Who else isn't good at sports?

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im 6'3 and quite a big build. everybody says im perfect for rugby and basketball, but im just too clumsy
i dont know the rules, dont learn the rules, and regularly trip over my own feet haha

Ah, how nice it is to be in a good company! I can relate to all your anti-sport experiences. I really hated all ball games, because, first, I was badly coordinated, second, I never enjoyed any group activities, and third, I was afraid that my glasses would break, so my self-preservation instinct required me to run away from the ball. My PE grades were always dragging my average down. But there is one sport that I enjoy, and this is biking, especially on technically difficult trails (rocks, roots, up and down), where one can break ribs and deraillers. Biking is an exercise, contact with nature (e.g. once I had a direct and simultaneous contact with 58 chiggers), and lots of spinning!

I hated gym class. My PE teachers through my four years in high school said I had to change (I wore a gray sweatshirt and gray sweatpants). I ended up getting A's for watching.

YES! Mountain biking is the coolest sport!! I love technically difficult trails, although I'd rather keep my derailleur intact! A can of "OFF! Deep Woods" will take care of the chiggers and mosquitoes. It will also keep ticks (and basically every other insect) off your body. How much do you bike? I bike every day.

I try to bike every day, but I usually end up doing it 4-6 times a week (because of rain or other obstacles). Right now, in summer, I bike when it gets dark, to avoid overheating. I use OFF in bug season and it really works, although the smell repels me too! It doesn't stop my frequent companion poison ivy, though... I endoed many times and broke several parts off my bike, and injured my ribs once (this didn't stop me from going ahead with the ride, after all one does not pedal with ribs, right? ) My sister thinks I am crazy riding like this, but in fact there are plenty of crazier and faster riders than me.

The closest things to sports that I can do is Dance Dance Revolution, hockey, and long walks at night around the block. X.x I totally hate gym class....sometimes I think that the whole point of having it is so that the other kids can point at you and laugh, or make you feel bad because they pick you last.

I hate gym class, too, but I think the point of it is to wear out kids' legs, arms, waists, etc., rather than to ridicule them, although that might also happen.

Mich

I don't have to go to gym class! I go to a diffrent kind of P.E. that is fun and it is for aspies. Does anyone else have special P.E.?
I also Hate normal pe!

I had special P.E. in junior high school. Coming into 7th grade my 6th grade P.E. teacher told my parents I had the physical skills of a 2st grader, and the strength of a third grader. Even though I was one of the tallest kids in class, I was the weakest of everyone. That summer (1992) I was over at friends house one day in August, his parents had a weight set in the basement and I could bench press all of 40lbs! I had a bike that had very low gears to allow me climb hills and do other stuff ETC, but I could never keep up with anyone no matter how hard I tried. So in 7th grade I was enrolled into an adaptive P.E. class to try and catch me up to everyone else. I was actually envied by everyone else becasue my class was doing the things that everyone else wanted to be doing, like lifting weights to build muscle, and archery to improve coordination, swimming to improve stamina, ETC.

I had special PE in college! Well, sort of...

I though that I was done with PE when I graduated from high school, but then I learned that PE was mandatory during first three years of college. I was really shocked - after all, I was 19 and an adult, but they again wanted to "physically educate" me like I was some kid! I went to first PE class and I didn't like it a bit. Although these classes were for geeks from Math/Comp Sci department, so they were practically sort of "special PE", easier than in high school, I was still the worst.

I decided to sign up for real special PE (called "corrective PE"). An additional benefit was that the classes were much closer to my home (*). One had to prove some sort of "disability" to qualify, so I took all my medical files, but my prescription for glasses turned out to be enough. The lady asked me if I preferred standard classes or the swimming pool. For the reason that I do not understand now, I chose the swimming pool. I actually do not enjoy swimming, and hate water with chlorine. The lady answered that swimming pool was undergoing repairs and was closed for that year, so she exempted me from PE altogether. I couldn't believe it, I was in paradise!

Next two years I got the exemption renewed with no problems (because I had it previously, and nobody remembered the real reason). Of course, as you may guess, I was not in particularly good shape during my college years. I am in much better shape now.

(*) The university has a campus in the historic part of the city, but grew out it, and in effect uses many buildings scattered throughout the city.

I have regular NT PE. I hate it!

Mich

I enjoy sports: moving my body is very enjoyable and it's fun to scamper around! A nasty ankle injury stopped my recreational running, but I love bicycling and swimming, although I don't swim much due to a mild chlorine allergy. I enjoyed modern dance for a while, though I'm not really coordinated enough to do well in it. Strangely I have never had coordination problems the rare times I have been lucky enough to find martial arts places to study at. I don't like competitive team sports, since people in teams often don't work together but rather compete against each other, and I can't handle those pecking order internal dominance battles. But I do like exercising. Nothing clears the mind, gets the heart moving and soothes the soul more than a nice cool bike ride through a tender forest path, even with a few friends along to enjoy the ride.

I'm too lazy to be any good, but I am pretty good by nature in all sports.

I have never really been much good at sports. I can throw a baseball but I cannot bat. I can run like crazy but I cannot catch a football. Even if I could have been any good I was tall and skinny and broke bones like a bird. I spent much of my childhood in a cast for one thing or the other. Deep down I think I really don't like competition. I don't like to lose yet I don't like to win and see the other guy feel bad. I used to play Chess to the draw every time so I would not win or lose. Contact sports were out because I disliked being so close to other people. Tennis was a failure because no matter how hard I tried, the ball would sail over the fence, no finesse. I can shoot pool well because I love to figure the angles, there is a kind of math involved with running a rack of pool balls. I can watch a sports team but my interest wanders and I only care if they are winning. Plant me in Castle Wolfenstein surrounded by Nazi Ubersoldat though and I am unbeatable, X-Box is where I can truly excel. I hope they have Olympic video game competition some day, we will rule. For what it's worth, Kenorri

I have always been relatively physically strong, but I am severely lacking when it comes to motor skills.


My Strengths:

I can lift a decent amount of weight, I can sprint faster than most people, and I can jump farther than most people. When I was younger, I also used to be incredibly good at doing sit-ups. I can still do more than most people, but it isn't quite as easy for me as an adult as it used to be.

I was pretty decent at the purely physical aspects of tackle football. I could easily tackle people, and it was practically impossible to bring me down once I had my hands on the ball. I couldn't throw the ball effectively at all, though, and I wasn't terribly great at catching it, either. I wasn't too terrible at volleyball, either.


My Weaknesses:

The more coordination and motor skills a sport requires, the worse I am at it. I couldn't play a sport like basketball or baseball if my life depended on it.

For basketball, I never understood how anyone could concentrate on dribbling, moving, avoiding members of the opposing team, and positioning yourself for a shot all at the same time. For baseball, I simply had no skill at hitting or catching a ball that small. I would occasionally (read: very rarely) hit the ball entirely by luck, and when that happened I could easily belt the thing toward the back of the field. That sort of thing didn't happen often enough to give me the impression that I was anything but utterly dismal at the sport, though.

i never really enjoyed PE at school - too many team games.

i still don't really enjoy sport.

but i dance...and dance...and dance... and dance.........

V