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Individual sports make a person mentally tougher.
What Sport did you play growing up?
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fleabagmatt
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I tried a few sports as a kid, I just never fell in with being on a team. Got my first skateboard in the 7th grade and never looked back. Been rolling around on that stupid little toy for over 40 years now, I'll keep going for as long as my body will let me.
I'm guessing you were there some time after me.
I'm guessing you were there some time after me.
Gut Shot
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Pool
belshawelk
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Motocross, actually very good and only $$ kept me from being able to go full pro.
Straight Arrow
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Sadly, my older brother drowned in Missouri River at age 7, so Mom sent me to the pool several days a week as soon as I could cross streets safely on my own. Swam competitively and loved to high dive.
Basketball was my favorite team sport, but after sitting the bench and getting cut from varsity, I played church league and city league ball. As a decent point guard and a good shot, one game I netted 30 points (no three-point shots at that time) ... but that high game was only due to taking way too many shots. I was a real ball hog and gunner!
My buddy, other point guard, was a real bullish and strongly built baller and one night playing back alley bball, his layup was so aggressive that the backboard came crashing down from the end of the garage. To this day we still remind him of his "finesse"!
Basketball was my favorite team sport, but after sitting the bench and getting cut from varsity, I played church league and city league ball. As a decent point guard and a good shot, one game I netted 30 points (no three-point shots at that time) ... but that high game was only due to taking way too many shots. I was a real ball hog and gunner!
My buddy, other point guard, was a real bullish and strongly built baller and one night playing back alley bball, his layup was so aggressive that the backboard came crashing down from the end of the garage. To this day we still remind him of his "finesse"!
TransplantHunter
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I was kind of all over the place:
- Wrestled from Kindergarten all the way through graduating high school.
- Played golf every day from spring through fall from the time I was 8 through high school. (Family turned our dairy farm into a golf course so I had cheap access)
- Did baseball from Kindergarten up through 8th or 9th grade - mostly 3rd base.
- Soccer from 3rd grade through 7th grade - mainly at stopper.
- Football from 6th to 8th grade - was wide receiver and cornerback (learned that I didn't like getting hit - go figure)
- Swimming from 4th to 8th grade - It wasn't part of school, just a local thing at the YMCA in town.
noharleyyet
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Took bowling and golf as electives in college...both classes made me worse.
406dn
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I played most every sport growing up. I played baseball from Little League thru Legion. Then I played fast pitch softball on some very competitive teams until moving to Montana @30 years old. I don't think I ever hit lower than clean up in the line up, usually leadoff or third.
I got my size too late to have played high school football, or I would have certainly wanted to have played.
The same late growth spurt curtailed playing high school basketball, but I played city league basketball until roughly 40 years old. In my hey day, I could dunk two handed.
At 74years old, all of it seems a long time ago, almost like an entirely different person. Now I weight lift, ride horses, run bird dogs, and pretend to hunt elk, killing one every now and then.
I got my size too late to have played high school football, or I would have certainly wanted to have played.
The same late growth spurt curtailed playing high school basketball, but I played city league basketball until roughly 40 years old. In my hey day, I could dunk two handed.
At 74years old, all of it seems a long time ago, almost like an entirely different person. Now I weight lift, ride horses, run bird dogs, and pretend to hunt elk, killing one every now and then.
noharleyyet
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Friday night football games were both terrifying and magical. The whole town ebbed and flowed with the outcomes...hero or goat. I really liked pick up basketball...one on one, 3 on 3, but full court 5 on 5 I could commit 3 fouls on 1 whistle. Man I completely get the 'long time ago' reference...
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Hem
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So it really is like the series " Friday Night Lights"...think that was the name of it?
noharleyyet
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...pretty much Hem
Hem
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Wee bit of pressure.
406dn
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When I used to play noon hour basketball at the Y, I guarded a young man who was playing at MSUB. His name was Troy Truvillion. He was rumored to perhaps catch on in the NBA. Of course he could eat my lunch.
Anyway, one night a friend called me to turn on ESPN. The 92 dream team was playing the French national team. Somehow Troy was on that team. He was guarding Jordan. I told my friend...I've hacked the guy, hacking Jordan.
noharleyyet
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The Lyla Garrity's were a perk...
Hem
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Getting a current dose from Landman.
pabearhunter
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Basic than Survival !!
TheBenHoyle
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When I was little I lived in a small town and baseball was the only sport. It was a big deal. I believe there was an old guy who had played professional baseball in the early 1900s in town and so baseball was a big thing. I was not good at it. Just ok.
Then we moved to a different small town and I played baseball until I got to middle school and basketball and football started. At the same time, a budget cut at the school ended all spring sports. So bye bye baseball.
But also, our little school won the state football championship and the whole town became football first. I was only in 8th grade, but for the next 4 years I was positive that I would someday play in the state championship game. Spoiler alert, I did not. I played in a lot of playoff games, but never got past the second round.
I also played basketball, because if I didn't our small town didn't have enough boys so we wouldn't have a team.
I wouldn't necessarily trade it, but I would have liked cross country and track. And if I had a son I would probably steer him into any other sport than football.
Then we moved to a different small town and I played baseball until I got to middle school and basketball and football started. At the same time, a budget cut at the school ended all spring sports. So bye bye baseball.
But also, our little school won the state football championship and the whole town became football first. I was only in 8th grade, but for the next 4 years I was positive that I would someday play in the state championship game. Spoiler alert, I did not. I played in a lot of playoff games, but never got past the second round.
I also played basketball, because if I didn't our small town didn't have enough boys so we wouldn't have a team.
I wouldn't necessarily trade it, but I would have liked cross country and track. And if I had a son I would probably steer him into any other sport than football.
RidgeRunner76
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Sent. Its a process. A timely one.
I know you're a professional photographer. Maybe someday can pick your brain. Our equipment isn't high end, but always felt its right time and places. Maybe not.
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