Rank youth sports by physically toughest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distance running for the HS set is tough. Sprints are not so tough.

I was surprised not to see track/xcountry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

Have you ever watched a water polo game?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

Have you ever watched a water polo game?

Yes, of course.

Name another sport where failing 70% of the time is considered success?

The only sport requiring more skill than baseball is golf.

The others, including water polo, really don’t require that many skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

You can be a fat pig and play baseball

Only if you can hit a 95 mph fastball and also the 82 mph change up behind it. Or the slider. Or a curve. Or a knuckleball.

The comment was about skill, not physique. I’d tell you to keep up, but I already know you’re a dummy since baseball also requires more intellect than the rest of the sports on this list.

[Anonymous]

This is a weird post. Gymnastics is also super tough. Tons of specialty training, tons of injuries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

You can be a fat pig and play baseball

Only if you can hit a 95 mph fastball and also the 82 mph change up behind it. Or the slider. Or a curve. Or a knuckleball.

The comment was about skill, not physique. I’d tell you to keep up, but I already know you’re a dummy since baseball also requires more intellect than the rest of the sports on this list.

My baseball playing kid doesn’t really agree…if only because this is for youth sports, not college or MLB players.

Literally maybe one high school kid in the DMV can throw 95 and most of the top HS players are hitting .500+ because more often than not you are facing pitchers in the low 80s on average.

He is actually somewhat in awe of the football players that now have to memorize massive playbooks even in HS and know how to improvise plays in RT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

Have you ever watched a water polo game?

Yes, of course.

Name another sport where failing 70% of the time is considered success?

The only sport requiring more skill than baseball is golf.

The others, including water polo, really don’t require that many skills.

Are we not considering figure skating and gymnastics to be sports?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Bumping this chart. This is correct. The OP putting swimming at the top was ridiculous. I'm surprised football is above basketball. People who don't know basketball have no clue about the physicality and athleticism involved with basketball. It's a lot of jumping and running.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Bumping this chart. This is correct. The OP putting swimming at the top was ridiculous. I'm surprised football is above basketball. People who don't know basketball have no clue about the physicality and athleticism involved with basketball. It's a lot of jumping and running.

And flopping.

[Anonymous]

Boxing.

[Anonymous]

Baseball least demanding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.

Have you ever watched a water polo game?

Yes, of course.

Name another sport where failing 70% of the time is considered success?

The only sport requiring more skill than baseball is golf.

The others, including water polo, really don’t require that many skills.

This analogy is fairly silly.

What %age of hockey shots actually score…maybe 5%? What percentage of soccer shots actually score…maybe the same percentage?

A youth basketball player able to make 30% of 3 pointers would be considered exceptional.

Youth baseball batting averages are much higher than .300 for decent players.

[Anonymous]

Hockey basketball wrestling tennis

[Anonymous]

Everyone that put baseball last either has no kid actually in baseball or they play crap little league or non-travel on the small field…or their kids bats 12 and plays RF consistently. My kid comes home battered and bruised. Also a tough mental game with actual strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone that put baseball last either has no kid actually in baseball or they play crap little league or non-travel on the small field…or their kids bats 12 and plays RF consistently. My kid comes home battered and bruised. Also a tough mental game with actual strategy.

I would think that baseball general difficulty (in terms of physically demanding vs skill), like football, is almost entirely dependent on position.

I 100% believe that swimming is the easier in every possible way than catching a complete game on a hot summer day.