Poll: Do you compete in any sports?
- Thread starter Ben Legend
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I should be playing for the school rugby team. I stopped going to training sessions. I feel much better now. 
It is an outdoor activity that requires skill. However, outside of arranged competition, I think you'll find it is hard to fit into the literal definition of "sport", which will generally include qualifications such as "athletic pursuit", "system of rules" and "competition". I wouldn't think that the various national and state laws that govern hunting would generally be seen to count as "a system of rules" in this case but I can admit there are a great many reasonable arguments to the contrary.slabomeat said:
Personally, I fence.
I play volleyball. It sucks though, because my should has been dislocated twice or so. Luckily I can still play but my shoulder is killing me sometimes.
I used to play rugby for years, but the coach was a complete prick and always had me on the bench for the majority of the games we played so I packed it in. After that, nothing has really taken my interest.
I am a keen archer (Recurve only) and GNAS member. However, having said that, I am also only a fair weather shooter which some would argue doesn't make me a REAL toxophilite.
Mind you, I suppose it depends on why you are shooting in the first place. I agree, it is easy to not get any physical benefit out of it, particularly in the first few months where all you get is nothing but horrible horrible pain for clipping your arm on the bow string over and over. That is certainly not healthy, just painful.
Boooooo. Not healthy? Pulling 50 lbs 72 times (1 round) on a recurve is no walk in the park. Took me 3 years of training to be able to pull that much!Lord_Z said:
Mind you, I suppose it depends on why you are shooting in the first place. I agree, it is easy to not get any physical benefit out of it, particularly in the first few months where all you get is nothing but horrible horrible pain for clipping your arm on the bow string over and over. That is certainly not healthy, just painful.
