Monday, April 11, 2016

Forum: What's Your Favorite Sport? Why?







Not only does shooting maintain the brain, not only is it enormously enjoyable, it keeps my skills sharp in case they’re needed. Besides, gun ownership really aggravates progressives. I primarily shoot AR pattern rifles and semiautomatic handguns, though do longer range shooting with a .308 bolt gun, and a .17 HMR semiautomatic as well. This review of one of my toys--the H&K MP5 SD6--has been constantly popular.

The Glittering Eye :I don't follow professional or amateur athletics. It just doesn't interest me.

Over the years I've been on organized teams or individual events in baseball, soccer, wrestling, fencing, judo, and kendo. Of all of the sports I've ever practiced I love kendo the most. I'd be doing it now if I weren't so old and broken down. Nothing matches it.

GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD : Baseball. Always loved it.


Bookworm Room : That's an easy one: My favorite sport is Martial Arts. It pings my happy meter on so many levels.


Second, Martial Arts provides a fantastic aerobic workout. When you're sparring with someone, you're using every part of your body, including your fingers and toes.

Third, Martial Arts is great for bone density -- as long as you don't trash your joints along the way when working out on the bags or wrestling.

Fourth, Martial Arts is never boring. I can't stand aerobics because you just flap and kick aimlessly for way too long. With Martial Arts, even when you do repetitive drills, you're constantly improving your form. And when you're sparring or, in the case of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, rolling, it's a dynamic situation that requires focus and mental agility. (Physical agility helps too, obviously.)

Fifth, a good dojo is a very tight community. When you're constantly hitting people (not to hard) and sweating all over them, it's hard not to become friends. But please note the emphasis on a "good" dojo. Not all of them have that good feel and you shouldn't stick around in a dojo that doesn't feel comfortable.


  Well, there you have it.




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