Do you consider track a real sport ?

[HiphopRelated]

It's one of the first sports.

Nobody even has to teach you to race each other lol

 

[invalid]

Track was the first sport of the Olympics.

 

[Kooley_High]

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 ?

That same argument can be used for any sport when it comes to strength, endurance, reaction time etc. Your basically invalidating all the training athletes go through and basing it on genetics.

 

[The ADD]

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 ?

Isn't that most sports? I think the fallacy is comparing yourself to the athlete. The comparison is amongst the athletes and the margin they find and hone that separate them from the pack.

 

[Collateral]

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

 

[Admiral Kali]

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 ?

No.

 

[Bubba T]

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 ?

I ran track one year in high school. I was the fastest person on my team, just based on natural speed. However, my technique was shyt. I had to be coached into honing my skill.

Getting off the blocks doesn’t appear difficult, but when you are working on getting the fastest time possible, reaction time and properly pushing your front leg off the block can give you a great advantage not only against your opponents, but in getting a better time overall.

The running technique seems “easy”, but its about building up speed with little wasted movement. That all helps in improving your times and winning races.

I can’t believe this is actually a question.

 

[tuckgod]

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

Exactly.

 

[904Lurker]

OP you're an idiot and if that conversation came up around your friends they are idiots too

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

That same argument can be used for any sport when it comes to strength, endurance, reaction time etc. Your basically invalidating all the training athletes go through and basing it on genetics.

I agree, but here's my thing. Those other sports require multiple facets of skill. Eg Let's say hypothetically to be a good basketballer you need to have 1) Hand-eye coordination 2)Strength 3) Speed 4) Endurance. If you lack in one area you can try to improve in another. Like Shaq didn't have speed but he had strength or whatever.

But say.. if you're a sprinter what areas are they ? Besides...speed for the most part ? I'm not saying that sprinters don't require other skills but the most important is speed I would imagine

 

[desjardins]

I get your question
It seems like a sport, no pun, that way more dependent on genetics than skills or development
At the highest level fine tuning your launch or segmenting your miles in a distance race applies but at the core i feel like certain people just have a huge genetic advantage

 

[Goat poster]

This thread should be bushed

It's REALLY REALLY bad

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Right now there is a man who could be faster than Usain bolt but he's 240lbs sitting on his ass working at a call center. The genetics are there, but he has no passion for track or the motivation for it.

Track is a legitimate sport that works several muscles in the body. I've yet to see a sprinter who has noodle arms and a gut. If you will question any sport it would be combat sports since a fight can be decided because of who hits first and hardest.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

I ran track one year in high school. I was the fastest person on my team, just based on natural speed. However, my technique was shyt. I had to be coached into honing my skill.

Getting off the blocks doesn’t appear difficult, but when you are working on getting the fastest time possible, reaction time and properly pushing your front leg off the block can give you a great advantage not only against your opponents, but in getting a better time overall.

The running technique seems “easy”, but its about building up speed with little wasted movement. That all helps in improving your times and winning races.

I can’t believe this is actually a question.

Appreciate the response, makes sense.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

I get your question
It seems like a sport, no pun, that way more dependent on genetics than skills or development
At the highest level fine tuning your launch or segmenting your miles in a distance race applies but at the core i feel like certain people just have a huge genetic advantage

You worded it way better than I did, this is what I was trying to say. @Bubba T Gave some insight.