Geeks and Sports?

[Cabhan]

I dun watch too many sports, but I've fenced for about 8 years...though only 4 of them were with official training. I've done all three blades, but I prefer sabre the most.

I'm also on my HS school Ultimate Frisbee team.

[Roxoff]

what's hacky sack?

lol, I thought it was a variant of horizontal jogging. (Horizontal jogging, btw, has no entry in wikipedia. All volunteers to write one, take one pace forward...)

[squirrelplayingtag]

I skateboard, and play hacky-sack and basketball. I only watch basketball though and the occassional football game when the dad puts it on.

[GNOME_n00b]

soccer

you mean football?

lol, I thought it was a variant of horizontal jogging. (Horizontal jogging, btw, has no entry in wikipedia. All volunteers to write one, take one pace forward...)

i remember when i was a kid and we used to have the sack race along with the egg'n'spoon race and all that for the end of year sports. i thought it was something similar to the sack race.

[chopin1810]

Hackey sack is where you kick around a ball with your feet but it can't touch the ground, you see how many times you can hit it without dropping it.
It's basically juggling with your feet.
I think it's mostly popular in the 'states...

[Dapper Dan]

Luckily my wife detests football and basketball as much as I do, even though I played football in high school. Baseball though, now that's a different story. I love baseball! If you ever have a chance, see "Field of Dreams" to get an idea of the almost spiritual connection we feel with that particular sport.

I also love Drag Racing. Watching a Detroit door slammer that burns gasoline sail through a quarter mile at over 200 miles an hour is a very exiting thing to see...
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at fingal: I also love to fish. Down South we get plenty of good fishing shows. Hank Parker, Bill Dance, Rollin Martin and Orlando Wilson just to name a few!

[daacosta]

Football (As in any place in the world except the USA where its called 'soccer'...) [ I am not good though! ]

Chess

I like to watch women's tennis on TV, female beach volleyball, etc. I also like to watch boxing, basketball... I don't enjoy American football nor baseball...

[budman7]

IBooo Maple Leafs! Go Red Wings .

Bryan

That is what you meant right?

[fingal]

at fingal: I also love to fish. Down South we get plenty of good fishing shows. Hank Parker, Bill Dance, Rollin Martin and Orlando Wilson just to name a few!

Great! I think of fishing as spiritual. Once I went and fished for seven hours without a break, and it felt like 2-3 hours. When I woke up the next morning I could still see the float in front of my eyes.

The rivers I fished in were slow and muddy, but it's a great way to relax. What a way to live!

[Dapper Dan]

The rivers I fished in were slow and muddy, but it's a great way to relax. What a way to live!

I agree! When you're out there fishing and communing with nature, it brings immense pleasure and peace of mind. Fishing is the only activity I've found that takes your thoughts completely off your troubles. You become so single minded about catching your quarry that everything else seems to melt into insignificance, at least temporarily which is a good thing.

I fish for largemouth bass most of the time and always release what I catch. If on the other hand, I luck up and do well while fishing for bream (sunfish), catfish or especially yellow perch, there'll be a fish fry for sure!