What sport is the roughest and why????
 

Of all of the sports now termed as "professional" which one is the most physically grueling.

I have done the following in my life

Hockey
Football
Rugby
Soccer
Baseball
Amateur Moto Cross
Semi pro Jet Ski racing

...those are the only physical ones that really matter

my pick is motocross....the physical conditioning that is required just to get around a track safely is unfathomable.

Rugby would be my number two.....I base my pick on my own personal experience.

What is your take?

Oh and buy some Holio Content so you can retain your members longer.

Boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, K1, free fight and cage fight all seem a lot rougher to me.

you know that is true ....I never did it as a sport but i sparred alot in the Marines.

It is brutal exhausting.

I will stand on my position though

Nothing has had me more destroyed than ten laps on a motocross track

if you havent played an NFL season,you can't really compare anything to that...Got my vote hands down
rugby guys are always saying "We're tougher,we don't wear equipment" ...They're just fuckin retarded,I'd like to see them run across the middle with John Lynch sitting there...pads or not :glugglug fuck rugby and fuck hockey

swimming is the one you have to work hardest for in order to achieve a world level.

now please laugh at me cuz you don't have a fucking clue what the sport is all about.

ice hockey and football are the only ones ive played..

id say rugby is the toughest, however my friend did 24 hour endurance rallying, and he said that was by far harder than any sport ever.

you see that what is cool!

Swimming would have never come to my mind but having spent hours upon hours in the trainings tanks for non sport reasons I can see that the conditioning would be intense

why swimming? whats the difference between that and anything else? like running track?

Aussie rules football is HARSH. Love it!

You left out "Posting to GFY"

It's fucking brutal here!

most physically demanding, i would have to say football. the hits in hockey can be much harder, but you don't take big shots that much unless you skate with your head down.

posting here is more of an illness than anything

"Aussie rules football" and "full contact chess"

...............or gangbangs

rugby.

Not that I expect anyone here to agree or even be that familiar with the sport but to jump on a 250cc race bike and have to launch it into the air or crash at sometimes 50 plus miles an hour and not even get the split second chance to enjoy the ride is unfucking real.

your lungs burn your arms cramp your back will spasm, you will gag, overheat, and feel like you are going to die.

I played footaball at the High school level and I was guard and linebacker...they were both very physical positions and it was very very rough.

Rugby i played in panama with military units and i guess in some way that was like getting to the next level of football. The guys were older faster and meaner if I could have played college football I am sure it would have been the same.

My pick ...Motocross...is as painful and exhausting if you win or lose. In boxing if you are better the sparring was not that hard....in football if you establish the intimidation early it was not that bad...that was high school though

interesting views ....this is cool to read

you can't say a single sport is the toughest, because so many parameters are involved.


Another very tough sport is weightlifting. When you finish your career as weightlifter you have a completely destroyed body and you'll suffer for the rest of your life with health problems and pain. This is the feedback I personally have from olympic champions.

If you have not played rugby you don't know what a tough sport really is. Think football with no equipment and few rules.

Damn...That is the 3rd time in as many weeks that I have been properly corrected on GFY.

My apologies. :glugglug

I've been a Pro Motocross driver, racing 1.5 years Grand Prix
before I ended up in a hospital for 6 month and 1 full year
revalidation center. I never made it to the top I was just entering
the pro cirquit. First year I only managed to qualify for the actual
race 3 times. National and EU level I was amongst the top but
that doesn't really count.

Motorcross is brutally heavy, like cycling on a beach except a
Motorcross bike is around 90 Kilo's in weight.

It wants to go everywhere except where you want it to go, has
a decent amount of horsepower and an incredible amount of
torque.

During a race your heartbeat is never below 150 and goes up
till 180 with peaks over 200 (Wipe outs/Almost Wipe Outs) At
the time I could easily run marathons within VERY decent times.
Also the impacts on your body are insane even if you don't
crash.

I have never ever tried any sport in my life that was more
exhausting than Motorcross. Grand Prix races at the time I was
driving we're spread over 2 heats of each 40 minutes + 2 rounds

I'll dig up some pics from the old days lol.

After my accident my whole life changed, can't do a lot of sports
anymore, gained 30 Kilos and am glued to my chair lol. Ahh the
good old days.....I still go nuts when I smell fuel....it's an addiction
worse than drugs.

DynaMite
:thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

pro windsurfing is also VERYY hard sport. It requires more than great technical skills, smart thinking, very good physical condition...

I know what you mean...i was not even close to pro. i am very close to many at the professional level and the stories are fantastic. If you are ever in SoCal and you want to check out the scene it is worth going to Elsinore and Starwest, ocatillo wells, LACR, Glamis, Pizmo, Gorman, Dumont dunes and all of the other areas that have become world famous

Let's see a training schedule for good swimmers.

2 hours in the AM, 3 hours of water in the PM. Additionally 1.5 hours weights/other dryland every day. 6 days a week. During training camps, swimmers do unreal amounts of mileage in short periods of time. My personal max was once 125km in one week of practice.
Worst thing is: you don't have an off season. If you get out of the water for 4 weeks over the summer, it takes you 2-3 months to get back into shape.
You get sick for a week? The season is over with. Swimmers have such tremendous ups and downs with their shape, it's unreal.

Ever swam yourself? It's a full body workout, you drag your own body thru the water, yes, it supports you to some extent, but also creates a lot of drag.

Having done it for 17 years of my life, I say that swimming is the roughest sport to practice for, it sure is pretty safe to do, although some athletes fuck their joints pretty bad, especially breast strokers.


And we have to do full body shaving, which sucks ass and is gay.

you might want to clarify what you mean buy toughest.

Physical endurance its MX and then soccer. Thats what the studies say not just an opinion.

When I was much younger I lived to ride. Did the amatuer thing
here in Tx.

World class Mx (outdoor-not SX) used to be 2 45 minute +2 lap motos No breaks.Go as hard as you can.

Even the peloton crowd go out slow.

The Bullshit stops when the gate drops boys and girls.

Jim knows:thumbsup

Lickmymonster

From the choices I have , I say Motocross! If you have ever been a part of this sport, you know why I chose it.

of course, other sports are crazy and rough as in dangerous, like moto-X for example :thumbsup

shit,i forgot paddle, that's another hard motherfucker!

climbing
marathon
and many others

when it goes to something more than fun level all these sports you mentioned are getting hard and ugly.

swimming is great, i love Equinox's tight ass which is a result of hard training as an ex pro swimmer

I've swum for about the past 9 years. I remember doing continuous and non-stop laps for practice. Try this for swimming: Swim butterfly for 35 non-stop laps-- Doing that each day really broke me down, but enhanced my endurance.

I would go with Motocross also did this for a few years and I switched to roadracing because my body could not take the abuse.

The other thing is how mentally demanding moto/supercross is you can never and I mean never relax for a second or your toast. I read study a while back comparing Euro Soccer players to Euro Motocross racers, the MX guys were in way better shape due to all the different muscles required to handle the bike.

http://www.dynamite.st/Dyna1.jpg

http://www.dynamite.st/Dyna2.jpg


DynaMite :winkwink:

One of the things that is the absolute truth is that you can never appreciate the demands of any sport until you have done it yourself

When i hear weight lifting...i think back to 96 when I dedicated 7 months of my life to make a complete body resculpture and how friggin difficult it was.

I think back to the ten mile formation runs where you feel like your going to collapse

or the 500 meter swims we would have to sprint followed by 1000 meter freestyles

sitting in the ring and that 90 seconds feels like a half hour

getting the toss as a back and having an entire scrum knock the shit out of you

My favorite is the absolute shear terror of coming out of a berm and pinning it and taking flight over a triple you have never been over before and hoping to god as your arms go numb that you will be able to hang on when the bone jarring impact comes in about .50 seconds then you have to forget it all and go through the same sensation all over agin a split second later when you launch into the next jump

I love moto

check out Dyna on the Langston looking Ktoom withthe black excells

Roger That!!! Then second in line would be motorcross and the NFL. MotorCross is insane. If you don't qualify during the first heat, you have a second chance (same amount of laps you ran in the first heat, but your already beat down)...if you don't make it then, there is the LCQ (now understand, your truly beat to shit by this point if your not in top shape). Now you've qualified (if your good enough) and you have another 20 laps in the main event. 20 laps alone without any of the qualifying would kick the crap out of most of us, let alone trying to race as fast as possible on some freakin insane tracks for 20 laps...flat out!

lol and don't forget living in a fucking mobil home for 7 months per
year with 6 persons....at times that was harder than racing itself

DynaMite :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I was on the swim team for 5 years, its a bitch.

We had 2adays just like football players, well I played football
too, but swimming was in the summer and also was up at 5am in the water by 5:20, done by 10am, back in the water at 5pm till 9.

I was on the free relay, and the medley, swam the 500m free, 200m breast and 200m fly, so practice was doubly a bitch for me.

I rode 4 wheelers (Banshee) and although it was pretty intense, nothing like swimming 5 miles.

All pussy Sports listed here so far

The most meanest hard ass head smashing game in the world is Australian Rugby League Football

No Helmuts

No Padding

Monster Men running as fast as they can at each other with the sole aim of causing as much pain as possible

Remember - Australians are from the REAL DEEP SOUTH
:1orglaugh

believe me when I say I do not wish to minimize anything those things a re gnarly whern they crash but it takes a fraction of the cardio to throw one around...there is a dude at glamis who has an extended swing arm sand dragger that has a gsx-r 1000 motor

with nitrous

its just silly fast