Why are we good at sports?

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cool hmmm... table tennis improved my hand eye coordination and through that gained more confidence in winning.. I guess that visualization was innate with in me ( i was born with the skills of hand eye coordination, it just needed developing like all skills)

hand eye coordination and visualizing i relate together.



NOT NATURALS at sport you say.. hmm..
I know a aspie coach who is winning awards

I guess he is passionate and driven..

I guess whatever our interest is...

we will...

DO WELL ...

I'm abominable at most team sports...

Too clumsy...

And too slow at reading the game...

When I was 13 it took my PE teacher a whole lesson of one2one tuition to teach me to do a forward roll lol

I played a lot of sports growing up. Although my body control/coordination and balance were below average, I had extraordinarily fast reflexes, good hand-eye coordination and was very fast. Also, I don't have the stereotypical submissive AS temperament, so played with considerable intensity. Aggressive play goes a long way towards success in youth sports.

My best sports were baseball (played catcher) and track, but I was good enough to make almost any team, including basketball and volleyball, partly thanks to my smart play and intensity rather than athletic talent alone.

Contrary to what some might think, social skills are of absolutely no importance in the midst of an athletic contest. In addition, most teams have the attitude of "all for one, and one for all", and all teammates are accepted.

I don't know. I used to be really terrible at sports... couldn't catch a ball run etc. Then I started trying a few compeditive sports taekwondo etc. My compeditive drive seemed to help me. I just spent a bit of time each day drilling the basics. within about 6 months i was better than people who had been training for years on end.

I'm also a firm believer in passion and dedication being the only way to achieve large goals.

If you want to be rich and are willing to learn and take action and accept you don't know it all you can become so. You want to be fit you can be. You want to do wicked kicks you can as long as you have the drive and the passion.

When you believe you can't do some thing you can't.

At the moment fitness has taken a back seat due to some new goals.... Setting new savings goals, trading second hand goods, and installing a RB25DET(Turbo Skyline engine) into a 'friends' nissan laurel (been really cool learning stuff) that last ones been a mission figuring out how to to the wiring loom but i'm getting there.

A few videos of me a long time ago. I should get newer videos up but I don't have a camera or a camera person.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MindOfOrderedChaos

I spent alot of PE classes in High School being the one every one moaned when they had to have me on thier team... Since i couldn't really do any thing useful... apart from lose my team points.

How times have changed .

I don't really come to these forums any more because the amazing ammount of negativity. Its not good to be around so much negativity no matter who you are. After you hear "i can't do this" "I can't do that" "i'm disabled" etc you really start believing it.

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It seems to be the total opposite from what I've seen, if all team mates are excepted then why did people moan when I was on their team? I think the only scenario where all teammates are accepted is if it's a team of professionals who are all good at the sports, even then there will be some sort of pecking order.

Yes, I have stopped pretty much all sports for several reasons.
1. I am overweight. (Seems like a silly reason to stop sport but what I mean by this is I am very self-conscious and am concentrating more on ways of keeping fit from my living room...I am almost a complete hermit)
2. I am a bad loser. And also a bad winner. I get personal and agressive if I lose and I get unattractively arrogant and cocky if I win.
3. I cannot be told what to do. I am good at managing people but no good at being managed...in team sports, I MUST be the leader, otherwise I pout and perform badly on purpose.

I don't know about the hand-eye co-ordination thing, I think mine is naturally okay, but artificially enhanced since I have played tetris neary every single night for the last 8 years, amongst other quick-thinking puzzle games and other hand-eye activities such as guitar.

Err...sorry...talking about myself again...xD

You must be confusing silly PE ad hoc "teams" with permanent league teams with real coaches and schedules. Believe me, there is no similarity as to team cohesion. Coaches won't even allow little 8-9 year olds to criticize teammates and they continually stress the importance of mutual support.

I admit that I didn't play football (although the coach begged me to on various occasions), but given the very large size of these teams cohesion could be somewhat less. Even then, if our coach heard a player criticizing a teammate he would have temporarily benched the offender. Given the outrageous salaries and huge egos, I expect that there is more dissension on many pro sports teams than there is on many local amateur teams.

I too wasnt great at forward rolls.. but hey is a that sport ? lol

guess I didn't like the risk factor..

I too can relate.. My reactions are very fast too.. and that hand eye coordination .. Do you believe is like visualisation? and I guess aspies can be good at visualisation/problem solving etc..

smart play involved?

I agree, social aspect is far less important. Especially when you are in the moment.. Playing.. in the zone focused. (isolated in own world.. within sport..)
but some sports do require a lot of communication regarding gameplay but I guess that is a Script (involve certain words repetitive each game) and you know what to say.. you know when..

The aftermatch functions are important though.

another kiwi
well positive people are great..

a positive club anywhere?

I know I felt australians have a more positive view than kiwis.

and growing up over there.. yeah they are more competitive in their sports
and supportive of 'mateship'

me too

I would say being too focused in what your doing to care about anything else is a good for any individual sports. (whenever I swim or surf in the ocean i always stay there for hours and never even think of taking breaks)

Yeah, I quite like swimming too actually although I kinda have my own style. The sound of the sea is one of my fave sounds

Considering that many of us have coordination and balance problems, I would be very surprised to see many of us good at sports. However, I do have aspie friends who play in the special olympics and they are very good athletes who have won medals.