The Hardest Sport To Play
Sport is very important for us all but you have to know what is the best one for you so you can get the most from yourself when you compete
Every sport is hard to learn when you don’t know-how.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a sport for you.
Becoming good enough at any sport to enjoy playing takes time and effort. Very few people can play many sports to a high level and if they do they’ve likely spent a lot of time practicing sports to be able to do this.
Yet some people have more ability than others when it comes to playing sports.
Because playing sports is a combination of traits. You need to have coordination, speed, timing, rhythm, awareness, vision, strength, intelligence, motor planning, agility, and a range of other attributes. Some can be learned and honed over time but some people just have a better natural knack for combining many of these traits too.
And these traits are only basic ones because once you start playing in a team you need to have soft skills that deal with people as well.
Understanding how to listen, talk, have the proper body language, have patience with others, encourage, motivate, communicate, and organize are some of these attributes that are so important for team play.
Not everyone has these skills and if they do it’s rare if they have them along with the more technical skills required to become very skilled at a sport.
Some sports share technical traits and others have a range of skills that are unique to their sports only. To figure out what are the hardest sports to play to learn is difficult because if you judge a person on their ability to play the sport at the highest level the results of their performance may be difficult to compare against others performance in that sport given that you’ll never know the initial natural ability of players and performers before they began practicing.
Every sport is difficult to play when a person doesn’t know the rules and is even more difficult if they are under pressure to perform as well.
No matter how skilled a player is at a particular sport, if they are put in a pressurized situation they will find it difficult to perform to their level of ability. One of the reasons for this is because human brains can’t multitask even though most people think they can. And when the pressure is on to perform different parts of our brains feel this and incapacitate the ability to perform already learned actions in the most ideal manner.
And with that in mind, every sport is hard to play.
Every sport is difficult to perfect too and it takes time for anyone of any ability to do this. Because even if you have a fantastic natural aptitude to play a certain sport once you perform at a high level there are comparisons made with other competitors in the sport all around the world. Not only that, but your performance will be measured against many others who have reached such heights in the sport down through the generations.
And many of the rules of the sport may have changed or the structure of the competition may have altered over time too.
So making direct comparisons are tricky to do.
Every sport has a high level of difficulty even if it doesn’t seem so from the outside. Take running as an example. If I was to glance at the television for a moment I may be fooled into thinking that its only a matter of getting my shorts and runners on and galloping a lap of a track and I could be a great runner.
But that’s not the case.
Because running at a level that would make it to television in the first place demands so much natural ability and attention to detail.
Firstly, I’d have to have a certain height and general body shape that would lend itself to the specific distance that most athletes in that race have. Then I`d likely have to have a naturally lower heart rate if it was a long-distance race or faster twitch fibers if it was a short race to even begin to consider competing.
All of these things demand natural ability.
And even if I had those traits I’d then have to learn the technical skills of how to start a race properly, how to pace myself throughout the race, at what angle to hold my gait as I ran, how to use my feet as it hits the turf and many other things.
These are the things that the average viewer on television doesn’t see.
Those skills are honed over hours and hours of practice throughout years of trial and error during competition. And as running is the basic movement for many sports having a greater natural ability at it than others and then having a flair for other technical skills that are demanded in other sports is also required to compete.
That’s why a combination of natural talent and learned skills are required to play sports.
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