Community Thread XXXIX In Honor of the 2012-2013 MVP Gek!!

[EArl]

I suggest we change the poll question.

"What Sport requires the most Athleticism? "

basketball, soccer, badminton, baseball, football, ice fishing

This is a basketball forum, what outcome do you think the majority of people would choose?

[Kalidogg24]

I would think an 18 round boxing match would be a little more physically demanding than a 3 round MMA match... Less brutal perhaps but more physically demanding.

Good point but have you ever wrestled or grappled with your colleagues?
It's brutal and without a ton of endurance your F'd

[EArl]

shoutoutz to dem Rugby players doe

never liked Rugby to much. It's more dangerous than anything.

[Kalidogg24]

I suggest we change the poll question.

"What Sport requires the most Athleticism? "

basketball, soccer, badminton, baseball, football, ice fishing

This is a basketball forum, what outcome do you think the majority of people would choose?

Good Excuse

[TyCobb]

Badminton at no. 30. Ahead of all swimming distances, track and field, and weight-lifting.

[TyCobb]

SMH @ all of you guys overlooking badminton. There's a reason why it's never on TV and never gets any publicity--it's because only few are brave enough to withstand the physical toll that it encompasses.

How did you get into badminton?
It was for the chicks wasn't it Ty?

At the end of page 22.

[EArl]

That thing is rigged as hell.

How is baseball/softball higher?

There are more fat baseball players than soccer players.
Look at babe ruth.

[hermes]

how about this one?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/10_most_physi ... ing_sports

[Doormatt]

oh didnt even think about that. if were going that way then 100% MMA > boxing.

I'm not a fan of MMA but I did watch the same trainer train a guy as a professional boxer and another as a professional MMA fighter at a gym in St. Louis and the boxer's training regimen used to be 10x harder.

It was just cruel at times closer to a fight and they dehydrate like crazy between rounds.

hm not really sure what you watched but the training MMA fighters go through is just as rigorous if not more so. plus the actual combat sport of MMA is unarguably more physically demanding than boxing. it might not be as punishing because boxers are just beating the **** out of each others face/upper body but the grappling, boxing, hand to hand combat and ground game involved in MMA is just so much more complex and takes more from the whole body. plus MMA fighters go through more training than just boxing, so i dont know how a guy who just teaches boxing can train an MMA fighter. a lot of these guys are practicing and sometimes black belts in muay thai, jujitsu, sambo, etc. as well as wrestling.

boxing is an amazing art but MMA to me is just the natural evolution of combat sports.

[EArl]

how about this one?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/10_most_physi ... ing_sports

As much as I like that one, its wiki and anyone could have put up that.

[Doormatt]

I would think an 18 round boxing match would be a little more physically demanding than a 3 round MMA match... Less brutal perhaps but more physically demanding.

I'd still say a 1500 Meter freestyle would be even more physically demanding.

Drug free Tour de France has to be up there too.

i agree about the swimming.

i disagree about the boxing match, i actually think it would be the opposite. boxing is a much more brutal sport to me because they are putting out so much more damage on a specific area of the body over a longer period of time. what boxers do to their heads is way more brutal than what MMA fighters do, but i think MMA requires more physical abilities and overall endurance than boxing, simply because it requires more from your overall body.

[hermes]

how about this one?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/10_most_physi ... ing_sports

As much as I like that one, its wiki and anyone could have put up that.

what does that matter? there isn't an actual single right answer

[Doormatt]

how about this one?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/10_most_physi ... ing_sports

pretty sure a 15 year old from Italy answered that as the top 2 are soccer and motocross.

[EArl]

I dint even see the motor cross one

[tugs]

I agree with Doormatt. all those circuit trainings in MMA are just torture. add the fact that you're training not only for one discipline.

I got one. triathlon.

[Doormatt]

triathlon is unfair it combines three different sports lol.

[Wavy Q]

i exchange v-cards with the retardz

[EArl]

I agree with Doormatt. all those circuit trainings in MMA are just torture. add the fact that you're training not only for one discipline.

I got one. triathlon.

Iv'e done a couple of them. My weakness is the swimming part.

My goal is to do an Ironman. I might do one next year in the summer after I graduate.

[Doormatt]

6edgy12me

[Wavy Q]

Shoutoutz to dem freshman

on instagram str8 flexin