilled sport ever.
[quote]daneq wrote:
hardest? football.
Simple, there isn’t one stand alone best player in the NFL, you have to surpass all them and become “the best”? pffft impossible[/quote]
True that, you’d basically have to be the quarterback runningback cornerback… need I go on?
You guys saying sports like tennis, golf, formula one, etc are crazy. Those are sports that the best athletes don’t even try, except as hobbies. The hardest sport to be the best at would be the one that the most people do and take seriously. I think, world wide, that would be soccer.
I don’t think that the elite athletes in any of the sports you listed don’t “try”, but instead just do it as hobbies… I can guarantee that Roger Federer, Nadal, and Tiger Woods all practice their sport just as much as the elite athletes in any other sport. That being said, I think to surpass either Roger Federer/Nadal since I think they or both amazing, or Tiger Woods would be just as tough as trying to rise to the top of the NBA. Even if genetics come into play and you were born with great genetics for a certain sport you would still have to develop the agility, reflexes, and mental game that come along with every sport.
Probably tennis or sprinting-Disregarding clay Federer has won 24 out of the last 25 major finals he’s been in.
Usain Bolt’s total domination of both 100m and 200m could remain unmatched for the next 10 Olympics.
Also honourable mention to MMA…step in the ring with Fedor anyone?
[quote]London Runner wrote:
redgladiator wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
What sport would be the hardest to become #1 on the planet in?
Baseball?
Weightlifting?
Sprinting?
The more popular the sport and the more people particpate the harder.
Football (Soccer)! Purely because of how many people play it professionally compared to other sports.
To be voted the FIFA player of the year would technically be the hardest. But there’s obviously a lot of politics involved in the voting.
LR[/quote]
I second that. I’m sure there are a few hundred million people around the world, who play the game recreationally to some extent (it really is that popular). Add to that the fact that many start very, very young (at the 3-4 year mark), and play it in some (usually modified) form with a relatively high frequency, and you have an upper echelon of players with an impossibly high skill level, and a very high sport specific physical conditioning.
Yup, probably soccer, via numbers.
Seems like sport will get very hard at the top level.Simply because each 1 of those athletes trained a lifetime to get there. The answer also depends what you think is hard? speed? strength? cardio? skill?
The sport where the most physical abuse and brain damage = boxing…tyson in prime - hard to beat?
Most strength required? cant beat powerlifting…andy bolton?
Explosive strength?..olympic lifting - 265kg overhead = hard.
Endurance? would have to agree with cycling - Tour de france = conditioning is everything! not skill!
Skill? would have to be golf…1 of the main sports where gettin angry works against u. what a fustrating sport (fuck id call it a hobbie not a sport!)
[quote]VikingsAD28 wrote:
MitchorRuby wrote:
randman wrote:
golf
x2
I agree, no one will pass Tiger as long as he continues to play.[/quote]
LOL, some of the people watching him walk around like an asshole looking for his ball for an hour today might disagree, lol.
::hater mode- off::
Kubo
[quote]dboonelas wrote:
I don’t think that the elite athletes in any of the sports you listed don’t “try”, but instead just do it as hobbies… [/quote]
You seriously think that they treat their sport like a hobby? Tell that to one of their faces and see their reaction.
[quote]talmid91 wrote:
dboonelas wrote:
I don’t think that the elite athletes in any of the sports you listed don’t “try”, but instead just do it as hobbies…
You seriously think that they treat their sport like a hobby? Tell that to one of their faces and see their reaction.[/quote]
I said hobby about golf - and i said it as a joke cos most old men pay it as a hobby!
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
VikingsAD28 wrote:
MitchorRuby wrote:
randman wrote:
golf
x2
I agree, no one will pass Tiger as long as he continues to play.
am i the only one in the world that hates tiger?[/quote]
I detest tiger. Golf is not a sport.
All sports require high skill when done at a high level.
However you must take in account several things:
In team sports it is difficult to become number one over all since there are different positions. You can’t be the number one in hockey. Why? Cause you can’t be number one goalie and number one left wing.
Also, does number 1 mean the best independent of genetic ability? It’s very hard to be a good basketball player unless you’re very tall. So do we rule those sports out?
If we do rule genetics out, then we must rule out athleticism too, since it is dependent on genetics at a very high level.
Then becoming the best would be dependent on skill, which is something the players are completely responsible for.
Then such sports as tennis, golf (fuck golf), curling, soccer, etc would be the hardest sports to be the best at.
Regardless, all sports are the hardest sport to be number 1.
If we talk about sports as a whole, then the ones who are hardest at being number 1 are those with the most competitors. Soccer is extremely popular both as a playing sport and as a a watched sport.
If we speak of physical ability,
gymnastics, power lifting, olympic weightlifting, swimming, strongman, cycling, running (ultramarathons and sprinting) and so forth.
If we speak of blends of technique and physical ability,
gymnastics, powerlifting, olympic weightlifting, swimming, karate, boxing, wrestling, and other contact sports.
I think there are too many variables to say which one is the hardest.
Being the number 1 boxer and number 1 cycling are equally as hard.
Good thread.
How about college football, team-wise? Your team could do everything right and not even get a chance to play for number 1.
LOL@ all the people calling golf not a sport. I’d love to hear your definition of a sport. And yes, I’ve heard them all before and they’ve all been torn apart.
LOL@ stokedporcupine for bringing math and probability into this discussion.
Competitive eating.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
LOL@ all the people calling golf not a sport. I’d love to hear your definition of a sport. And yes, I’ve heard them all before and they’ve all been torn apart.
LOL@ stokedporcupine for bringing math and probability into this discussion.[/quote]
Too reliant on technique and lack of physical effort.
Would you consider darts a sport?
I don’t think there will be another performance like Phelps at Beijing for a longgggg time. His accomplishment is pretty fucking amazing if you ask me.
[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
Would you consider darts a sport?[/quote]
Yes