Were you/are you good at sports

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I played soccer for two years and was pretty bad at it.

My mom never let me play football until I got into high school. It never occurred to me that I shouldn’t play a sport a really wasn’t interested in. I never watched it on TV or anything, so learning the rules and positions was kinda hard. After going to practice for two months straight, I quit the team after playing out first game. I didn’t know what was so wrong at the time, but the experience completely freaked me out. I was seeing freaking trails I was so over stimulated.

I did ok at wrestling for the year I did it.

I had a really good time doing martial arts.

My motor coordination isn't good, in fact I suck at every sport... exept karate; I'm quite good at it. But the worst is when I have to play team sports like volleyball at school: I can't concentrate on what I'm doing, and when the ball passes near me, it's too late to catch it; about running, I'm too slow.

i was never any good at sports especially ball games I couldn't hit the ball and if it came near me I would move out the way because I was afraid of getting hit by it then I would get laughed at.

Haha, no. I have terrible motor skills. I have difficulty catching balls. I've never hit a baseball. I'm unfit. I'm slow. I trip a lot. PE was by far the worst part of school.

The only time I've really been interested in sports was for a short time in 2nd grade, when I was interested in (American) football. I've never actually played it (it was forbidden at school), except casually with my two "friends" at the time. I guess I was good at that, but only because I could run across the whole field with both of them on my back.

In elementary school where most of the sports were done with the whole class in two large teams I spent most of my time playing sports such as "stay as far away from the ball as possible", "let others cut in line without getting caught", and "stand outside of the teacher's field of vision".

In junior high, where there were usually smaller groups, I was always left standing by myself until the teacher put me in a group. Nobody wanted me in their group, because that meant an automatic loss. So I'd end each day with the group I was in angry at me. When we'd run the teacher would always be yelling at me to run faster, when I was already at my limit. Sometimes they'd say that if the whole class doesn't run a certain distance in 10 minutes then everyone would have to run for the rest of the class. I would always trip over the finish line at 15 minutes with everyone staring at me. Luckily, they never actually made everyone run again.

Then in the last year of junior high I tripped and screwed up my arm, so I was able to escape most sports for the rest of that year and through high school. I just walked the whole class. Much better!

I guess that makes me a "sports refuser".

I'm absolutely bad at sports. In school, I was terrified with gimnastic class.

I'm in the top percentile for sports

No, I sucked at PE. I preferred indoor PE, like gym, babminton, swimming, those sorts of things (although I could never swim properly, because I always had ears and sinuses trouble and so wasn't allowed to get my head under the water, but I still enjoyed it).

Otherwise, I sucked at sports. Also sports wasn't really my thing anyway, I was too slow and dimwitted.

I've never been interested in watching or playing sport.

PE at school was hell. Team sport was pushed hard at our school and, being a big guy (over 6ft at age 13) I was drafted into the house rugby team. I hated this: if I turned up I was ridiculed for being rubbish and also just for being me; if I weaselled out of it I was ridiculed for, erm, weaselling out of it.

I did well academically (top set for everything) and artistically but of course none of this mattered to my peers - these subjects were streamed to prevent the less able from being humiliated. In sport this humiliation was actively encouraged.

Nothing has ever done more damage to my self-esteem than sport at school. Why do they teach it in this way if they want kids to learn to keep fit and enjoy exercise?

(On a positive note I did once find a very nice fossil sea urchin during a football match, which rather gives you an idea of my level of commitment to the game )

Billiards is the only sport I like ( if thats classed as a sport).



I could never run as fast as other kids as a child.

But nowadays all my fellow adults complain that I walk too fast for them to keep up with me. People at work who could be my gandchildren complain that they cant walk as fast as I do. I have to expend more energy to stay at everyone else's slow pace than I do to walk at my own faster pace.

Go figure.

I hated PE at school! I used to refuse to do it and I can remember 3 occasions where I ended up in a full blown argument with my PE teachers, and one time in a fight

I just hated it so much but had no valid reason not to participate

I'm told I am good at sports. My opinion is different though.

IceKitten

It may very well be that I never catched a ball or a frisbee in my entire childhood... Ok, I'm exaggerating. But it's really not that far from the truth...

Well my gym teacher in high school said this to me " you are the most uncoordinated person I have ever seen in my entire life!". In elementary school I apparently used to just wander off away from the field where my PE class was playing soccer baseball although I remember sometimes sitting down at one of the bases (which I guess I was supposed to be guarding) and making pattern in the gravel with a stick I found on the field........I guess that's a KIND of refusal to play


I'm a very good swimmer though......I love swimming.............

I did do a lot of swimming in elementary school and high school, mostly competitive. I was never the best at it, though.

I LOVE sports! I've played soccer since I was four years old, and can't imagine not playing. I'm super competitive!

The part of soccer that I enjoy the most is the strategy, judging the angles and trajectories of balls, predicting where players will move based on group dynamics and body language. Ironically, soccer is the only time when reading body language largely manually is an advantage!

The hardest part is remembering to communicate with my teammates, but I'm getting better at it.

HAHAHA! I was a danger to myself and others in sports. In soccer alone I broke two knees, one ankle and sprained three more ankles... all on other girls. The saddest part was that most of this happened when I just tripped and fell down on someone else.

Now I do martial arts instead. It's perfect for me because people always have their guard up.

I guess I always liked track and field too.