Rank youth sports by physically toughest!

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

What would Deion Sanders know about sports compared to a bunch of doughy DCUM lawyers?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

There is no Venn diagram of “great” high school athletes simultaneously playing ice hockey, soccer, and baseball. That person does not exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted.

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Think of it this way: professional baseball players play a 162-game schedule in 180 days. Position players will play somewhere in the ballpark of 90% of those games. That means they average 6 games per week during the professional baseball season.

Every other sport requires material rest and recovery time over the course of the season. Basketball comes closest in that NBA teams will occasionally play back-to-back but then they get immediate recovery. NBA players are closest at 3.5 games per week during their season. Of course football comes in at 1 game per week. Soccer and hockey fall somewhere in between.

The reason baseball can be played at such a high frequency is because no matter how hard it is to hit a baseball, the sport is not as physically tough as other sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted.

It’s really not that hard to hit the baseball…it’s getting a base hit. It’s not as though people strike out 7 of 10 times.

Again, this question is on youth sports. The best hitters on our HS team are batting .600+.

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted.

It’s really not that hard to hit the baseball…it’s getting a base hit. It’s not as though people strike out 7 of 10 times.

Again, this question is on youth sports. The best hitters on our HS team are batting .600+.

Most varsity pitchers at the top DMV schools would absolutely embarrass any parent who stepped in the box. It’s incredibly hard to even touch a baseball moving 88+ mph with just a slight bit of movement. Anyone hitting .600 in high school is not facing serious competition. The best hitters in the WCAC are in the .400s.

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My kid did crew and club swim for two seasons. He said swim was definitely tougher, but crew was more time consuming (all that time spent breaking down and setting up the boats)

It's not the on the water rowing - it's the ergs (rowing machines).

Yes, I know. His rowing program alternated erg/water days and he had to cut down on swim practice, but he was still going to 4-5 swim practices a week on top of that. Sometimes he had swim practice in the morning and then rowing in the afternoon. Sometimes he went to swim practice after rowing. He said that the on water days for rowing were the easiest, then dryland for swimming, then the rowing dryland days, and then the swim practices. I mentioned the breaking down of the boats because he was annoyed that the water days were often not much of a workout because of all the non-rowing time.

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted.

It’s really not that hard to hit the baseball…it’s getting a base hit. It’s not as though people strike out 7 of 10 times.

Again, this question is on youth sports. The best hitters on our HS team are batting .600+.

Most varsity pitchers at the top DMV schools would absolutely embarrass any parent who stepped in the box. It’s incredibly hard to even touch a baseball moving 88+ mph with just a slight bit of movement. Anyone hitting .600 in high school is not facing serious competition. The best hitters in the WCAC are in the .400s.

What does that have to do with anything? Most varsity players at any top DMV school would embarrass parents in any sport.

Since when is the goalpost how a parent would do in a sport?

Now you are referencing the very top league in the DMV…but if you look at even the top VA teams, the best hitters are approaching .600 because yes you don’t have the ability to recruit players like privates do.

However, the larger point is that the WCAC hitter batting .400 isn’t striking out 6/10 times…they just aren’t getting a base hit 6/10 times. They are striking out maybe 5% of the time.

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Baseball sock puppet is a fat pig 100 percent

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Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult. It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted.

It’s really not that hard to hit the baseball…it’s getting a base hit. It’s not as though people strike out 7 of 10 times.

Again, this question is on youth sports. The best hitters on our HS team are batting .600+.

Most varsity pitchers at the top DMV schools would absolutely embarrass any parent who stepped in the box. It’s incredibly hard to even touch a baseball moving 88+ mph with just a slight bit of movement. Anyone hitting .600 in high school is not facing serious competition. The best hitters in the WCAC are in the .400s.

What does that have to do with anything? Most varsity players at any top DMV school would embarrass parents in any sport.

Since when is the goalpost how a parent would do in a sport?

Now you are referencing the very top league in the DMV…but if you look at even the top VA teams, the best hitters are approaching .600 because yes you don’t have the ability to recruit players like privates do.

However, the larger point is that the WCAC hitter batting .400 isn’t striking out 6/10 times…they just aren’t getting a base hit 6/10 times. They are striking out maybe 5% of the time.

You are incorrectly equating “toughest” with pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baseball. From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.

This is laughable. My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim. It was a team that won states consistently. He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey. Never played baseball before other than pick up. Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along.

There is no Venn diagram of “great” high school athletes simultaneously playing ice hockey, soccer, and baseball. That person does not exist.

Which is the problem. I played hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball, track, cross country, volleyball, and skied competitively growing up. This fixation today on doing one sport only is not great for kids.

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Did anyone on here ever see The Running Man? Whatever sport that is - that's the toughest.

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Badminton

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Anonymous wrote:# 1 is definitely wrestling

Interesting that OP ignored both wrestling and ice hockey which would be #1 and # 2.