I "don't do" sports but the BBC quiz at bbc.in/1k6vulG says I am best suited to
"Extreme sports
"Extreme sports are suited to thrill-seekers, who are looking for excitement in their sport and the release of endorphins, and love being in a natural environment, and having a willingness to try new things and experience new sensations.
"These type of activities involve speed, height, intense physical exertion, and highly specialised gear, and are perceived as having a high degree of inherent danger.
"Extreme sports are suited to people with the following strengths: thrill-seeker, risk-taker, fearless and open to new ideas. "
Not such a bad analysis of what I would want if I were sporty I suppose.
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I hate and loathe anything to do with any sport, and have not the scintilla of interest in any. I am also not the slightest bit a team person in any shape or form. I took the test in case it would come up with something like monastic book reading or staring anxiously into space. I do a lot of that.
So it couldn't be more wrong both in choice and personality type. Must try harder, test setters!
Team Sports
Athletes who choose team sports tend to be more extrovert. Team sports are suited to people with the following skills: Excellent decision making skills, competitive, team player, focused.
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>> I took the test in case it would come up with something like monastic book reading or staring anxiously into space. I do a lot of that.
LOL
Individual sports - which just about sums me up. Although I can, and have worked as part of a team in daze gorn by.
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It said I am suited to Team Sports
I dont fancy that, so being Excellent decision making skills, competitive, team player, focused. I made an executive decision and changed the result to
Lifestyle Sports
Lifestyle sports often focus on the social aspect and enjoying time with friends. These kinds of activities help with feelings of motivation and well-being and are useful for maintaining and improving fitness levels. They are also a cost-effective way of being involved in sport.
Thats better. fancy that much more.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 20 Dec 15 at 08:36
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"I hate and loathe anything to do with any sport, and have not the scintilla of interest in any."
Isn't sport just another human activity and whether you are a participant or not you can't really ignore it totally . It's part of life.
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There's lots of human activity one chooses to ignore totally, surely? Anyway I'm just saying it does nothing for me, so take no part in it or watch it or have it on television or read anything about any of it. Is all. Occasionally I'm aware that people are driving about shouting or waving something coloured and that sometimes makes me assume something sporty is happening somewhere.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Sun 20 Dec 15 at 09:09
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I can understand not liking watching sport, actually I watch very little, but I try to take in an interest in most things that go on around me from politics to science, from cinema to music. It just seems perverse to deliberately ignore a significant human activity. It does for me anyway.
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I got "combat sports" for some reason.
Did you spill my pint...?!
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>> I got "combat sports" for some reason.
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>> Did you spill my pint...?!
Getting kicked in the nuts by your bike is pretty combative
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>> a significant human activity.
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Which begs an obvious question - is it?
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I got team sports, yet apart from football all the sports I've played have been individual ones.
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Played amateur Rugby League team sport.Before that as a youngster handball.Judo training Indonesian chap used to train us.The great days of Anton Geesink Dutch Olympic Champion.
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Haven't done any sports for years. Gave up squash & tennis when I broke my right wrist for the second time after (another) climbing accident. I don't suppose sweating up hillsides carrying a pack, staring at mountain lakes & tossing pancakes counts?
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None really. Had to play rugby union at a couple of the schools I went to but didn't enjoy it much. Same story with hockey and cricket.
Scrum-half of the first fifteen at my last school, a French aristo called de Rémusat, was very keen on soccer though. But at that place it was played indoors in a huge, echoing, tarmac-floored shed, with a tennis ball. In 'free time' of course... not my sort of thing at all. I've always been soppy and bone-idle.
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I did my sports sitting down - rowing and motor sport.
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>> I did my sports sitting down - rowing and motor sport.
I did do some rowing at my last school, but wasn't big or strong enough to shine. Despite the padded shorts, those sliding seats could give you painful blisters on yr nyash... and sculling skiffs took a bit of getting used to. You had to be able to swim!
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sun 20 Dec 15 at 16:10
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Climbing, running, riding and rowing are my sports so they don't fit into one category. Ironically climbing is probably the ultimate team sport owing to need for complete trust between lead and second.
I hated sport at school with a passion; if you didn't like ball games you were written off and my woeful hand-eye coordination meant that I hated them anyway. Given my level of fitness now I wonder sometimes what might have become had the school invested in a climbing wall / encouraged cycling or gave everyone a basic test to establish future potential w/regard to VO2max etc.
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Not sure 'potential' is something schools should be dabbling in, FF. Unless you aspire to the elite, most sporting achievement is based on commitment and willpower rather than innate talent, which simply means finding an activity you want to do and are prepared to work at. Telling a 12-year-old that they lack the necessary potential could send them in entirely the wrong direction.
Oh, and apparently it's 'Lifestyle Sports' for me. Cycling, walking, that sort of thing, which is fair enough. Only I've been a regular cricketer for the last 33 (!) seasons; perhaps that's all been a terrible mistake.
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Says I would like walking (too old given up) , walking (do it) and yoga (do it).
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>> Oh, and apparently it's 'Lifestyle Sports' for me. Cycling, walking, that sort of thing, which
>> is fair enough. Only I've been a regular cricketer for the last 33 (!) seasons;
>> perhaps that's all been a terrible mistake.
I hear you do a lot of walking in your innings.
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The longest walk of all, Z. But only once per weekend.
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If sport implies competition, none, but I enjoyed non-competetive sailing and canal boating before arthritis set in.
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Which sport suits your personality? - Crankcase
