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Welcome to the Sports Club!
Discussion about Sports, all different kinds:
Favorite Sport(s)? Why?
Which Sport(s) do you play?
Which Sport(s) do you like to watch?
Any interesting Sports videos you would like to share?
Any interesting Sports tournament(s) on at the moment?
Favourite Sport: Football (Or Soccer for our American Friends), second Favourite probably Tennis, Boxe and Formula 1
I Play Football, used to play more regularly, now just for fun some times
FMX, NBA, Formula Drift.
Even watching people punching each other can get boring past a couple rounds, I canāt sit there and watch a ball being passed around with no goals, no score changes for 10 minutes.
Itās nice to have something only a few can do and watch those few take risks to compete live under stress trying to do it better than each others with āreal stakesā, took them years to get here and there will be a clear Winner and Loser. Maybe even a deadly or crippling accident. But itās also nice if it goes fast enough.
If I watch a fight I make sure someone is drooling on the ground before I click on the match.
If your sport has the possibility of a tie or result where no one loses at the end. Itās a bad sport in my opinion.
Swimming, because I love to be in water, float in it, be surrounded by it, move through it.
Dancing, because the soul is involved as well and you are actually using pretty much every muscle in your body.
Besides that, I find sports an annoying boring physical chore.
Thatās why I am so happy that we have workout and muscle fields.
Nothing more annoying than repeating the same body movements again and again.
Even more boring than doing sport, I find watching it and I never understood where the fun is in watching other people doing physical movements. I understand it can be fun to watch others play a game, but with sports, it is 99% always the same boring repetitve physical movements: Driving in circles, kicking a ball, throwing a spear, running 100 meters etc.
PS:
In my opinion, any activity where you are not sweating is not a sport but a game. For example chess and golf are games, not sports. Of course it is marketed as āsportā because āgames are for kidsā, right? It is all done to sell certain activities to āserious adultsā. Lol.
You are not wrong.
But if you donāt mind me explaining the mentality. Casual talk.
The reason there are interviews before and after and replays and everything. You can read people. Even if they say āWeāre gonna winā, āIām the bestā, you can smell the fear and stress in their eyes. There is thousands maybe millions watching. Thatās their entire lives. Maybe theyāll get injured and it will end their careers. Theyāve prepared, sacrificed, trained, ate right, slept right.
Then they give their best, throw themselves out there. Some teams or players will be aggressive, others will give up and come back pushing harder.
And then you can see the emotion on their faces. The politics of it, the real humans fighting for something.
The sport is designed around psychology i think, itās all simulating war to some degree in a pacific way. No killing but all the evolutionary mechanism will be expressed.
One will dominate the other and win and get the fans. The other will be crushed and humiliated.
Itās a reflection of society in a more unbridled way.
Tens of people with mics and cameras in your face asking you if you think you will beat the other guyā¦ you have to say something, itās all psychological warfare and intimidation. Then youāll have to prove it then theyāll get in your face a show the world your reaction live even a slow mo replay of your face while youāre doing acrobatics. That unconscious facial expression.
They have to step in and it has an impact not like mundane daily life for most people.
In the Olympics youāve trained your whole life since childhood, youāre the best in your country, the world is watchingā¦ imagine the pressure. Some of them puke before.
No one watches the sport, people watch the humans.
Fans are just people who know how you feel and want to give you the reward of social status, acceptance for your success and efforts. āWe saw you win out there, you are the champ, we got you and we will give you that extra confidenceā.
Women work up their feelings with soap operas, men with competitions to be the alpha males, get the millions of dollars, respect, authority, getting out their conquering and taking risks.
Plus you have your people vs the other people, the tribe you identify with.
The less war we have, the more sports weāll get.
Testosterone makes you agressive and competitive.
Empathy and mirror neurones letās you soak it in, the adrenaline, emotions, victory sitting on your couch. Plus the dopamine and the oxytocin and serotonin, bonding and sense of identity in the tribe. Plus the anticipation is working out your brain.
Thank you for your explanation. This has been helpful.
I think the main difference why others are invested in these sport things and I am not has to do with different people identifiying with different emotional templates and emotional spectrums.
In this example, sports does not trigger any emotions in me, thatās why I am not invested. On the other hand, e.g. movies do trigger emotions in me and that is why I am invested there.
I believe this also makes sense from a higher (Higher Self) point of view:
One cannot gather the experiences of all the possible emotions and emotional templates with just one incarnation. There are just too many different emotional experiences. Thatās why the Higher Self has to specialize its incarnations and equip them with different personality types and affinity for different emotional spectrums.
I havenāt played in A While, but I used to love ping pong.
Now, Iām not really a true fan of any sport, however I can somehow enjoy a few activities, like biking.
(However/also, to lose weight, to get in shape and to build some muscles, I need exercise, so yeah, I need it, but not a fan lol, although it can be relaxing)
Iāve been trying to get into watching Formula 1, some other racing, but itās hard to understand whatās going on during a race with some of the camera angles. Does anyone have trouble with this? It just seems like racing coverage is just overall terrible. They sacrifice coherent coverage of the sport for plotlines. Iāve almost never watched nascar because just looking at the tv while itās on makes me physically sick, but Iāve always enjoyed racing and Formula seems way more aesthetically pleasing.
Is there a channel or app that you can get a constant birdās eye view of the track? It would be awesome to just get the full picture of the race the whole time so you can see how things develop.
Alternatively, golf coverage in general does such a great job filling you in on all of the details and helping you feel like you understand everything thatās going on. Itās the polar opposite of racing, but they do such a great job of laying everything out and keeping all of the relavant details in view.
I might just need to do more research on each race before I watch so I understand whatās going on better.
F1 TV allows you to be on board with a driver of your choice for the full race, or to switch them to get the juiciest actions
Would have been nice to have Floyd Mayweather vs Sugar Ray at the 147 lbs
Master of Defence vs Master of Attack
For real. 
I played basketball, tennis very competitively growing up and also dancing, school aerobics, cross-country running. I still enjoy casually shooting hoops and bellydancing. Occasionally I watch a game of AFL, NBA, soccer, tennis but not so much anymore, too many other things to experience.
I grew up watching Australian Rules Football.
This one is intense
I wanted to send a dancing video so bad but I 100% thought nobody would accept it. But since you said this:
Sports for me is an outlet for creative, aesthetic pursuit other than strengthening, etc.
Iām a performing aerialist, yoga trainer, dancer and swimmer/diver.
I also enjoy watching Formula 1, soccer, basketball and boxing (actually anything Iāll watch, will be glued and will ask a ton of questions lol)
Hello to all my dear friends, I will make the following acceverations of absolute truths in the sport:
Ronaldinho Gaucho is the best player of all time, forever and ever, Amen.
Mohamed Ali, is very bad, so bad and rude that he killed a crocodile, hospitalized a brick and is so fast that when he turned off the light, he was already in his bed before the light in the room went out completely.
Siiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
Sensational.
Dinho is my favorite football player ever as well.
Ali is so eliteā¦ I study his film and take some of his tricksā¦ but Iāll never copy his style. Thatās a quick way to get yourself placed knocked out. 
Only the legend himself can move so swiftly and dangerously.
Sometimes I would gladly add one hockey feature to football. :D
If Anthony Edwards clutches up and wins in game 7 he is the 2nd coming of Michael Jordan himself idc.
In 30 mins either he goes home, and loses in the playoffsā¦ Or we get to see history being rewritten.
Lolā¦ he did it.
Now he just has to win game 7 by dropping 40 points and heās fulfilliling prophecy.
He didnāt drop 40 but he clamped up with ease and they beat the reinging champions while simultaneously delivering his team from a 20 year drought. He can still become MJ over these next 8 games.
