Which sport requires the least amount of skill?
 

Any ideas guys?

I think team sports are out of the question.

Running

I second running. That's more a question of your body having to be up to the task. Putting one foot in front of another until you're past the finish line can't be too complicated.

What sort of running? Long distance? I can see skill in sprinting, posture and technique, correct form coming out of the blocks and whatnot. Long distance makes sense but if you're doing a 10k correct pacing and timing seems like a skill to me.

I was thinking something like strongman.

There's a lot of technique is strongman stuff as well. When it gets down to the nitty gritty to be able to do anything better than others in competition is going to take a lot of technique. The reason I chose running is because it's something every young abled body person does at least periodically. That also makes it a very pure sport.

I was actually thinking first and foremost of 100 meter sprint. You don't have to pace yourself - you simply have to give all you've got in one go, and then it's back to the locker room. Sure, you can try to shave precious miliseconds off by being in optimal ready position just before the "go", having your weight moved towards the front foot as early as possible without getting a false start, but once you're running, you just do so in a specific, optimal way that every other runner will do exactly the same, and you don't change your tactics at any point and there will be no one in your lane and there's no need to even be aware of what the other runners are doing.

I'm not sure there's any sport with no skill involved at all.

I don't know enough about strongman competitions to have an idea of what techniques it might involve.

Racewalking

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Quidditch. You can be an utter incompetent on a team of utter incompetents but as long as you have a good Seeker you can still win by 12,000 points. But if we're talking real sports then shin kicking.

Damn that's disturbing

I mean theoretically there could be skill involved, but those are just belligerent drunks with an audience. And for any skill to develop the "athletes" would have to practice enough that they'd probably have to wear peg legs.

Esports

MB is a bad place to ask this question cause like 3/4th of these nerds haven’t even left their basement in the last year.

out of the sports i played in high school i would definitely say cross country took the least amount of skill. it definitely still requires some skill, and you need to dedicate a lot of time and energy to prepare your body, but it’s prettt straight forward. keep your pace.

Probably true, and about me too.
When I was a teenager, I did do mixed athletics for a year or two. I wasn't half bad as long distance jumping and spear throwing.

really i was just ****ting on frown and batlord cause they're fat and couldn't play a rec league sport if they wanted to.

i think it's really easy to call a sport easy or say it requires less skill if you haven't played it, but once you try it your opinion is apt to change. i used to **** on golf a lot until i actually tried it a few times and realized just how difficult it is.

and esports are fake sports but they definitely require a **** ton of skills. different skills than, you know, actual sports, but still a ton of skill.

I can't believe I didn't know that was a thing.

I'm in awe of how anyone can be so fast and precise in any sport that involves striking a ball with a piece of equipment or a limb.

Tennis especially seems inhumanly difficult to me, considering how precise pro players actually are in holding their racket at just the right angle and orientation, swinging it with perfect precision, judging the ball as it comes at you at impossible speeds, etc.
Golf is the same, except you have time to get your shot right.

I'm not sure there's any mainstream sport that isn't impressive in terms of what the pro athletes are capable of.

About E-sports; I'm impressed at the skills of fighting game players, but probably only because I play those games myself.

Tennis. Just run and hit it, easy as ****.

Right, sure, that's all it is.

So how much skill do you expect is involved in shin kicking? Or cheese rolling?



Turkish oil wrestling? Yeah I was pretty happy when I found out too. For reasons.

i'm no tennis fan but it's a ****ing insane game. the combination of reflexes, speed, and power required. not to mention how precise you need to be with your placement.

if anyone has 10 minutes to spare and wants to see just how good you need to be to be the best football player in the world, check this out



not only the best football player, but i would also say the best technically gifted athlete. if you look at a LeBron James, Cam Newton, Mike Trout, whoever else you want to point out as an elite tier athlete, they all use their out of this world physicality to help bring them to that level. Messi doesn't have that. he's tiny, even by a footballers standards. messi doesn't have the ability to go shoulder to shoulder or out power his opponents, so instead he makes sure every other aspect of his game is as sharp as humanly possible. you have to appreciate the work he puts in.

Messi never even scored a touchdown.

That's some highly impressive boring ****.

with footwork like that i'm sure he could

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His bitch ass would get snapped like a twig in the NFL.

kinda unrelated but the NFL is the worst sporting organization in the world and i've gotten tired of the drama that always surrounds everything in the league. i've watched all of 2 games this season. didn't even build a fantasy team for the first time in like 4 years.

Why the **** are you a Canadian watching the NFL?

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because i like american football and the canadian football league is for players who have no business being pros

I don't really understand or care about soccer, but I watched some of that video. I loved how he more than once shook off an intercepting player by simply pretending to shift in one direction, then immediately shifting back again. The other player takes the bait and shifts his weight to the opposite side, not being able to recover and continue chasing when he realizes he's been had. All this without Messi even touching the ball :laughing:

That must be a pretty frustrating move to be outplayed by.

yeah, that's exactly it. it's not like he's doing this to nobodies, these are professionals in the highest tier of European football and he's making them trip over their own legs like a goddamn new born deer. he's just an artist with the ball at his feet.

Seriously. It's bad enough that we watch it. Instant replay has really destroyed a bad thing.

You mean how four hours of game are generally divided between 60% commercials, 20% instant replay, and 20% actual game?

you forgot 15% of guys standing around which leaves only 5% for actual game

but unlike soccer, that 5% is at least entertaining

Whenever I think of football the image that always immediately pops into my head is a bunch of guys milling around looking bored with their arms akimbo.

One of the best things about him is the consistency he does it with, you know that he is going to be counted.

That qualifier the other week was ridiculous, the scrutiny and pressure on him when he plays for Argentina would finish most players off but he thrived on it, made sure that they won.

the best part is that even after all these years of doing it, no one can stop him. he uses the same tricks to beat defenders all the time, they know it's coming, but there's still nothing they can do. i would imagine when a team plays against them there is a player sent out there with the role of shadowing Messi, and yet still you rarely if ever see him go a whole game without scoring or creating more than 1 goal.