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I did but Pat Sajak made me pay for it since it was a vowel...
droll that is
I did but Pat Sajak made me pay for it since it was a vowel...
for a college student you sure seem to eschew learning. He coached Simon Fairweather to an olympic gold medal among other things
how about you? do you have a varsity letter?
Junior Olympics 200 3rd place in forms and sparring in my weight division in the country. Regional qualified at least 3-4 times to go to nationals but master wasn't around to train me for those other ones. Trained by iranian national team members in fairfax, VA as a kid. Trained with the TKD ITF world champ of some year from kyrgizstan while in Kazakhstan. Havent been active in a couple years cept for some brasilian jiu jitsu and mauy thai for a couple months at a time on and off.
No. Chearleading is not a sport. Synchronized swimming is not a sport. Diving is not a sport. (EDIT: Dance isn't a sport either.)
A sport must involve competition involving actual, objective, quantitative scoring. None of this judges deciding who looked cooler crap.
do you understand the difference between a "sport" and "discpline" Many coaches do including Mr. Kisik Lee, current US olympic archery coach who notes archery is a discipline. Its a martial art he correctly notes but a discipline like the KATA while the TKD in the Olympics is a pure sport as is boxing.
sport as defined by many coaches I have dealt with-(of both disciplines like archery or sports such as table tennis and my old coach, Lee, Dal Joon) involves having to deal with and countering the actions of an opponent. Dodging a punch from a boxer, returning the serve of a tennis player, blocking the blitz of a defensive back, avoiding the slide tackle of a sweeper in soccer, returning the loop drive of a table tennis player, countering a leg shot by a wrestler, blocking a jump shot of a power forward, or fielding a screaming line drive of a hitter are all example of why those competitions are sport.
disciplines, shooting an arrow, throwing a javelin, clearing a high jump, putting a golf ball, dismounting a pommel horse, doing the Iron Cross on the rings, diving, trampoline, shooting a free pistol, perform a triple axel for example
for a college student you sure seem to eschew learning. He coached Simon Fairweather to an olympic gold medal among other things
how about you? do you have a varsity letter?
To me, a sport involves competition beyond, "Ours are cuter than yours." Is there competitive cheerleading? Is there a yearly schedule of cheerleading competitions? The answer is no. Therefore, it is not a sport to me.
What matters, though, is Title IX's definition of a sport. The Dept of Education hasn't ruled on this since 1975. We haven't seen the last of the case, I'm guessin'.
Competitive cheerleading is definately a sport that required more athletic ability than some sports out there like bowling and arguably baseball...
So, you think everyone who has a varsity letter (high school or college) should know the name of a little known coach in a sport they are not involved in?
For the record -- 15 high school letters and 8 in university....
So, poker, chess and mahjong are sports?
Most boxing matches are decided by judges. Now, unless you want bouts to go on until someone gets blugeoned to death, you can't claim boxing is a sport by your artificial criteria.
Gymnastics is one of the most demanding sports there are. Are you going to argue that it isn't a sport? You are inputting a definition that is not generally held as a criteria for "sport-hood"
ballet requires more athletic effort than many sports. that is not what makes something a sport
not at all. they are competitions but since they do not require any athletic skill-hand eye, endurance, quickness, agility, speed, they are not sports.
they are games.
dictionary definition said:sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Show Spelled[spawrt, spohrt] Show IPA
–noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
It would seem that ANY activity, if it involved "skill or physical prowess", and if a competition were organized for it, would then be a sport.Cheerleading definitely falls within this definition...