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IceClaw247
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Thought of this thread idea where I make all my life changing decisions and ideas, the shower.
I myself am not a very sporty kind of guy, I don't like most sports and find them boring and pointless, especially English Football, although most of the players and managers are not of English nationality. American Football is essentially wussy Rugby, and should be called handball not Football which seems a ridiculous sport to me. Anyway speaking on terms of sports I play regularly which are Tennis and Squash. I have been playing tennis since I was a young kid like most people and since last year have taken up Squash which is a cross between Tennis and Rugby Fives, me not being a sport/fitness freak did not realise how demanding the game was. But after frequent trips to the gym I have become more fit and have started to get quite good at Squash and enjoy it thoroughly; playing every weekend. So what sports do y'all like/play regularly? ^~^

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GhostOfMatrix
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I can't be bothered watching any sport. I just don't find any of them exciting to watch, but I love playing basketball and football whenever it's warm enough out. I plan on trying golf in the spring time as well.

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I love sports.. Die hard for them. I have played from tennis to soccer to baseball to football.

I gotta say though ever since I was 3 football has been my favorite sport. I have several years of hands-on experience with the sport itself and my whole life watching it. After that would come basketball&gtaintball (I played on a semi-pro team)>baseball>soccer>all other sports.

Right now I'm on off-season but I'll be returning to my fav sport in around 2 months. Time to hit the gym

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Killersup has had many experiences with "sports". Never enjoyed them. People being showered with love for throwing someone into the dirt always seemed a bit barbaric.

However, cross country for Killersup has seemed to be enjoyable. Also on the addition, it makes the mile run in gym class ridiculously easy.

SportShark
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I'm not a fan of sports, I am the sport. My sport is playin' mastafully!

pierocet
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I play soccer most of the time.... sometimes football and i think sports are very enjoyable (especially when the weathers nice). The only sport i dislike is baseball which is because its boring...end of story.

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Well I think it is fairly known here that I Crossfit

So that..I like that

IceClaw247
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have played from tennis to soccer to baseball to football.
IceClaw247
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Goddamit phone stop getting ahead of your self. Anyway what I was going to say is isn't soccer and football the same? I thought soccer was just the American term for football. Over here we have a similar equivalent to Baseball called Rounders, usually played be girls you have four bases and a bat.

However, cross country for Killersup has seemed to be enjoyable

Gah I cant stand long distance running I don't understand how you find it enjoyable.
Well I think it is fairly known here that I Crossfit

Never heard of that, what does it entail?
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Never heard of that, what does it entail?


Tired right now..but I explain it thusly:
We essentially take all kinds of working out (lifting, cardio, gymnastics, etc), throw it in a blender, mix it up, and each day get something new.
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My favorite sport to play is ultimate frisbee. It's just so satisfying to throw a frisbee, and there's a million different ways to do it. Catching it and colliding into people is just a bonus. Rupturing ear drums is a minus.

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My favorite sport to play is ultimate frisbee. It's just so satisfying to throw a frisbee, and there's a million different ways to do it. Catching it and colliding into people is just a bonus. Rupturing ear drums is a minus.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I also play Golf. It's simple, yet challenging. Also, you will never (or at least should never) see anyone acting up on the course. The first thing you should learn when being taught Golf is the proper etiquette on the course. But you can still have fun with the game. Breaking three clubs on the same hole......good fun, that is.
sourwhatup2
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Anyway what I was going to say is isn't soccer and football the same? I thought soccer was just the American term for football.


For me Soccer is Soccer and Football is Football. So yeah xD

Gah I cant stand long distance running I don't understand how you find it enjoyable.


I love this too.. Well it comes with the training I do for football so.
StormWalker
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Sports that I hate?
ALL OF THE SPORTS
Okay bye.

TerminatorXM214
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I play soccer.

Played it since I was a little kid (so about 12 years by now). Favorite position: Center left defense.
Most played position: Center midfield.

It's great. I love playing indoor soccer and outdoor soccer. Normally I play year round except a month or two break over summer. But this winter was weird and they stopped accepting players because they had enough.

Waiting for spring.

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Not into any sports; always hated the air of silly competitiveness not to mention (for us boys at least, although I'm quite convinced ladies experience their own variant of it) machismo surrounding it, and everything it entails and implies. (Then commercialism, and...)

The only thing that does interest me would be (oriental) martial arts, however I don't really see them as a sport, more like something akin to meditation-in-action, as some might call it.

Haven't really been involved with any since I was a child, between lacking the money or time for it and it being hard sometimes to find a school or class that "clicks." Back then, did kyokushinkai karate for a while, much to my enjoyment & which apparently I wasn't bad at; after, besides the odd and very brief spell at t'ai chi and pa kua and (more briefly even, and unsuccessful at least with that class) aikido, nothing really. Would like (love, rather!) to pick up kendo some day still, and besides I walked past an outdoor t'ai chi class hosted by a Chinese fellow just recently where I felt like hey why not lemme see if I can catch up with them again & ask if I may join. It somehow spoke to me.

In terms of viewing pleasure, none of these rarely if ever get shown on TV here, regretfully. Besides, well, matches... see the above.

Come to think of it & having said all that, watching sports in the right and so inspiring company can work (obviously?), and so the lady's love of watching snooker and (yes, even...!) cricket I came to share for as long as that lasted, or at least in her company. Her mind's drifted on to other things, though, and so we rarely if ever do these days. Her present sometimes-fondness of darts matches btw I can't find it in me to share, though I don't mind having a go at the odd game myself. Same with snooker, for that matter, although my pub-dwelling days are well over, so can't say either of them happen very much anymore.

Sumo wrestling for some reason she likes seeing, btw, and since it's on here sometimes, I find it um mostly entertaining to watch. If that should somehow bespeak some well-hidden physical ideals of hers, she certainly picked the wrong guy for it

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