comment by Tatter (U6440)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Anyone else seen this?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbfzqMUW4AAqnWV.jpg:large


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Doug

I personally preferred Wiggy on the wing.

Too right. It's a game and a pub game at that.

Still contemplating the merits of snooker being classified as sport. I wondered whether sport should be defined by whether participants reach max bpm but dart players would fulfil it just walking to the hockey.

Also, since when is sitting in a dark room full of chatter humming all around on 12 foot tables attempting to watch a man throw a dart from 50 metres away been considered a 'fun' day out?

I suppose Germans may like it with the weird table set-up and p'ssheads.

You could say that a out shot-put, discus, or javelin then.

Then again, I read molmix this morning and some bloke is planning his trip to Huddersfield around lager and malt from 9am in the morning.

Don't get it.

comment by Isle of Bute (U16473)
posted 17 seconds ago
You could say that a out shot-put, discus, or javelin then.
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Ye, if your opponent can't affect your strategy it surely isn't sport. I'm comfortable with that constraint.
Snooker is blurring the boundries though.

comment by Isle of Bute (U16473)
posted 6 minutes ago
You could say that a out shot-put, discus, or javelin then.
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Throwing events are some of the most pure sports there are.

Snooker, darts, pool are great games just not sports.

It's not a sport unless you need to change your footwear.

How's that Tatter? As I put a week or so ago.
Two players don't even have to be in the same location to play a 'sport' like darts, javelin, high jump...

How are throwing sports pure sport?

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 minutes ago
It's not a sport unless you need to change your footwear.
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That is one of the easiest ways to recognise a sport - you can't do it in your normal shoes.

Some organisation tried to define chess as a sport recently because the brain is a muscle.

Darts is all about throwing, and having the skill to direct the object you're throwing into a specific locality.

Shot, javelin, and discus is just "hurl the fecker as far. as you can".

Also, you are playing against someone, and their progress puts pressure on you to finish.

comment by Tatter (U6440)
posted 42 seconds ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 minutes ago
It's not a sport unless you need to change your footwear.
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That is one of the easiest ways to recognise a sport - you can't do it in your normal shoes.

Some organisation tried to define chess as a sport recently because the brain is a muscle.

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Well under Mazi's rules, chess is a sport. So are parlour games like Risk as you can affect your opponents strategy and are in the same location.

Javelin, Discus and Shotput aren't though.

I did say games like snooker and therefore chess blur the boundries. It's a difficult one to define imo.

Also, I'm not sure why I really give a s'it

I can understand chess being a sport, because it does call on competitive qualities. All sports call on qualities that maybe not everyone possesses. A guy with one leg might find it hard to get a job with Wolves, but could be a wizard at using his mental skills to beat everyone at chess. Many sports require mental skills anyway. I'm all for opening the boundaries, (other than for American Football, obviously!).

Don't think anyone is disputing the competitive nature as you can have that just with yourself.

It's the distinction between sport and game that no one seems to be able to define.

There has to be a physical element for it to be a sport. If being faster and stronger does not give you an advantage it isn't a sport.

Just googled sport v game. More confused than before I read it.

I was a useful striker at football in the school playground and always wore my normal shoes. If I had known I wasn't playing sport I wouldn't have bothered

It was probably your choice of footwear that prevented you playing, coaching and managing at the highest level and limited you to the playground.

comment by Tatter (U6440)
posted 1 hour ago
There has to be a physical element for it to be a sport. If being faster and stronger does not give you an advantage it isn't a sport.
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Throwing a dart is physical though, isn't it? A paraplegic without the use of any part of his/her body, other than the eye-lids wouldn't be able to do it.

Stephen Hawking can't move a chess piece. That doesn't make chess a sport.

comment by Tatter (U6440)
posted 1 minute ago
Stephen Hawking can't move a chess piece. That doesn't make chess a sport.
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https://youtu.be/CcR4CW6bp34

comment by I.A.P (U20858)
posted 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
Too right. It's a game and a pub game at that.

Still contemplating the merits of snooker being classified as sport. I wondered whether sport should be defined by whether participants reach max bpm but dart players would fulfil it just walking to the hockey.
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Are we talking about walking somewhere to watch a hockey match. Or are we talking about a dart player walking up to the oche?
Perhaps you should stick to things you understand like spread sheets and destroying forums and leave the "sports" discussions to those who play them and understand them.

comment by Tatter (U6440)
posted 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
Stephen Hawking can't move a chess piece. That doesn't make chess a sport.
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Hawking is a sport, however.