Rubbish sporting activities

[Dressinggown]

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.

[Dressinggown]

Speed walking:

What the crap is that all about ?

Running without actually running ?

[Dressinggown]

Dressage:

An Olympic 'Sport' which involves horses walking sideways.

[RammyClaret61]

Darts

[Funkydrummer]

Golf.

Quoits

[Foshiznik]

Running. How can anyone enjoy it?

[crundale]

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.

[Dark Cloud]

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.

[distortiondave]

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.

[CaptJohn]

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

[Lip]

F1..Zzzzzzzz

[JohnMac]

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

[RMutt]

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.

[Clovius Boofus]

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.

[Spijed]

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!

[Stalbansclaret]

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.

[colner]

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

[Petersa]

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

[Im_not_Robbie_Blake]

Underwater blow football

[Leisure]

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!

[Silkyskills1]

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

Professional football?

[Foshiznik]

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

[RMutt]

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.

[Venkys4eva]

Cricket

[CoolClaret]

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

[TheFamilyCat]

Ski jumping. Utter lunacy.

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

[Pickles]

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.

[AlargeClaret]

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

[No Ney Never]

Synchronised swimming, they don't even swim!

[Longford Claret]

American Football.

[ŽižkovClaret]

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

[ŽižkovClaret]

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

[Ric_C]

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

[pureclaret]

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