Is any "sport" where you walk at a leisurely pace most of the time..

[MrScorpio]

A true sport?

[madison2000]

1. like golf?

no, its a social activity

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Sounds to me like

you have never tried to hit a 210 yard par 3 into the wind. That, my man, is a sport!

[madison2000]

4. no, I haven't

seems more like a guy thing to me (I'm female)
But isn't watching it on TV like REALLY sssslllllllloooowwwwwww? Worse than watching bowling?

[DrZeeLit]

28. Truly a sport! a game of skill, integrity, and class. I'm a woman and

I have played golf all my life. I hit a mean drive. I can out-drive some of the guys, but it is a tough, tough game. Consistency... wow, so tough. Short game, putting, sand traps... so much to cover.

And what other sport makes the player also the referee -- where you have to call a foul on yourself.

Ethics in action.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. yeah, caving. Seriously.

You get all your gear on and stuff, pack your bag and take of, walking through the woods or whatever to get to the entrance, and if you are lucky it is a walking in type not a crawling in type of cave.

Then you (again if you are lucky) stroll through the walking areas of the cave until you get where you are going.

sometimes you walk a while, then you crawl, then you climb, then you stoop, wrap yourself around a few things, slide under a few things, then you dig, wade, slide.

Then you turn around and do it all in reverse.

If you are doing cave survey, and it is a walking cave and you are doing the map, then it truly is leisurely walking, with stops to do the survey.

It is great exercise. When I was caving regularly, I could eat the world and stay at around 115 to 120 pounds, and I wasn't doing much else in the way of workouts or anything..just a good cave trip once or twice a month. You burn up a lot of calories just keeping warm in the cave.

[Bullwinkle925]

13. Hi Yellowdog

Where do you go 'caving'? It sounds interesting. If I do end up in Texas perhaps you'll take me? Even tho I'm an old lady now........hahahahahaha.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. Bullwinkle, I am 56 and I don't go caving any more, due to

back problems..so does that make me an old woman too?

But in my thinner, younger, pre bad back days, I caved in Kentucky.

If you are interested in caving, check out the National Speleological Society website, and see if there is a local grotto, or caving club in your area. You can attend their meetings and see if it appeals to you, usually you can find someone who will be willing to take you on a simple not too rough "fun trip" (every caver has a favorite easy cave in the back of his/her mind to show to novices.

Take some tourist cave trips too. Some show caves also offer "wild cave" trips, where you go off trail and explore. That is also a good way to determine if you would enjoy it.

Most cave trips will involve some stooping, crawling and squeezing about, and if it is an easy trip, maybe a little bit of climbing.

The absolute best tourist caves are Mammoth Cave National Park, in Kentucky, Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, and Caverns of Sonora in Texas. Sonora is so breathtakingly beautiful! Little, but gorgeous.

Where do you live?

[Bullwinkle925]

30. I'm in San Leandro California

but am thinking of moving to the Dallas suburbs in the future to be near my sister. I'm 55 - turning 56 this year. I never used to be this old before - o well.

[Elidor]

17. Caving is the most grueling exercise there is

All my gear weighs about 30-40 lbs. Suit up in that, then walk, crawl, climb, and so on for 5-10 hours. Some trips have left me so wasted I couldn't even muster the energy to drink a beer.

Disc golf is a walking sport. It's a great way to keep in shape. And there's nothing like the satisfaction of hitting the pin from 200 or 300 feet.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Oh I never meant to say caving couldn't be grueling! It most

absolutely is!!!!!


But you can explore a cave that is mostly walking passage, and due to the terrain, cooler temperatures, and movement style get a good round of exercise!!!!!

I have been on WIMP trips, and I have been on trips with long crawls, tight squeezes, climbing, and a long hike home at the end of the trail.

Most of my friends from caving were extremely hard assed and routinely went underground for 24 hours at a time, sometimes longer. My longest trip was 17 hours.

Where do you cave?

I caved in Kentucky, w/CRF @ Mammoth.

[Elidor]

21. TAG

Home of speleopolitics. I generally avoid cavers at this point, though there are some individuals I still like. Yeah, I agreed with your point, there. Caving is a slow walking exercise, but god, what it takes out of you. I was never a hardcore type, though I love a good belly-crawl through a muddy stream now and then. I haven't been lately and I'm starting to jones for a good trip.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Used to go to TAG Fall get togethers back when I lived in

Nashville..

I was friends with a lot of the old Nashville Grotto folks, from the late 1970's and early 1980's, until I moved to Indiana, and I knew a few folks from other areas of the TAG.

Funny, I went to lots of Nashville Grotto parties and meetings and ran around with a couple of the women cavers, but never actually went caving with them. Every time a trip came up that I wanted to go on, I had a conflict of one kind or another..

except for Cumberland Caverns Christmas party though. Went to several of those. In fact, my husband and I had our engagement picture made in front of a formation at one of those Christmas parties, and had it printed on our wedding invitations.

That was in 1983.... so very long ago

[amazona]

5. "big day" birding ?

Part of the "big day" can even done by car. Some graduate students in Louisiana set the record for most Louisiana bird species in one day (211) and it was mostly driving and getting out for quick walks. But you can't walk fast and bird at the same time.

I am taking sport to mean in the sense of competing for a prize (the competitors in "big day" birding win pledges for their causes) but if you mean sport in the sense of getting physical exercise...hmmmm...I don't consider birding to be good exercise because you walk sooo slowly. Takes you an hour to go 1/4 miles if the birds are any good.

[Squatch]

6. Hiking?

Backpacking?
Mountaineering?

All studies in efficiency achieved through maintaining a liesurely pace.

[HereSince1628]

7. No, sports also includes _sitting_

as in driving a race car, possible even sitting as in ice-fishing which is claimed to be sport fishing.

[AngryAmish]

10. Ice fishing not a sport?1? WTF?!?

Do you think it is easy to drink 18 beers in a day? Farting contests are "leisurely"?

[Tweed]

8. Curling

You don't even have to walk all the time.

[cestpaspossible]

9. Hunting, depending on the prey

[NuttyFluffers]

11. yeah, sure, why not? i could use another varsity letter.

if i got a varsity letter from marching band (which actually is hard) might as well give varsity letters to everyone. make them damn things as retarded seeming as they really are.

i want a varsity letter in marathon sitting.

[sasquatch]

12. I actually have respect for the Ohio State marching band

I went to the Ohio State vs Texas Tech football game and decided to see the "Skull Session" before the game started. It was 93 degrees outside and I didn't know that St. Johns arena didn't have AC. When I walked into the arena I was hit this gush of Hot Air that was similar to the gush of hot air that hit's you when you're walking into a sauna. I looked down onto the bottom of St. Johns arena and saw the OSU marching wearing their traditional all black, wool uniforms and playing their music at full blast.

:toast:Much respect here for the Marching Buckeyes.

[MrSlayer]

14. No. To be a sport someone has to get hit.

If people don't get hit, it's not a sport.

[BrainRants]

15. Geocaching!

www.geocaching.com

Grown up treasure hunt! Great for kids of all ages!

[Xithras]

31. Not really

I once found a dildo in a stash, hidden in a PARK. I dunno about that great for all ages remark ;)

BTW, we had an idiot plant a camo cache in a bush next to a local elementary school recently. The principal found it, the bomb squad blew it up, and the local paper the next day described geocachers as a bunch of borderline-terrorist criminal tresspassers. It was quite funny.

[Orsino]

16. Contrast golf and pro wrestling.

One is a sport, but not played by athletes, and the other is very athletic, but not a sport.

[Berserker]

26. Golf

is sport played by athletes. Only those who don't play golf would say that. You have to be in very good form to hit a ball 280 yards every time straight down the fairway. Golf is one of the hardest sports to become good at. It takes many years of practice to be able to do it. I used to think watching golf on TV was boring but after you play golf you learn to appreciate what they can do and then it becomes fun to watch.

[StopTheMorans]

19. no, it's a game or a hobby

*ducks* :evilgrin:

[Sgent]

24. Getting hit

If that's the definition of sport, than any band that plays at LSU is a sport -- they get hit with bottles, cups, drinks, food, fists, and anything else around.

[peacefreak]

23. Shopping? You bet.

:evilgrin:

[Nitrogenica]

25. Rambling

[artv28]

27. It's not a sport if you don't sweat.

Golf, Darts, Bowling, and Pool are not sports. My other requirement is that the game or activity can't be stupid. Take soccer for example. You will definitely work up a sweat and it requires some athletic ability but it's stupid. Not a sport.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. This is my fave sport!

http://whatisprox.com/vidclips.asp

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