Sports

[HumidDesert]

Yo, lets get a sport thread going, Ill start:

Im a free climber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_climbing) But i only boulder and sport climb at this point because trad is ridiculously expensive. I used to be on a triathlon team, but had to quit because i messed up my knees. I needed a new physical acivity, so i started climbing. You would actually be amazed how much of a mental sport it is, finding routes, calculating body weight shifts, placement, etc. If your hiking around, and see a group of people who have been staring at a rock for half an hour, chances are that they are climbers, haha.

DO you play any sports? whats your favourite part about it? if you don't play one, why not?

 

[Methuselah]

I have tried playing rugby a few times, but I always quit because I needed to increase my running ability and come back. Getting there slowly.

Hiking, I do. I lift weights sporadically, but I've only really committed to them for a long period once.

 

[snafupants]

in high school, i was the starting center for our schools basketball team. it was a great time - and there was camaraderie unlike most nba teams - but i dont really play much anymore. golf has supplanted basketball now. i would approximate my handicap to be about seven; suffice it to say i shoot between 75 and 85 the majority of time i tender a score. that is, if i dont start drinking on the course and/or engage in side bets with friends that detract from the normal game. i loved baseball as a teen and some of my fondest memories were (oddly competitive) pick up games and home run derbies at the local baseball diamond, grabbing something to eat after, and trying to swing some girls into the bargain. oh, to be young. for you young intpforum goers, appreciate your late teenage years and please make some mistakes. youll look back with compunction if you dont.

 

[Iuanes]

Yeah, rock climbing is hardcore. I haven't done it in any real setting but just from climbing walls and beginner cliffs, its seems like a murderous, totally consuming challenge.

I grew up in a footballing country (soccer) and moved to a hockey one. So my main 2 sports are soccer and ball hockey but I'll play anything and be at least competent at it. I also run sometimes and do weights just so my posture doesn't die.

I like team sports better because they involve a real time tactical engagement with reality, as well as real time cooperation with other people. Its an amazing feeling not only to accomplish a deft physical feat, but to coordinate it with 2 or 3 other people at same time who are thinking generally the same thing.

I guess as an INTP its something that is not abstract and not open ended. There are clear objectives and results in sports and everything occurs in a very real setting, so your will has a definite outlet.

But really, I just see my enjoyment of sports as something like how dogs need to go outside, run around a bit, play and maybe fight other dogs. It just nature.

 

[HumidDesert]

Yeah, rock climbing is hardcore. I haven't done it in any real setting but just from climbing walls and beginner cliffs, its seems like a murderous, totally consuming challenge.

It is quite consuming, when your really going at it you enter a sort of trance. Its also extremely rewarding; just looking at an impossible cliff, and mastering it with nothing but you hands and feet (as well as chalk and ropes) is an incredible feeling. It's quite anti-climactic getting to the top honestly, the most exciting part is reaching a tough part of a climb, your last anchor is several meters beneath you, and having the mental stresss that comes with the heights, and fighting it off so you don't mess up. Its a very spiritual sport. As for team sports, i agree with you wholeheartedly in refference to doing it with a group making it more rewarding, as well as sports being a nescessity. Its proven that children who don't get to play hard (adults as well) suffer many physical and mental injuries later in life.

 

[KazeCraven]

I still prefer jogging. Allows me to focus on more interesting things, though sports every now and then are great for changing things up.

I think rock climbing would be pretty awesome, but it seems too expensive and too time-consuming to do with any sort of regularity. It's been quite a while since I've done it, so I don't know. I've definitely never been a fan of more traditional sports though (i.e. basketball, football, tennis, and such). Probably just a matter of tastes, I guess.

 

[Cavallier]

Here's a former thread dealing with this topic. I found it via the search function.

Sports and INTPs

Edit: Found a couple more...

INTP and sports?

Do you like watching sports?

Personally, I enjoy participating in football (soccer) and basketball. I hate all forms of baseball/softball. I don't watch sports. I enjoy extreme sports but I don't get much opportunity to do them much anymore.

 

[KazeCraven]

Thanks Cavallier. This is helping remove some narrow-mindedness on my part.

Aside from martial arts and nature-type sports (like rock climbing and... canoeing, if that's actually a sport), I'm pretty anti-sports (especially just watching them, bleh). I thought it had something to do with N-types, but I'm surprised by the number of people here who talk about how much they enjoy playing sports. Now I know better.

One less reason for me to seek out INTPs.

 

[IndigoSensor]

I largely do not care to play or watch most sports. With one huge exception. SKIING! I LOVE to ski. I am very much a winter person, and love almost everything about it. It is just so much fun to me. I go as many times as I possibly can every season.

This is my mountain. Bridger Bowl, Montana:

 

[Cavallier]

*unfolds chair and starts a small fire*

I'll just be over here in Indigo's comment enjoying roasted marshmallows...

Oh, and disturb me on pain of death.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

*pees on Cav's fire*

I love sports! Too old and broken down to play much anymore. Disk golf is still fun. Played American football in college but that's a game that's hard to pick-up on the spur of the moment. It takes the ultimate in organization which I'd rather someone else do.

 

[AlisaD]

I never really saw myself as much of a sporty person, but listing all the things I enjoy, it turns out I am. Go figure.

First and most important. I love martial arts. Used to train Aikido, and am now totally taken by Capoeira, there is just something about kicking people in the head that makes me all warm and tingly on the inside.

I enjoy scuba-diving and spring-board diving when I have the chance, also rock climbing, but purely amateur. I used to roller-skate a lot, but it lost some of it's appeal when I stopped falling flat on my ass.

I actively trained dancing for a few years as well, but now it's just boring if I do it for more then a few hours a month.

 

[XXXX]

I like sports quite a lot - mainly playing them, occasionally watching.

I don't really play competitive anymore no that I'm out of school, but in the past I've tried cricket, aussie rules football, soccer, ultimate frisbee, badminton, tennis, squash and volleyball amongst others ... it's an easy and fun way to get regular exercise without having to go to the gym and pay for a membership. I enjoy trying new sports and definitely want to learn some martial arts forms in the future.