Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds
Quote Originally Posted by Memphis
I dunno Kat, landing from that height and not dying is a pretty decent trick as far as Im concerned.
Your full of great one liners today Memphis....and somehow w/o reading the thread I knew Punisher wouldn't think its a "real" sport....by the way whats up with "notguilty"
As is, its (punisher, the punisher, etc.) already an overused nickname in boxing as well as other things (and i can't stand the people who gave the nickname to me in the first place) and since paul williams has established himself as a legitimate fighter, its value has been decreased (only in the sense that its like stealing a well known fighters alias at this point). Not guilty (no matter how odd sounding a boxing nickname you may think it to be) actually has a nice ring to it if thrown in the middle of my full name. Therefor, when i do begin boxing, i will be going with that.

I don't like skate boarding and i have a perspective on it that a lot of you don't. I have a relative (4th cousin or some shit like that) that i used to hang out with and he was all about becoming a pro skateboarder. I don't know if he actually made it or not but some of the things he would brag about doing were trivial in my estimation (not that i could even stand on a skateboard for more than 10 seconds without breaking something). He was sponsored for quite awhile and kept messing around with making his own skating company or something like that. Basically, i'm not as uneducated about the subject as you'd like to believe.

Its a sportorized hobby as far as i'm concerned. You can skateboard by yourself. Even if you go to a place that has vert ramps and all that, you could be skate boarding on your own and it'd be the exact same thing you'd be doing at the pro level. Skiing is different simply because there's a race aspect and you aren't asisted by motorized machines (like you would be in motocross, nascar, etc. Don't get me wrong they take skill to drive but calling them sport is stretching it abit).

Golf is not a sport because 70 yr old men (and numerous otherwise unfit athletes) can excel at it. There is a degree of athleticism required to pull off the jumps and tricks in these "extreme" sports but the same could be said about yoyoing or competitive eating (if you'll atleast agree that the latter is a total farce, we may find some common ground here). There's just been such an influx of new "sports" in the past several decades that i believe people have lost perspective of what a sport really is. MMA is a combat sport (low quality IMO, but to each his own) and you can't exactly just MMA by yourself. Just like boxing, there is no practice run you can go on to simulate a boxing match aside from actually getting in the ring with someone. Anything aided by a motorized machine can't possibly be a sport IMO. There can be aspects of a sport to it but calling it a full blown sport is a bit much.