is what we do a sport?

[spykez]

Originally Posted by Mixmaster Pilot

Your comments are ignored after this comment given it's highly ignorant nature.

Learning a skill does not make something a sport. I fly heli's as my job, and it's taken a long time to get to my skill level, but it's not a sport. If I didn't get paid, and did it for fun, it would be called recreational flying.

Don't mean to come across argumentative but this is an interesting debate.

You fly,so you understand the rigours required for aerobatics. Does this make aerobatic flying, or F1 racing a sport? I don't honestly know. Instinctively I would say no, because they do not fit into what I would consider a sport, but they both have both mental and physical demands, possibly more than other activities I would consider sport. Not casting aspersions on these activities - they just don't fit what my idea of what a sport is, there's no other way to say this.

It boils down as someone mentioned earlier, what the word 'sport' both denotes and connotes. If what the dictionary definition says leaves it wide open to interpretation, then it's connotations we're left with.

And that's quite subjective.

This survey is indeed quite interesting and revealing. Words unfortunately have the tendency to evolve....

As much as I like rc helis and FPSs, God help us if the world's starting to think of activities such as video games and like as sports.

[Hoosiermo1]

What about the Olympic sport where they shove the weight across the ice and use brooms to get it to stop on a target. That's a sport. I can't remember the name. I don't care sport, or not I enjoy flying. It's a recreational activity.

[JasonJ]

As a mountain biker, it would be hard for me to consider this a sport. It is in my mind a hobby. A very fun hobby but a hobby nonetheless. I can't think of a time I have reached target heart rate doing this but then not all sports feature aerobic activity. I don't really even consider myself a pilot. I prefer the term "flyer". I know that is a separate debate altogether. I know some people, especially those who are aspiring to 3D greatness have a need to feel like they are at some sort of higher level but when it boils right down to it, a middle aged guy flying a model helicopter is in no way at any kind of superior level than anyone else doing anything. Sorry if this sounds bad but this is about as much a sport as civil war reinactment or star trek conventions.

[laminarjack]

Golf isn't a sport. It's something for the average everyman type guy who doesn't have the intellect to have a real hobby. It's instantly socially acceptable and a boon to business.

But it's not a sport. It's something morons do until they die. If they're not playing golf, they're busy watching reality TV. That isn't a sport either, by the way.

[lotus7]

QUOTE=Hoosiermo1;3894345]What about the Olympic sport where they shove the weight across the ice and use brooms to get it to stop on a target. That's a sport. I can't remember the name. I don't care sport, or not I enjoy flying. It's a recreational activity.[/QUOTE]
Curling

and what about skeet or clay pigeon shooting ?

Sport doesn't have to be physical ... but I draw the line at synchronised swimming
JMPO

[Elios000]

Originally Posted by Hoosiermo1

What about the Olympic sport where they shove the weight across the ice and use brooms to get it to stop on a target. That's a sport. I can't remember the name. I don't care sport, or not I enjoy flying. It's a recreational activity.

curling and its a LOT harder then it looks
go walk out on an ice rink and see how long you can walk with out falling on your ass lol

if shooting is a sport so is this

[Mike2112]

I can build, setup, and fly a heli well enough, but still can't golf to save my life. How people watch golf is a mystery to me. Golf is on sports channels though, isn't it? Helis are mostly on youtube! I vote NO SPORT!


OUCH!!!

Originally Posted by laminarjack

Golf isn't a sport. It's something for the average everyman type guy who doesn't have the intellect to have a real hobby. It's instantly socially acceptable and a boon to business.

But it's not a sport. It's something morons do until they die. If they're not playing golf, they're busy watching reality TV. That isn't a sport either, by the way.

[Elios000]

Originally Posted by Mike2112

I can build, setup, and fly a heli well enough, but still can't golf to save my life. How people watch golf is a mystery to me. Golf is on sports channels though, isn't it? Helis are mostly on youtube! I vote NO SPORT!


OUCH!!!

if being on a sport channel is your defining factor video games and Magic(card game) are sports both are on ESPN and ESPN2 ...

[Mike2112]

Originally Posted by Elios000

if being on a sport channel is your defining factor video games and Magic(card game) are sports both are on ESPN and ESPN2 ...

There a some video games that are of sports though. Technicality! Magic has sexy "Helpers", like cheerleaders...SPORT! Helis...NO girls! No sport!

[Elios000]

Originally Posted by Mike2112

There a some video games that are of sports though. Technicality! Magic has sexy "Helpers", like cheerleaders...SPORT! Helis...NO girls! No sport!

orly?
(not me i just googled it)

[Mike2112]

They don't count...they're paid! Nice try! No Sport!

[Elios000]

so are all the others you said :p

[mott]

A sport ,No. But you need to be one for the constant cash outflow.

[Mojappa]

How about instead of trying to confine it to sport no sport we consider the other options; sport, competition, game, hobby. Still going with no sport and just because other things like shooting are catagorized as a sport doesn't make our hobby any closer to being a sport. If helis is the closest thing to an actual sport that you do them so be it but that still doesn't make this a sport.

[Mixmaster Pilot]

Originally Posted by spykez

You fly,so you understand the rigours required for aerobatics. Does this make aerobatic flying, or F1 racing a sport?

Sorry if your question is taken out of context, I didn't want to fill the page with your whole post. But yes I consider F1 a sport, it's like Horse Racing. But aerobatics I don't consider a sport, it's a recreational activity. Air racing like the Red Bull is a sport though. Might sound confusing but when you break it down, F1, horse racing and the like all evolved from the most fundemental sport of them all, a foot race. Obviously they have developed into "hey this moves, let's race this!".

As Henry Ford said, "motor racing started 10 Minutes after the second car was built".

[Mixmaster Pilot]

Originally Posted by laminarjack

Golf isn't a sport. It's something for the average everyman type guy who doesn't have the intellect to have a real hobby. It's instantly socially acceptable and a boon to business.

But it's not a sport. It's something morons do until they die. If they're not playing golf, they're busy watching reality TV. That isn't a sport either, by the way.

It's okay, I know you hate golf because you are probably just terrible at it. No one hates a sport they are good at.

[Stevin]

Pocket Billiards is considered a sport. IMO both flying competition and playing professional pool takes most of the same skill sets. eye and hand coordination, pre-thinking moves ahead

Yet both can be done recreational and looked at as a game.

[NCcraig]

A sport, no. A drain on my bank account, constantly. A skill, definitely!

[snjbird]

Wow lot's of sidelines here... I still don't think of RC as a sport, but I can concede that there are branches that have "sport like qualities"

There are RC manufacture teams, like racing/motor sports...
There are organized competitions....
People race them...

But my "idea" of sports is more like an activity where you get out and get active...
1. Ball (read this as any game where you use a ball)
2. Biking
3. Hiking
4. kayaking
5. Sky diving
6. Scuba Diving
7. Climbing
8. Skiing/boarding

I don't really see competitive games like motor racing, or competition aerobatics as sports either. I know they are physically demanding, but you see fat old men do them all the time...

But again I'll say, this is very subjected to a persons interpretation of the word, and that's mine

[laminarjack]

Originally Posted by Mixmaster Pilot

It's okay, I know you hate golf because you are probably just terrible at it. No one hates a sport they are good at.

I don't hate golf. I played it years ago and enjoyed it a little. But I looked to my right and left and noticed something that other golfers had in common, and I just never went back.