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One Opinion: BaseballThe question is this: What is the hardest sport to master? Not what the hardest sport to play is, what sport takes the most endurance, or what sport is physically demanding. Baseball is, by far, the hardest sport to master. Rarely do the same players stay good throughout their career, rarely do the same teams get to the World Series year after year, and rarely do players keep their stats up. Their are very, very, very few that can do so, and those players have either taken steroids or are the best baseball players in the world.
The pitching aspect requires pitchers to throw 3-5 different pitches about 100+ times a game to guys they have never seen before in their life. The odds of them getting all of the players out one game is very rare; they will give up a run or two. To do that for an entire season.....impossible. An average pitcher will have 7-13 bad games a year. Not to mention they have to do this for years and years.
From the batting aspect, you have to try to hit a round object (a ball) with another round object (the bat) in which the round object is coming at you between 85-100 mph. Did I mention that the ball can curve, drop out of nowhere, run into you, and so on? The number of different pitches are amazingly effective. You haven't even seen most of these pitchers, and you have 3 chances (strikes) to hit the ball while figuring out the pitcher while trying to hit a round object with a round object while trying to see where the ball is going and how fast it is going. Great players only hit 30% of these balls. Not many players do that. Do this for an entire season for many, many years.
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Another Opinion: GymnasticsGymnastics is the hardest sport to master. Are you judged in other sports? Are you scored? Do you have to flip on six inches of wood and not fall off when you land and perfect the flip? Not in any other sport. This sport requires everything. Endurance, speed, strength, agility, flexibility, and all of the above. But the thing that makes us gymnasts so amazing is how much we work. Some people think that we never practice because we're girls and we don't work because we're girls. That's not true. We work twice as hard as any man or woman in any other sport. ESPN says that boxing is the hardest but they're judging on skills and not rating the skills themselves. They rated gymnastics way to low on strength and everything but flexibility which got a ten the highest score. Flexibility is the absolute hardest skill to master. If you are as flexible as me and other gymnasts you can do a back bend with your hands and feat touching as well as other harder skills. If you trust a gymnast yourself you'll take it from someone who has tried almost every other sport though gymnastics is definitely the hardest, most graceful, and most beautiful sport in every way. It's only that we are under estimated and should be known for our hard work that makes me so upset. If you want to find out for yourself, take gymnastics. See how well you really do and what you think. When you try you'll agree with me. Take it from someone who knows.
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Another Opinion: Sailing
Sailing is the most challenging sport. For a start there is 8 different things to change that make the boat go faster, these have to be changed due to wind strength and the point of sailing you are on, all these things make you go faster and you have to tweek them constantly. Then you have the starts and your aim is to be going as fast as possible over the line just as the hooter goes and also be the windward boat. this takes years and years to master. Then there are the tactics of going upwind. you have to try and point as high as possible using wind shifts and wind bends this takes years to master. Then there is tacking and Gibing this can create immense speed and is a great skill in its self this also takes years to maser. Then there is rounding marks this is like going round corners in a racing car it is incredibly important and also doing this you have to altar the 8 different variables as quick as possible. There is also fitness when going upwind in heavy wind your quads and stomach muscles ache like hell after about 10 minutes if hiking properly, also to change the 8 variables it takes immense strength and to work the main sheet. There are also many other tactics and skills to master like working the boat over waves, spinnaker work the list goes on and on.
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Another Opinion: SwimmingYou need technique and strength. Races lating up to 1500m and doing the different strokes. Butterfly, easily the hardest.
You train 7k+ a session, people doing 2 hours a session, morning and afternoon. So that can be 14 sessions a week. 28 hours, so about 100km a week.
It requires perfect technique and stamina. Look it up. It requires every part of your body to be used, perfectly.
Ball sports don't require much training or skill. I'm sorry, but this is true. No two ways around it. Your good, or you can become good by going to the park 2 days a week. With swimming, it is constant training and work.
The pitching aspect requires pitchers to throw 3-5 different pitches about 100+ times a game to guys they have never seen before in their life. The odds of them getting all of the players out one game is very rare; they will give up a run or two. To do that for an entire season.....impossible. An average pitcher will have 7-13 bad games a year. Not to mention they have to do this for years and years.
From the batting aspect, you have to try to hit a round object (a ball) with another round object (the bat) in which the round object is coming at you between 85-100 mph. Did I mention that the ball can curve, drop out of nowhere, run into you, and so on? The number of different pitches are amazingly effective. You haven't even seen most of these pitchers, and you have 3 chances (strikes) to hit the ball while figuring out the pitcher while trying to hit a round object with a round object while trying to see where the ball is going and how fast it is going. Great players only hit 30% of these balls. Not many players do that. Do this for an entire season for many, many years.
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Another Opinion: GymnasticsGymnastics is the hardest sport to master. Are you judged in other sports? Are you scored? Do you have to flip on six inches of wood and not fall off when you land and perfect the flip? Not in any other sport. This sport requires everything. Endurance, speed, strength, agility, flexibility, and all of the above. But the thing that makes us gymnasts so amazing is how much we work. Some people think that we never practice because we're girls and we don't work because we're girls. That's not true. We work twice as hard as any man or woman in any other sport. ESPN says that boxing is the hardest but they're judging on skills and not rating the skills themselves. They rated gymnastics way to low on strength and everything but flexibility which got a ten the highest score. Flexibility is the absolute hardest skill to master. If you are as flexible as me and other gymnasts you can do a back bend with your hands and feat touching as well as other harder skills. If you trust a gymnast yourself you'll take it from someone who has tried almost every other sport though gymnastics is definitely the hardest, most graceful, and most beautiful sport in every way. It's only that we are under estimated and should be known for our hard work that makes me so upset. If you want to find out for yourself, take gymnastics. See how well you really do and what you think. When you try you'll agree with me. Take it from someone who knows.
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Another Opinion: Sailing
Sailing is the most challenging sport. For a start there is 8 different things to change that make the boat go faster, these have to be changed due to wind strength and the point of sailing you are on, all these things make you go faster and you have to tweek them constantly. Then you have the starts and your aim is to be going as fast as possible over the line just as the hooter goes and also be the windward boat. this takes years and years to master. Then there are the tactics of going upwind. you have to try and point as high as possible using wind shifts and wind bends this takes years to master. Then there is tacking and Gibing this can create immense speed and is a great skill in its self this also takes years to maser. Then there is rounding marks this is like going round corners in a racing car it is incredibly important and also doing this you have to altar the 8 different variables as quick as possible. There is also fitness when going upwind in heavy wind your quads and stomach muscles ache like hell after about 10 minutes if hiking properly, also to change the 8 variables it takes immense strength and to work the main sheet. There are also many other tactics and skills to master like working the boat over waves, spinnaker work the list goes on and on.
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Another Opinion: SwimmingYou need technique and strength. Races lating up to 1500m and doing the different strokes. Butterfly, easily the hardest.
You train 7k+ a session, people doing 2 hours a session, morning and afternoon. So that can be 14 sessions a week. 28 hours, so about 100km a week.
It requires perfect technique and stamina. Look it up. It requires every part of your body to be used, perfectly.
Ball sports don't require much training or skill. I'm sorry, but this is true. No two ways around it. Your good, or you can become good by going to the park 2 days a week. With swimming, it is constant training and work.
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