Most skillful sport?

[Dastardly]

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I'd agree on hockey. You've got to have just as fast an eye as in baseball, you've got to have the coordination of soccer, your team still needs the strategy of basketball and football... and golf for individual sports, because of all of the moving parts a golfer has to consider before and during each swing.

But to really pin this down, we would have to decide on what is meant by "more skill." Do we mean the sport that requires the trickiest individual skill? Or the sport that requires more separate skills simultaneously?

 

[Corpse XxX]

DARTS!!!!!


Have you seen that shit?? How on earth do they hit that triple 20 microscopic size target over and over again???

*mind is blown*

 

[niege]

Bowling is a hard sport to become a proffesional in.
it takes skill and lots of patience.

 

[dragonslayer32]

MMA. It takes a lot of skill to be a fighter. Imagine trying to play football whilst getting punched in the face...

 

[zen5887]

Mixed Martial Arts.

You have to be decent at a bunch of different martial arts, have ridiculous cardio and be able to think about tactics and strategies.

 

[dragonslayer32]

I'm going to say its a combat sport, but not wrestling or mma, thats mainly athleticism and strength. Probably boxing or kick-boxing.

MMA is boxing, kick-boxing and wrestling. You therefore need the streingth, athleticism and skill that govern these sports to do it.

 

[Snotnarok]

Racing.

No, not NASCAR; good, ridiculously fast, F1 racing!

One slip up and BOOM! 13 guys are in a mangled pile of fire and broken fiber-glass.

How about Rally? 60-120MPH may not sound scary till you take into account you could fly into a tree on a jump, or fly off one of the many cliffs that often lack guard rails. Also it's on a huge varied amounts of surfaces, roads are part of the course sure but, dirt, snow, mud. They do it all

Sure F1 is fast and has some pretty bad wrecks but those cars are seriously built safe. I've seen horrible wrecks of F1s and the guy walks away. You see the footage and you're like "oh he's so dea-....alive?!"

 

[Sknyjdwb]

I'm going to say its a combat sport, but not wrestling or mma, thats mainly athleticism and strength. Probably boxing or kick-boxing.

MMA is boxing, kick-boxing and wrestling. You therefore need the streingth, athleticism and skill that govern these sports to do it.

I compete in kick-boxing and mma and wrestled in highschool and while your point is valid, I find mma fighters to be less skillful in any one discipline, a jack of all trades gambit, and alot can rely on pure strength and speed. It goes back to what someone said earlier. More pure skill in one thing, or displaying many skills? just my 2 cents.

 

[tikalal]

My vote goes to Starcraft. Not going to get into an argument about 1 vs 2 though.

 

[McTom]

I'd have to say snooker, you have to think ahead in the same way as chess but you also have to actually have the skill to make a shot and leave the ball in a place that benefits you. Then the games go on for a long time, hours at a time so you have to be able to maintain concentration for much longer than many other sports. Then if you consider that it's just you standing at the table against your opponent, perhaps in front of hundreds of people you can see how hard it could be to hold your nerve.

Golf is a close second, having to take the elements into account when playing your shots does make the game very difficult, and I know from experience that even hitting the damn ball is tricky to master (I still can't do it properly)but at least you have a caddy to consult with for shots and club selection.

Overall I'd say that a sport that requires individuals to compete in a non-physical manner tend to be the most skilful because you are relying on pure technique rather than in a sport such as perhaps boxing or rugby where a lack of skill could be offset by pure power.

 

[tris4992]

badminton ...

 

[Aurora219]

Racing.

No, not NASCAR; good, ridiculously fast, F1 racing!

One slip up and BOOM! 13 guys are in a mangled pile of fire and broken fiber-glass.

How about Rally? 60-120MPH may not sound scary till you take into account you could fly into a tree on a jump, or fly off one of the many cliffs that often lack guard rails. Also it's on a huge varied amounts of surfaces, roads are part of the course sure but, dirt, snow, mud. They do it all

Sure F1 is fast and has some pretty bad wrecks but those cars are seriously built safe. I've seen horrible wrecks of F1s and the guy walks away. You see the footage and you're like "oh he's so dea-....alive?!"

Yeah, I agree with you here. I was undecided until I read your post. Have you seen how they move while driving? It's like doing a ballet with their feet constantly, all the while they're switching gears often ever second or two, twitching the wheel to initiate a careful powerslide, all with inches on either side between a 400ft drop (Ever seen the Brazil stages? It's nuts - they've got a path on a mountain ridge with no barriers!) or parking your car in a tree.

 

[Trildor]

I'll say association football. That is, soccer.

A good player needs fitness, speed, quick feet, balance, strength and the quickness of mind to pick out a pass or dribble past a defender in a split second. For defenders, concentration and jumping are also key.

 

[z3rostr1fe]

Table Tennis!

 

[Zantos]

Anything that requires you to still play at your best after taking a blunt object to the face. Hurling, for example, or martial arts.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Golf, Hurling and Martial arts are up there. Really there are just too many to consider as there aren't any real simple sports. Every sport requires a different set of skills or abilities which may come easier to some than others. Oh and Starcraft.

 

[Bloodastral]

Tennis, the pro tour guys have awesome skillz!

 

[Flig]

I'd say fencing, the amount of control, concentration, reaction time, and just plain skill you need to be truly great at it is ridiculous. If we're going with a particular style, I'd say epee is the most difficult, just because of the fact that you have to be aware of how open every part of your body is, accidentaly open up your wrist for half a second and you're getting scored on.

 

[Marowit]

For skill, I'd vote for Ice Hockey or Lacrosse.

For Precision I'd vote for golf - a lot of people seem to be saying golf/driving/fencing and while these sports require an absurd amount of precision I'd argue that your bag of tricks, read skills, needed to excel at it are rather small. What I mean is that you don't need to be a good runner, good shooter(?), good catcher, physical presence, etc... to excel at golf - you just need precision.

Same thing goes for a race driver, motorcyclist, etc. I am by no means belittling their abilities at their giving sport; I know I couldn't race at competitive-level Enduro-racing in my wildest dreams. I just don't think they have to excel at the variety of skills you need that you need to in Hockey or Lacrosse.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I'm pretty much going to rule out all team games here. I can't think of one team game that requires a massive amount of talent. And looking trough some of the comments it's obviously just a 'justify why your sport is the best thread.' I've tried golf and it's damn hard, but then a gain I've tried football and it's damn hard. I don't know, I'm going to go for something like synchronised diving.