What is your worst sport?

YellowSnow

While the correct answer is...



If I had to pick one, I would say ice skating. I put on some skates last week for the first time in like 20 years and take the kids, and it's pretty scary how bad Yella is at the rink. I was lucky that all that was bruised is my pride.

chuck

I haven't found one yet. Chuckgoodateverything

Swimming, i suppose. I'm comfortable doing it, I love the water, and can get from A to B safely. That was hard earned though. I'm a sinker and it was pure fearlessness and determination to figure it out and not miss out on fun shit as a kid that got me through. I barely made it to shore more times than I could count and nearly lost consciousness while coughing water out of my lungs many times.

I was good at hoops until hs. A torn ACL and dislocated shoulder, both playing hoops, slowed my game development as a freshman and sophomore. By my junior year, finally healthy, a few guys had passed me. I quit like a bitch rather than being a JV all star.

Swaye

I am terrible at all winter sports. Particularly curling.

chuck

Swaye said:

I am terrible at all winter sports. Particularly curling.

I still don't know what that is.

You make a good point though. I can't ski or snow board. I sucked horribly at water skiing as a kid and we did it pretty much any time the wind let up in the summer. Never could skate board either.

Strangely I was pretty good at ice skating but never tried hockey.

greenblood

Skiing. I can snowboard pretty well, but I can't travel more than 100 feet on skis on a downhill without falling.

YellowSnow

chuck said:

I haven't found one yet. Chuckgoodateverything

Swimming, i suppose. I'm comfortable doing it, I love the water, and can get from A to B safely. That was hard earned though. I'm a sinker and it was pure fearlessness and determination to figure it out and not miss out on fun shit as a kid that got me through. I barely made it to shore more times than I could count and nearly lost consciousness while coughing water out of my lungs many times.

I was good at hoops until hs. A torn ACL and dislocated shoulder, both playing hoops, slowed my game development as a freshman and sophomore. By my junior year, finally healthy, a few guys had passed me. I quit like a bitch rather than being a JV all star.

I quit the hoops team my senior year of HS, cause I sucked and wanted to ski pow. I have no regrets but Mrs. Snow gives me a ration of shit regularly for being a quitter.

RaceBannon

I managed to snow ski without death

Could never get up on water skis

Fishpo31

In high school, a bunch of friends were going snow skiing. Myself, and two others had never skied. The skiers told us that they would teach us how if we went with them. LSS, we were the only three that showed up (everyone else too hung over), and we said "Fuck it, let's go"...I mean, how hard could it be?

I fell off the T bar 3-4 times, and one guy (the guy who had the bota bag) fell on his chest and popped it, saturating his brand new ski coat he got for Christmas with Jack Daniels. The other guy borrowed his brother's skis, and left them stuck in snow behind the car when we left, with bota boy's clothes hanging out the car windows to de-fumigate.

The results of the trip were: I tweaked my knee, and as I type this I can still feel it, and as of this year, none of the three of us have ever been on skis since.

When dating the wif, she was a big winter sports person, ski, CC ski, ice skating, snow machine, the whole deal. She asked me what I did in winter, and I told her "I save money all year, and fly to where it's warm enough to play golf".

Bad_MotherDucker

YellowSnow said:

While the correct answer is...



If I had to pick one, I would say ice skating. I put on some skates last week for the first time in like 20 years and take the kids, and it's pretty scary how bad Yella is at the rink. I was lucky that all that was bruised is my pride.

Here I am on my first and last day helping out at the youth learn to skate camp



Water skiing I’m absolute ass. Drank half of the Pend Oreille river trying to get up with my shitfaced uncle driving

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

Fishpo31

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

Same for me, in the Mighty Columbia…

chuck

Fishpo31 said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

Same for me, in the Mighty Columbia…

Same here. Thing is that, when it's warm out, it's too windy in the gorge about 9/10 of the time.

I could get up and cruise in a straight line for a ways. Apparently my inevitable wioeouts were due to me leaning back too much iirc. I never could fix that. The only reason I kept trying was because the wipe outs were fun.

YellowSnow

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

You guys just don't know where the warm salt water water skiing is in Western Wa. I've water skied in 70 degree salt water no more than 20 miles as the crow flies from Seattle.

2 skis though as water skiing is on the list of sports I'm horrible at.

LebamDawg

I am bad at all sports now - knee shot, shoulder surgery, eye surgery still can't focus very well, hand surgery.

The only one I am good at is pool. which to me is just a sign of a misspent youth. I used to be good at falling when I skied, I was told I make sound effects and was one of the best fallers the instructor had ever seen.

1to392831weretaken

Sportfucking.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

YellowSnow said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

You guys just don't know where the warm salt water water skiing is in Western Wa. I've water skied in 70 degree salt water no more than 20 miles as the crow flies from Seattle.

2 skis though as water skiing is on the list of sports I'm horrible at.

Whatt? The tide flats in olympia? I used to live in the governors mansion on east bay drive [the house that used to be the mansion before they moved across the bay long ago.]... that water was warm.... kind of disgusting, but warm...

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I haven't found one yet. Chuckgoodateverything

Swimming, i suppose. I'm comfortable doing it, I love the water, and can get from A to B safely. That was hard earned though. I'm a sinker and it was pure fearlessness and determination to figure it out and not miss out on fun shit as a kid that got me through. I barely made it to shore more times than I could count and nearly lost consciousness while coughing water out of my lungs many times.

I was good at hoops until hs. A torn ACL and dislocated shoulder, both playing hoops, slowed my game development as a freshman and sophomore. By my junior year, finally healthy, a few guys had passed me. I quit like a bitch rather than being a JV all star.

I quit the hoops team my senior year of HS, cause I sucked and wanted to ski pow. I have no regrets but Mrs. Snow gives me a ration of shit regularly for being a quitter.

She is probably talking about something else...

YellowSnow

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

YellowSnow said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

You guys just don't know where the warm salt water water skiing is in Western Wa. I've water skied in 70 degree salt water no more than 20 miles as the crow flies from Seattle.

2 skis though as water skiing is on the list of sports I'm horrible at.

Whatt? The tide flats in olympia? I used to live in the governors mansion on east bay drive [the house that used to be the mansion before they moved across the bay long ago.]... that water was warm.... kind of disgusting, but warm...

Daybob Bay. Hood Canal.

YellowSnow

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I haven't found one yet. Chuckgoodateverything

Swimming, i suppose. I'm comfortable doing it, I love the water, and can get from A to B safely. That was hard earned though. I'm a sinker and it was pure fearlessness and determination to figure it out and not miss out on fun shit as a kid that got me through. I barely made it to shore more times than I could count and nearly lost consciousness while coughing water out of my lungs many times.

I was good at hoops until hs. A torn ACL and dislocated shoulder, both playing hoops, slowed my game development as a freshman and sophomore. By my junior year, finally healthy, a few guys had passed me. I quit like a bitch rather than being a JV all star.

I quit the hoops team my senior year of HS, cause I sucked and wanted to ski pow. I have no regrets but Mrs. Snow gives me a ration of shit regularly for being a quitter.

She is probably talking about something else...

Nah.

chuck

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

YellowSnow said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

You guys just don't know where the warm salt water water skiing is in Western Wa. I've water skied in 70 degree salt water no more than 20 miles as the crow flies from Seattle.

2 skis though as water skiing is on the list of sports I'm horrible at.

Whatt? The tide flats in olympia? I used to live in the governors mansion on east bay drive [the house that used to be the mansion before they moved across the bay long ago.]... that water was warm.... kind of disgusting, but warm...

The Columbia is sickly warm during the summer. Anything over 70 is too warm and just doesn't feel clean to me. Usually it isn't. Saltwater though? Hell yeah as long as it's clear. If not then no thanks.

YellowSnow

chuck said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

YellowSnow said:

TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

Learning to water ski was easy, my summer friends and I learned in the straights off of Whidbey: no one ever fell (even first time skiers) because the water was ice cold

You guys just don't know where the warm salt water water skiing is in Western Wa. I've water skied in 70 degree salt water no more than 20 miles as the crow flies from Seattle.

2 skis though as water skiing is on the list of sports I'm horrible at.

Whatt? The tide flats in olympia? I used to live in the governors mansion on east bay drive [the house that used to be the mansion before they moved across the bay long ago.]... that water was warm.... kind of disgusting, but warm...

The Columbia is sickly warm during the summer. Anything over 70 is too warm and just doesn't feel clean to me. Usually it isn't. Saltwater though? Hell yeah as long as it's clear. If not then no thanks.

Fucking Dams man.

I love dams. I hate dams.