what sport requires the most skill?

[Majestic Pape]

Tennis definitely requires plenty of skill. You have to have supreme hand eye coordination and be in good shape to play that. In order to baseball you have to have a sharp eye too. In boxing you can just be big and hit hard and someone can teach u to be competent but in tennis and basebal that hand eye is the key.

This is complete ignorant bullshyt.

 

[QuarterCenturyLegend]

Bowling, Golf, Hockey

If this was a toughness thread I would've said Rugby

 

[ThaBoyBam]

Baseball or Golf come to mind

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Someone explain how it's *NOT* Boxing?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Someone explain to me how it is golf?

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

This is one of those useless sports arguments where people shout back and forth with no real substance to back it up.....cuz you couldn't possibly back it up. No real metric for it.

A sport like basketball, which every tom dikk and harry plays in America, so they brush it off as not requiring all that much skill. Of course, it take a tremendous amount of skill to play basketball professionally. Ditto any of the other major sports.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

This is one of those useless sports arguments where people shout back and forth with no real substance to back it up.....cuz you couldn't possibly back it up. No real metric for it.

Actually - there is.

 

[Malta]

I'll say it again, Boxing by far, none of these other sports have the very real prospect of dying at the hands of your opponent. If your defense isn't up to par, you could fukking die in the ring.


I'd also say F1 driving takes an obscene amount of skill, but I don't really consider racing of any form a sport.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Actually - there is.

And what is it?

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I'll say it again, Boxing by far, none of these other sports have the very real prospect of dying at the hands of your opponent. If your defense isn't up to par, you could fukking die in the ring.


I'd also say F1 driving takes an obscene amount of skill, but I don't really consider racing of any form a sport.

That just makes boxing the most dangerous. (cuz I agree, racing ain't no damn sport)

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

basketball is kind of hard to list; it doesn't require you to have an elite skill set to compete with as long as you're athletic enough to compensate, but the guys who aren't that athletic and still compete on a high level have to be extremely skilled to make up for it.

 

[Malta]

That just makes boxing the most dangerous. (cuz I agree, racing ain't no damn sport)

I view it more as you better know what you're doing when you step in that ring

 

[bangbreh]

so if your talkin abgout gettin bones broken and skulls busted we aren't gonna mention wrestling ?
golf will make you wanna break yer own skull....
wrestling will fukk your whole body up.
only people who wrestled would co-sign, but this shyt is maddening.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I view it more as you better know what you're doing when you step in that ring

I agree with you there...just saying, if you turn it to ESPN on off-hours, you'll see guys with completely different skill sets making incredible pool shots.

Although you may respect the skill set required to box more, who's to say they're less skilled than the guys they have on Friday Night Fights?

 

[The War Report]

I dont get why Americans cannot separate skills and physical traits. We really think everything is power and strength like its all that matters.

flexibility and agility and speed are not skills, those are physical traits.


Putting a back spin on a tennis ball or soccerball, throwing a football so that it drops in front of a defensive back. Throwing a bounce pass with a basketball so that it bounces with the correct spin and angle, those are skills. A post move in basketball is a skill set.

It's amazing how dudes on this forum can't differentiate between the two.