Hardest Sport to play

[phoenix7]

Hard to answer that general of a question. The hardest skill is to hit a baseball. I think that's pretty well documented. Physically, however, baseball is not the most demanding sport at all. Hockey or soccer would be. Using high skill levels and physically demanding would be football.

Basketball can be, unless you're in the NBA. Then you coast for three quarters and work the last five minutes of the fourth.

 

[dirtydawg]

i think this has been said but im not bothering to look back through the 5 pages... but how is hitting a baseball the hardest skill, and how is well documented? i know that it's been claimed to be the hardest skill by many egotistical baseball players and by people who are very good at hitting baseballs as they sit at a party drunk the night before a big game, but to pick out a single skill from a game, iisolate it, and say it's the hardest thing in sports to do is ludacris. first off, simply within that "sport" i would say hitting a homerun is harder than just hitting a baseball. being a goalie in hockey and stopping an ovechkin penalty shot whould require a reaction time that most of us just don't have. i personally would think i could hit a mlb fastball by chance long before i could strike out an mlb batter. what about getting a hole in one? or hitting a fadeaway three pointer with an nba guard in your face...anyways, the whole baseball hit thing is soooo unfounded that it makes me very angry, as u may have noticed.

 

[serpentor]

I voted hockey, but I thing Rugby probably is the hardest sport, those guys are nuts, they actually tape their ears down so other players don't rip them off, and if you end up on the ground get ready to get an ass kicking.

 

[dirtydawg]

I voted hockey, but I thing Rugby probably is the hardest sport, those guys are nuts, they actually tape their ears down so other players don't rip them off, and if you end up on the ground get ready to get an ass kicking.

they tape them down so that they don't get cabbage ear (from rubbing their ears backwards really aggressively against opponents head...still a tough sport though, and i wouldn't put ear ripping past all of them.

 

[napalm1]

Without question....golf.

 

[ThomasJenkins]

If baseball is considered tough, then you need to list tennis as well, or perhaps cricket. These take considerable eye-hand coordination, but aren't very hard on the body (unless you're a starting pitcher). Rugby is tougher than baseball, basketball and soccer and its a shame its not listed. I say football is the toughest of all... basically because the average career is only about 3 seasons and the constant physical beating a player takes on his body is unmatched even by hockey.

 

[Irony]

In Australia we have a sport called AFL (Australian Football League).
To play this sport you need to have excellent kicking skills, catching skills, handballing skills, hand eye cooridnation and extreme fitness levels. Players run up to 15 kms a game (last 120 minutes). Also you need to be physically well built, and there is no stopping like in American Football. Its 120 minutes of flat out sport with a small half time break.

 

[pickles&cumquat]

Soccer is not the hardest sport , i played mid centre half for 15 years.. although it is physically demanding and there are many short sprints, i never found it tough to play

Baseball for hand eye coordination is tough, but at a slow pace
both tennis and golf mentally are tough. So many nagging injuries in tennis that aren't really visual but there, and the mental part of playing in 'leagues' or on some tour is mind boggling, same with golf.
basketball is tougher than soccer, its bloody hot on the gym floor and its constant sprinting up and down
football rugby and hockey are physically demanding sports in their own right
boxing must be brutal, all the training, sparring, then to box for 10-12 3 min rounds under all those hot lights in a stadium, all while being socked in the head and body by some dude who wants to kill you ... yikes

It's too hard to narrow the field..... and i have missed some sports.....

on a difficulty of how hard they are to play, i can catch a football over both shoulders and take a reasonable hit, skate and shoot (i am canadian), shoot a basketball (but not do much else in that sport haha), and throw numerous pitches for strikes in baseball (six i think) but the one thing i can't do in baseball is hit the fucking thing, unless its a bp fastball down the centre of the plate. so my vote is hitting in baseball

 

[Iamforever]

if you really had six pitches you can throw for a strike, you would be in the big leagues. maybe a handful of the pitchers there have five. you would be in a league of youre own. liar.

 

[SLIPNUTZ]

Physically tough... Rugby
Mentally tough... NFL (hate to be a quaterback, memorising all those plays)
both physically and mentally... Football (soccer)

i couldnt watch an NFL match all the way through, it's a bit boring to me, its slow, moving two feet forward, then another two feet, then another two feet, then having to kick the ball upfield, then having the other team do the same thing over. too much time taken between plays.

 

[gaunameister]

Hockey, all this canadians and russians punching you on the ice. men, that's hard

 

[glk35]

where is the option for curling?

 

[Paparmane]

I'll say football, Its very hard

 

[Porn_Lover]

Where is poker?

 

[god69]

first off i dont play baseball or golf but im gonna say it any ways, baseball and golf are probally techniquely the hardest to play. like in football u can have your team to block for u and score a touchdown , and with baseball i bet hardly anybody on this forum could hit off a major leage pitcher e.g curveball

 

[god69]

i changed my mind, i gotta go with mixed martial arts

 

[DetroitCity]

well, i play hockey, so its not too hard for me but i'd still choose that for someone who hasn't played it

 

[SpeedRacer]

Middle and long distance running are definitily the most physically and mentally demanding sports along w/ long distance biking, swimming, and perhaps wrestling. While baseball, football, and basketball require skill, strength, and coordination, they lack the necessity for pure muscular and cardiovascular strength and endurance. The fittest people in the world are distance runners, bikers, and swimmers in terms of max VO2, lactic acid threshold, and muscular endurance. These sports require a tremendous amount of tolerance to pain, and not just the simple kind of pain by getting hit in football, which is inflicted upon you. It is a different kind of pain which you must inflict upon yourself to push harder and go faster even when the last ounce of energy is gone and all you have left is guts. Agreed, sports which involve a ball require much planning, strategy, and skill and combine various elements from the "pure" forms of the physical man, but these types of endurance sports demand the utmost fitness of the mind and body to achieve greatness.

QFE

BUMP

 

[tartanterrier]

Baseball - I've never played it

 

[Dean Wormer]

The hardest sport to play is any one that you are not very good at.