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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll Are you any good at sports? Which ones? 45

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I'm good at sports:

A) No I ain't. I'm a geek.

B) I'm ok.

C) Yeah, I'm pretty coordinated

D) I play professionally, this is just my in between game ritual.

The sports I play:

1) Soccer/futbol/World Football

2) Football

3) Basketball

4) Baseball

5) Golf*

6) Hockey

7) Fencing (for Cyrano)

8) volleyball

9) Other

10) Child-rearing

*yeah, yeah, yeah...some think Golf isn't a sport. Whatever. And as far as the other, there's a gang of sports I missed. Deal. ;)

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Poll Are you any good at sports? Which ones? More

Poll Are you any good at sports? Which ones?

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  • C, 9 (Score:2)

    by Patik ( 584959 ) *
    I was one of those kids that played four sports at a time all through elementary school. I eventually dropped down to just baseball and track (throwing), then just track. Now I try to get to the gym several times a week but I'm all out of shape, though I still have my general coordination.

  • C 6 (Score:2)

    by blinder ( 153117 )
    when I was a lad, at the tender age of 6, I started playing hockey, by the time I was 8, I was a goalie, and by the time I was 10 or 11 I consistently had the best record in the youth hockey league I played in (that had over a dozen or so other teams) and I was picked as the starter for every all-star team (and we would play all over the place, Canada, New York, Ohio, other places in PA).

    By the time I was 16 I was playing in high school, and I even entertained playing college level hockey, and then who kno
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      • I don't think anyone here could post anything else more surprising

        Heh, I'm just full of surprises :)

        it seems that your anti-establishment stance would never allow for team sports and their lunkheaded groupthink

        LOL! Well, quite right... but you need to understand hockey. Especially being a goalie, you are pretty much set aside from the team, which probably apealed to me in the first place, but not knowing it.

        Also, the teams back then were just made up of misfits and weirdo's in the first place, yes t
      • At least, that's what the anti-establishmentist would say.

        Try skating around with a green mohawk. Hockey is the anti-establishment of sports. How many other sports can you think of that effectively tolerate unsanctioned and unmediated brawls? Even in boxing, the refs will step in if you hit someone low. In Hockey, they just get out of the way until the combatants are exhausted.

        Oh, and noone EVER talks to the goalie. That's superstition. "Nice save, goal," "That was my fault," and "Don't worry about

  • A-C, 9 (Score:2)

    by RupW ( 515653 ) *
    Generally a klutz, just a few niches I do well: defender at soccer, squash (but *no other* racquet sport), and I've some skill at martial arts - but that's more long term conditioning than any natural talent. I hit more than most the few times I played softball. And I can pull a couple of six minutes miles out of the bag on a good day, provided it's dead flat.

  • I'm only good at basketball because of my height. :-)

    • Bingo! oh, wait... sorry, saw all the letters and numbers and got excited. Is Bingo a sport?

      No... eating, I'm good at eating, is that a sport? No?

      Actually, I'm great at paintball, I went rollerblading last night, I play racquetball on occasion. I used to golf, but I sucked. I swim on occasion, but not for sport. Ride bikes, also not for sport, but fun.

    • You suck.

      Oh, and my answer is the same as yours. All around.

      I'm in a ditto mood today.

      Ditto. Ditto. Dot. Ditto Ditto ditto dorito door ditto.

  • B-9! (Score:1)

    by Deamos ( 108051 )
    Did I hit your battleship? No? Damn!

    I used to play rollerhockey, does that count as Hockey? I was god awful, then progressed to just awful, never really made it past that point as I stopped playing due to lack of time and having become a fatass. :)

    Now I study a martial art.. Whether or not that is considered a sport specifically I have no idea. Whether or not I am any good is a question that I can't give a objective answer to, besides in the grand scheme I am still very much a beginner at it. (the ans
    • Re:Sopranos:

      Why do I want to waste my time watching yet another mindless Mafia show?

      Sorry man, haven't watched 1 second of the Sopranos. But from what I hear, the last couple three episodes sucked ass.

      • I dunno, the last couple were okay, but man last nights episode was just crap.

        I enjoy the Sopranos sometimes for the show but more often its fun to watch where they are shooting various scenes. Having grown up for 13 years in Verona, NJ makes for some fun viewing.

        But man last night was crap. If I wasn't hanging out with friends and had been by myself I would have ended up watching something else or screwing around on the computer.

        Bleh. I want my hour back! :)
        • Nope. I liked it. Thought it was great. Good for David Chase for spending HALF an episode in a dream sequence. That's cool. :-)

          Em, you're missing out on a great fucking show. Really.

          ....Bethanie....
          • I dunno, just didn't sit with me properly. But then again with how the show has been escalating lately I keep expecting every episode to end up as a bloodbath. It seems that may happen sooner or later.

            Of course all I need to do for my bloodbath is hang around and watch DeadWood. Really have gotten into that show, and each time I think I have one of the main characters motivations figured out the writers seem to manage to pull one over on me.

            But I like it all the same, though it is a more than a little
            • Since I became a mother, I have to be a lot more careful about what I watch. Shows like Deadwood (what little glimpses I've caught of it) are too (to use your excellent word) brutal for me.

              Sopranos is too good a show just to spill it all at once. It's more (IMO) about the psychology and symbolism (and family dynamics) than it is about the whole gangster milieu. That's one of the things I loved about last week's episode -- the last scene when Tony provokes Janice... That shit's just too good, too real to b
  • I used to be a darn good swimmer. I'm competent in many sports and of course my self-image is that of a near sports-god. :-D

    Not bad at volleyball. Goalie in soccer. A real threat in softball. Can play tennis and beat up the ground real good with a golf club.

    Along with that I enjoy rock climbing and caving. (Caving being an interesting past time where the real joy is the fact that at the end you can actually stretch your hands above your head and see sunlight.)

    Of course, I was a REAL threat back on t
  • I'm fairly ok at soccer, baseball, and volleyball. Of the three, volleyball I would consider my strongest.

    For baseball/softball, I dont have a preferred position, but avoid playing first, catcher, and pitcher. I'm ok at hitting depending on how decent the pitcher is. (believe it or not - i prefer better pitchers when I hit as they can reliably put the ball in a hittable spot).

    For soccer - I prefer halfback and forward wing positions. Defense or goal are two places I prefer not to be.
  • Let me preface this by saying those are the sports I used to play. Like blinder above chronic knee problems have forced me to give them up.

    Football - cornerback
    Baseball - shortstop
    Golf - got down to a 12 handicap before having to give it up.
    Child rearing - I could give this up at any moment. I have a daily dilemma as to whether I should let that 15 year old angst-ridden son of mine continue to exist or not. Well OK not really... but there's been a few times where I've had to force myself not to put my hand
  • I like playing football (usually the flag variety).

    Second one I enjoy is bowling. I love to bowl.

    And thirdly, fishing. I looooove fishin. May try and get lessons on fly fishing (been dying to learn, just never had time). Yeah, my son already has a rod, but it'll be a year or two until he'll be patient enough to try.
    • For lessons on fly fishing, watch "A River Runs Through It" and then realize that it will never be as good as the movie shows it was back in the 20s.

      I fish, almost exclusively of the fly variety, and never had lessons. I just got out in the yard with the rod and some line and then went at it. I am sure I have horrible form, which is complicated by carpal tunnel.

      But man if it isn't satisfying to watch a trout rise up to grab your fly that you placed between two rocks just for him/her.

      In fact, I just wen
  • No sports. Volleyball is my favorite sport, but you would need a few more people to actually play.
    • You doing alright?

      • I'm fine. I just don't have a volleyball team. And I just noticed that I appear to be bleeding. Cut myself on glass again, I suppose. But mostly I don't have a volleyball team.
        • you're teh funny.

          I'm quite certain you know I wasn't referring to volleyball, or your lack of a team, but ok.

          I'll see what I can do to get some folks to help you out with your lack of a volleyball team.

    • Make it topless volleyball and most of slashdot will show up to try out for teams... You'll have your own LEAGUE!

      And stop playing with broken glass, m'kay?

  • SEX! That's my favorite sport.

    What? It's not a competitive sport? Oh, oops. Sorry.

    Ok, I guess I'm just a sports novice. I have played several different ones, but the only one that I was told that I could go far in, if I had more dedication, was golf. But that little ball is the best way to ruin a perfectly good walk!

  • I can't play any sport at all. When I was younger I could run forever and a day (I broke a 6 min mile in like 8th grade), but now I'm old, fat and totally out of shape.
  • I play hockey and softball now. I was a good tennis player and bowler in high school (won district doubles and had a 189 average respectively). I got paid to play hockey professionally for 2 games in the spring of '95.

    All of this was 60 pounds, 2 reconstructive knee surgeries, a staph infection/gangrene in my knew, broken leg/ankle/foot and a torn achillies tendon ago. Now I just screw around playing roller and deck hockey and occasionally some softball.

    -Ab
  • i can break a board with my hand, does that count?

    seriously, martial arts are a sport. Therefore other martial arts should be sports, including bellowing, ranting, barfights, ad hominem attacks, the wild jig of unanticipated reprisal, combat fruitcakes at forty paces, and the ever-popular rattlesnake-swinging contest ritual, which no one knows about because those who undertake it so rarely survive.

    Polls should also be considered a sport.
  • football (the real thing), rugby, and water polo (my favorite). I can't do any of these things anymore due to various injuries :-(
  • I would also put down rock climbing, but that isn't a traditional sport in that you aren't in direct competition to another person / team. The competition comes in "did you climb that route?" sort of thing.

    jason
    • Yup, I agree. I was wondering how you missed extreme sports -- I go rock climbing or skydiving -- those are fun :)

      And we do have contests in rock climbing sometimes -- which team reaches the top first.

      But other than that, I play football (the real thing :-p) and a wee bit of tennis.
  • I get really tired of the geek/nerd stereotype that assumes if you like computers or read a lot, you are physically inept. I like balance - since I read obsessively, I balance that with some obsessive physical activity.

    Not sure I'd call child-rearing a sport, but it certainly is physically demanding (no more horsey-rides now that they are hitting their teens, but still demanding). Hockey is my fave of those listed, though hiking, biking, roller-blading, and ice-skating are others I enjoy.

  • C 7 (Score:2)

    by aridhol ( 112307 )
    Kendo is Japanese fencing. I'm OK at it and slowly improving.

    Although I got my ass handed to me yesterday. When there are senior sensei visiting, they don't "play down" to your ability like my regular sensei does.

  • not great. when i focus on something i can be good.

    i played basketball, but it was recreational for me. i was never really competative about it. i didn't suck, at least not most of the time. i was never good enough to make the school team. i just played in a local league.

    i was a decent fencer, but never on the level that CVR is. i have beaten some B rated fencers and fenced some A rated fencers and not been completely trounced, but i was also inconsistent. i didn't have a good training regimen. lo
  • I played some tennis a long time ago, right now I play some badminton, it hurts less when you get the ball in the face.
  • C,1,2,7,9 (racquetball)
  • Chess 0wnZ j00.

    All I know is that Chess matches were shown in the Sports section of Soviet news broadcasts.^-^

  • A 5, 9 (Score:2)

    by arb ( 452787 )
    I like to watch sport, but don't play any sports.

    When I was in school though we had a volleyball league going, and my friends and I had a team (The Bartholomew Slaters (Don't ask)) and we won more often than not. I made it onto the school's volleyball team twice and the basketball team twice too - but the basketball thing was just to make up the numbers, 'cos I sucked at it.

    I used to play a bit of cricket at school as well. Plus tennis - that was always fun.

    I played a bit of golf around about the same ti

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