Which SPORT are you best at?

[Merdalfthewizard]

JUMPING to conclusions and RUNNING my mouth off. Football, although it must be said I make a far better coach than I ever did player, would never have got into the Everton academy as a player, all things come to he who waits I suppose.

 

[downham seagull]

Used to play rec ice hockey and colt rugby in my teens and early twenties but a knee injury put pay to that. Took up running again in my mid thirties. Ran 2hr 10min for 20 miles last year and finished 29th out of 3,400 in the Budapest 10k in October. It's just a pastime but love the challange.

 

[darters74]

Pool

 

[Sergio Garcia]

Crazy golf

 

[portlock seagull]

Probably cross country running but, like Monsieur Nylon, I never reached the highest of standards. In fact, I gave up when I first came to Brighton and got an invitation to go to training with a housemate who was himself a good runner. It was when I discovered that his training group included a couple of other runners who were well above average ... Brendan Foster and David Bedford ... that I came to the conclusion that I simply couldn't keep up.

LOL! Brendan Foster!! Priceless! Yes, just a bit 'above average'....!!!

 

[Mellotron]

Badminton now - as a kid I was a decent left arm spin bowler - was on Sussex's books at U14 level.

 

[OzMike]

Cricket, football, snooker and pool, in that order.

 

[NooBHA]

Shooting.

Not so good at ''target shooting'' though

 

[DavePage]

Watching

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

I'm 'not bad' at so many sports but am 'good' at probably none! Down to handicap of 8 now so probably that but cricket is the sport I'm probably the most natural at.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I'm 'not bad' at so many sports but am 'good' at probably none! Down to handicap of 8 now so probably that but cricket is the sport I'm probably the most natural at.

I think this highlights the differences that can exist between people's definition of "good" - the vast majority of folk would, I suspect, say that a handicap of 8 is, at the very least, "good"!

What I've noticed in the sports/games that I know anything about is just how big a gap there is in the quality of the playing standard between the various levels, sometimes as much as an order of magnitude, and there can be as many as five "levels".

Objectively, I was probably best at chess (a game, not a sport, obv), where I was a junior international up to U17, when I ditched it in favour of trying to have a sex life. Junior county standard at swimming and fencing, the latter being easier than you'd think - "can you hold this epee correctly? That'll do - you're fencing for Sussex on Sunday".

 

[portslade seagull]

Golf for me though not to good. Was never any good at football so became a ref and done that for 20 odd years. Quite liked rugby as well

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Don't play anything regularly enough these days, but probably golf (played off 9 handicap about 40 years back) and table tennis (local league level back in the day). Enjoyed having a crack at most sports years back: football, cricket, rugby, tennis, squash, badminton. Got in the odd school team but was never more than average. Need to get back into running, really.

 

[knocky1]

Garlic Football. Made it to state and Australasian Championship levels.

Does your breath smell?

I'll bear your sport in mind when "debating" on political issues. You'll have to catch me first though.
5k 20:13 at 57.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Does your breath smell?

I'll bear your sport in mind when "debating" on political issues. You'll have to catch me first though.
5k 20:13 at 57.

Are you saying I didn't play Gaelic Football for 20 years and still have a kick around to this day?

 

[carteater]

Badminton...

I can't really hit the ball in any other sports.

And football, well, my abilities in that are best forgotten.

 

[Miximate]

Cricket back in the day (80s and 90s), now golf although struggling to hang onto mid single handicap as yips setting in for short game!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Marathon running. 3:05 at 48.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Used to be football till me knees decided to retire, now it's a toss up between badminton and volleyball

 

[pasty]

Never really excelled at any sport.

At school I was one of those kids that was reasonable at most sports (with the exception of rugby because I was a weed) but never got as far as school teams or anything. In adult life I guess it would be rowing which I took up in the RAF and rowed for RAF Support Command a couple of times, but again, never got as far as representing the RAF.