One sport for the rest of your life???

[campgottagopee]

The “How long before you hang em up” thread has me thinking what single sport I would chose if I had to. For me it would be golf. I truly enjoy skiing and always will, but golf I know I can do longer, more often, and with my wife more than skiing so that would be it. What would your life long sport be?????

 

[jaywbigred]

It depends...I need constraints.

If I am going to die at age 70, I assume I could basically do everything I do now, just slower, so I'd def. pick skiing in that case. If you tell me I am going to die at 95, I'd have to pick the sport I can do til death, which is golf.

 

[Paul]

Somehow, this posted in the other thread by accident...


As soon as my daughter turns 10, I'll go back to SCUBA and Skin Diving.

Might even renew my professional certs, too.

 

[hammer]

I've been doing martial arts for just over 8 years now...hope to stay with it in some form for as long as my body's able.

As much as I enjoy skiing (and the remark on the other thread aside), if I had to make a choice it would not be first.

 

[campgottagopee]

Somehow, this posted in the other thread by accident...


As soon as my daughter turns 10, I'll go back to SCUBA and Skin Diving.

Might even renew my professional certs, too.

I tried that once....scared the ba geezus bells out of me so I'll never do it again....all I coould think about was drowning and couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. I think back now and laugh but I still wont do it.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Skiing for me, nothing else is close.

 

[wa-loaf]

Skiing or anything that gets me in the mountains.

 

[Paul]

I tried that once....scared the ba geezus bells out of me so I'll never do it again....all I coould think about was drowning and couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. I think back now and laugh but I still wont do it.

Had a few close calls. Got stuck in a cave in the Bahamas, had a bad silt-out on a wreck here in the NE. It can be a little un-nerving at times. Saw someone almost lose-it on the U-853 when another guy got his attention by tapping him on the back with what looked like a femur from one of the crew. Don't know if it was, but it sure looked like one.

 

[ssudha17]

I think it would be Badminton for me. Its an indoor sport and hence not seasonal. I can be as aggressive as I can afford to be and as tame as needed as I grow older and provides a excellent overall workout and reflex to keep fit. One problem with the sport is a tendency for knee and ankle injuries, which I will need to be careful about as I grow older. Skiing would definitely be my winter sport - I haven't played badminton for the past 3 months but I am not complaining because I have been skiing regularly.

 

[wa-loaf]

Had a few close calls. Got stuck in a cave in the Bahamas, had a bad silt-out on a wreck here in the NE. It can be a little un-nerving at times. Saw someone almost lose-it on the U-853 when another guy got his attention by tapping him on the back with what looked like a femur from one of the crew. Don't know if it was, but it sure looked like one.

Wow, you're a pretty serious diver. Do you go on those wreck dives off of the Cape where people occasionally just get swept away in the current?

 

[Paul]

Wow, you're a pretty serious diver. Do you go on those wreck dives off of the Cape where people occasionally just get swept away in the current?

I was pretty serious, hope to be again.

Never got into the real technical side of it, over 140', air mixes other than Nitrox, decompression stops etc... purely recreational, although, I did used to be an instructor and taught a few specialty courses (Nitrox, Deep, Wreck, Navigation, Photo, a few others...)

Did a bunch of dives off of Cape Ann, Gloucester and Rockport. A ton in the Block Island Sound and Narragansett. Nothing off of Cape Cod. I probably did almost as many in the Caribbean. Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Dominican, Cayman, Bahamas etc...

 

[Rick Kane]

This is fun

but this is slightly more fun, usually warmer

and alot closer to home

 

[Paul]

Surfin' the Schuylkill rocks!

 

[Rick Kane]

oh yea and no lift tickets and surfboards are much more interesting than skis

 

[Geoff]

No love for shuffleboard and bingo?

 

[hammer]

oh yea and no lift tickets and surfboards are much more interesting than skis

Do you go surfing on the Jersey shore?

I grew up in that area...strangely enough, I never took to water sports.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

The “How long before you hang em up” thread has me thinking what single sport I would chose if I had to. For me it would be golf. I truly enjoy skiing and always will, but golf I know I can do longer, more often, and with my wife more than skiing so that would be it. What would your life long sport be?????

I could live without hiking...I could live without bowling..I could live with golf...but I could never live without skiing...good thing I don't have to choose one sport..lol

 

[Rick Kane]

yup its the jersey shore, margate/ventnor to be exact.

speaking of surfing the Schuylkill this little standing wave popped up last spring during a flood when the high tide came up higher than the falls. it was tempting but it would probably have resulted in death.

 

[Paul]

yup its the jersey shore, margate/ventnor to be exact.

speaking of surfing the Schuylkill this little standing wave popped up last spring during a flood when the high tide came up higher than the falls. it was tempting but it would probably have resulted in death.

True, lotsa these guys in there.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Watch out for those Jersey beach whistles.