At what sport(s) are you a natural? (Read 2014 times)

Heh, my mom and dad used to x-country ski a lot, and they almost always had peppermint Schnapps or peppermint Schnapps + hot chocolate in a bota bag. I now know that "I'm going out skiing" was my dad's code for "I'm gonna ski a little bit and get lit in the process." Not that there's anything wrong with that -- I had to get it from somewhere.

I have a feeling that your parents are a LOT like my parents...which would make sense, seeing as how you are my brutha from anotha mutha.... k

I am super unathletic. There's got to be something I'm good at, with my muscular lower body, but I've never been good at any sport I've ever tried. I'm just mediocre at most things. I'm much more artistic than athletic. But I do it anyway. Because I can.

Have you ever tried cycling?

Not really. I have a bike. But it's more of a "get me where I need to go" thing, and I haven't ridden it in years. To the point where I'm not sure I'm going to move it with me to DC in a few weeks. Plus the tires are flat and it needs mad maintenance, having sat in the garage for 3 years. I think my problem with cycling would be that I have little to no sense of direction. With running, I have so much more time to decide where to go when I reach that intersection. Not so much with the cycling.

Rugby & rock climbing. It would be a lie to say I'm a natural at either one, or that I'm even good at either one, but I definitely have a certain "averageness" at all my sports.

I am super unathletic. There's got to be something I'm good at, with my muscular lower body, but I've never been good at any sport I've ever tried. I'm just mediocre at most things. I'm much more artistic than athletic. But I do it anyway. Because I can.

Wow, Piper, maybe we're the same person!! I could have written your post, word for word. I tried cycling. Sigh. I have long legs, so I always feel like I'm 10 feet off the ground. I tend to put my legs down before I come to a stop. On Martha's Vineyard, I did that at a stop sign at the bottom of a hill. Ouch. Without getting too descriptive, suffice it to say that within a few hours I was hurting worse than after childbirth. We had no car, and there was no one at the B&B that evening. We had to go to the ER in an ambulance! Then when we got home, I had complications and ended up at the ER a second time. So no biking for me! I love to downhill ski, but my form is atrocious - I always bend over at the waist. I KNOW I'm not supposed to, but I still do. When I take lessons, the instructor inevitably looks at me and says, "Hmm, I've never seen anyone ski quite like that!" My lack of athletic ability was a major obstacle to my starting to run, but I'm glad I tried it! I'm not really any good at running, either, but it doesn't matter! I've still lost 30 pounds and feel wonderful. I don't care that it takes me 12 minutes a mile to run 4 miles! Teresa

Reading through these posts was great! It seems that I'm another who is ok at a bunch of stuff, but not going to light the world on fire with anything in particular. This past summer I proved to be excellent at falling off my bike with my new clipless pedals! I was always sort of athletic and loved anything in or on the water as a kid. I swam competitively for years and years and I'd have to say that's still the most "natural" thing for me.... I've been swimming longer than I can even remember. And at summer camp as a kid, I loved canoeing and sailing. Now, my main thing is tennis (and skiing in the winter) and of course triathlon. I'm a proud mid packer and hope to be able to keep it up as I get older and there are fewer people in my age group! Maybe when I'm 75 I'll win an AG award!!

Put me back on my bike, so I can ride like I stole it.

I lol'd. I like to think I'm a natural at martial arts. Not the wood-breaking kind, colored-belted-wearing kind or the inside-an-octagon kind, but the classical Japanese lifetime-to-master kind. Their philosophy and intensity appeals to me so much that training is now a lifestyle.