what sport requires the most skill?

[Malta]

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?

Eh, I don't consider billards a sport though, dudes can be horrible out of shape and dominate.

I just think the penalty for not being as skilled as your opponent is so severe in boxing that you better be supremely skilled to even think of stepping in the ring.

 

[DeVanteSwing]

somebody enlighten me on the skill for soccer, no disrespect

 

[Malta]

somebody enlighten me on the skill for soccer, no disrespect

The coordination required to use your feet like that @ full speed is just You could try that stuff at half the speed they're moving at and never be able to pull it off.

 

[mastermind]

football skills - Zidane, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho - YouTube
Ronaldinho vs Cristiano Ronaldo - YouTube
The Legend of Lionel Messi - YouTube


The coordination required to use your feet like that @ full speed is just You could try that stuff at half the speed they're moving at and never be able to pull it off.

or this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1bK34mPjQ"]Best Juninho free kicks (HD Compilation) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-U70MvSRfk"]Top 10 - Best free kicks of all time - YouTube[/ame]

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Eh, I don't consider billards a sport though, dudes can be horrible out of shape and dominate.

I just think the penalty for not being as skilled as your opponent is so severe in boxing that you better be supremely skilled to even think of stepping in the ring.

Neither do I....don't know why I went with that example.

Regarding boxing, I don't disagree with any point you're making, just don't see how it means it requires the most skill. It still points to it being the most dangerous is all.

 

[Malta]

or this

Best Juninho free kicks (HD Compilation) - YouTube

Top 10 - Best free kicks of all time - YouTube

Such a great sport, I don't get why it hasn't caught on here....well I kind of do since there's very little play stoppage which leaves little time for advertisers to plague us with shytty commercials.

 

[mastermind]

Such a great sport, I don't get why it hasn't caught on here....well I kind of do since there's very little play stoppage which leaves little time for advertisers to plague us with shytty commercials.

I think its a combo of not enough violence and it being a slower paced sport with a lot of subtleties that Americans wont pick up unless they watch it more. Then you mention baseball as being neither, but that shyt is just ingrained in our national consciousness.

Football is a slow paced sport for instance, but its violent as hell and that draws people. Basketball is not as violent but its fast. Hockey is a combo of both.

 

[The War Report]

somebody enlighten me on the skill for soccer, no disrespect

That idea of having to use your feet instead of your hands to manipulate a ball is

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

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[mastermind]

That idea of having to use your feet instead of your hands to manipulate a ball is

and they can manipulate the ball as good if not better than NBA players can too

Naw, what is amazing is - how folk view the term skill as black and white. You smart dumb nikkas keep looking at the cover.

When throwing a bounce pass with a basketball so that it bounces with the correct spin and angle it requires a certain amount of power, analytic aptitude, hand-eye coordination and nerve. Putting backspin on a tennis ball in a match requires a certain amount of power, strength, analytic aptitude and hand-eye coordination (secondary components - speed and agility).

the problem with your statement is each sport requires physicality, thats the point. Its sports.

now how is that physicality applied in the skill.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

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.

Naw, what is amazing is - how folk view the term skill as black and white. You smart dumb nikkas keep looking at the cover.

When throwing a bounce pass with a basketball so that it bounces with the correct spin and angle it requires a certain amount of power, analytic aptitude, hand-eye coordination and nerve. Putting backspin on a tennis ball in a match requires a certain amount of power, strength, analytic aptitude and hand-eye coordination (secondary components - speed and agility).

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Imma go with golf.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

the problem with your statement is each sport requires physicality, thats the point. Its sports.

now how is that physicality applied in the skill.

Let's take a look at your black and white reasoning:

What's the difference between - using force on a ball to make it go a certain direction (bounce pass to avoid defenders) and using force to adjust your body to go a certain direction (bouncing/avoiding defenders in the box = in other words, AGILITY)?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

And what is it?

At surface level -

no other sport other than boxing requires the same amount of pure non stop decision making under pressure and non stop precise body movements all in one. its boxing at 1, and everything else is far away. any sport where a player can just dominate off athletcism cant be considered for this question

No sport requires x-high-levels of cognitive skills, perceptual skills, motor skills and perceptual motor skills other than boxing.

 

[Big Mark]

Its a well know fact that hittinig a baseball is the hardest thing to do is sports. In the big leagues, try to hit an 90+ mph pitch hard enough to get on base. Now, consider the fact the the ball is hard as hell and it hurts like hell when you get hit with it. I would have to say that baseball requires the most skill to play and have success. Look at Michael Jordan. He is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. He couldn't hit worth shyt and I love MJ. Deon Sanders was a nother great athlete who was just an average baseball player. Bo Jackson was as good of athlete as there is and although he had decent success in baseball, he didn't look natural at all.
Hitting in pro baseball is hard as hell, thats why having success 3 out of 10 times will make you rich. In basketball if you made 3 out of every 10 shots, you would not be playing on anyone's team. Baseball is easily the most difficult.

If I wanted to play the race card to prove my point, which I don't think I'd have to, just consider this. African American Athletes (I am one) are considered to be successful mainly because of their athletic prowess. How many of us are playing big league baseball?Not many. Its not just because many of african american's consider baseball boring or consider basketball to be more accessible. It is because most young, innercity african american athletes do not get exposed to baseball early enough to truly develop and manifest those skills... and I am not going to even talk about the skill it takes to successfully play the infield.