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http://www.vitalmx.com/videos/member/For-people-who-say-Motocross-is-ea…
I'm sure most of you saw this vid on the front page. I've played a lot of sports, and while motocross is not easy by any means, other sports are hard as hell too. And there are other sports I haven't tried that I'm sure I wouldn't last more than a minute or two. MMA and hockey come to mind.
But my main point is that there seems to be two different arguments mixed into one here. When people say it's the hardest, most physically demanding sport in the world, what exactly do they mean? At the pro level, the amateur level, or in general? I'd say without a doubt local motocross is much harder than high school football, but in that sense we're talking about average athletes. Move to NFL vs AMA, and the argument changes, because I would much rather try to gut out 30 minutes at Southwick, than go to battle against a bunch of violent monsters of men. If motocross is the hardest sport on earth, does that mean that Ryan Villopoto is a better athlete than LeBron James?
Keep in mind, I know for a fact that motocross is hard, both mentally and physically. It was so difficult, that I was hardly able to do it, and I'm an alright athlete. But I've played football, basketball, soccer, and golf, and they're all insanely difficult and/or exhausting in their own rights as well.
I'm sure most of you saw this vid on the front page. I've played a lot of sports, and while motocross is not easy by any means, other sports are hard as hell too. And there are other sports I haven't tried that I'm sure I wouldn't last more than a minute or two. MMA and hockey come to mind.
But my main point is that there seems to be two different arguments mixed into one here. When people say it's the hardest, most physically demanding sport in the world, what exactly do they mean? At the pro level, the amateur level, or in general? I'd say without a doubt local motocross is much harder than high school football, but in that sense we're talking about average athletes. Move to NFL vs AMA, and the argument changes, because I would much rather try to gut out 30 minutes at Southwick, than go to battle against a bunch of violent monsters of men. If motocross is the hardest sport on earth, does that mean that Ryan Villopoto is a better athlete than LeBron James?
Keep in mind, I know for a fact that motocross is hard, both mentally and physically. It was so difficult, that I was hardly able to do it, and I'm an alright athlete. But I've played football, basketball, soccer, and golf, and they're all insanely difficult and/or exhausting in their own rights as well.
I've just seen more than a few people make arguments as to how hard it is, and while they're usually arguing out of defense, they're also gravely undermining how difficult other sports are. I always hear "yeah, well you try and do a 40 minute moto with braking bumps and mid-day heat." Well that's pro motocross, the person saying it can't do it either. Pro hockey or football or basketball or soccer would also leave you feeling like a lepper.
MX is all about skill and determination
The only athletics in MX is cardio which any body type can do, so u are right lebron is an overall better athlete than RV
IMO mx is all skill not what body type u were born with, which makes it a harder sport.
Which one do you think is harder? Full on sprint for 35 minutes at a time man-handling well over 200 lbs the whole time, or a bunch of little sprints for 4-5 seconds at a time with 15-20 second breaks in between? I'm not saying that I could do either one, but I am saying it's pretty easy to decide which sport requires more fitness.
Edit: The above comparison is if you were playing on BOTH sides of the ball. Factor in that the players either play only offense or defense and you're only looking at a total of half an hour of play time give or take with a bunch of breaks in the middle (not just for huddles, but for your offense/defense to take the field).
The Shop
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because of the teams issue, its almost apples to oranges
ok, im off my soap box haha sorry bout the afore mentioned
cordovas and can-cans are serious business
Also how many 30 year olds (K-Dub exception) can hang at the top level in Professional MX? The sport is so grueling that you only have so many years until your body just physically can't hang anymore.
How many 30+ players do we see in Football, basketball, baseball, quite a few I think. Kobe is in his 30s and still on top of his game. How many 30+ riders do we see lining up for the Main for a National?
Get it straight.
Who is a better athlete between Lebron James and RV2? Each have their own strengths. Basketball is a much more "I have God given abilities" type of sport. If Lebron James was 5'9" with all the same abilities would he be an NBA all star? Nope, he would be lucky to make it out of college ball.
Thats just one example. MX is definitely a sport that takes hard work, but all sports do in a way. While a MX rider practices functional long lasting muscles and lungs, a football player trains his whole life on short burst exercises and tries to bulk up his strength.
I know I am, and always will be one of those guys who says MX is one of the hardest sports in the World. I played both football and basketball in high school, and they felt like a breeze compared to racing MX during the summer. My football coach would always ask why I would waste my summer racing MX when I could be training with the team getting ready for the next season. It was always fun coming back in better shape than the rest of the team during 2-a-days.
The combination of strength, stamina, determination, and brains is unlike any other sport imo.
Pit Row
Badass
The star half back from my high school was a good friend of mine, so I took him out there to ride. The kid was in great shape at the time, but after he got the hang of riding the bike, I made him do motos on that rough ass track.
Needless to say, the dude couldn't even move the next day, and it was quite a show and tell for the sport of motocross. I pushed him a little more than I probably should have, but nobody got hurt and I wanted him to experience what it was like.
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