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so you don't count gymnastics as a sport either?

nope same things hard as hell but no consistent scoring so it think its a competition

I'm glad another person agrees with me on this. I've never liked "sports" that are based on loose scoring definitions. Although, a very biased umpire/referee can make any other game go how they want.

but they get points, and the person with the best score wins

that score is from judges, like i said the same exact performance could get a different score from the same judges on different days, it is not a consistent scoring system so i consider it a competition

Boxing is a sport.

Although the judges....are shit sometimes, like in the Bradley vs Pacquiao match with the 115-113 in the favor of Bradley. And the funny part is, is that that wasn't even the most controversial fight.
news.yahoo.com/pacquiao-vs-bradley-results-produce-controversial-tim-brad ley-054100091--box.html

They are very close to including Chess into the Olympics. Do you also consider Chess a sport? Just because its in the Olympics doesn't make it, by definition, a sport.

Chess is actually a sport.

so is rolling a rock down ice, and sweeping the path in front of it. and I still don't consider that a sport (curling)

You can make it sound easy, but curlers are reported to have the same physical build as football players

this is my personal view not the official definition

i do consider gymnastics a sport. but i don't consider pole-dancing a sport, nor stripping, for more or less the same reason: it's a show!

So then if you don't score, then it's not a sport?

By that logic, my sex life isn't a sport either.

no not necessarily in track the person who crosses the finish line will always finish first and in shot put the person who throws it the farthest will always win it doesn't need to be a scoring system just a consistent system

I AGREE

Thank you for defining this. I hate how people incorporate dog shows, equestrian shows, spelling bees, synchronized swimming as well as ballet. All of which can not define a winner without someone judging or having just straight pure-bred, or good memorizing skills. I see to it that there is a physical need. Time constraints.

I consider racing and point earning, physical contact (like jousting or sparing), or KO's (like wrestling and boxing). As a best way to say who wins. These are really true sports imo

I agree with you, but referees also make a huge difference. A decision for say, a penalty kick vs. an inderect kick can make every difference in a game, and it's all up to the ref, just like in cheerleading.

Again: I do not think its a sport. There's no objective (eg. get the ball in the net)

The thing is, there's more severe injuries in Cheer-leading than any other high school "sport", primarily BECAUSE it's not considered a sport. The sheer fact that it's not considered a sport makes it 6 times more dangerous than the second most dangerous High school level sport.

Cheer-leading is Gymnastics replacing the huge blue pads with either hard Wood, or Cement. Occasionally Grass, and rarely very thin pads that do nothing to help.

i feel like i could help you say this in a shorter way. it is a performance that is scored, but not a sport with a set score system.

Yeah i swim, but i don't call it a sport.

Ahem...

Knockout = win

How's that unclear?

You serious?

Explain what I'm doing wrong then.

In Boxing they have judges.

True, but knock out pretty much secures victory, unless it's a rare case, correct?

Yes, but he says that he only considers sports with definite scoring to be actual sports. Not every boxing match ends with a knockout, if anything, a lot of them don't.

Don't forget e-sporting.

We had a discussion about this. While marching band isn't considered a sport to my eyes, I think it meets and exceeds a lot of other sports in physical conditioning. I did it for four years, worked with a group for two, and am planning to audition for DCI. While running around in tempo and holding your breath for 7 to 8 minutes seems insane, the stuff we went to were "competitions," and not "athletic meets."

TL;DR: Marching band is hard, but is not a sport.

As a senior who just ended my last year of Marching Band in high School I will say that not even I consider it a sport. That doesn't mean it is easy either though, I do other sports along side of Marching Band, and it is more physically demanding than even some of them. Mainly Football, believe or not but Marching Band (at least in my school) is a lot more difficult to do than football.

I have never been in marching band, but by watching what the marching band does at my school when they practice I can conclude that they are pretty fucking bad ass.

At least marching bands take actual skill to pull off, unlike cheerleading.

Luckily everyone else is also too busy staring at the girls to notice the raging hard on.

not the gays... trust me, first thing my gay friend pointed out, was the guy looking up and getting a boner... I died laughing... and then got slapped because one of the cheer leader's friends thought i was laughing at their performance...

I run cross country. That takes serious endurance and practice, running several hours a day, yet there are no offensive or defensive teams. Its all based on the combined skill of everyone the entire time.

Cross country isn't a sport, it's a competitive activity. Just because something is hard, that doesn't mean it's a sport.

how is a competitive activity different than a sport? i see that basketball and football are different than running competitively, but that doesn't mean it isn't a sport

Video gaming is a competitive activity, getting ahead in the work-place is a competitive activity, shopping on Black Friday is a competitive activity. Competition isn't the only thing that makes a sport a sport.

I get what your saying, i was just bringing up the point of cross country as a sport compared to cheerleading

I saw what you did there... others might not have, but I did...

I've heard of people breaking arms falling out of bunk beds. Sleeping sure must be a tough sport.

I was expecting sexism for a moment but that's actually some quality logic

Or Georg Bush senior?

*George

When I ran cross country, I ate a big mac before running a 5k.

same

I completely agree with the part about cheerleaders.

mfw I could still run a 17min 5k

MFW im a wrestler and its in god tier

Same here dude. What weight class?
>2012
>being a faggot heavyweight

145 lol

i agree except put swimming in god teir

>swimming
>god tier

It's hard, but there is too much of a variety in the events for it to be in god tier.

You have guys who did one or two laps of freestlye and then you had guys who would do 10 or so then you had guys who did IM's.

The longest event in swimming is 20 laps, 800 yards. I'm a wrestler and cross country runner and I tried swimming last year, worst and hardest 3 months of my life.

i guess,but in high school i was in Tennessee and we had the only real respectable swim team...this meant our coach worked our asses off every practice. plus we didn't have an ice hockey team,so i was figuring swimming would replace that

Swimmers usually have nice bods.

Soccer players don't utilize upper body strength like football. And running backs and corner backs have just as good conditioning as most high school soccer players. I knew wrestlers who would outrun soccer players on and off seasons.

Softball is the same thing as baseball but a bigger ball and under pitched. I played both, they're equally as hard.

Yea, right, golf is easy. I'd like to see you try. I've tired all of those but rugby, lacrosse and wrestling and golf is by far the hardest. Not maybe physically demanding but it's hard as fuck.

In games, baseball is somewhat hard. Off the field/preseason conditioning is horrible!

Not really. Sports is being generous by saying its in the mid tier.