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Best Athletes in the world
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ok here is my question, what group are really the best? we can all make a case for skiing but I want an open conversation, part of the reason i call skiing and most action sports the best is because it takes allot of balls to hit what we hit and trick off it. plus the agility and stamina to be active at 12,000ft. and over all coordination of pro skiers is plane ridicules.
so lets here some suggestions and dont just say football, I want reasons
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I can't believe no ones said skating yet before me.
But athletic wise, like training and stuff, gymnasts for sure. They train stupid hard. Some start at around age 8 and train for like 6 hours every single day for like 15 years straight.
It's ridiculous.
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skateboarding isnt a very athletic sport, it takes mad skill.
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yeh Moto x is gnarley, but the shit seth morrision does is the gnarliest hes the most under rated athlete in the wolrd, sitting there for 2 weeks and then 1st run chredding gnar gnar step fell or you die terrain, on a 1st descent and then macking into a 90 foot cliff and stopiming a massive back flip 1st try no hesitation at all thats gnarl./.
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NFL players are all on roids. and there pussys they wear pads come the fuck on sure they get hit fuckin hard, but rugby is way more gnarl, no pads faster game... best athletes though are Moto x guys, Gymnasts (as in gymnastics) and big wave Sufers, as well as big mountain skiers.
the fitest man alive is Laird Hamilton
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having been a gymnast and nordic racer i'm gonna place my bets on those. i was never in better shape than when i was in these sports... however nordic skiing didn't require much bravery or ability to learn new skills. as a gymnasts you use every muscle (and prob sprain every one too) and push your arobic capasity and perserverance. you also challenge yourself more intensely and diversely than any other sport.
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haha yea you are totally right, I am just saying from my High school experience the most dedicated athletes were probably wrestlers or swimmers.
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I see your point totally. Both of these sports, however, involve no direct action with a competitor, unlike soccer for example where you not only r expending mad energy up and down the field but you have to react to your opponent. I think that aspect definitely has to count for something. If we are talking about the most physically fit athlete for sure a nordic skier triathlete or road biker probably fits that bill, but the definition of best athlete has to involve more than that.
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lacrosse, those guys take a fucking beating and the coordination you need to catch that ball is crazy
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your on crack man, lacrosse is sick but come on man try playing rugby then you know the definition of a beating..
Best athletes are moto x guys, Big wave surfers, Soccer, tri athletes, exapmples:
Seth, Laird hamilton, Shaun Palmer( all round killer/piss head ) , JAmes Bubba Stewart, Kelly Slater,Ronaldo, Zidane..,.SETH.... Chad Reed.
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I agree with alot of these, but some like nordic skier, you have to have great stamina and stuff but not as much talent and skill. lets be honest it takes way more skill, (not overall athleticism) to do a simple kickflip or shovit on a skate board, (and those are beginner tricks)
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running, awimming biking, speed skating, racing of that nature at a competitive level takes so much time dedication, desire, mental anguish, physical punishment etc.....
DISCLAIMER!!!!!!! since i know alot of people on NS are dumbasses I'm saying as a COMPETITOR.... it's not difficult to run or swim or ride a bike down a road!
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id say that soccer requires the most stamina, football the most agility, and basketball the most overall athleticism..
so that makes quidditch the sport with the best athletes
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yo im da best athlete in da whole fucken world. ya dig.
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any mountianeer is probably the greatest athlete out there, if you climb mt. everest or k2(and survive) you win in my book...the strength and endurance you need to have to climb is far greater than any other sport out there...
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I'd agree somewhat...but there are like 12 year olds who have climbed mount everest. I doubt there are many twelve year olds who could win the tour de france or compete at high level in a world cup soccer match.
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soccer because each game you run an average of 7 miles a game if you play it right, yyou need incredible stamina, leg strength, core strength and agility
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Ron Jeremy. you can't even argue with that. there's... what... at least a few thousand hours of video evidence. that dude's endurance is unmatched.
actually, i'd say motocross racers. sure, riding a bike can be a workout, but riding a 300lbs bike through a super gnar course with big air would kick the shit out of 99.9% of humankind. i ride DH everyday during the summer and have mad respect for what those guys are doing on dirtbikes. they have to have amazing endurance, strength, balance, reaction time, and balls.
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parkour, you need flexilibity, amazing balance, explosive speed and jumping ability, and the ability to sustain it for quite a few minutes at full blast.
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runners and swimmers. when i say runners i mean distance runners, people with no body fat and a high tolerance for pain. and i tried swimming and think it's just the most painful thing ever so that's why it's up there.
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I can argue the whole motocross vs running thing because I ran track (miles and 8) and cross country at a very competitive level in California, while also racing moto for six years. Sure I've never been more exhasted in my life after running a cross country race but the ability to keep on pushing is risk free.
Motocross takes tons of experience, seat time, cardio preparation..etc to be able to race for 15-20 minutes. (i race int) (pros go 30min +) On top of that the mental perception you have to maintain during a race is vital, because if you get tired the probability of making mistakes increases drastically; and mistakes during a race hitting high speed or technical sections can result in heavy injuries.
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one guy- laird hamilton. he owns every sport he tries. ridiculous natural athlete.
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haahahhahahahhaah yea fucking right
I'm gonna go with iron man triathletes, seems like a safe bet
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oh yea and the one testicled dudes with 5 times more efficient lungs and hearts than the rest of us.
I read somewhere that lance can produce (let's say 300 because i completely forget the number) 300 watts of energy on a bike for an hour, while the average nhl player can produce 300 watts for two minutes, and then the hockey subjects either passed out or puked.
lance is the man
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I am going to go WAY outside the box
as far as danger i am going to say bullriding, reason being you have a persone (dumb or not) siting on top of a 2000 lb. pissed off animal and said animal what to pretty much kill them.
as far as what i like to watch i gotta go with moto X hit the 100 ft gap in the wrong gear and oh yeah your fucked
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I heard of like professional mountaineers, i saw some video on it was nuts its an european thing its not in the states if anyone knows what i'm talking about let me know, or that team race in australia where they go into the outback on there own its a huge ass race
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actually the youngest person to climb everest is 18 years old...she has also summited some of the other 8000+ meter peaks...
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skiing and skating and all those sports dont require much skill, all you need are big balls to attempt everything
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my dad always tells me F1 drivers are the athletes in the best shape
It really depends on what you measure though, strength, flexibility, endurance, agility, etc.
I think fmx has the biggest balls.
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ummm it is a toss up between soccer, rugby, decatholan, and professional fighters...not only boxing but MMA(mixed martil arts aka UFC) as they need to not only have amazing boxing skills, but need to have a super strong core, heafty leg kicks, and phenominal ground skills.(im talking about the worlds best not like frank shamrock)
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im actually surprised that noone has said professional fighters.
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i am sorry but it is not skiers at all. decath/tri are by far the harderst working people out there
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Pole Vaulters are the best atheletes on the planet. I'm not just saying that either. You need to be so all around strong, fast as hell, endurance to keep vaulting during meets, flexibitly....everything.
Hands down, pole vaulters.
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skateboarding takes soo much skill but i still think extreme skipping takes it.
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theres soo many, i think soccer would be because they have such quick feet and ball control plus they spring like madd!!
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thats bullshit, they just train extremely hard every single day, and are on a very high muscle gain training regimen. If all NFL players are on roids, then why havent they all gotten caught yet?? they do random tests every couple of weeks. rugby is also NOT a faster game than football, because in football, youre never jogging, or walking. You execute your play, run to the huddle, break the huddle and then get back there and do it again. Also, If football players didnt wear pads, they would be fucked. Every single play involves head to head contact, and shoulder to shoulder contact,and I'm pretty sure that in rugby you don't go head to head every 20 seconds of the game.
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several people have mentioned boxers and ufc fighters. they are, hands down, the best atheletes in the world
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to be an incredible athlete you need to be in great shape physically, mentally, and have a great deal of talent in whatever sport you're playing. every sport has their super athletic players, every sport also has its talented unathletic players at well that make a living just the same. you can't really pinpoint one sport inparticular because the athletes differ greatly in terms of athletic ability. hell, i know that golfers like tiger woods and camillo villegas are just as if not more athletic, physically, and mentally fit than the majority of athletes playing baseball, basketball, football, etc... each sport has their incredible athletes, it's hard to say which one has the most though.
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I'm seconding (or thirding?). I don't think alot of people really comprehend and consider all aspects of being an athlete. Most of you are just droping sports with great stamina, which is not all (to me, subjectively ofcourse). Strength, Stamina, flexibility, agileness, heart (probably together with all contactsports something other sports don't come close too since it's all about stamina or focus) not to mention skills. In MMA you haveto be top notch in both standup and on the ground. Sounds easy? It takes about 10 years to get a brazilian jiu-jutsu black belt, and that's just on the ground...
Taking someone down - Wrestling (randy couture was an all american aswell as alot of others like matt hughes),
punching and kicking - Muay Thai and kick boxing (which takes like, forever to be prominent at. I've been training it myself for 1½ years and there's a shitload to learn), the list just goes on...
I guess what I'm saying is that if you don't think constantly and are on your toes - you'll definetly loose. Belive me when I say, it's hard as hell remembering that headlock you learned with all your other thousands of tricks when your stuck to the fence with someone trying to beat the living shit out of you...
"If you're going to measure every parameter [endurance, flexibility, coordination, strength], without a doubt, MMA fighters are the most accomplished athletes out there," says Carlon Colker, a Connecticut physician who has trained or advised the likes of Andre Agassi and Shaquille O'Neal as well as UFC fighters. "It's not even close."
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I read some where that Soccer is the most physically demanding sport in the world, and motorcross is the second.
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