Were you/are you good at sports

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In softball I was extremely good. The coaches would put me in as catcher for an entire game and every game. I got MVP awards for catching and batting. This was all when I was age 12 to 14, but when my parents put me in tee ball, I would always run off the field and play on the jungle gym. My dad got embarrassed and so I stopped going. I tried baseball at 15 and that's when my skills got a lot worse. I'm not good at batting now and my throwing is not as good, but that's from tendonitis.

Now sports that involve mostly using your feet and legs and looking down I suck at, Soccer and hockey. I skateboard though, but I'm way behind where I should be for how long I've been doing it. I'm also small so basketball and football are not good for me.

Usually in sports my skill level goes up very quickly to a certain put when I'm extremely good compared to others my age, but then just stops and sometimes gets worse and not as good compared to others my age. I was very fast when I was younger, the fastest in my class, but now I'm slow. I was also one of the strongest and still am for my size.

I was awful at team sports, so PE sucked when I was in school because that's all it was until high school where we also got to play tennis and swim. The worst game had to be dodgeball because in the 6th grade, there was one kid who threw the ball so hard that the one time I caught it, I almost fell on my ass. I wouldn't have been surprised if that kid ended up playing American football in high school, since he was already built like one in elementary school. I moved after the 7th grade so I didn't go to the high school that most of my elementary school classmates attended.

I was fine with individual sports, and I do participate in martial arts today, as well as weight training and spinning classes at the gym. The thing I like about the spinning class is that you go at your own pace, and they play upbeat music that keeps you going.

I was terrible at team sports. I tried soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, and just about everything. I sucked at every single team sport, and don't even get me started on gym class. In high school I ran cross country and loved it. I later did nordic skiing and track and field. I competed at varsity level in all three sports and ran a mile in under six minutes. Distance sports are the only ones that I'm even decent at.

It very much depends on which sport we're talking about....

I was pretty good at softball -- probably because I grow up surrounded by boys, and learned how to play very early.

I was OK at badminton and vollyeball.

Basketball? Nope. Spent the entire game just running up and down the court. I still hate basketball to this day.

Gymnastics? Are you kidding me? I can barely walk across the floor without falling down. I can practically trip over dust bunnies. That doesn't bode well for the balance beam. I'm constantly spraining and twisting ankles. That eliminates floor exercises. And I'm blind as a bat, so no trampoline. If I don't wear my glasses I feel like I'm going to jump off the side. And I'm too tall for uneven parallel bars.

Tennis? Uh-uh. Was too uncoordinated to swing the racket properly.

Golf. No....kinda tough to swing a golf club with D-cup sized boobs.

My mom put me in gymnastics when I was 5 because they thought I had ADHD it was used an outlet for me to release energy. I was REALLY good and when I was a teenager, I was asked to go train with Bela Karolyi to be a part of his "olympic hopeful" group. No joke. That's why I had such a hard time with the AS diagnosis because nobody could believe that a person could be great at a sport and still be on the spectrum. SMH

I quite enjoy Australian Rules Football, but generally only kick to kick at the goals, i was never much good at team playing. As a school report put it, "lacks ability, but gets in and has a go."

Pretty much no. The only sport I came close to being OK in was judo, but then in competitions against my weight class I got slaughtered because I was fat due to poor nutrition. Well that and the other kids were monsters like 2 years older than me, like they were going through puberty and I wasn't yet. I did OK at hockey all things considered, but (ironically, compared to circumstances now) was a crappy skater. Soccer I was a decentish defender and goalie, but again, fat, so I got winded easily running. Football, terrible at. Baseball, wanted to be good at but sucked. Pretty much tried every sport under the sun as a kid and failed at all of them.

I have NVLD, so my coordination sucks, of course I didn't know I had NVLD at the time, so I just thought I sucked for no good reason and just tried harder. Like, as a kid, partially out of Aspie obsession type thing, and partially out of wanting to get better, I'd like, kick a football or a soccer ball over a tree for hours at a time sometimes. That or throw a baseball against a wall, or throw a ball in the air and bat it. Just for hours by myself. All that resulted from that was getting on almost the same level as the other kids in school. Whereas if a "normal" kid put the same practice time in, they'd be like, pros. Kinda frustrating.

In adolescence, I quit sports, partially because for the ones I liked (hockey and judo) my mom didn't wanna pay for anymore, and my diet was switched from like, organic fresh food under my father, to frozen food under my mother and I gained a ton of weight and felt terrible. So the most I'd do in adolescence is hike a little bit. Around 16-17 years old, I got into cycling a bit, I'd ride on average about 30ish miles a week, but then when I moved at around 18, it was hilly terrain compared to where I used to live, so I stopped.

Now, oddly enough, at age 21, I'm a bit more athletic than most of my peers. I took up ice skating last year, originally just with hockey skates just for some exercise, because the rink near my house is extremely cheap, and it's fun exercise. Now I figure skate, and I'm looking to test soon. Before I was skating, I had high blood pressure, and was 5'9 at 215lbs, skating dropped me to 180 and got my blood pressure good. To go with figure skating, I started weightlifting to get more power, and I'm quite good at the lower body centric lifts, but the upper body ones basically still suck. I can deadlift 355 but can only bench like 135. Weightlifting made me gain some weight, I got to 195lbs, but I look better at a more muscular 195 than I did at my old 180.

When you're older, I feel in many ways, athletics is easier, because you can train however you want, and in a much "smarter" way. Whereas if you're a kid, you're gonna be trained how other people tell you, and if they don't understand you, then tough s**t. Having Aspergers, too, is an advantage in that regard, because at least I can quite easily get as much knowledge about a subject as I wish, especially with the internet. So I can train smarter than most people would. Even with skating, for example, I've been skating about a year, no coach, only from public sessions, and I've made pretty reasonable progress. Of course per the amount of ice time, would others have progressed better? Maybe, but most people won't put the ice and gym time in. It's self paced, that's why I like it as a sport. The way I train is sort of unorthodox, too, weightlifting for figure skating crosstraining hasn't quite caught on to the general public, so my "outside the box" thinking has helped me.

So to all the people out there who sucked at sports as a kid, give them a try again. If you're good at finding information, you could be good at sports.

Swimming in high school. Wasn't really any good,

I've always been good at football, I'm quite good at Cricket, and I'm "not bad"...I skateboard too, but I'm not very good.

No. My gross motor coordination sucks and I'm inflexible. I was the fastest sprinter in my class back in like 2nd or 3rd grade. That didn't last once I hit my growth spurt in my mid-to-late teens and filled out laterally as well as vertically.

The only "sport" I really enjoy is mountain climbing though I haven't really gotten into the technical aspect where rope and climbing gear is needed. I wouldn't say I'm "good" at it though as I'm not the most fit person. I'm just more willing to put up with the exhaustion and bodily punishment required. I venture most people are like "I'm tired, my legs hurt, screw this" after an hour or so. Living with constant clinical depression mountain climbing is really the only thing where I feel totally motivated to push myself to the limit and can get myself out of bed at 4:00-5:00 AM raring to go and push myself to the limit in a way that's simply impossible on a "normal" day where a dull routine, tiredness, and stress are the only things to look forward to.

Not at all, even though I was on the girls basketball team. They only let me on there because it was the first year we had it and they needed all the help they could get.

Oddly enough I have savant like skills at baton twirling. I'm fabulous at that. Everybody was very surprised, including me.

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I was bad at sports. I don't like working in a team, I'm uncoordinated, weak, and lack stamina, and I hate balls flying at me. Rather than try to catch them they make me want to block my face or get out of the way because I'll probably miss and they'll hit me. I hated being forced to play volleyball so much. I also had a lot of trouble dribbling a basketball.

I'm bad at throwing balls. Even throwing my cat's toys for him to chase they frequently don't end up where I intended to throw them.

When I was little I was quite intimidated by ball sports so I strayed away from sports until my parents stuck me in swimming when I was 12. I started on a team. I was always slow for my age group but I started competing once I switched teams and was trained better. So I competed for about 3 yrs from 16-18. Other then that, I havent really been a sports person

I've never liked watching sports, but I was always bad at them in school.

I'm very clumsy and uncoordinated, so I was never really good at anything. One time in gym class, all the other kids were doing some kinda flip over a bar...I'd never been able to do it, but I tried it anyway. I landed right on the top of my head and had to go to the hospital. I also used to throw up after the long winter running sessions they made us do.

Sports???

NEVAH!! !! !

Like many of the teachers at school the PE teachers bullied me. Because of this I avoided PE in various ways including getting notes from my parents, forging notes, feigning injury and "forgetting" all of my required kit. Sometimes the dirty ***** would make you (via intimidation) wear something from the lost property. Disgusting. Also one of the PE teachers seemed far too interested in "supervising" the boys while we were showering and changing - he was *much* more "vigilant" about this task than all of the other teachers. Creepy guy.