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[QUOTE=Jasi]Yeah but the point here is: what is the sport where it's easiest to reach an olympic level.
Running would probably be at the bottom of the list.
If your body structure isn't adequate, there's no training that will get you there.
Unless you become a Bhutan citizen or something.[/QUOTE]
People fail to realize athletes in Marathon run as fast as common people at their fastest speed, for 42,195km.
[QUOTE=Jasi]Yeah but the point here is: what is the sport where it's easiest to reach an olympic level.
Running would probably be at the bottom of the list.
If your body structure isn't adequate, there's no training that will get you there.
Unless you become a Bhutan citizen or something.[/QUOTE]
Correct, and we have to stress the genetics and bodytype here. Some sports simply require a certain build, but maybe, given you have that type of build, sport becomes easy? For example take a 7 foot volleyball player. I really think that sport isn't hard, it's just concentration and basic movement... Well, you have to have somewhat "good" hands, I suppose, but it's really a sport that in our school the laziest guys used to play (those that found basketball requiring too much physical energy). So yeah. My nomination goes to volleyball.
I have to admit, I know a bunch of people who played volleyball at a fairly high level. Nothing extraordinary, but high national amateur level, and I was never really impressed with their overall athletic ability.
These weren't the people who tended to get picked first in gym class for anything but volleyball. People who excel at other sports such as basketball or soccer you could count on to be quite adequate at most sports, but the same couldn't be said about the "volleybal people".
[QUOTE=LJJ]I have to admit, I know a bunch of people who played volleyball at a fairly high level. Nothing extraordinary, but high national amateur level, and I was never really impressed with their overall athletic ability.
These weren't the people who tended to get picked first in gym class for anything but volleyball. People who excel at other sports such as basketball or soccer you could count on to be quite adequate at most sports, but the same couldn't be said about the "volleybal people".[/QUOTE]
Volleyball people are known to jump a lot higher than BBall people.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6dsJ7NrTE[/url]
Plus the speed and precision is crazy. When someone spikes, the ball travels so fast you have less than 0.1 second to react or you're too late. This occurs for the most part of the game.
well if you live in usa getting in the olympics will be pretty damn hard even if you are a good athlete...for a small country (african mostly) is much easier... doesnt matter if you failed to qualify for the semis/finals... still you made the olympics :confusedshrug:
if you watch the heats ( qualifications, they are on air right now ) there are peeps running around 12 seconds in 100m( last in the race :lol but still olympic level :D )... any good athlete can run that fast with some training... also the same can be said for swimming
as being a championship level in the olympics? probably badminton
[QUOTE=Boomerang]Volleyball people are known to jump a lot higher than BBall people.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6dsJ7NrTE[/url]
Plus the speed and precision is crazy. When someone spikes, the ball travels so fast you have less than 0.1 second to react or you're too late. This occurs for the most part of the game.[/QUOTE]
Well... Point still stands. You do what you can do, it's not like pro volleyball athletes have vastly superior reaction time to the average bloke. Reaction times are defined by the speed of neurons transmitting signals, and that's pretty much a constant. You can improve a little here and there, you may have an inherited somewhat better reaction time but realistically it's only miliseconds. In sports people do react to such things by context, as in table tennis - you couldn't react fast enough to calculate and hit the incoming ball - yet, you can judge the trajectory by the moves of the opponent. Add some playing experience and you have it as good as almost any player.
I would also claim that shooting with pistols or rifles must be really easy. Relatively it requires almost none physical training, as the biggest part is mental: focus. And that's it... You either have parkinsons and can't hit shit, or you're good at it. Now hold your breath and do your thing...
Plus, not everyone gets the gun to shoot at young age or any age, it's not the typical birthday gift as a basketball or football, thus making the field smaller.
[QUOTE=alenleomessi]well if you live in usa getting in the olympics will be pretty damn hard even if you are a good athlete...for a small country (african mostly) is much easier... doesnt matter if you failed to qualify for the semis/finals... still you made the olympics :confusedshrug:
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I would try looking at it the other way - training for any sport in undeveloped countries must be awful. Remember Sadam forcing physical punishment on "underperforming" athletes? Think of North Korea footballers, that were happy finding a frigde in the WC housing appartments... They do spill blood to get anywhere, I believe. While countries like USA have the most advanced training facilities and the best care for their athletes.
[QUOTE=alenleomessi]well if you live in usa getting in the olympics will be pretty damn hard even if you are a good athlete...for a small country (african mostly) is much easier... doesnt matter if you failed to qualify for the semis/finals... still you made the olympics :confusedshrug:
if you watch the heats ( qualifications, they are on air right now ) there are peeps running around 12 seconds in 100m( last in the race :lol but still olympic level :D )... any good athlete can run that fast with some training... also the same can be said for swimming
as being a championship level in the olympics? probably badminton[/QUOTE]
You go play badminton at Olympic level and you won't even see the shuttlecock. Badminton is crazy underrated.
[QUOTE]"Badminton is the fastest racquet sport in the world with shuttles reaching speeds of up to 332 km/h (206 mph) (faster than the speed of the Eurostar train)."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"The shuttlecock is poised to enter the Guinness Book of Records at 162 miles per hour (261 kph) -- the speed it travels on the smash -- compared to squash's 151 mph (243 kph) and a mere 138 mph (222 kph) for tennis. Badminton's promoters hope the speed record might bolster the sport's image and help move it out of other racket sports' shadows, particularly in regions where tennis and squash reign supreme. Besides Guinness, I saw some books claiming the speed for shuttlecock is about 300 km/h."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/ShuMeiDeng.shtml"]http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/ShuMeiDeng.shtml[/URL]
that might be the starting speed.. but quickly it gets much slower and its not that hard to catch if you have good reflexes...
but anyway Mr Iknowiteverything why dont you tell us what is the easiest olympic sport?!
[QUOTE=alenleomessi]that might be the starting speed.. but quickly it gets much slower and its not that hard to catch if you have good reflexes...
but anyway Mr Iknowiteverything why dont you tell us what is the easiest olympic sport?![/QUOTE]
I don't know, but I've played badminton competitively and I know it isn't. Not only does it require great technique, but also great footwork and reflexes. It's fast as hell, and exhausting. Hitting a shuttle with a racket is one thing, playing badminton is a whole different one.
Now if we're speaking about your country, it's probably goat milking.
No way it is easy reaching the olympic level at badminton. Are you nuts?
It seems to me like you guys (Nick Young, alen and others) consider sports you just don't know in depth as easy :rolleyes:
Kinda late here but I don't think there is such a thing as EASY olympic sport. There definitely are simple ones, but simple doesn't always mean easy. Sure, rules and basics are easy to grasp, but the amount of TIME, TRAINING, & COMMITMENT of majority of olympic athletes is something that not everyone can handle. For a lot of these dudes, it's their LIFE. Sure, you may love playing basketball, picking heavy stuff off the ground, and diving gracefully into a body of water, but imagine that 3-4x a day, at least 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year (well, not really because their training involves planned/"scientifically placed" down times in order to increase their skill in their sport). I wouldn't call that easy, regardless of what sport it is.
[QUOTE=DonD13]yeah, this, sports fans are funny
those guys train hard for years nearly every day but the ISH community would beat them all....[/QUOTE]
No.. just me. I'm good at everything I do.
I have played at HS levels winning 3 straight championships for both bball and vball. I then went on an intellectual run and got my engineering degree, and now grabbing my law degree. I accomplish what I want.
Everything I do i'm good at :pimp: Now for the olympic gold..
Just a young man trying to collect accolades on his limited time on earth :pimp:
Trampoline?
[QUOTE=Jasi]No way it is easy reaching the olympic level at badminton. Are you nuts?
It seems to me like you guys (Nick Young, alen and others) consider sports you just don't know in depth as easy :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
well if badminton isnt easy to reach then nothing really is, so the thread is kind of pointless, everyone can just throw in random sports.. and that spanish nerd will just tell us how hard the sport is ( since he obviously played it at a high level )
[QUOTE=alenleomessi]well if badminton isnt easy to reach then nothing really is, so the thread is kind of pointless, everyone can just throw in random sports.. and that spanish nerd will just tell us how hard the sport is ( since he obviously played it at a high level )[/QUOTE]
I never said I played at a high level, not even close to it. I said I played it competitively. I didn't have anything close to the necessary talent to play at a high level. You should abstain from commenting on sports you've never played. It makes you look like a fool, but then again, so does every other post you've ever made on this board.
Up.
We never came to a conclusion on OP's question.
We did conclude, however, that people tend to diminish the sports they don't really know.
Equestrian horse trash sports are the easiest. All you need is lots of money to buy a good horse and pay for a good trainer. The rider does jack shit except sit with good posture and is awarded a gold medal for it.
The sport where they do a pirouette and proceed to throw a heavy metal ball from under their chin into mid air. Don't know what it's called.:confusedshrug:
[QUOTE=Nick Young]Equestrian horse trash sports are the easiest. All you need is lots of money to buy a good horse and pay for a good trainer. The rider does jack shit except sit with good posture and is awarded a gold medal for it.[/QUOTE]
But physical traits are involved.
At 6'1 and 185 lbs you could never be an olympic level jockey regardless of money and training.
[QUOTE=Tarik One]The sport where they do a pirouette and proceed to throw a heavy metal ball from under their chin into mid air. Don't know what it's called.:confusedshrug:[/QUOTE]
It's called "the sport where female olympians would beat you"
[IMG]http://www.rietimeeting.com/wp-content/uploads/valerie-adams-photosport.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Nick Young]Equestrian horse trash sports are the easiest. All you need is lots of money to buy a good horse and pay for a good trainer. The rider does jack shit except sit with good posture and is awarded a gold medal for it.[/QUOTE]Looks like you'll be headlining Disney's newest event "Ignorance on parade"
[QUOTE=Nick Young]Equestrian horse trash sports are the easiest. All you need is lots of money to buy a good horse and pay for a good trainer. The rider does jack shit except sit with good posture and is awarded a gold medal for it.[/QUOTE]
Still needs a lot of time and efforts to train with the horse or you could end up being Christopher Reeve'ed.
curling. easy.
[QUOTE=ROCSteady]curling. easy.[/QUOTE]
This was my first thought as well. Some of those Curlers looked like housewives.
[QUOTE=ROCSteady]curling. easy.[/QUOTE]
This.
Where your substitute teacher can win a Gold Medal.
[IMG]http://i0.wp.com/cdnolympic.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/kevin-martin_2010_1340px.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill]Table Tennis is probably the least physically demanding of all the events. Almost anyone can do it and it doesn't take years of training.[/QUOTE]
Lol the coordination and touch, ridiculous... a stereotype if anything.
On average, you move more in table tennis than any other sport, too.
Try to actually be good at it than just pushing balls over the net back and forth (sorry, but table tennis is my weak spot since I play it and people just aren't very thoughtful about it).
[QUOTE=alenleomessi]its easy to learn not to suck but its extremely hard to learn to be good at it
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU[/url]
you think anyone can learn to do this?[/QUOTE]
from these videos its impossible for casuals to gather the spin on these balls
Trampoline?
Invest in one and go ham on that b1tch...