Most skillful sport?

[RhombusHatesYou]

Dwarf Throwing. Now sadly banned in all civilised places and Queensland.

 

[RandallJohn]

Tepak Sakraw. [http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/4684722]

My vote was going to be for football/soccer, but I completely forgot about Tepak Sakraw. I once tried to play it and... yeah, that didn't go well.

I would totally break my neck trying to do it. I can see it now.

I misspelled it: it's Sepak Takraw. Whoops.

Lol, and I went ahead and followed suit.

 

[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.

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.

I can see where you are coming from, but I do MMA and for the first year or so, it was exactly like you describe here, strength and speed. However, I have spent the last 2 years working on my submission and wrestling skills and I still havn't perfected them. It is not the ground game that takes skill, it is perfecting it.

 

[Souplex]

No sport requires more skill than fencing.

However it is exceedingly shit.

To watch perhaps, it's a blast to do.

 

[Athinira]

I would say something like golf takes way more skill than soccer does.

Baseball is also really, really hard.

Those two sports actually offer you far less degree of control than other sports. Golf, amongst other things, depends alot on the course being run, and the outcome can change even if you hit the ball half a millimeter wrong, which will happen often no matter how good you are (same when hitting a ball in baseball). In other words, elemental chaos theory will always ensure that the amount of control you have in those two sports is somewhat limited, and a bit of luck is always going to be involved.

 

[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?!"

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.

Yeah Rally is scary shit, the games give a glimpse at how insane it is, but just watching the videos is insane. How about Group B rally? Holy too fast for that sport batman.

 

[Spade Lead]

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.

EDIT: It appears I've forgotten Rally Racing. Odd, since it's one of my favorites. :S

I would argue that if your only qualifier for being a highly skilled event is *boom* fiery death for 13 people, you still have to count NASCAR. After all, you are in a 3800 pound (That is INCREDIBLY fucking heavy) car traveling around a track with 41 other people, all driving cars that are equal to yours, and the only thing that sets them apart from yours is the way you set the car up (Spring rate, gear ratio, etc) and driver skill. EVERY other motor sport has a much lighter cars, with differences in cars and in some cases trucks, separating them from their competitors. Look at F1. Ferrari OWNED that sport, no other car comes close to having their legacy. Look at WRC, Subaru won a bunch of championships. NASCAR is more standardized, but that places MORE emphasis on driver skill, not less.

Yes, I think Rally is more entertaining than NASCAR, but I don't think it is inherently MORE skillful, just differently skillful.

Yeah Rally is scary shit, the games give a glimpse at how insane it is, but just watching the videos is insane. How about Group B rally? Holy too fast for that sport batman.

That takes more balls, not more skill. A drifter on a track does all the same maneuvers, just within the confines of a drift track. Rally drivers have more trust in their own skills to stay on the road, but a drifter can do the same things if he trusted himself to do it without the safety barricades.

 

[theevilsanta]

Skill ... to the neglect of thinks like athleticism, quickness, speed, strength etc ...

Golf or bowling. You can be the most physically gifted individual on the planet and still suck at those sports if you have no skill.

Edit - I don't really consider racing or ice skating to be a sport. Not that I don't appreciate them greatly.

 

[smithy_2045]

cricket is easy when you learn technique

Not even. Sure, technique helps, but when you're facing a fast bowler who is swinging and seaming it, you can do nothing but try to survive, and even then you'll be struggling to do so.
Similarly, if you don't have variation and control in your bowling, you're cannon fodder. Sure, it doesn't require the best physical fitness, but this thread is only about skill.

im an all rounder. if you can remain focused and you know what your trying to acheive theres not much to it.batting or bowling.
ps. i love faceing faster bowlers

You definitely don't play at a particularly high level then.

 

[smithy_2045]

im an all rounder. if you can remain focused and you know what your trying to acheive theres not much to it.batting or bowling.
ps. i love faceing faster bowlers

You definitely don't play at a particularly high level then.

2nd devision so not particuarly

but thats not true. your an aussie, think of sean tait.
sure he bowls at 150+ but he has no clue where its going, he gives batsmen room.
for every steyn there are 2 taits and 1 jhonson

also think. its no coincidence that fast bowlers "generaly" have worse economy. they have less control(none if theyre tait and if you give a decent batsman any room theyl slog you.

A better example would be Watson or Anderson. They bowl around 130kph, but they consistently put the ball in the right area and move the ball in the air and off the pitch.

 

[TheTim]

Baseball, Pool, Or Mixed Martial arts.

all 3 are very tough, that being said, no sport is easy besides volleyball

 

[TheTim]

Any idiot with little or no skill can pick up a ball, no matter the shape of it.

Give me SuperG, snowboarding, skatebording, skijumping,Bmx,Motorcross or Rally over those shitty ball sports any day.

apparently you've never played baseball before. you'd find it quite hard to go against experienced players