Like for example, obviously I’m a sports fan, but through all of sports the one thing I love watching more than anything is great baseball pitchers. Watching how much movement they can put on a ball is just fun to watch.
Sports are kind of interesting playgrounds for statistics. I respect that about them. Moneyball is a movie (and book) about how an economist used statistics to change the way baseball teams recruit players. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. Although it could have gone into more detail about the nerdy stuff.
Sports analytics have changed every sport. I distinctly remember that season, the average sports fan didn’t know back then what was going on behind the scenes but that streak was fun as hell to watch even if you weren’t and A’s fan. My buddy was a die hard As fan and he was distraught at the trades before the season started.
I loved baseball as a kid, I wasn’t good, but I loved playing and I loved watching. when I hit my late teens is when I finally found my strength in hitting. But I stopped watching when the strikes in the 90s happened and I didn’t follow again for 20 years.
Dont let others ruin something you love. that’s a hardlife lesson, because I’ve gotten back into it and realized how much I truly did love the game itself and hate that I didn’t keep watching or trying at it. Just the feel of the glove, the grass, the smell of the dirt.
And what’s truly great about baseball even though it’s been played since the late 1800’s by hundreds of thousands of people over 100 games per team a year. It seems like every year there is still something that’s never been done before in its history.
I have a pretty high respect for nearly all professional athletes to be honest. The aspect I respect the most is mainly how much technical competence and practice are needed to perform at professional levels
… although it may be because I do play really difficult video games, some of which can be considered to be e-sports. A less niche example, when I played chess semi-seriously for a year I really learned just how strong the Grandmasters are. Maybe this view bled into my view of conventional sports too
I like to watch football goal highlights. Like some of these people doing back flips and shit, kicking the ball while upside down in the air and scoring a goal lol.
I guess I am fan tho… I watched all ~90 minutes of Japan vs. Korea mostly because the Japanese team had >90% pass accuracy for the entire game.
Not a skateboarder & never been one, but watching someone rip it apart on a board is mesmerizing.
Most sports have some aspect that is impressive, I just can’t stand watching them. Watching someone else play just bores the hell out of me 95% of the time if it’s already a sport I’ve seen a lot of. If it’s something new or something I know very little about, it will hold my interest for a little longer.
I also get bored watching other people play video games.
For me it’s the opposite. I enjoy sports but I’m not very athletic but I can watch.
Video games I can play so why would I waste my already busy day watching someone when I can be doing it myself. I don’t understand twitch. Gaming helps me unwind. Only time I’ve went to twitch is when I’m on the fence about a game
Closest I can stand is highlights or the little reviews Dunkey does.
I used to really enjoy watching Tom Brady play for the Patriots. All other football was a boring grind to me after that, and I have lost all interest in sports since. But when Brady ran a play, it was art, and it seemingly almost always worked. I know he’s generally speaking a pretty terrible person, but man that guy was the GOAT quarterback IMHO. I imagine I will catch a lot of derision for my opinion. I don’t think he’s a well-liked individual.
Check out Mountain of Hell 2018: winning run by Kilian Bron (and then this run with the speedometer). And perhaps Valparaiso Cerro Abajo urban downhill. Both of these are those sports that take a fairly normal activity and turn it up to eleven. I don’t follow either of them, but watching the clips makes me sweat.
3-player volleyball with your feet. Spike the ball by doing a backflip 8D
It is a fun game and great workout.
Ozzyman Reviews did a video about a cricket player who pretty much won the game single handed. By the end, the guy could barley walk. No idea what his name is but it was one of the most impressive things I’ve even seen.
I kind of find the slow mo videos of how much a seemingly solid ball deforms when the bat or racket hits it to be interesting, but that’s about the only interest I’ve ever had in them.
Jousting is also kind of neat, but that’s not what most people think of for sports.
I guess Fosbury Flop situations, when someone develops a technique that’s so different from the norm and so effective that it becomes the new standard basically overnight.
Would you happen to be a KC Royals fan? If so, by my count that makes at least 2 of us here on Lemmy!
Yes. In Nebraska
Gymnasts. They’re fucking awesome in regards to what they can do with their bodies
