Sucking at sports.

[Social_Monstrosity]

Were you never involved in sports at a young age and then forced to participate in one?

My dad never encouraged me to partake in any sports and thus I was already at a huge disadvantage. To this day, I still don't know how to play football (Never even THROWN an actual football) and it makes me feel like less of a man.

This was really awful when it came to P.E. and Health class in high school. We had to play softball, flag football, volleyball, badminton, and go bowling.

I had no idea how to play either softball, flag football, or volleyball so I just sort of pretended to know and when I did something wrong I was pulled out of the field and yelled at by my classmates.

At least I knew how to play badminton and bowling but it's sort of just common sense. I completely lacked any sort of coordination when it came to badminton and I just ****ed up any game I played.

And with bowling I rolled like a 40 or 50 every single game. Even the tiniest girl in the class had a 90-something. I was humiliated. It was so embarrassing that I hurried back to the bus before anyone could see me...I was blushing soo much..

Anyway..enough with my sentimental moments. Have you ever been in a similar situation?

 

[klytus]

Yes, it was similar for me. I have always been incompetent when it came to anything that involved my body. Be it speaking / yelling, casual swimming (I can't swim) or, in this case, sports - especially at school. During my last two years at high-school I stopped trying and never attended P.E. classes again. (I went to a doctor and told him to come up with a good reason for that. He diagnosed that significant joints of mine were damaged, which was good enough. [Of course, there was nothing wrong with them. ])

When we were younger (until around 14) we had P.E. together with the girls. The guys there weren't too bad - they at least ignored me -, but, at that time, the girls' main reason for being there seemed to be to humiliate and degrade me in any imaginable (and unimaginable) way. It's beyond me, but female classmates always hated me; It's thanks to them that I can't stop hating my body.

 

[FOR REAL]

i hated PE at school, not just the sports, but cause we had shared showers after it!

school is meant to be about learning! well i learned really young that i wasnt supposed to play sports (so i used to fake sick notes)

i like watching most sports though!!

 

[Shinigami]

I was a weird kid at times, most of the time in sports I was average really although I did have my moments of glory.

But first onto two huge failures, but looking back I find them hilarious.
Both happened whilst playing cricket. As a batsman once I hit the ball with what I thought at the time with quite a bit of power and even the bowler missed catching it, however it then hit the stumps at the opposite end causing me to be out.

Now this other time I was the bowler and I was up against a cantonese pupil playing what looked like his first game of cricket ever. Since he held the bat like you would with a baseball bat, but then the teacher told him and showed him how to hold it properly. Now the wikki-keeper was keen very keen to catch out the batsman and was very close (too close) behind the stumps and incidentally that week much like any other he had been pretty nasty in fact horrible to me. So I cleverly disguised a wide ball for me just being a crap bowler. The result was that the nervous batsman re-verted to his instinct of holding the bat the wrong way (on his shoulder) and going for the wide ball. He then hit the ball as well as that d***head, flooring him. I thought it was the best bowl of my life.

As for football, I find it can be great fun if your playing it with people who dont take it too seriously. As for watching it well this video summerises how I feel about things...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM

 

[mikestar]

I played football and rugby when I was nine or ten,my dad used to help coach the kids so I guess thats how I got into it. Gave that up for unknown reasons.

Did P.E at school dont really remember excelling in that. 15/16 I started skipping P.E lessons and that went on until I left school, couldnt even be assed to write a sick note just didnt turn up.

Probably all because of low self esteem, also alot to do with the fact that I just gave up on everything during my teenage years.

 

[NormanBates]

I have been hit with every kind of ball there is, just because I was usually lost in oblivion as everyone else was playing. Strangely, I was usually hit in the head or face.

 

[SilentType]

Some of my best memories I have were emblazoned in my mind playing sports. I started sports at a very young age. Wrestling, football, baseball, and soccer were the only organized sports I was ever involved in, but I like playing pretty much everything since I'm quite competitive by nature.

I started wrestling when I was 5, did very well for a 6 or 7 years and then just got sick of it. There was lots of traveling involved (some tournaments were several hours away) with tournaments pretty much every weekend in the fall and winter. I quit in like 6th grade, even though I was very successful, qualifying for national tournaments twice and the Junior Olympics once. It was my choice to start in the first place, but in hindsight, my parents probably wanted me to wrestle mostly because it was what my brothers were involved with at the time.

I played soccer only for a few years from like age 7-9. I never enjoyed it that much, but the only thing that kept me coming back was the nickname my coach gave me - "The Steamroller," lol. I used to run people over going after the ball because I was a pretty big kid compared to other my age.

Then in 4th grade I began my football career in the area small fry football program. Unfortunately I got stuck on the worst team in the league, but I still loved to play. On offense I was a running back- not because of my speed (i run like I have a fridge on my back, lol), but because I wasn't afraid to lower my head and run people over. My small fly highlight was a rush straight up the middle that turned into a touchdown. That play consisted of me breaking tackle after tackle until I found myself on the sideline with the biggest team running straight at me from the side. When he went for the tackle, I just put the brakes on and he dove right in front of me without touching me, lol We only won a few games in those 3 years, but I had a blast being the best player on my team. My favorite part of football was playing defense and putting huge hits on people (especially the ballcarier). The only bad part about football was that I bruise very easily, and with the smash mouth style of player I was left always me covered with bruises on my arms. I played up until Junior High, and I quit after one year of that because I was tired of playing so hard to lose every single game we played.

Then there was baseball. I played every year from tee ball on up until about the same time I quit football. In little league, my team won the league championship every year that I played. My first year on the team, I played backup first base, but I have fond memories of a game in which I went 3-3 with a triple against the hardest throwing kid in the league. By the time my second season was over, my defense at first base earned me another sports nickname - "The Vacuum," since I gloved pretty much any ball that was thrown or hit to me at first base, scooping up errant throws and making diving catches. By the time my third year was over, my glove began a league-wide joke used by every coach. If somebody missed a tough catch, the coach would yell from the dugout, "Duke (me) woulda had it!" I batted right in the middle of the lineup and, like I said, we won four league titles in a row with pretty much the same five core guys for 3 of those year. I ended up quitting baseball in high school too when my anxiety began to become a problem.

If you read this far, then you know my sports career. Lucky you ... I don't know why I wrote all that. Just a stroll down memory lane I suppose...

It doesn't matter if you're good at sports, though. Some people simply have better coordination and natural athletic abilities. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you're bad at sports, and it certainly doesn't make you less of a man. With that logic, a female who is good at sports would be less of a woman. It's a silly notion really...


Peace

 

[therocket]

Hi This is my 1st actual post here.


Sucking at sports breaks my heart. We are talking about my passion and no matter how hard i try to suceed i'm still the last one chosen and ,even though i had a few moments of glory, i am not even close to be an "average" athlete for my age.

I don't know what to do. Just seeing guys younger than me hitting the ball harder than i do or skate faster makes me want to throw up. I used to avoid stadium whenever people my age are playing and it still hurts me today.

 

[Noca]

Only sports I play are badminton, golf, and bowling.

 

[rescued]

When I was a kid, SO much emphasis was put on sporting prowess where I went to school. Like, if you weren't one of their little sporting elite you might as well have not even existed there. And this was just the teachers. I think one time I went for cricket trials because I really, really love cricket, and just never bothered again because the people who got picked where the same as the football team and just about every other sports team. And I'm pretty much the worst athlete ever, so was made to feel worthless by a good few people there, both intentionally and unintentionally on their parts (I still maintain that this attitude is pretty much what made me like I am, although it's not as black and white as what I just wrote).

And like the guy a couple of posts above me said, it destroys me still that as much as I really love some sports, I'm never actually going to be good at them, and that what happened when I was about nine years old swore me off organised sports for life no matter how much I might want to get involved. I was thinking about starting to at least try to play again this summer, and just couldn't bring myself to do it.

 

[Thelema]

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And with bowling I rolled like a 40 or 50 every single game. Even the tiniest girl in the class had a 90-something. I was humiliated. It was so embarrassing that I hurried back to the bus before anyone could see me...I was blushing soo much..

Anyway..enough with my sentimental moments. Have you ever been in a similar situation?

If you ever try bowling again, let me know because I'll give you some pointers.

 

[JeffFenech]

I was never much of a sports person either. But I finally got the courage to join a boxing gym a couple years ago and slowly but surley my SA is diminishing.....Still a long way to go though.

 

[PhantomPod]

I have always been very athletic and I remember being picked on because of it in elementary and middle school (I didn't play any sports in high school). I am female, so I was called a boy and everything for being so athletic and I always felt even more like I didn't fit in with other girls my age, since I was athletic and tomboyish and they all seemed very girly.

I remember in 7th grade I won the best athlete of the class award and I had to walk across stage and get the plaque I won, and I was sooo embarrassed about it.

So yeah, I've always been athletic yet cause I'm female I got picked on for it by peers and I always felt bad about myself because of my athletic ability, so I never really embraced my talent and pursued it like possibly playing sports (I was good at soccer) in high school and possibly getting an athletic scholarship to college.

 

[DASwife]

OMFG lol.

As a little kid I was always getting hurt. My family would always make fun of me and call me a "weakling". When I became a teenager, they started calling me a hypochondriac when I would complain about hurting myself after playing sports. My older sister especially was very athletic, and would have a great time making fun of me for not excelling at sports.

When I started college I wanted to prove myself and started working out and got into wrestling and fighting. I ignored the pain, swelling, bruising, just so I could prove to my family I wasn't a weakling.

Guess what, lol? Turns out I have a genetic disease called Ehlers Danlos and I have Brittle Bone Disease. I pretty much wrecked my body pushing myself so hard. Needless to say, a childhood of constantly feeling like a physical failure has a lot to do with my SA today.

Oh yeah, being ridiculed in gym all during puberty didn't help too much either. And they wonder why I turned out so dark, lol.

 

[sesh]

Now i know that everyone is gifted at a sport... You just need to find it.
I was s*** at all forms of school sports like rugby, tennis, football, badminton and gymnastics.
But now i play darts for a team down where i live.
You just need to experiment a bit and find the sport that gets you.

 

[Rodox]

I was pretty good at soccer,not the top of my class,but above average,but in group sports I was always afraid to play my best, I would only do the necessary because if someone ****ed up guys would be conplaining and arguing ,individual sports was another story and I could do my best.

 

[recluse]

I was always picked last in the team at school sports lessons and i was treated as a loser all the time.

I did take up cycling but i haven't cycled for a long time now. The only sport i do now is shooting but i don't take it seriously, i also do a bit of weight training just for fitness at home.

 

[JCS008]

I don't think the idea of sucking at sports really matters after HS. Since HS is where you have to do PE and other types of sports. In college, you don't really have to play sports unless you want to, the same goes for post-grad life.

So in the long run, you don't have to be good at sports or athletic at all in life. I guess just healthy. And at most, it might be best if you know simple things like how to catch, how to throw, and be able to run around a little bit. I guess just average enough so you can enjoy it if it does come up and you won't feel as self-conscious.

 

[NothingElseMatters]

i was quite good in football when i was a kid but later my sa kicked in and i was afraid that ppl would yell at me if i made a mistake so i gave up.Now i only play basketball with a friend and i really enjoy it.I broke my arm once when i thought i could dunk but it turned out i couldn't I agree with punkrotten sports are suppose to be for fun(and maybe some betting!!!)