Surfing:

I've been to Newquay a couple of times recently and the place is full of wetsuit cladded individuals with surfboards who look the part. Most just lie down on their board and paddle around for a short while before heading home.

Speed walking:

What the crap is that all about ?

Running without actually running ?

Dressage:

An Olympic 'Sport' which involves horses walking sideways.

Darts

Golf.

Quoits

Running. How can anyone enjoy it?

Walking football. I was persuaded to take it up when I recently retired. When I turned up to meet my colleagues I realised that at least half of them were veterans of the Boer war. I was looking forward to scoring a hatful. One hour later I was a physical wreck from which I am yet to recover. No goals and schooled by a chap who arrived on a Penny Farthing. And I broke a rib.

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:07 pm

Surfing:

I've been to Newquay a couple of times recently and the place is full of wetsuit cladded individuals with surfboards who look the part. Most just lie down on their board and paddle around for a short while before heading home.

Surfing definitely is utter crap. 99.5% hanging around in expensive gear looking the part and wearing the image whilst talking to others "dudes" and then 0.5% climbing on the board only to fall into the water after 3 seconds! The Emperor's New Clothes at it's best! Get some Speedos and just go swimming! It's cheaper and easier and you look less of a d***! The Beach Boys are great to listen to, but they really do have a lot to answer for.

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 7:24 am

Get some Speedos and just go swimming! It's cheaper and easier and you look less of a d***! The Beach Boys are great to listen to, but they really do have a lot to answer for.

I'm not allowed in wavelengths anymore because the S fell off my Speedos.

Underwater basket weaving. (Soon to be included in the Olympics)

F1..Zzzzzzzz

Skateboarding - See Surfing and replace wetsuit with baggy jeans and a hoody.

Any sport where the advantage is handed to those who are wealthy. So that’s most horse related ones, most motor racing, probably tennis and quite a few others too no doubt.
I think someone said Britain was good at sports which involve sitting down because they usually involve a big financial outlay to get involved in.

Surfing is great. Good for strength (shoulders, back, chest, core and leg/hip muscles. Good for all round fitness, balance and cardiovascular. Not to mention all the mental health benefits.

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:14 pm

Speed walking:

What the crap is that all about ?

Running without actually running ?

The pace they walk at is very impressive though.

Under a 23 minute 5k!

Formula 1 …..especially when they cover it on the radio ! They cover the “practice” session too…what’s that all about ? Absolute snooze-fest usually commentated on hysterically by a 40 year old virgin.
Handball isn’t up to much either when it gets some airtime during the Olympics. Chucking the ball at immense velocity at around a 3 or 4 metre distance from the goal. The keeper just makes a Schmeichel-like star-shape and hopes the ball somehow hits him.

As far as i was concerned,if it was on Eurosport,it was rubbish

I once (not in England) had to endure a radio commentary on the local bodybuilding championships . Fascinating it was not!

Underwater blow football

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:57 am

Surfing is great. Good for strength (shoulders, back, chest, core and leg/hip muscles. Good for all round fitness, balance and cardiovascular. Not to mention all the mental health benefits.

But that's only if they can stay on their board for more than 5 seconds!

RMutt wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:52 am

Any sport where the advantage is handed to those who are wealthy.

Professional football?

Sumo Wrestling - Great tradition and exercise for fat men, but it's not a sport.
Sailing - Bunch of rich people doing something 99% of people have never had access to.
Polo - See Sailing

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:41 am

Professional football?

Yes, I can see the contradiction in moaning about the influence of wealth and being a supporter of a professional football team.
I was thinking more about the participants I suppose.

Cricket

Foshiznik wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:07 am

Sumo Wrestling - Great tradition and exercise for fat men, but it's not a sport.
Sailing - Bunch of rich people doing something 99% of people have never had access to.
Polo - See Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12naI8AWk4

Ski jumping. Utter lunacy.

Premier League football when you're one of the three poorest teams

Anything which requires a lot of kit or financial outlay. So basically anything posh. Especially anything including a horse. Ridiculous. Not a sport.

It's why football is and always will be the world's game. Accessible to everyone everywhere.

Dressage ( horse dancing ) is just beyond parody .
I’ll add a curmudgeonly, skateboarding , croquet , rhythmic gymnastics, and it’s pool based cousin .

Synchronised swimming, they don't even swim!

American Football.

Foshiznik wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:22 am

Running. How can anyone enjoy it?

A friends partner, a nurse, once commented "do these people hate their knees?".....

Kind of summed up my feelings

Feels obvious, but any bloodsport, fox hunting, hare coursing and the like.....

Baseball

Was in Orlando about 3 years ago and went to a chicken wings sports bar for an hour. The world series was on and I'm not joking, in the full hour we were there, no one hit the ball once. Absolute bore fest

Butterfly stroke in a swimming event , when was the first time you saw someone fall into the sea / lake/ river and do butterfly to survive .most people cant even do it and the ones that can often do a different stroke in events as well. I one won a gala at Leeds doing Butterfly, but only because most of the others were really crap and not just crap like me

Saw a guy park next to the canal and remove like flat dinghy from his roof. Fully wetsuited.

Put it in the canal, paddle in hand. Stood on it, fell in.

Put the lot back in/on the car and drove off.

Foshiznik wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:22 am

Running. How can anyone enjoy it?

For me, I really enjoy it. Gets me plenty of fresh air and time outside and keeps me fit. I also do a lot of travelling with work so getting out early on a run before a city wakes up is one of the best ways to experience and explore it imo.

ClaretOfMancunia wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 4:35 pm

For me, I really enjoy it. Gets me plenty of fresh air and time outside and keeps me fit. I also do a lot of travelling with work so getting out early on a run before a city wakes up is one of the best ways to experience and explore it imo.

Just finished a book by Neil Scott( I think), a fellow in his early forties who decided to run along every street and road in Manchester. Began in February 2020, just before Covid, he finished 21 months later in November 2021. Around 6275 streets and roads and he covered around 1400 miles. Because I lived there for school during the 60's I was intrigued and he did mention a huge number of interesting facts and details about various areas along the way, especially about the areas I lived close to such as Crumpsall, Moston, Collyhurst and Harpurhey( voted the worst location in the whole of Europe in a survey a few years back).

ClaretOfMancunia wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 4:35 pm

For me, I really enjoy it. Gets me plenty of fresh air and time outside and keeps me fit. I also do a lot of travelling with work so getting out early on a run before a city wakes up is one of the best ways to experience and explore it imo.

And possibly the best psychological therapy going.

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 12:29 pm

Synchronised swimming, they don't even swim!

So how do they not drown?

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:14 pm

Speed walking:

What the crap is that all about ?

Running without actually running ?

It's actually easier to run than to speed walk...and you get further!

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:47 pm

Baseball

Was in Orlando about 3 years ago and went to a chicken wings sports bar for an hour. The world series was on and I'm not joking, in the full hour we were there, no one hit the ball once. Absolute bore fest

Compared to cricket, where's the skill when it comes to catching the ball when you have a bucket on your hand?

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:47 pm

Baseball

Was in Orlando about 3 years ago and went to a chicken wings sports bar for an hour. The World Series was on and I'm not joking, in the full hour we were there, no one hit the ball once. Absolute bore fest

That’s total bulls*it I’m to some extent a baseball fan and HIGHLY doubt you watched a game for a FULL HOUR and no one hit the ball

Spijed wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 6:06 pm

Compared to cricket, where's the skill when it comes to catching the ball when you have a bucket on your hand?

Can't disagree with that.

Any American sport

Walking football: is it sport or (like those already mentioned) just a passtime for people with too much time to spare?

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:03 pm

Walking football: is it sport or (like those already mentioned) just a passtime for people with too much time to spare?

Err …. It’s a great way of continuing to play football in a competitive way into your 60s and 70s. I played Sunday league eleven-a-side into my 50s but inevitably there comes a time when you cease to be competitive and when running around with full physical contact for 90 minutes takes its toll. Now I play walking football twice a week including , monthly, league games in the Greater Manchester Walking Football League. It’s all governed by the FA with its own bespoke rules and def not a qualifier for this thread imho.

Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:15 pm

Err …. It’s a great way of continuing to play football in a competitive way into your 60s and 70s. I played Sunday league eleven-a-side into my 50s but inevitably there comes a time when you cease to be competitive and when running around with full physical contact for 90 minutes takes its toll. Now I play walking football twice a week including , monthly, league games in the Greater Manchester Walking Football League. It’s all governed by the FA with its own bespoke rules and def not a qualifier for this thread imho.

Fair enough if you enjoy it. But explain, please, why not just have age graded association football?

CoolClaret wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:53 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12naI8AWk4

Going to see the sumo on Sunday.

Like a lot of sports (us football being a prime example) if you don't really know what is going on, you won't appreciate it.

Tennis, though. Boring to play, unless you are against someone with the same skill set as you. Even worse to watch. It was probably better when played 70 years ago, but just got crapper the better the racquets and the faster the first serves etc. went.

Anything with the word "synchronised" in that inevitably need a judge to decide how pretty something is to look at.

exilecanada wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 6:31 pm

That’s total bulls*it I’m to some extent a baseball fan and HIGHLY doubt you watched a game for a FULL HOUR and no one hit the ball

Trust me, it wasn't

What made it worse is as soon as we got in the taxi afterwards, it was on the radio and someone hit a home run.

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:27 pm

Fair enough if you enjoy it. But explain, please, why not just have age graded association football?

Because the rules are different.

Call it what you like but anything that keeps you playing football for the rest of your life (we have players in their 80’s) is a great thing. Fantastic new sport and I’ve met very few people that have tried it and don’t like it. The league is very competitive at all age ranges (I play the Thames Valley league at the national sports centre in Bisham).