<p>Do you play a sport? And of you do, what ones?
Just curious</p>
<p>Tennis</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Wrestling and Tennis.</p>
<p>Field Hockey and Lacrosse</p>
<p>No, /10char :D</p>
<p>Not right now, but I might take up Fencing when I enter High School next year. I hear it’s one of the few sports in which injuries are uncommon. I have agliophobia, I know.</p>
<p>Soccer and Cross Country</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to try fencing and cc’ers are more athletic than I thought. On top of being geniuses. Haha Also, how many hours a week do you dedicate to your sport</p>
<p>cross country
I’ve always wanted to try fencing, as well. I have a friend who fences. I think it’d be really cool to row crew in college as well. Anyone know anyone who does that?</p>
<p>Six years of lacrosse and a year of field hockey.</p>
<p>I probably only dedicate ten hours a week to sports in season, though there is always more for away games for travel and whatnot. Tbh, I think that I dedicate more time for stage managing one play than I do for an entire season of lacrosse.</p>
<p>Soccer and tennis.</p>
<p>I play golf, basketball, and I’m trying for football next year. But considering that I hate taking orders, and each football practice I get more aggravated, football might not be for me.</p>
<p>12-14 hrs devoted to tennis out of season, that includes practicing, competing, and exercising for it. </p>
<p>In season… 15-18. 2 hours of practice and 1 hour of exercise the same day is not the most fun thing to do.</p>
<p>Nope. </p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to play ice hockey… but I’m too afraid of getting hurt, lol.</p>
<p>Ha, anything less than 20 hours is nothing compared to the 30, 35, or even 40+ hours a week we spend on wrestling during the season. A small tournament is usually 8 to 12 hours minimum. A large tournament can eat up an entire weekend. This doesn’t include the round bus trip (which can be anywhere from 1 hour to 4 hours; our state dual was a 9 hour round trip) - considering every single one of our meets with the exception of one at the beginning of the season is an away meets. A dual meet is about 5 hours. We average about 2 duals and 1 tournament a week, plus 2 1/2 hour practice Monday through Friday. It’s a living hell, and don’t even get me started about having to watch your weight. If you’re body fat % is in the double digits, you’re considered fat. Plus, you practically have to dehydrate yourself if you don’t want to be stuck wrestling people whose weight is naturally 5 to 15 pounds heavier than you. And when that 5 to 15 pounds is all muscle, it can make a heck of a lot of difference.</p>
<p>It can be hell. But getting out there and winning is a blast. Sometimes I feel like quitting, but usually those feelings go away after a victory. There’s not a single greater feeling in the world that going up there and having the ref raise your hand in victory. :D</p>
<p>I’ve played lacrosse for 2 years, but I’m considering switching to tennis next year.</p>
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<p>Several times I year I play a tennis tournament which is about 5 hours away. If I win all my rounds, it’s one match on Friday, two on Sat, and two on Sun (but I rarely make it to Sunday). I have to stay overnight and it sucks. Other sports can take up entire weekends too. When I said how many hours I played a sport I tallied up all the hours I was actually doing something. From what I hear, at wrestling tournaments you’re just sitting around for 90% of the time.</p>
<p>I play football and basketball and I can safely say after trying tennis and lacrosse that football is the hardest sport there is to play besides wrestling. In football if you are not in need of an ice bath and/or extra attention to some sort of injury you are doing something wrong. It is a violent game and nothing compares to it besides wrestling but only because watching your weight is a *****. Hockey actually is probably harder as well in hindsight but I have not tried hockey.</p>
<p>@dfree124: That’s very true! Honestly, I’d probably say that wrestling meets is 5%, warming up is another 5%, and the remaining 90% is just watching other people wrestle. It’s kinda funny when you think about it - the hours upon hours of training, practicing moves, losing weight, and not eating culminates in two or three measly 6-minute long matches. Heck, if you are really good/really bad, they can be over in seconds! =p</p>
<p>The hardest part is probably maintaining weight, simply because it’s a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week commitment. The actual wrestling isn’t that bad assuming you’re properly conditioned. You’d think that’s it can be painful but surprisingly, it’s not that bad. Believe it or not, most of the pain didn’t really come from blunt forces, but rather due to a lack of flexibility, lol.</p>
<p>Track & Field, XC, speed skating as a side hobby that I’m kind of intense about.</p>