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[zychi]

But are you measuring best athletes on who can take the most punishment then? Cause in that case I think it's safe to say MMA wins this one easily.
And by the way playing with an injury doesn't automatically make you a great athlete imo...

It's part of it.
Hockey players need the stamina of a soccer player
The strength of a football players to take a hit/give a hit
Some need to be able to take a punch and throw a punch.
You don't magically get good at skating, especially developing speed and stops.

it's not like running, where every single person who can walk should be able to run.

You need the skill to make the puck go into the net, while you are "gliding" with a stick, with other people able to hit you. Unlike soccer. Where if I touch you with the ball, I get carded.

Hockey wins. No question about it.

I'm going to have to go with the Triathalon athletes. That's some serious shit.

Do you consider a triathlon a sport? Or dipping your toe in multiple sports?

 

[crimzonflame]

It's part of it.
Hockey players need the stamina of a soccer player
The strength of a football players to take a hit/give a hit
Some need to be able to take a punch and throw a punch.
You don't magically get good at skating, especially developing speed and stops.

it's not like running, where every single person who can walk should be able to run.

You need the skill to make the puck go into the net, while you are "gliding" with a stick, with other people able to hit you. Unlike soccer. Where if I touch you with the ball, I get carded.

Hockey wins. No question about it.

Most hockey players cant dunk because they arent athletic enough.

 

[Ultimatum]

if we're talking about averages then it's basketball, but I think the best athletes are in the NFL

soccer has some amazing athletes, but skill is so important that it shrinks the pool of talented athletes

 

[zychi]

Most hockey players cant dunk because they arent athletic enough.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=215830

 

[NekoFever]

I don't know what the obsession is here with team sports. I'd put elite decathletes, triathletes, swimmers and gymnasts ahead of basically all of them.

 

[crimzonflame]

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=215830

Im at work. Is that a video of most of the NHL dunking?

 

[Dion Blaster]

Not really sure, would probably go Basketball though just do to the combination of size, strength, speed, quickness, coordination, and explosion necessary to make any sort of impact on a game.

I will say that people vastly underestimate how demanding holding a defensive stance is. Not just dicking around at the park but really rotating, denying, keeping someone in front of you, and positioning for a rebound for 20 seconds straight, over and over again.

Edit: Totally forgot about Triathlete/decathlete types. I would never put a single event athlete (running, swimming, biking, etc.) on their own above some of the team sport athletes or tennis players though.

 

[BTM]

Golf

 

[zychi]

I don't know what the obsession is here with team sports. I'd put elite decathletes, triathletes, swimmers and gymnasts ahead of basically all of them.

Bowlers are where the real athletes are!

 

[theepicoftyler]

Im at work. Is that a video of most of the NHL dunking?

It's a video of a tall guy barely getting the ball over the rim.

 

[KissVibes]

Professional wrestlers. Works 300+ days a year, travels all over the world, and has to do media and other promotional work for the company.

Nobody works harder or has a more physically demanding lifestyle.

 

[Vire]

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=215830

I don't think you understand what athletic means..

Show me a hockey player who can move this quickly at this size and jump this high:

Don't worry I'll wait.

 

[zychi]

I don't think you understand what athletic means..

i dont think you read what i quoted before i posted the link...

lil nate robinson can dunk. i guess he's the best athlete. he wins. game over fellas. pack it up.

 

[Delta Assault]

Apples and Oranges: The Thread.

 

[zychi]

I don't think you understand what athletic means..

Show me a hockey player who can move this quickly at this size and jump this high:

Don't worry I'll wait.

show me another guy who can do that in the nba, who also doesn't have the refs on his side.

show me a guy who doesn't get knocked over by a 5'10 white guy who weighs 165 lbs every time he runs to the lane.

don't worry i'll wait.

you know a sport has great athletes when players like this make the team and start.

 

[AkuMifune]

i dont think you read what i quoted before i posted the link...

lil nate robinson can dunk. i guess he's the best athlete. he wins. game over fellas. pack it up.

I'm not against hockey players being athletic, but dude's jump shot was the goofiest shit.

Hockey players have more skill than athleticism, which is not what's being discussed imo.

 

[brianjones]

just don't ask basketball players to throw baseballs

 

[zychi]

just don't ask basketball players to throw baseballs

or play golf

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[HI. BILLY MAYS HERE]

Soccer and baseball

 

[Vire]

In this thread, hockey and baseball fans gets upset because they realize that their sports don't have the best athletes.

Skill does not equate to athleticism.

 

[cripterion]

Apples and Oranges: The Thread.

Yeah I'll second that. It comes down to preference.
If you pick the best of the best in each sports category, I'm much more impressed with what basketball players can do than say : a hockey player or a baseball player.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Star Craft 2

 

[SummitAve]

Anyone who argues baseball is not a fan of the sport.

 

[FallingEdge]

I don't think you understand what athletic means..

Show me a hockey player who can move this quickly at this size and jump this high:

Don't worry I'll wait.

wrestling related but

 

[Cse]

Hockey, without question.

It's the only sport that actually requires one to essentially master a secondary skill (skating) prior to actually learning and working on the actual game.

Also, unlike in basketball or football, EVERY single hockey player must have size, agility, speed, and incredible eye and hand coordination.

 

[bodine1231]

It's part of it.
Hockey players need the stamina of a soccer player
The strength of a football players to take a hit/give a hit
Some need to be able to take a punch and throw a punch.
You don't magically get good at skating, especially developing speed and stops.

it's not like running, where every single person who can walk should be able to run.

You need the skill to make the puck go into the net, while you are "gliding" with a stick, with other people able to hit you. Unlike soccer. Where if I touch you with the ball, I get carded.

Hockey wins. No question about it.



Do you consider a triathlon a sport? Or dipping your toe in multiple sports?

If the question was "what is the most difficult sport" then I'd agree with you.

Hand-eye coordination of baseball
Physicality of football
Endurance and schedule of NBA
On top of that you have to play on ice skates and know how to fist fight.

Toughest/most difficult sport for sure. However, "best athelete" goes to the NBA. The combination of speed/endurance/agility is unparalleled in any sport.

Also, of the five major American sports baseball has BY FAR the worst athletes.

 

[Effnine]

probably basketball ... but don't sleep on top tier Motocross riders -- it takes a lot of stamina, strength, agility and balls to do what they do ...

 

[t26]

Hockey, without question.

It's the only sport that actually requires one to essentially master a secondary skill (skating) prior to actually learning and working on the actual game.

Also, unlike in basketball or football, EVERY single hockey player must have size, agility, speed, and incredible eye and hand coordination.

Can jockey player jump?

 

[Cse]

If the question was "what is the most difficult sport" then I'd agree with you.

Hand-eye coordination of baseball
Physicality of football
Endurance and schedule of NBA
On top of that you have to play on ice skates and know how to fist fight.

Toughest/most difficult sport for sure. However, "best athelete" goes to the NBA. The combination of speed/endurance/agility is unparalleled in any sport.

Also, of the five major American sports baseball has BY FAR the worst athletes.

Most NBA players are quite slow. Look at any center or power forward in the league - they're big, lumbering bodies that can shoot and block - that's about it.

 

[FStop7]

Probably pro cycling.

 

[zychi]

In this thread, hockey and baseball fans gets upset because they realize that their sports don't have the best athletes.

Skill does not equate to athleticism.

In this thread, Vire makes generalizations about fans and is apparently only a close-minded basketball fan.

 

[Cse]

Can jockey player jump?

The average jumping height of every hockey player in the NHL would likely only be second to those in the NBA. NFL receivers can jump, but QBs and linemen....not so much.

Do even half of the players in the NFL or NBA have the eye hand coordination of the average hockey player?

Hockey is the fastest game on earth, and those guys are flicking around a tiny rubber puck while physically moving faster than any other athlete in their respective sport.

 

[RedHotChimiChanga]

I don't think you understand what athletic means..

Show me a hockey player who can move this quickly at this size and jump this high:

Don't worry I'll wait.

They would work on different muscles. Hockey Players don't care about vertical movement, but you can bet that Hockey Players have way more powerful leg muscles in general.

 

[Vire]

1. Basketball
2. Soccer
3/4. Football/Hockey (balances out because of the lineman)
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5. Baseball

Baseball is a joke when it comes to athleticism. Half the guys in the league have a beer belly.

 

[Norml]

Hockey, without question.

It's the only sport that actually requires one to essentially master a secondary skill (skating) prior to actually learning and working on the actual game.

Also, unlike in basketball or football, EVERY single hockey player must have size, agility, speed, and incredible eye and hand coordination.

Yup, it just requires more from the player and is why I feel they would be the most athletic over a range of activities and not just the sport they are in.

 

[Incognito]

road cyclists, in particular contador and sagan..

or peter sagan doing anything... like parking his bike on top of the team car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9Eh2uQ7Ek

 

[old]

American football.

 

[bodine1231]

Most NBA players are quite slow. Look at any center or power forward in the league - they're big, lumbering bodies that can shoot and block - that's about it.

Wa? Center is a near dead position and the best atheletes in the world are power forwards. This isn't the 80's where every team had a 7 footer crowding the paint. Today's game is all about pushing the ball up the court and playing above the rim.

 

[Effnine]

Most NBA players are quite slow. Look at any center or power forward in the league - they're big, lumbering bodies that can shoot and block - that's about it.

 

[Cse]

1. Basketball
2. Soccer
3/4. Football/Hockey (balances out because of the lineman)
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5. Baseball

Baseball is a joke when it comes to athleticism. Half the guys in the league have a beer belly.

The problem with putting basketball in this list is that there are vastly different positions in basketball with vastly different skill requirements.

For example, I don't think the 6'10"+ centers in the NBA are that athletic. They have a good set of genes - they're big bodies with long arms. Most of them don't have speed or supreme dribbling abilities - they can block and shoot....that's about it.

 

[entremet]

Most NBA players are quite slow. Look at any center or power forward in the league - they're big, lumbering bodies that can shoot and block - that's about it.

It's been a Guards league for a long time. Last great center was Shaq and he had hardly great peers near his title runs.

 

[mr2xxx]

If we are just talking about major sports then the NFL wins by default since its the only sport that has a special event catered around a players athleticism broken down into individual parts.. It is public knowledge how fast, strong, explosive, and agile they are through the various events held at the NFL combine which would make it easy to compare to other athletes but no one else does because they don't view that as necessary.

 

[Vire]

The problem with putting basketball in this list is that there are vastly different positions in basketball with vastly different skill requirements.

For example, I don't think the 6'10"+ centers in the NBA are that athletic. They have a good set of genes - they're big bodies with long arms. Most of them don't have speed or supreme dribbling abilities - they can block and shoot....that's about it.

Centers are certainly incredibly athletic for their size.

Chris Andreson is 6'10"

They are the most athletic 7 foot people living on the entire planet. Similarly, the 6 foot players are the best athletes for their size/height division as well.

 

[Cse]

^ Perfect example of what I'm talking about.

 

[Seeds]

Logically, you should find the best athelets in sport that most people are able to participate in, regardless of height, size etc.

So soccer.

 

[Dion Blaster]

The problem with putting basketball in this list is that there are vastly different positions in basketball with vastly different skill requirements.

For example, I don't think the 6'10"+ centers in the NBA are that athletic. They have a good set of genes - they're big bodies with long arms. Most of them don't have speed or supreme dribbling abilities - they can block and shoot....that's about it.

I don't see how that's any different than Soccer, Football, or Baseball. Hockey seems like one where most of the players are similarly athletic, but I don't watch enough to know for sure. Also, the lumbering center is a dying breed.

 

[Norml]

The average jumping height of every hockey player in the NHL would likely only be second to those in the NBA. NFL receivers can jump, but QBs and linemen....not so much.

Do even half of the players in the NFL or NBA have the eye hand coordination of the average hockey player?

Hockey is the fastest game on earth, and those guys are flicking around a tiny rubber puck while physically moving faster than any other athlete in their respective sport.

Very tiny! And you don't get to use bare hands which is childs play compared to using a stick.

 

[cashman]

It's part of it.
Hockey players need the stamina of a soccer player
The strength of a football players to take a hit/give a hit
Some need to be able to take a punch and throw a punch.
You don't magically get good at skating, especially developing speed and stops.

it's not like running, where every single person who can walk should be able to run.

You need the skill to make the puck go into the net, while you are "gliding" with a stick, with other people able to hit you. Unlike soccer. Where if I touch you with the ball, I get carded.

Hockey wins. No question about it.



Do you consider a triathlon a sport? Or dipping your toe in multiple sports?

hockey players play like a minute at a time

 

[Vire]

Very tiny! And you don't get to use bare hands which is childs play compared to using a stick.

How does this relate to athleticism at all?

Being able to wield a tool efficiently is skill, not athleticism.

 

[Delta Assault]

The average jumping height of every hockey player in the NHL would likely only be second to those in the NBA. NFL receivers can jump, but QBs and linemen....not so much.

Do even half of the players in the NFL or NBA have the eye hand coordination of the average hockey player?

Hockey is the fastest game on earth, and those guys are flicking around a tiny rubber puck while physically moving faster than any other athlete in their respective sport.

Formula 1 athletes are physically moving faster...