Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:51     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:49     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
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
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:40     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Lacrosse is a joke
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:40     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Baseball requires the most skills mastery. None of the other sports really require skill.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:39     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:Crew




Everything else


Yes for uncoordinated
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:35     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wrestling unrivaled in toughness both physical and mental.

Wrestling is hard but rounds last two minutes. There are plenty of bad athletes we that succeed in wrestling because you don't need strength, speed, or really anything else at the youth level.


This has to be one of the dumber things I've ever read on DCUM...and that is saying something.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 22:02     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wrestling unrivaled in toughness both physical and mental.

Wrestling is hard but rounds last two minutes. There are plenty of bad athletes we that succeed in wrestling because you don't need strength, speed, or really anything else at the youth level.


Pretty sure they are defining youth sports as lasting through high school.

Also, they aren’t talking about wrestlers that suck and get pinned in 30 seconds at every match.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 21:38     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:Wrestling unrivaled in toughness both physical and mental.

Wrestling is hard but rounds last two minutes. There are plenty of bad athletes we that succeed in wrestling because you don't need strength, speed, or really anything else at the youth level.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 21:37     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tackle football is way more demanding than any other sport. The full contract of it scares most kids


It is also a lot of standing around. Water polo is a contact sport while swimming.

I played both. Football is way harder. No one is running full speed and hitting you in water polo.




No, they're slashing you with their toenails under the water.

Get slashed by a toe nail or get hit by a linebacker running at a full sprint? Hmmm
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 21:37     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:Approximately 50% of Navy SEALs have a wrestling background. This is due to the physical and mental discipline wrestling cultivates, which is highly valued in the rigorous SEAL training.

Lol WTF are you talking about.

Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 19:47     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you had to order these youth from most to least physically demanding, how would you order them?

swim team
water polo
basketball
baseball
soccer
pop football
lacrosse
tennis


You forgot rowing. The winter training on rowing machines is next level. The wrestlers probably still win but rowing is no joke.


Former rower here and it was more intense than most people can imagine. But my kid wrestled and I think wrestling beats it.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 19:36     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
I am not buying the wrestling thing. I just can’t see it.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 19:30     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Approximately 50% of Navy SEALs have a wrestling background. This is due to the physical and mental discipline wrestling cultivates, which is highly valued in the rigorous SEAL training.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 18:13     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Anonymous wrote:Crew




Everything else


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)
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 11:57     Subject: Rank youth sports by physically toughest!
Wrestling