Your Sport...
 

No arguing... with me mentioning Football on the shoutbox, this can get ugly between the English and the Americans, so I'll say again, no arguing.

Just post up your sport... and what you like about it...




Mine... Billiards and Cue Sports.

I'll play anything that uses a cue, English Pool, American Pool, Snooker, Bar Billiards, Carom... it doesn't matter...


... if it uses a cue... I'm in.


I currently play at County Level (semo pro), Interleague (semi pro) and in many tournaments (semi pro) and for two different teams too...

... So , what's your sport?

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What do u mean by semi pro?

Pool leagues are commen as heck over here. I've been to vegas a couple of times. Never considered playing in tournies semi-pro though.

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I have always loved auto racing. Bought myself a race car last year to get started in a novice series. Would like to move up the ladder.

I still play at pubs, though when I was young...about 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 I went to a snooker hall, pool hall. There was about 10 snooker tables & about 6 pool tables. A good mate of mine, he was really good! Then when we where 18, we played in comps! $100 a win, runner up? A case of beer. I won probably 3 times. Where I moved too, there was a lot of pool comps...Balmain.

"So , what's your sport?" Rubgy League, Boxing....I just train now.

Have you played Kelly Pool with mates? lol! :D I have with bad conscientiousness! lol! :D

General Rules of Kelly Pool

Kelly Pool, also known as "Pea Pool" is played with two to fifteen players. It is played with a set of sixteen balls, one cue ball and fifteen colored balls numbered one through fifteen. The person designated as the table marker throws a numbered token known as an "alley" to each intending player for their rotation in playing. When all names are taken down, the alleys are returned and the pool money is collected. The marker then throws an alley to each player in the same order as marked in their record keeping book. The alleys are then placed in the box according to playing order. For example, the 1st player's alley in no 1 spot, the 2nd player's alley in number two spot and so on. The first player commences play by breaking the rack, following the "Opening Break" regulations of General Pocket Billiards. The cue ball must strike one cushion before coming in contact with object balls. The first player to pocket the ball on the table with the number corresponding to their alley wins the pool of cash and the game is over. A player may pocket any ball on the table other than the cue ball, and may continue their play until they either miss pocketing a ball or play a foul shot. Should a player pocket a ball other then their own, but one of which no player has the corresponding alley, that player gains nothing but is able to continue their inning. If another player has the alley corresponding to the ball pocketed, than they must pay the shooting player "half pool." For example, if the ante is ten cents, the player owning the alley corresponding to the ball that has been pocketed by another player, they must pay that shooting player five cents. The paying player would still take turns as normal when it comes around, however, any ball, once in the pocket by fair shot, remains there and does not come back into play during the game. If a ball is pocketed on foul shot, then it is spotted on the pink spot, or if that is covered, it is spotted directly behind it and as close as possible to it. Immediately after a foul shot has been played, the next player begins their inning. If another player desires to join the game they may do so by paying double or triple the normal entrance ante. This amount is arbitrary, and is determined by current players. The new player takes the last alley thrown for position.

A lot of the guys that play in the leagues I'm in, earn a living at the sport through winning the comps or from having sponsors.
Put it this way, one team I play against has the World Champ, the world #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and so on, and half that team also play for England... just on one team.
Then there's a few other teams with world class players too. Last season we were playing Leicestershire, who have had the likes of Mark Selby play for them, some of their players are International as well.

I've entered the worlds and other tournaments but never really get very far, have entered smaller comps too but not in a while.
I stick to playing in leagues now, sunday and monday nights and play County and Interleague.

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Tennis. It's a great sport for endurance. Keeps me fit. :D

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Mine are Boxing and Cricket. I do some boxing training and I play cricket all through summer. Football too.

http://www.sadadarts.com/SubmitScore...tshattrick.jpg
Darts
http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag.../16/strft2.jpg
Soccer
http://www.jumpusa.com/spalding_nbaball_hires.jpg
Basketball
http://www.kenmorelanes.net/bowling_ball-13516.jpgBowling
http://images02.olx.co.uk/ui/4/38/63...Nottingham.jpg
Cage Fighting

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Shooting. Specifically IDPA, and USPSA.

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Hockey

Which one? :D

http://mlblogspittpeas.files.wordpre...agr-mullet.jpg

http://bfc.jrk.netdna-cdn.com/wp-con...18-300x285.jpg

The first one.

I think the Aussie's are only one of a few nations that'd think Kakarot would've meant Field Hockey.

Just for PF, as I know he loves this kind of thing. :D
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...sportgetty.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19459243

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^ Nice. :D

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^

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Yet another negative rep from Powderfinger. Thanks. So it's fine that you can dish out all the 'poms' stuff towards British people, yet as soon as someone jokes about Australia, you give out negative reps...

I bowl. I suck at it, but I enjoy it. I go every Sunday and usually play 10 games each trip (the bowling alley offers $1 a game bowling on Sunday morning).

Yesterday I played ten games. Highest score was 163, lowest was 85. Like I said, I suck.

Also, my ego was not at all helped by the fact that the dude bowling in the next lane scored a 289. :mad:

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I'm amazing at bowling! on the wii.

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Me too! Crazy good on the Wii. Or was; it's been a long time. Didn't do it quite long enough to bowl a perfect game, but I came close a few times.

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My sport is football. Obviously I'm a bit older so I don't really play it, but I'd love to play a backyard pickup game. I was a pretty mean quarterback at one point, but after a while I like playing WR.

You're a Lady so I won't write anything derogatory, though Poms be more aware of the hypocrisy about Britain. I like Kate (Duchess) though us Aussies have to supply your Royalty with every think when they come to our Great superb country.

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I always seem to get the controller that's out of sync, yet still win, ha! :D

Yeah I'm much better at Wii bowling than actual bowling. Still never got a perfect game, but can at least get over 200. And turkeys in Wii bowling are plentiful. They're an endangered species when I do it for real.

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roller disco

riverboat gambling trips

I've thought about joining our local roller derby team, but it's too much of a commitment. I really just want a cool roller derby name anyway. :p

Do it!

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RolloGodoFo

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Pool and snooker for me.

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Football!

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Competitive snacking and high endurance napping.

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I like football

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I like Spam-fishing

I like football (soccer for some here). I even played it during school. Was a dirty but effective defensive midfielder with terrible passing and worse shooting skills but decent pace. I mean, you don't need much skills to pull your opponents down :p


Apart from that, like most Indians, I love cricket. And I am not a snob about it preferring only Tests. I can enjoy all three formats of it.


Beyond that I love chess, even though I haven't played it for a while now. My youngest uncle was a National level player and I learned a lot from him. I find it the most relaxing sport on the planet. Probably why I am partial towards puzzle or strategy videos games.

You can add me to the list of bowlers. I'm not very good at it, but I enjoy it.

Back in my college days, I was on the bowling team. My team came in second place, mainly because I was one of two weak links on the team, but the top bowler on the team was teaching us how to improve our games, so the handicaps helped us gain in the standings every week. (My average jumped from about 120 to about 150 over the course of the season.) Unfortunately, we lost by one pin on the last day, in the last frame. :(

We also used to go Jackpot Bowling every Saturday night. Even though I'm not a great bowler, I won the Jackpot Bowling league because I mastered the art of hitting the red, blue, and yellow pins at the right times. :cool:

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Pretty good in basketball, have landed some hoops.

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I like playing football and watching it too. My favorite team is Juventus.

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Basketball for me, well use to love both playing and following. At the time we didn't have a high school country basketball league but I was the only girl on the boys team when the different houses played each other in the yearly house games. :D

I can still play okay but I haven't followed the NBA for years so couldn't tell you who is who and so on now.

Still have my basketball that I bought in America, and used in high school and home.

At my peak was a 200+ bowler here in SE Mich. Watching, betting college basketball is my fetish. LOVE the NCAA, yet abhor the NBA, go figure.

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I only ever played Darts from a young age. Played at Superleague level, played in a handful of tournaments run by the BDO organization (there was two organizations, the BDO which is now defunct as far as I know and the PDC which is the pinnacle of the sport).
I don't really play competitively these days, only play at home for fun.

I never played football/soccer or anything like that, but over the last year or so I got into running. Before covid hit I was running in those 5k parkruns every weekend. Was thinking of entering some 10k runs and the like but that is now on the backburner due to the pandemic.

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The one I actually played was baseball - catcher for 9 years or so. I had to stop due to a bad motorcycle accident (crushed my leg). Got into lifting while in rehab but couldn't compete because I couldn't squat.

The one I still watch is MMA. If I were younger when it all started I probably would have given that a go. People don't realize how technical it is and how much skill development is involved - now anyway. In the beginning it was brawling for sure.