What sport(s) are/were you good at?

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I'm making this thread because I have gotten back into bowling since my girlfriend wants us to do something together once a week and she pick this since she knows that I have been doing this off and on my whole life. The funny thing is that I have always loved bowling and it is going to be fun teaching my girl how to bowl properly since she doesn't know how.

When I say my whole life I mean that I have been bowling since I was 4 years old. The sad thing is that when I run into older people that were around me when I bowled in league play they always say I'm a waste of talent because I didn't pursue it as much as I should've which makes me want to get myself ready to possibly get back into it full time.

This is my story so lets here some others.
 
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As part of an organized school team?

If so, I played basketball, baseball, and soccer. I sucked at basketball, I was a decent pitcher in baseball (but nothing else), and I was good at soccer .. particularly as a goalie. My team went undefeated the year I was goalie. :whee:

As part of intramurals for college/high school I also played lacrosse, volleyball, and handball. I was absolutely horrendous in lacrosse and volleyball. But I was good in handball.
 
I use to be pretty good at basketball. While I never made the basketball team (mostly because I was short and wasn't really a point guard, more of a shooting guard/small forward), I challenged many of the best players and defeated many of them. A few old friends of mine I use to be their biggest competitor, are playing NCAA basketball for a ranked team right now.

I also played some football. I really wish I spent more time on it (over basketball) because I might have ended up in college playing football (since I was fast and tough to tackle).
 
I was a decent pitcher in baseball and had a pretty good 3-point shot. Now I play softball 2, sometimes 3 times a week. I just started league bowling again late last year after about a 5 year layoff. I'm averaging in the low 170's for now. I also play the occasional soccer game. In soccer I'm just good enough that I don't embarrass myself.

Oh, and human cockfighting.

[quote name='mykevermin']darts.[/quote]

I took you for more of a snooker guy.
 
I played and really enjoyed football from 7th grade until I graduated high school, unfortunately, I was/still am too small to play the position I played (as was the rest of the team) so pursuing it at the collegiate level was never an option.

Other than that, I played golf for 6 years in school (7th to graduating senior) and played on the varsity team for 3 of my 4 years of high school. An average game of golf for me was around 80-84, on a good day, sometimes 78/79. I got burned out on it after I graduated high school and now I only play for fun/in my spare time.
 
I'm captain of my college ultimate Frisbee team, which is probably the most rigorous and time consuming sport I've ever been a part of.

I used to play hockey in a summer league, I was on a club volley ball team (although I wasn't very good) and I played football in HS.
 
I was never a real star but my best sport was lacrosse. I played midfield on my high school team and was considered to be a very good two-way player and was the best faceoff man on the team. A distant second would be soccer.
 
football (played as a DT, DE or a linebacker till I blew out my knee in high school)
bowling (I suck though, only have a 183 average)
softball (grew up playing in a softball league and now currently play in a couple beer leagues and in the annual Rotary Tournament which is big business here in Kenosha)
dodgeball (me and my friends play in a spring league)
kickball (me and my friends play in fall league)
 
I always did track.
Did long distance/pole vaulting.

Sucked at long distance, rocked at pole vaulting.

Lettered, captain of team, went to state qualifiers and such.
 
played baseball from the age of 8 - 20... was a catcher and outfield... we won lots of trophies in little league. went to tourneys all over the state... fun times... traveling tourny teams were the way to go... none of those boring county leagues where everyone got to play...
 
I love sports, but I accept I have no place inside any kind of playing field :p. However, I really enjoy watching pretty much any kind of sport that involves a ball or cars. Now, if only they would made some sport that would involve Balls AND Cars together... Auto-Polo would be awesome.
 
[quote name='Achuba Nanoia']Now, if only they would made some sport that would involve Balls AND Cars together... Auto-Polo would be awesome.[/quote]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1y0-hiR9yo[/media]
 
I played varsity baseball, tennis and soccer in high school (but I wasn't good at soccer even though I started - I was out there to basically mug people). I used to be able to dunk a basketball and I played pretty much every day it was warm outside. I still play from time to time though I can no longer dunk. I am still money from 3 point land though. I try to shoot hoops as often as possible. I also played ice hockey for a number of years which I loved but once I got to college I kind of just stopped. I don't know - I like pretty much everything. I wish I played football instead of soccer but all of my friends played soccer so that's what I did.
 
Tennis - Played in high school, play intramural @ my college & with my buddies when I get the chance. I've been playing about 10 years.

I used to play soccer and basketball, socially, but I don't care too much for participating in full contact sports other than martial arts.
 
Hockey and Baseball. I played soccer but I was only decent. I also used to skateboard, wakeboard, surf and snowboard. I still surf when I can.
 
I played Basketball, Football, Soccer, Tennis, Ran Track through out my entire life. I was a monster in school. 6' 1'' 210 pounds was my weighing weight for all sports.

I was and am still fantastic at Basketball and Soccer and coach both sports. Been playing both sports since I was a kid and played basketball and football all four years of high school. Then got on a soccer scholarship for at a small time college and played the 3 years that I was there.

I used to be able to do pretty much all basic dunks. 2 hand, reverse, power pretty much anything that was crazy. I pulled off 1 360 and that was it. My knees. ankles, shoulders...pretty much you name it...its messed up so I cant jump as high as I used to be able to.....I will be lucky to barely get a 1 hand jam now.

As athletic as I was I am not one of those hood star guys. Those are the guys who go to the gym every time and play like they are still trying to get drafted somewhere.
 
I played a lot of sports, but I never really felt like a team player in any of them. Not because of a lack of effort but because everybody ignored me for some reason. My favorite example is this one time I was playing basketball. It was a scenario like this...

______B
_____________P
X____________X

______M

______O

B=teammate with basketball
P=person who he passed the ball to
M=me
X=other team
O=the basket

I was wide open and the basket was right behind me. The ball could have been passed to me no problem. I wasn't covered. Instead, P got the ball and nothing good happened.

That was far from the only time something like that happened. That happened all the time. I played for some four or five years and only ever made four points. Not because of the lack of trying. It was the lack of having the ball!

I got into this floor hockey league in grades 5-8, and that was a really good experience. It was on foot in the gym, but it was awesome. Lots of good team play. Lots of good passing. I got a number of goals. In gym class we would play shortened versions of that league, and there was one day I got three goals in one day. It was the closest thing I got to being a big sports star in the school. But I didn't care about that so much. I just wanted to play hockey. The best part was right before that hat trick, everybody on the other team started playing dirty, and I beat them all clean. I didn't have any fancy moves. I wasn't that skilled. I just had the presence of mind to play well.

As a completely unofficial thing, back in elementary school I was really good at wall ball. For those who don't know, the general rules we played by were a bunch of guys, one wall, a few balls, and three strikes. If you drop the ball on its way towards you from the wall, you have to run to the wall and touch it before somebody else can pick up the ball you dropped and hit the wall with the ball first. If you were too slow, you got a strike. Three strikes, and you were out. It was just a bunch of guys goofing off, but it was real competitive, too. In fact, at the end of 4th grade I organized the 1996 wall ball championship. That was a blast.

Starting the next year in middle school, it stopped being fun. The asshole bug infected practically everybody. People would "peg" other people. That was when you would throw the ball at somebody instead of at the wall. Some douchebag had the nerve to turn around, peg me at point blank range in the face, and then said it was an accident. He did a 180 and called it an accident. fuck that. The final straw for me, though, was when I had my arm back ready to throw, and somebody held my arm back as I was moving my arm forward. I never hurt that much before in my life. I thought my muscles were torn from the bone. I never played wall ball ever again.
 
I played football in high school. Did some soccer before that, was the goalie. And just random basketball pickup games. While not great overall, I was a great three point shooter for some reason, once making around ten in a row.
 
[quote name='Chuplayer']I played a lot of sports, but I never really felt like a team player in any of them. Not because of a lack of effort but because everybody ignored me for some reason...blah blah blah...[/quote]

I'm sorry, were you saying something?

















;)
 
I was good at a lot of sports, but my main sport was basketball. The most I ever scored in a game was 39. I was able to dunk when I was 13 (I was the same height then that I am now, 6'6"). I was varsity in Maryland my sophomore year and my junior and senior year in Virginia. I was hurt during my last two years (ankle and knee) in high school so I didn't get noticed to play anywhere. I played at the community college level in order to get to a bigger school and made the all-state tournament team in 1997. I got hurt again in 1998 (ankle) and that was pretty much it for my basketball career. I ended up getting inducted into the college's sports hall of fame last year.

I'm a good bowler also. I have a high game of 299.
 
[quote name='Liquid 2']I can snowboard alright.[/QUOTE]
Oh yea didn't even think of this stuff.

I snowboard/wakeboard/skate/blade. I'm not great, but good enough to use all the shit at the skate park/terrain park without looking like a jack-ass.
 
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of these posts sound like Al Bundy reliving the glory days of high school football?:lol:

[quote name='GuilewasNK']I'm a good bowler also. I have a high game of 299.[/quote]

What, you couldn't get that one last pin? You suck.;)

I was bowling Friday and my lanes were right next to one of the guys who works there. He had just thrown his 10th strike when I walked up. I didn't talk to him or even look at him. He ended up throwing 300, his first perfect game.
 
Baseball was by far my best sport. I used to be super good at it, however, it has been about 2 or so years since I played on a team, and sadly my skills have become absolute shit. :[

I am still fairly good at Football now, but I know I couldn't play on a team or anything.
 
[quote name='neocisco']I was bowling Friday and my lanes were right next to one of the guys who works there. He had just thrown his 10th strike when I walked up. I didn't talk to him or even look at him. He ended up throwing 300, his first perfect game.[/QUOTE]

That's nothing. I played against the guy who owned the local bowling alley. I never got my butt kicked harder in my life. And, no, I was never very good at bowling.
 
Actually, my intention was to not be a distraction to him. Like when a pitcher is throwing a perfect game, just stay away from him.
 
I sucked at pretty much everything I played in school except badminton. I remember some short punk in gym always made fun of me for sucking at sports and then when we played badminton I owned him every game. I laughed at his attempt to hit the damn thing but epically fail every time. Yeah I was one of the top badminton players in my class.
 
Wow, this is awesome! This made want to buy this car (but I can't anyway) ! It's a neat little commercial, that's for sure, thanks for sharing!

[quote name='VipFREAK'][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1y0-hiR9yo[/media][/QUOTE]
 
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:hot: Best sport ever! I liked how they started out being gentle, and then at the end they were just raping each other.
[quote name='VipFREAK'][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1y0-hiR9yo[/media][/quote]


"Wasted talent?" Bowling? Honestly?

I could see not going to med school and curing cancer a waste of talent, but rolling a ball? I think someone has a skewed sense of values.
 
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