What sport was it you wanted to learn...(did)

I was a farily passable Track and field athlete at school.. never wated to pursue it after school tho'... I also played Netball and I was pretty good at that too... but again.. never wanted to pursue it beyond school..

I was 50 before I learned to swim.. and within a very short few weeks I was doing 30 lengths non stop of a very large pool every day... I got addicted to it.. and did it almost daily for 10 years sometimes twice a day . Sadly I no longer have a pool, and there's incredibly few public pools .. so I rarely get to swim now...
 
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Mom called me her "water baby" because Ioved swimming from an early age.

So naturally I tried out for my HS swim team assuming I would beat everyone in free style.: WRONG! The only way for me to make the team was to learn the butterfly stoke because that was the only stroke nobody else wanted to swim.
 
I've always been athletic, never the biggest, fastest or strongest but always made up for what I lacked with pure grit. Out of all the sports and athletics I've been involved in rugby is easily the most fun I ever had. Not just the physicality of the matches, but the comradery of your team mates and even the teams you played against. You would literally bash each other for eighty minutes then the teams would feast together, sing songs and laugh about who bloodied who. That was some kind of fun!
 
Swimming. I could do a bit of 'doggy' paddle before moving to Kuwait but once there I soon learnt to swim properly, as did all the kids, we spent all our spare time at the pool. Soon became a very strong swimmer, was reasonably fast, but long distance was my forte. I also did what was then called 'water ballet' (now synchronised swimming ) but there was nothing synchronised about us, we were terrible. :cool:
 
I really enjoyed archery... and was pretty good at it while I was NOT good at other sports. But after a while, that bowstring sting got to be too much and I gave it up... I can still remember that pain from the bruises and sometimes cuts. There was no Internet back then for me to look up if there was a way to prevent it. 🏹
 
I think I've mentioned this before. I would have liked archery and waterskiing. I would no longer be interested in waterskiing but I might try to give archery another go. I have better arm muscles now than I did as a kid and that might help me do better. Having strong steady arms is essential for archery.
 
In 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades three of us were so good at playing marbles "pots" that we were eventually banned because mothers of other school kids complained what they bought their kids quickly disappeared. To this day despite finger arthritis, can still eject marbles with a ridiculous speed that is mostly a powerful thumb action.

Although I enjoyed playing all the usual team sports, liked hardball baseball the most. However into teenage years was too small to seriously stand out.

In the USAF, played endless pinball machines over 10 months of electronics training school to the point my wrists due to necessary shaking the machines to maximize bounce, have been somewhat permanently damaged.

As a young adult with fast reflexes, worked at some places where table tennis tables were in the buildings. Became very good at high spin loop drives but my myopic eyesight due to years of reading and looking at PCBs under stereo microscopes was a limitation moving to elite levels.

After age 30 became in winter an enthusiastic Tahoe snow skier. Have been an elite recreational bump skier a long time.
 
I played 3 sports in high school and only 1 sport in college. Baseball was my niche. The college coach only allowed us to play 1 sport. We played a 54 game schedule in my senior year and I caught 44 of them. I was the DH in 6 games and sat out 4 games due to a very sore and infected big toe on my left foot.
 
I am not and have never been good at any sport. I was fair at badminton.Hated baseball. Always got hurt in dodge ball
I was that girl who was always the last to be picked for as a team mate. :(
Oh and no burning desire to learn any
 
Last time sports were attempted was in high school. Not on the high school team just in Phy. ed class. At quarterback I could spiral pass a football 30 yards with pin point accuracy. I was asked to try out for the team, but I was in the Distributive Ed. program. No time to go to practices. No regrets for not playing on the team.
 
Hunt seat riding (riding horses over fences/jumps). From the time I could walk I gravitated towards horses to ride. At 18, I finally had the money for formal lessons & didn't stop until I was showing. Continued until I was married & then didn't have the time for showing, but still have horses although I'm done with riding now.
 
I played basketball during gym class in high school but was not on a team or anything. I wasn't bad at it. Something I love but am bad at is bowling. Being ambidextrous, I never could figure out what had to use. No matter...still couldn't score big. Having way more luck with the bowling app on my tablet. :LOL:
 
squash [indoors] come to think never seen outdoors? - but I got fast and good at it and I think it kept me fit - but ya can't give up well ya can but ya down the sink hole then - gotta keep goin and it became unfashionable ??? - all the local halls were always empty ?? - I wish I knew why I stopped??
 
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Out of all the sports and athletics I've been involved in rugby is easily the most fun I ever had. Not just the physicality of the matches, but the comradery of your team mates and even the teams you played against. You would literally bash each other for eighty minutes then the teams would feast together, sing songs and laugh about who bloodied who. That was some kind of fun!
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A friend who was an avid rugby player once explained it to me this way: "Soccer is a gentleman's game played by ruffians. Rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen." :)
 

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