What Sports Did/Do you play?
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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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