[CAT] Scratching Post

I'm trying to get you to realize that the only difference between racing and other sports is the car. If an object is what disqualifies it, then the ball disqualifies the rest of the sports. The only thing left to be called a sport is fighting, and that can be disqualified if you require a team.

Real sports for real men originate from combat and hunting.

Skiing, is that a sport?

Now hunting is not a sport.

Wunderschlung wrote:Real sports for real men originate from combat and hunting.

Skiing, is that a sport?

If you're on vacation in Norway or France - no, it is leisure. If you're competing against other athletes in a ski race or trying to get the best ski jump length result, then yes. In fact, skiing falls into Dick's original category - physical exercise. Skiing comes from needs of transportation in snowy areas, so it can be thought of as a sport rooted in real life needs.

So would we consider competition horse-racing a sport? It fits your definition of real sports. It can be compared to racing again: to ride a horse well, and to control a car well, you need some physical and mental qualities.

KennysRevenge wrote:Now hunting is not a sport.

Hunting and fishing can both be sports and leisure - remember that they originated from real-life needs, and the closer you come to those needs, the tougher it gets. It takes good general conditioning to track an animal for hours in the cold forest, for one.

It's not a sport unless the hunted can shoot back. I could kill a deer every day and never leave my back yard. It's hard to consider that a sport.

KennysRevenge wrote:It's not a sport unless the hunted can shoot back. I could kill a deer every day and never leave my back yard. It's hard to consider that a sport.

Ok, so does that make bounty hunting a sport? :P

Hunting can be physical (week-long hunting trips in the wilderness) and competetive (first prize to the person who can get the most meat home in that time). I can't really say why that shouldn't be a sport, even though I do acknowledge that what you are talking about is messing about at best.

Kirill wrote:Hunting can be physical (week-long hunting trips in the wilderness) and competetive (first prize to the person who can get the most meat home in that time).

This I might could consider a sport. As for Bounty Hunting, you're damn right. Look at how fine a specimen Dawg is!

Doesn't a sport need some element of competition?

As far as I am concerned to qualify as a sport it needs to include competition and physical exertion. F1 has both of those. Ergo it is a sport.

Spandex wrote:Doesn't a sport need some element of competition?

Key word: Organisation.

As I say, there is no end to this philosophy, its a good old debate.

DickSchittlippz wrote:You guys have a pretty low bar in terms of what's actually athletic. I guess if hot and uncomfortable and having to concentrate is all it takes, I'll just turn off the air conditioning at the office today and sweat while I think...I'll earn Sportsman of the Year.

I don't remember you ever even mentioning remotely some sort of physical activity, Lance...

DickSchittlippz wrote:

Wow. One hell of a specimen there. You've gotta be in prime physical condition to be a top auto racer, eh?

I guess Tony Stewart's manboobs just help him deal with the gforces and dehydration, eh?

Operating machinery =/ sport

Looks like some fat NASCAR racing dude. Driving around a big roundabout is not a sport. They barely move their flabby arms!!

Wunderschlung wrote:Skiing, is that a sport?

Clearly you've never gone skiing. I've skied my whole life and yes, that's a fucking sport!

Spandex wrote:Doesn't a sport need some element of competition?

As far as I am concerned to qualify as a sport it needs to include competition and physical exertion. F1 has both of those. Ergo it is a sport.

It also has hot chicks going after the athletes. That's a sport. Sex is a sport...

Chodaboy wrote:

Wunderschlung wrote:Skiing, is that a sport?

Clearly you've never gone skiing. I've skied my whole life and yes, that's a fucking sport!

Cross country skiing is the most aerobically demanding activity there is, the highest energy expenditures in history have been recorded whilst cross country skiing (Sir Ranulph Fiennes). Its the ultimate.
Dislocated my shoulder cross country skiing.

Dunno why you taking that stance with me, im the dude who thinks Chess and poker are sports.