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NS and team sports

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FuckAllOfYou
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Well, I am really an independent, action/extreme sports kind of fellow and I was wondering how most NS'rs are.

I have obviously played my share of team sports in high school and stuff but I could never really get in the groove of how it seemed everyone took everything so fucking seriously. I used to play soccer, and every single fucking game we didn't win by 5 points half my team would cry. I just don't like the holier than thou vibe that they give off, and frankly I don't like anything about them.

Super boring.

/endrant
Jun 15 2012 10:02PM
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edai
Posts: 4994 - Karma: 4,703
I've always been the same way but I'm trying to break out of that and explore some new things. I've always thought it was good to put yourself in new, uncomfortable positions and see how they work out.
Jun 15 2012 10:04PM
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Dlud
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I agree with you to the fullest
Jun 15 2012 10:04PM
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E__
Posts: 5751 - Karma: 4,635
I've played hockey, baseball, soccer, and rugby and I can honestly tell you sports like skateboarding, biking, skiing, rollerblading are so much more fun for me. I love anything that involves a high risk/reward factor (extreme sports) so much more than team sports.
Jun 15 2012 10:07PM
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Dlud
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Trying to explain this to people who only play team sports is impossible.
Jun 15 2012 10:09PM
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californiagrown
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very, very few things in life are better than going to war with your buds, getting physically beat to shit, beating others to hell and back, and coming out the victors. The team camaraderie on a good team is the biggest thing that i miss about team sports.

I would give up everything i have right now to be able to play football in a competetive arena again...or even baseball.


but charging lines high as balls does sate my pallet for now.
Jun 15 2012 10:11PM
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C_Thomps-12
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I've played team sports my whole life, their fun... but going to the mountain and not having anyone telling you what to do is soooo much better imo.
Jun 15 2012 10:29PM
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cwphoto
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i completely agree with all of you. like in team sports if your team sucks, you lose too. and you only make like a few good plays a game, and yea you can get better at throwing or catching etc. theres not very much progression. In action sports you push yourself, and the sky is the limit. nothin better than a day on the slopes chillin with the friends and skiing.
Jun 15 2012 10:33PM
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james6345789
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I used to play football, lacrosse, and wrestle, but as of last year I don't do any of those haha. I can now ski and mountain bike a lot more now. Luckily, Minnesota formed a HS mountain bike league this year so I am on my school's team. I am also in marching band now that I quit football this year. I'm gonna try out for my school's ultimate team in the spring also.
Jun 15 2012 10:38PM
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mowglii
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although scoring a sick goal can be really rewarding its not worth it to put up with all the gay kids and coaches and practises and drills and shit. skiing and skating are just way funner
Jun 15 2012 10:40PM
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1337
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High school soccer was the worst. Teammates were all shitheads, coaches sucked, etc.

My HS had the best XC/Track coach ever, and the team was kickass. Best decision I made in HS was to switch to XC over soccer.
Jun 15 2012 10:42PM
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CashmereCat
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The one thing I hate about team sports is when you do good, and the coach doesn't say anything to you. But then a kid that is higher up in the batting order does ok and he is freaking out he's so happy... fml
Jun 15 2012 10:43PM
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AWALLRUS.
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Yeah I pretty much hate playing team sports because it doesn't matter how good you are if everyone else on your team is shit, you'll lose. I played hockey for a while. it was fun but I got sick of dealing with rowdy trailer park kids and uncoordinated fucks who got signed up because their parents thought they were getting fat.

I ski, run xc, and run track. I still consider xc a team sport though, but if you have a shitty team you can still succeed individually. wouldn't say it's technically a team sport though.

I love skiing a whole lot more than running though. running is all about discipline, times and winning for me. skiing is just always fun whether you're learning tricks, goofin around with friends, competing, hitting urban, filming or whatever you're into. Skiing never feels like a chore for me, it's always a privilage, where as in the summer I don't always feel like working out and going for runs.
Jun 15 2012 11:08PM
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Ski_Alot
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yeah i never really played an extreme amount of teams sports, i stuck more to running sports and other individual sports (and obviously extreme sports) but i have just always felt that the kids in these are just better and you get more out of it than with some retarded jocks...
Jun 15 2012 11:15PM
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californiagrown
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well, that's a rather naive and ignorant POV.
Jun 15 2012 11:53PM
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Bodhisattva_
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My family and town is really big on football and my dad is huge on team sports. Personally I love the atmosphere and camaraderie of the football field because I have been around it and playing it since I was 7. It's like a lifestyle sort of like skiing as well. Once you get intoe into HS ball it becomes basically year round and it is like a brotherhood. Baseball as well my brother played baseball through college and I always remember the atmosphere and brotherhood his summer team and high school team had. Especially since they were very very good teams
Idk maybe because I have been around it forever but I love it.

Stills doesn't beat charging lines high as shit though.
Jun 15 2012 11:54PM
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NinetyFour
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Dodgeball in gymclass is the only fun team sport in the history of the world accept when you hit the weak female bitches in the face and they cry and then you look like a huge fucking douchebag no matter how many times you apologize /thread
Jun 15 2012 11:58PM
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BlakeG
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Oh yes dodgeball in gym class, I still play team sports but I quit hockey because in Canada' the hockey parents are the worst, apparently everyone's kid is going to the NHL and when hitting started everyone hit to injure so thy could be the biggest heros
Jun 16 2012 2:23AM
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DERS.
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fuckin hate team sports. unless its just a pointless pickup game. but as a kid i was usually a decent player on a really good team for baseball/basketball whatever.. so i was never a standout player until one year my baseball team broke up and i joined a new one. these kids sucked and i was the best player. ran shit around there (5th/6th-ish grade). then i quit that team for a better one, and again became mediocre.
then in high school played 4 years varsity baseball.. quit my senior year halfway through because the captian were two junior fagbag's and i was done with that shit. so yeah fuck team sports. ima do me.
Jun 16 2012 8:26AM
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Anathema
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team sports are sick. being able to share your accomplishment with a bunch of like-minded people who banded together to work toward a common goal is such a great feeling. it's one thing to win an individual trophy, but i couldn't imagine how awesome it would feel to win the stanley cup and share that with your teammates and celebrate with them.

i swam for a long time, i ski raced, i did a bunch of individual things, and probably prefer them, but the comradery you get from team sports and pride you feel when you're a part of something bigger than yourself is something you just can't get from doing your own thing. even if you're participating in an individual sport and representing your school or your province or even if you're lucky enough, your country some day, it's really that team atmosphere that makes sports so great, in my opinion.
Jun 16 2012 8:33AM
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Blindsurfer
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its not weird if you actually give it your all and become part of the team, and develop like a closeness/brotherhood with your teammates
Jun 16 2012 4:58PM
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Blindsurfer
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thats not what its about.
Jun 16 2012 5:00PM
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PopsicleStand
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watching team sports help me blend in in the midwest without coming off as a pretentious gayball to the country folk. it still doesnt work half the time "go buckey...whatever"

oh well. im gay.
Jun 16 2012 5:01PM
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Blindsurfer
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you clearly will never be a real man
Jun 16 2012 5:01PM
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Blindsurfer
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after reading every post in this thread, most of you are all complete losers who dont understand what team sports are really all about. my school rugby team didnt win a single game this year. but we didnt actually care, we gave it our all and worked together. thats what team sports are about. everyone giving 100% effort together to try and win. and even if you didnt win, as long as you gave it your best effort you should be happy and the rest of the team will be happy too.
Jun 16 2012 5:05PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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that's really gay.
Jun 16 2012 5:16PM
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Toaster-Tony
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I have played team sports for most of my life and for me, it can really one direction or the other. I have played on teams in which everyone is very encouraging and on the same page. These teams are more fun than any experience I have had with skiing so far. But the truth behind it is, I have have not played on a team that has been like that for years. My last experiences with hockey have been backstabbing kids and corrupt coaching making it hell to show up for practice everyday. Playing on a bad team can really ruin the experience of the sport, which is the main reason I switched to skiing and love it so much today.
Jun 16 2012 5:19PM
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bakedpow
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Ok lets all hate on competitive sports.

Try playing a sport at a very high level and say you're not emotionally involved. Im not saying some 2A high school girls soccer game. collegiate semi pro, and even club soccer, but i guess at those levels it has already weeded the people out who dont care.

to each there own, but not much compares to a playing in a big game. in any sport not just soccer, playing in those games against rivals, a big playoff game etc is thrilling to say the least.
Jun 16 2012 5:27PM
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Juicy-J
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truthfully, it seems like every kid on NS has the same story. "I used to play team sports but i didn't like how it was so limited by the rules and boundrys, so now I only do action sports." Personally, I play baseball, run xc, mess around with basketball and football, but I also skateboard and ski. I don't have a problem with team sports and I don't understand the hate. Just my two cents.
Jun 16 2012 5:31PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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I've never thought about it limit - wise (now that I do I agree)

I really didn't like the people. Whiny, bitchy, mean, such try hards. I could go on.
Jun 16 2012 5:34PM
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Ski_ThEast
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i'm the opposite, i love action sports and all except i'm a big team sports guy too.  I'm also the one to get very competitive and get very angry when i lose.  I don't think it's bad thing it makes me strive to get better and win.
Jun 16 2012 5:34PM
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bustinthejus
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Damn, looks like NS'ers are going to suck dick at working with other people...
Jun 16 2012 5:40PM
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Juicy-J
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lol
Jun 16 2012 5:43PM
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james6345789
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You sound like a fucking cunt. That's gay? I don't think you're that "action sports kid," I think you're a judgmental pussy that was never man enough to play sports.
Jun 16 2012 5:51PM
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Blindsurfer
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no, you're just a little bitch who's insecure about your teammates possibly seeing your tiny dick.
Jun 16 2012 6:17PM
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Blindsurfer
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what are you trying to say? you're a whiny bitch for hating on team sports which you clearly suck at.
Jun 16 2012 6:18PM
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cwphoto
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Its no big deal dude. Some people just arent going to like things, like team sports, so just get used to it. I dont like them either. And dont automatically assume people suck at team sports for not playing them, i know some long time all star players that quit and now only play action sports
Jun 16 2012 7:58PM
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bdarb207
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Some of my best memories growing up are of soccer and hockey teams. Ive always really enjoyed individual sports like tennis and skiing, biking etc. Though too. Being on shitty teams with shitty coaches blows, but good teams with good coaches can be so fun.
Jun 16 2012 8:07PM
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Heart
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Ive got nothing against team sports, but i really prefer individual things. I played soccer for a few years, and i was decent, but i hated it. then i switched to xc and track, and i really enjoyed mahself. i like how success is based only on how hard you push yourself in individual sports
Jun 16 2012 8:24PM
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BMB
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this thread is holier than thou
Jun 16 2012 8:35PM
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ABinThe603
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And this is why I play baseball. I haven't seen a teammates dick yet.
Jun 16 2012 8:41PM
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Mr.Sloth
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I think we would all appreciate your contribution more if you atopped being such a raging asshole.
Jun 16 2012 8:45PM
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sleazy
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team sports can be more fun but they never seem as rewarding when you win at least for me with lax. But like when I go skiing and land a trick i've been practicing for awhile, i am so happy and proud of myself, its a great feeling.
Jun 16 2012 8:47PM
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Forcillo
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I play Soccer and Baseball and although I enjoy skiing a fraction of a tenth of a unit better, I find truly great moments in my team sports as well. For example, my baseball team last year won the state chamionship on a walk off homer, and seeing the ball drop over the fence is still imprinted on my brain. We all went crazy, and had a raging party afterwards. The same kind of thing happened the same year with my soccer team except it was a goal.

You can't even compare action sports to team sports. They have totally different appeals, and their turnoffs. I've had great moments longboarding, skiing, and tramping but I've had equally great moments playing team sports as well.

In soccer you score a goal.

In skiing you learn a trick.

Potato freaking Potahto
Jun 16 2012 10:00PM
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BChaps1209
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this is why i think a surprising amount of nsers run track, you only rely on yourself. also getting a really good time in track gives me the same feeling as landing a new trick skiing/skating.
Jun 16 2012 10:12PM
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PJS.
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i fucking love football, and to a far lesser extent american football and college basketball.


and I ski. get at me op.
Jun 16 2012 10:16PM
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cwphoto
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Yea ive noticed a lot of skiers run. Too bad i run like a sloth
Jun 16 2012 10:17PM
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blah..
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I think everyone's being a little bit closed minded. Before hating on team sports, complaining that everyone else was a whiny bitch, and you couldn't rely on them. Maybe take the time to consider that you might have been a killjoy player who held the team back? Even if that's not true, there are good teams and bad teams. And there is a huge difference between the incredible stoke you have, walking onto the field in a crispy clean jersey, with the lights just warming up, and your team doing organized drills, and the monotony of practice with a shitty coach and a mediocre team. Trust me, when the stakes are high, and the team is there, playing on a team can be the sickest thing. Now with idividual sports like skating or skiing or running, there is the discipline and accomplishment, which is fantastic. But to say one is better then the other is decidedly narrow minded and lacks a sense of perspective.
Jun 16 2012 10:30PM
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50in07
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Up until around freshman year of high school I used to play baseball, basketball, and football. After a great ski season in 8th grade after I joined our local team called Nybora and got really caught up in the ski scene and eventually quit all of my team sports. The next couple of years were great and I had amazing seasons, but this last year I really started to miss all of my old team sports. Now that I have graduated high school and looking back, my biggest regret by far was quitting fall and spring sports. Needless to say I can't fucking wait for college intramurals.
Jun 17 2012 12:56AM
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Blake.P
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Intermural baseball at boulder next year? I might do that. Haven't played on a team in a few years and it sounds kinda fun
Jun 17 2012 4:00AM
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selkirks
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...and that's exactly the kind of attitude that turns many people off to team-oriented sports. OP is correct--there is this sort of "holier than thou" attitude that does exist and it seeks to tear down any element that they believe to be "lacking" rather than build it up. Even if that person is on their team. (Which doesn't really make any sense, given that the goal is to defeat the opposing team, not your own.)

Whereas in competitive individual sports, competition in my experience has always been respectful, considerate, and far more progressive. There's less of a monotony of attempting to simply score more goals or points or touchdowns as the other team and more of an individualized attempt to achieve something greater. To jump higher, longer. To run or swim faster. There's more of a personal struggle to constantly, ceaselessly strive for a PR. And in many cases, there's a significant amount of respect given to those who do well. Huge respect.

I don't know...to me, individualized sports just work better for me because I can work at my pace and in a way that allows me to capitalize on what I know are my own unique strengths.
Jun 17 2012 5:18AM
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