What Sports Did/Do you play?
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Swimming (since..uh...birth I guess)
Barefoot Waterskiing (self taught at age 11, I still do it occasionally)
Slalom Waterskiing (started at 6, still do it occasionally)
BMX Bicycle riding/racing (9 - 21, still do it occasionally)
Mountain Biking (current)
Motocross dirtbike riding/racing (10 - 22)
Martial Arts (started at 9 years old, black belt in Shaolin Kenpo at 16, instructor at 16 still very practiced - train everyday although I've studied a number of different styles...and I'm looking for a local Sanda school - Chinese kickboxing)
Street Fighting (15 - 18..ish)
Sport Fighting/kickboxing (12 - current)
Basketball (10 - 15) - I was too short to be any good on offense, but I was good on defense
Track (8 - 15) ranked 4th in New York State my last year
Tennis (12 - 14) ...the girls were cute!
Scuba diving (15 - 20) Haven't gone since broken upper jaw in street fight...don't know about the pressure in sinuses...
Football (10 - 15) a couple of championships - I was the smallest guy out there...and hit the hardest so I was Defensive team captain, free safety (because of my open field hits usually took people out of the game), and special teams captain because I could run real fast and hit real hard.
Played intramural football in college.
Road Motorcycling (18 - current)
Motorcycle Roadracing (35- 36...I'll start again next season when I move my racebike out west)
Competitive Fencing (17 - 21) I was ranked 5th in New York State/City at the end of my 1st year
Weapons (12 - current) Proficient with a number of weapons
Knife and Shurikan throwing (12 - current)
Kickball (one game this season on Google team)
Much physical fitness - overall, from the age of 10 - 24 years I was spending a tremendous amount of time training in multiple fighting arts, so I had no time for regular sports. During highschool and college I normally trained for 3 hours a day, every day, so I was busy.
Autocross/Car racing - (23 - current) I haven't joined a club out here yet, but I will.I've also done some gymnastics, wrestling, baseball, street hockey (yeah...skating and hitting..um no thanks!), snow skiing/snow boarding, surfing, climbing, roller-blading, skateboarding...running, jumping, climbing, swinging, etc....
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Quite the list Craig, I recon you are even an active person when you go on vacation?
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As a kid, I had no idea that you were supposed to sweat when you excercise. I got very bad marks in phys ed because I stopped working when I began sweating. Then at age 15 we finally had enough money that I could afford to take ballet lessons. I went nuts. I very quickly went from 1 class a week to 5. When I got to University I actually started as a dance major. 7 brutal 1-1/2 hour dance classes a week. Ballet, Jazz, Flamenco, Modern. Then I realized I was headed for a life as a secretary. So I quit and went to business school. I continued dancing on again off agian for years until my 33rd birthday when I snapped my achilles tendon taking off for a grand jete. No more ballet for me. So I swithched to Flamenco.
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Susan, you can read books on a treadmill you know. Sorry to hear about the injury, I bet you were a great dancer. Me... I have 2 left feet. When they say that White Men Can't Dance (or jump for that matter) they are talking about me
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beautifully put Susan.
I'm the same but I was into swimming and gymnastics. I played rugby and cricket, basketball, squash, even rowed for awhile.
Now I sit in front of a computer and occasionally go for a walk.
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Remember folks, use it or lose it.
I've studied with Grand Masters in their late 50s and 60s that could do single leg squats, splits, high kicks at lightening speed. Their advice, don't give up and don't stop being physical. Once you stop, the effects snowball and become that much harder to reverse.Just a thought.
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Yeah, yeah, How yourng are you Craig?
I was super fit too until about 6 years ago when I started SketchUpping. Hmmm. what does that tell you.Truly, it is a matter of priorities and when I started my own business my order of priorities was and is, my kids and their needs, my parents and their needs, my business, my business, my business, sleep, and if there is any time left over, me.
Littlt time and energy left. I know it is a vicious cycle, and I am trying to get off, but fitting excecise into my day consistently is very difficult to make into a habit. I'm still working on it. (PS: I don't really even read anymore. Not only no time but since I had to start wearing glasses to read the pleasure has gone out of it. It is very hard to curl up with a good book in bed and find the right angle through the damn glasses.)
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Is eating considered a sport?
I practice all the time and I'm really good at it. I can even use both hands while doing it....
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@tinanne said:
Is eating considered a sport?
I practice all the time and I'm really good at it. I can even use both hands while doing it....
LOL! Interestingly, the act of eating is probably one of the most skilled physical activities of most humans. Watch people eat...across cultures, they're all pretty good at using the tools of the trade!
Some people compete at eating so I guess it could be considered a sport! ...but you'd have to eat as many hot dogs as possible in 60 seconds...I'd rather fight four people at once..
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i tried to stay out of this topic but once i peeked into it just could not resist joining it. so here it goes.
as a good brazilian i played soccer from 5 to about 35 (it is a rough sport, not suited to seniors...). oddly enough, one of my most active periods was during my stay in the US.
basketball from 12 to 19. played at school and as a semi-pro in local clubs.
tennis from 35 to 45. slightly obsessed with tennis, would play 5 times a week, had classes, played in tournaments. great sport to develop comradeship, respect for your opponent, fair play.
after that i stopped playing sports but kept running on the streets (3x a week) and going to the gym (2 or 3x a week).
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Hey,
I'm a pretty little guy, so contact sports weren't that big for me, needless to say I'm a typical small town Canadian, and I played hockey for 7 years, then gave up because the other guys were huge!
now I stick to more individual sports, stuff that I find fun. mostly cycling. Single Track Trail riding, downhill mountain biking, road riding (maybe racing one year...) That about sums up what I do for sports now-a-days in highschool I played rugby for a year, a little bit of badminton, not much really...
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Whooah, a loot of athleetes here;-) I like that, especially Tinanne's discipline) I am good at eating also) But, aren't we all?
I practice a lot of sports, but not professionally any more, and not that often as I used to.
When I was 3 years old, and learned to walk normally, my parents have putt me on ski's, and it is my greatest passion among sports. I trained skiing full time for about 10 years, and now I am licensed skiing instructor, and if all goes well I will join a Croatian demo team in couple of years. Luckily, Zagreb has a great skiing place, just 15 kilometers from the center and when there is enough snow, we go skiing every day after work, during winter season. (yeah, I know, we lucky bastards)
Extreme skiing is in my blood, and when you try it once, you are never letting it goMy other passion is sport climbing, speleology and alpinism (all tightly connected) it is in my family for decades (my father is speleology and aplinism instructor).
And one of the most relaxing sports is sailing, but this is not a real sport, because I don't compete, I do it for fun, and I must admitt that we are drunk most of the time, but when there is good wind, we sail like maniacs;-)
I won't mention Ice hockey, rolerskating, bicycle and other simmilar sports, because I don't practice them as often as I would want to
Cheers
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Guys, as the voting was going on, we finally decided to "fold" the "Fit Club" to the "Corner Bar".
I will make this particular topic sticky for a while until every "active" users of the used to be Fit Club sees the news.Thanks for your understanding...
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My 2 cents,
Played baseball, stickball and all the typical New York sports. Handball in high school. Some basketball (I stunk but had fun).
Avid racquetball player in my 30's and 40's. Tried tennis but never took lessons and couldn't make the switch from wrist-centric racquetball to forearm-centric tennis.
Got into running in my late 40's. Trained for the NY marathon (26 at 52) and was running 35 to 40 miles a week until my knee cartelidge vanished and pain meds weren't working.
Took up long distance bike riding with my daughter in my 60's and this past May completed a one-day 100 mile (actually 108 mile) ride to Montauk Point.
Still bike riding, exercise at home every other day (100 sit ups, 100 pushups etc) and try to watch what I eat so at 64 I have more energy than most. Scares my partners who wonder how I keep my high energy drive going.
Works for me.
PS, have also become an avid reader. Hope to finish the latest Harry Potter this weekend!
Allen
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@allen weitzman said:
exercise at home every other day (100 sit ups, 100 pushups etc)
At 63?!! Wow, what are they putting in NY water these days? I need to get me some of that (at 31!). Actually come to think of it, maybe better not to know what's in NY water. :esurp:
Good to hear from you Allen.
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Thank you Jackson,
Nice to be welcomed.
New York water is actually very good and they put little into it. Its been compared in blind taste tastes with bottled mineral water and usually wins.
Hope all is well with you and yours,
Regards,
Allen
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I started out with football as a kid, but I found that too boring.
At the age of 9 I started skateboarding, and have been doing it ever since.
At the age of 15 I started playing paintball, not "lets go out in the woods and shoot each other" but "GAME STARTS IN 3, 2, 1" tournement paintball. Let me tell you, I've played many other sports, and NOTHING is as fast paced as a game of speedball or X ball.In the space of 5 seconds every player on both teams goes from the end of the field, to somewhere 150 feet away and spread out in a perfectly coordinated pattern while being perfectly dug in to cover.
Football doesnt even match the coordination of a good team, one of the teams I would video tape for were at the point where they could advance instantly all as a unit with all the players 100 or more feet apart with no signals.
In a game like football, you can always depend on the person being where he should be assuming a good team, in paintball its very possible to start a match with a plan based on 5 players, and within 15 seconds be down to 3. This is where you can separate good players from bad ones, because a bad team will collapse if they take a sudden loss.
A good team will shrug it off, advance up the field to a position more suitable for the number of players, and continue the match as if nothing happened.Its rather amazing to see the perfect coordination of some professional teams. Even without ever having seen the field they are playing on, the 15 seconds spent in the start box is enough for them to know exactly what they must all do as a team without even saying a word.
As a side note, did you guys know paintball missed out on being in the Olympics by a single vote? And statistically speaking paintball is safer than golf.Sorry, I loves me some paintball.
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I myself went from gymnastics to soccer to Tae Kwon Do (brown belt). About 6 years ago I joined a circus troup that has social activist roots and love it. Think Cirque du Soleil vs. Barnum and Baily. I do a lot of aerial acrobatics on fabric, trapeeze, and lyra (metal hoop about 3' in diameter). I also do partner acrobatics, stilts, fire eating, poi, and fire breathing.
I'm the only one in the troup that isn't a full time professional performer so I don't have time to perform out of state (NM), but the rest of my troup performs all over the world. In the last 6 months we had performances in Miami(FL),India, France, Australia, and are heading to Venezuela this week. So if the building market ever tanks I always have a backup life as a circus performer waiting.
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At school I played the usuals; football and rugby. I was enthusiastic but pretty terrible. Also had to play cricket in the summer, you americans should be glad you don't play it, it sucks; complicated rules and very boring. I did a bit of climbing and abseiling later on and got quite into that, would like to take it up again. In my twenties I experimented with a gym membership but just found it boring but did do some kickboxing that I would also like to try again - not to batter people, just for fitness. For the past thirteen years I have been running a few miles every day religiously and entered a few local 10k races, I should join the local club and get more competitive, this thread may inspire me.
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