Do you consider track a real sport ?

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Making this thread off the heels of this thread

But this is a discussion that I've always had amongst friends. How much skill is really involved in running ?

For eg. You can develop and hone specific skills within other sports like football or basketball. You can practice drills to better your hand eye coordination and tactics to improve your game. But with track you're just running.

Speed is something that's pretty much out of your control for the most part, would you agree ? Some people are just fast. Some people just aren't. You can train and enhance breath control to maximize your speed but for the most part isn't it just inherent ?

Thoughts ?

 

[tuckgod]

Negged.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Negged.

?

 

[Hey_zeus]

It's one of the OGs with wrestling.

 

[Sterling Archer]

?

Youre an idiot.

 

[feelosofer]

Track is one of the original sports. Who ever was the fastest escaped the being a leopards lunch

 

[Elim Garak]

Yes of course now if you asked about golf or nascar then you would have a convo.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

You can't hone aptitude that you don't have breh...what the hell are you even talking about

Say that the sport that birthed all sports ain't a sport brehs

 

[The ADD]

Making this thread off the heels of this thread

But this is a discussion that I've always had amongst friends. How much skill is really involved in running ?

For eg. You can develop and hone specific skills within other sports like football or basketball. You can practice drills to better your hand eye coordination and tactics to improve your game. But with track you're just running.

Speed is something that's pretty much out of your control for the most part, would you agree ? Some people are just fast. Some people just aren't. You can train and enhance breath control to maximize your speed but for the most part isn't it just inherent ?

Thoughts ?

There is technique within it. Yes you have to naturally be fast twitch but managing the start and how you run relative to where you are within the distance is a skill . Just think of football players that be coached to faster 40 times with the proper coaching.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Call into question the authenticity of the first sport ever brehs

 

[Matt504]

I wonder what could have happened recently to lead to the OP questioning the validity of Track & Field as a legitimate sport.

 

[The ADD]

I wonder what could have happened recently to lead to the OP questioning the validity of Track & Field as a legitimate sport.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

There is technique within it. Yes you have to naturally be fast twitch but managing the start and how you run relative to where you are within the distance is a skill . Just think of football players that be coached to faster 40 times with the proper coaching.

Yea I feel you. I'm not saying that there's absolutely no technique involved don't get me wrong here. Pacing yourselves at certain distances etc is the strategic side of it. But how much of that do you think determines the success of an athlete as opposed to natural born speed ? For eg. I've never been particularly fast myself. If I go learn about breathing techniques and stride form etc, sure I may knock a couple seconds off but I'm not gonna become Usain Bolt or anything cause I'm naturally not that quick. Am I making sense ?

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

I wonder what could have happened recently to lead to the OP questioning the validity of Track & Field as a legitimate sport.

Like I said I saw the thread which I have linked in the OP and the topic came to mind. It's a discussion I've had IRL so I just wanted to get the forum's view on it.

 

[Mastamimd]

This might be the dumbest thread in the history of forums