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What are the easiest Sports?

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  • #32
    RoboRat
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    Cricket, you spend half the time scratching your arse... same applies to baseball.


  • #33
    ScumLord
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The easiest sport to excel in are the sports with the fewest amount of participants.
    Like boxing and MMA?


  • #34
    PizzamanIRL
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    Pool/Snooker/Darts

    Easy to practice. You don't have to be in shape. It's just up to you to practice enough


  • #35
    pickarooney
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The easiest sport to excel in are the sports with the fewest amount of participants.
    Look at minority sports with expensive equipment - anything equestrian for instance.

    Look at rugby where NZ are looked on as gods - population 4.5 million
    It would be impossible to win the football world cup anytime in the future with such a low population base.

    Some people target sports like hockey and cricket where it is a lot easier to get an international cap than in the more popular sports.

    Rowing/tennis/golf

    Maybe 7s rugby. Carlin Isles just took it up one day after missing out on a sprinting qualification and basically walked (ran) into an international team.

    Of course, when you're an incredibly gifted athlete like Israel Folau or Sonny Bill Williams you can make a lot of sports look easy by taking them up and becoming proficient overnight.


  • #36
    RainMaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭RainMaker


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Pool/Snooker/Darts

    Easy to practice. You don't have to be in shape. It's just up to you to practice enough

    Maybe not as easy as some people think!

    Sorry about the Daily Mail link, but it's an interesting story!
    Former executive at Childline - Justin Irwin, gave up his day job to concentrate on playing darts full time: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-510504/The-charity-boss-quit--darts-champion.html


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  • #37
    check_six
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    At the last summer Olympics two lady rowers won gold for Britain. I should look up some of the precise facts, but essentially they had answered an ad looking for tall athletic women to compete in rowing. They were picked from the applicants and only started rowing in 2009, or 2010. So they went from ad in a paper to picking up a gold medal in two years.
    I would have thought it would have taken a bit longer than that to become world beaters, but I suppose Britain are a dominant nation in rowing, so I suppose they had all the coaches and facilities ready to go from the start. This would make it a good bit easier for the individuals chosen. Also, they were picked for their very high athletic capacity to begin with. I still feel sad for the poor sods in second place who had trained their whole lives to get to an Olympics to get beaten by a team who had sort of 'gamed' the system.

    Maybe, you too could win world level honours, if you are already genetically predisposed towards one of the less major sports, and you have a massive support organisation, and a bunch of money behind you. Otherwise... it's not easy to beat years and years of practice and a bag of talent at *any* sport.


  • #38
    check_six
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The easiest sport to excel in are the sports with the fewest amount of participants.
    Look at minority sports with expensive equipment - anything equestrian for instance.

    Look at rugby where NZ are looked on as gods - population 4.5 million
    It would be impossible to win the football world cup anytime in the future with such a low population base.

    Some people target sports like hockey and cricket where it is a lot easier to get an international cap than in the more popular sports.

    Rowing/tennis/golf

    The Uruguayan football team did alright at the last world cup. Might do pretty well next time around too. Won it outright back in the day, twice.

    Population? 3 million.


  • #39
    rustedtrumpet
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    Wrestling, its fake to begin with


  • #40
    Rhys Essien
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    When the hell was golf,snooker and darts a sport?.Shur some of those lads are nearly obese.

    I thought a sport is where you might break a sweat and you have to be in fairly good physical shape.


  • #41
    eyescreamcone
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Like boxing and MMA?

    Olympic boxing is a good one as the really top boxers do not compete at this level
    check_six wrote: »
    The Uruguayan football team did alright at the last world cup. Might do pretty well next time around too. Won it outright back in the day, twice.

    Population? 3 million.

    I had realised that Uruguay had won it twice, way back in 1930 &1950.
    That is why I said in future.

    Uruguay or any similar sized country will never win the world cup again.
    Countries of such a size are lucky to qualify...as we know only too well.


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  • #42
    eyescreamcone
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    When the hell was golf,snooker and darts a sport?.Shur some of those lads are nearly obese.

    I thought a sport is where you might break a sweat and you have to be in fairly good physical shape.

    You thought wrong!


  • #43
    RainMaker
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    When the hell was golf,snooker and darts a sport?

    They are all on Sky Sports - they must be sports!! :D


  • #44
    Rhys Essien
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    You thought wrong!

    Will we include playing cards and throwing rings as sports so?.They are called games not sports.


  • #45
    RainMaker
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    Will we include playing cards and throwing rings as sports so?.They are called games not sports.

    It's possible to be both e.g. a game of football...


  • #46
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Uruguay or any similar sized country will never win the world cup again.

    Bold statement.


  • #47
    eyescreamcone
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    Will we include playing cards and throwing rings as sports so?.They are called games not sports.

    pontoon or poker?


  • #48
    check_six
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    I had realised that Uruguay had won it twice, way back in 1930 &1950.
    That is why I said in future.

    Uruguay or any similar sized country will never win the world cup again.
    Countries of such a size are lucky to qualify...as we know only too well.

    Well, they did come third in 2010, so that's not a bad return.


  • #49
    eyescreamcone
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    check_six wrote: »
    Well, they did come third in 2010, so that's not a bad return.

    Third is a long way off winning it.

    But very good for a country with such a small population.

    Remember they have missed out on plenty of tournaments in recent times too.


  • #50
    RidleyRider
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    For anyone who thinks running is easy to master, it's not. There's a technique to everything to get you to a pro level but, if it's just recreational most things are easy to get a grip of once you're not a complete simpleton.


  • #51
    Rhys Essien
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    RainMaker wrote: »
    It's possible to be both e.g. a game of football...

    You know what I mean.How do you compare an elite athlete/footballer with an obese darts player/golfer/snooker player.


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  • #52
    castletownman
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    When the hell was golf,snooker and darts a sport?.Shur some of those lads are nearly obese.

    I thought a sport is where you might break a sweat and you have to be in fairly good physical shape.

    If you're using that statement as a parameter, then you might as well include rugby into the mix. There's fellas on every professional rugby team on the planet that wouldn't last till half time in other team sports that require superior fitness levels, such as football, hurling, soccer etc.

    Rugby has a lot going for it in terms of being an all-inclusive sport (a role for every body type and size) but maybe that's to it's detriment slightly, given some people see top level team sport as reserved for the physically fittest.


  • #53
    eyescreamcone
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    You know what I mean.How do you compare an elite athlete/footballer with an obese darts player/golfer/snooker player.

    You can't compare them - apples and oranges!

    There are plenty of large lads playing American Football.
    There are plenty of ripped golfers.


  • #54
    CrabRevolution
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    check_six wrote: »
    Well, they did come third in 2010, so that's not a bad return.

    I thought Germany came third in 2010? Luis Suarez came back for the 3rd place playoff after being sent off for the second most controversial goalmouth incident of 2010.


  • #55
    Hazys
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    The underrated sport of 'Danger ****' is up in front of the IOC for vote for inclusion in the 2020 games in Tokyo.


  • #56
    RoboRat
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    Uruguay or any similar sized country will never win the world cup again.

    Could well win it this year. Also, Belgium have a fantastic team, population of just over 11 million.

    Denmark won the Euro's and their population was under 5 million then.


  • #57
    RoboRat
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    I thought Germany came third in 2010?

    They did.


  • #58
    rustedtrumpet
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    Wrestling, cant see what theres such a following when its essentially fake. Would be better off goin to drama classes than following that sport


  • #59
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Pool/Snooker/Darts

    Easy to practice. You don't have to be in shape. It's just up to you to practice enough

    Snooker on a regulation 12x6 table with tight pockets is incredibly tough though, I only appreciated just how good the pros are when I first played on one. The way they can maneuvre the cue ball and think 3 to 4 shots ahead at a time under the pressure of live audiences and tv cameras is impressive to me. Like golf there's a huge mental aspect to it.


  • #60
    eyescreamcone
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    Randall Inexpensive Infant wrote: »
    Bold statement.

    In my lifetime the world cup has been won by:

    England 1966 - pop 53 million
    Brazil 1970, 1994, 2002 - pop 200 million
    Germany 1974, 1990 - pop 82 million
    Argentina 1978,1986 - pop 41 million
    Italy 1982, 2006 - pop 61 million
    France 2008 - pop 66 million
    Spain 2010 - pop 47 million

    I've no reason to believe that David will ever slay the Goliaths of the game again.


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  • #61
    RidleyRider
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    For anyone who thinks running is easy to master, it's not. There's a technique to everything to get you to a pro level but, if it's just recreational most things are easy to get a grip of once you're not a complete simpleton.


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