Why don’t people talk about how expensive it is to play sports besides basketball and football?

[Sohh_lifted]

Right?

Competitive lifting (powerlifting and Oly lifting) def ain't cheap.

Shoes, chalk, straps, wraps, sleeves, singlets, bench/dead suits, and belts all cost, and that's without accounting for extra food, supplements, recovery things like massages and percussion guns, coaching, gym memberships, entry and federation fees, or travel costs.

Lol, he said tennis is cheap. Just grab a racquet

 

[Json]

Yall gon say it’s to keep blk folk out?

Soccer one of the cheapest sports and it’s played worldwide

Tennis is cheap—get a racket from the thrift store

Cycling is cheap if you get a used bike
Skateboarding
Swimming
Weight lifting
Baseball

Y’all need to stop

Have you seen the size of a regulation tennis court?

I guess in your mind..you can drive a car… you can drive in NASCAR!

As a matter a fact, most of those sports you name requires a large facility/area to actually be good professionally.


The main draw of basketball is a goal can go almost anywhere. Even a driveway will teach you the fundamentals to play on a team.

 

[Son Goku]

Lol, he said tennis is cheap. Just grab a racquet

Like tennis courts are all around the hood for free-99.


Don't watch King Richard with Will the GOAT, brehs.

 

[Elim Garak]

It gets talked about all the time. You hear athletes say basketball or football were the only sports they played because it was cheap to play them in interviews all the time.

 

[mannyrs13]

I would think football was more expensive cuz of all the equipment and pads compared to basketball that's just the uniforms, hoop, and ball. Of course I understand it gets expensive from seeing y'all posts regarding joining teams and leagues. Plus coaching and all that. Recreationally it's the cheapest cuz the playing field is smaller compared to the others and can even do half court. Even if there was access to bigger fields like football or baseball, or a hockey rink, still gotta buy all the equipment. Basketball just the hoop and ball.

 

[3rdWorld]

They've manipulated the cost of everything to create barriers.
I wish Black people had their own shyt..stuff like infuriates because we're at the mercy of these people, but with a little effort and planning we can cut them and their programme loose

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

Have you seen the size of a regulation tennis court?

I guess in your mind..you can drive a car… you can drive in NASCAR!

As a matter a fact, most of those sports you name requires a large facility/area to actually be good professionally.


The main draw of basketball is a goal can go almost anywhere. Even a driveway will teach you the fundamentals to play on a team.

I live in Chicago… there are tennis courts everywhere even in blk neighborhoods—southside and downtown.

 

[Big Blue]

I would think football was more expensive cuz of all the equipment and pads compared to basketball that's just the uniforms, hoop, and ball. Of course I understand it gets expensive from seeing y'all posts regarding joining teams and leagues. Plus coaching and all that. Recreationally it's the cheapest cuz the playing field is smaller compared to the others and can even do half court. Even if there was access to bigger fields like football or baseball, or a hockey rink, still gotta buy all the equipment. Basketball just the hoop and ball.

The thing is all of that equipment is usually subsidized. When I played all I had to pay for was cleats and gloves.

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

Soccer is a cheap sport because the academies subsidize it. You know nothing. Stop talking.

Swimming how many kids do you know grow up with a pool.

Weight lifting,? It cost like 40 dollars for one dumbbell


Skateboards cost like $300 for just the deck and require constant repairs.

Cycling a bike costs like $1200. Used $600-$300 + maintenance. And not every city has bike lanes.

You ain’t never played a sport in your life stop frontin

Bruh there are public pools everywhere and they were like $1 back in the day. On super hot days, they were free. Rec centers had pools. Even some blk schools I grew up with had pools. If you live in Cali, Chicago, Florida, nyc you can just go to the beach…or a lake. Stop the cap bro.

I see blk kids skate boarding all the time in Chicago…they don’t look rich to me… but I saw a guy skateboarding thru Englewood (the hood)

Highschools got weight rooms

Y’all gotta stop with these prices… look at all these kids with Jordans and iPhones… they ain’t got a few dollars to try a different sport?

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

Lol this guy has no idea what hes talking about.

Please elabore. If you’re a beginner, no need for anything fancy.

Here’s a tennis court like many in Chicago. This is a very blk neighborhood. And it’s not too far from o block.

Washington Park Tennis Court

https://maps.app.goo.gl/n84kyyaJkFGXrrwf9?g_st=ic

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Exactly. If it's not pricing it's scheduling.

You mean to tell me you can't hire an additional person to do a later evening class. They're just leaving money on the table and don't give a damn. More than likely it's because some of these places are funded with tax dollars or some kind of wealthy philanthropist

Why would the extra person work that class without 3 or 4 other classes stacked with it? Would the revenue even cover the cost to pay the instructor?

I did this type of shyt for a living. Senior citizens in the morning kids early afternoon and adults later afternoon/evening. But if I was paying 1 instructor to come in for 1 hour...it just simply wouldnt happen. Plus people have lives.

 

[General Mills]

Hockey got the same damn issues.

Yup. I played Hockey in high school. Parents had to buy my pads. Buy rink time. Etc. it got expensive really quick

 

[The_Sheff]

Studies have shown that playing multiple sports actually HELPS.

The goat Wayne Gretzky played multiple sports growing up.

I’ve seen that study. I believe they were comparing US kids with one another playing rec or high school ball.

No way in hell any US kid rotating sports is competing with a kid from a European soccer academy. It’s slowly going that way in basketball too.

 

[Json]

I live in Chicago… there are tennis courts everywhere even in blk neighborhoods—southside and downtown.

Beyond the fact that’s not normal in 99% of the rest of the country which is everyone’s point.

Skills take time to develop.

Being able to go out into your own backyard or driveway to practice basketball whenever you like vs going to a public court where it may or may not be in use by someone else for hours at a time is a problem for young kids already limited by school and homework.

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

I don't recall having to pay to get into sports if you're going through the public school and state system you were enrolled in. I didn't go prep, charter, or none of those private schools y'all nikkas went to so maybe those schools didn't have sport teams nor participated in school state leagues.

I went to public school throughout my whole K-12 experience and I don't remember having to pay to get into basketball, football, softball, swimming, track, or lacrosse, etc, activities as it was free.

I used to play on the basketball, football, lacrosse teams during middle school and highschool.

Most kids I know started playing their favorable sport in highschool (maybe middle school as well) and from there got scholarships and such to move onto division l, ll, or lll of their choice depending on if they were going to community college or one of the big schools/HBCUs.

Y'all must be talking about sports with no school district/state connection involved.