Like for example, obviously I’m a sports fan, but through all of sports the one thing I love watching more than anything is great baseball pitchers. Watching how much movement they can put on a ball is just fun to watch.
I have a pretty high respect for nearly all professional athletes to be honest. The aspect I respect the most is mainly how much technical competence and practice are needed to perform at professional levels
… although it may be because I do play really difficult video games, some of which can be considered to be e-sports. A less niche example, when I played chess semi-seriously for a year I really learned just how strong the Grandmasters are. Maybe this view bled into my view of conventional sports too
Not a skateboarder & never been one, but watching someone rip it apart on a board is mesmerizing.
Most sports have some aspect that is impressive, I just can’t stand watching them. Watching someone else play just bores the hell out of me 95% of the time if it’s already a sport I’ve seen a lot of. If it’s something new or something I know very little about, it will hold my interest for a little longer.
I also get bored watching other people play video games.
For me it’s the opposite. I enjoy sports but I’m not very athletic but I can watch.
Video games I can play so why would I waste my already busy day watching someone when I can be doing it myself. I don’t understand twitch. Gaming helps me unwind. Only time I’ve went to twitch is when I’m on the fence about a game
Closest I can stand is highlights or the little reviews Dunkey does.
Gymnasts. They’re fucking awesome in regards to what they can do with their bodies
Male gymnastics. I’m pretty strong, but those dudes are beasts.
I’ll watch like a clip of people doing “crazy” things like mailing a difficult shot, or some other high skill play.
But I could not care less about team culture, league culture, specific players/coaches, championships, W/L records, etc.
Even the Olympics all I care about is the sportsmanship of the world coming together to compete fairly as a show that outside politics we can all get along for this event. But I don’t care about watching any of it, I just like the humanity of it.
Sports can bring out great does of skill, but I just wish it wasn’t such a default small talk thing. People will get mad at each other at work for liking the wrong team and they’ll rag on each other about issues that none of them have a hand in.
Like… Just like it privately. It shouldn’t be such a huge part of your personality. I shouldn’t know who you like while actively trying to stay out of any and all discussion about it.
Not really. I acknowledge that most professional sports people must be highly skilled in what they do, but I just don’t really care for what they are skilled at. I can watch a skilled person repair a vintage hifi system for hours though, even though I myself am not proficient in that art either, so I guess it just depends on the type of skill for me.
Ice hockey is rather impressive to me. I’m a very very minimal fan (as in, I will watch 30 seconds of a game if it’s on a TV I am walking past). I have been to a few NHL games, including the Winter Classic with my dad. It takes a lot of coordination, teamwork, and skill to successfully play.
3-player volleyball with your feet. Spike the ball by doing a backflip 8D
It is a fun game and great workout.
Check out Mountain of Hell 2018: winning run by Kilian Bron (and then this run with the speedometer). And perhaps Valparaiso Cerro Abajo urban downhill. Both of these are those sports that take a fairly normal activity and turn it up to eleven. I don’t follow either of them, but watching the clips makes me sweat.
I really respect the athleticism and showmanship of pro-wrestling. Also the job culture sounds 100% cancerous so I deeply admire people who were able to foster actual positive relationships in it. Can’t make myself watch it though.
NASCAR is boring as hell but the drivers have got to be the wiliest kniving little shitlords so it will never not be entertaining to read about their looneytoon antics
I used to be a casual sports fan, then I started a business, and needed to carve time out of my schedule, and Sports can eat up a lot time, even if you’re casual. So I don’t follow any sports anymore, except:
The Summer Olympics, and the Winter Olympics, to a lesser degree. I enjoy seeing the best athletes in the world, operating at the bleeding edges of human ability. I will sit a become an armchair expert in almost anY Olympic sport, but I really love the weird sports. I’ll never forget the first time I discovered CURLING! Pole vaulters still amaze me.
And since it’s only every 4 years, I can indulge for a couple weeks, and not feel guilty for wasting my time on it.
Would you happen to be a KC Royals fan? If so, by my count that makes at least 2 of us here on Lemmy!
Yes. In Nebraska
Royce Gracie defeating much larger foes with little to no injury to them.
I really only like hockey to watch. Everything else, I appreciate the skill and shit, but I would rather play them all than watch any of them.
