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So i actually have managed to play 3 times this year, which is atypical. I played once last year, and maybe twice the year before.
You have to be in shape to surf. Surfing requires the ability to paddle hard with your arms in advance of the oncoming wave. Your typical 40ish year old male will be exhausted trying to catch waves, but i suppose if you spend all summer training and getting in shape, it's possible to be decent. If you don't have balance or aren't a very good swimmer, you won't be able to surf, IMO.
When I was in high school I played a decent amount. Played on the team one year. Didn't play really at all in college. After that, I would play once or twice a month, but that mostly involved lots of drugs and beers and was more of just a good excude to be outside having fun. I'm 42 now and for the past 10 years, I have probably played a total of 25 times. I have a 6 and 4 year old, so since they were born, I have played on average twice a year. Didn't play at all a few years back.
Well either you're full of crap or you pissed away a golden opportunity to be a pro golfer.
Ha. Not ful of crap, and I could never be close to a professional. Don't hit the ball far enough. Like not even close to far enough
You're 42 and never play and you're shooting 9 over on a 6.6k yard course. That's like 500 yards short of your typically PGA course.
I could make a few birdies and plenty of pars at either of those courses. Pretty decent golfer, but not Moops good. I do have to try. Send someone out there against Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, or Chris Sale? They could throw nothing but fastballs and there's no way 99% of the population could touch it.
I agree but I kinda think being able to skate should be the starting point. Then maybe not so much.
If you can skate I think it depends on position. Being a solid defenseman isn't that hard if you can skate decent and give and take a pounding. Developing a decent slapped would be the hardest part of rounding out your game.
Based on the premise of the question, I just think hockey is the hardest. If your only direction in golf was hit the ball into the hole with the fewest amount of shots, most people could figure this out quickly. Some could get lucky and actually do well on a few holes. If your only direction in hockey was to get the puck by the goalie, I think it's a different story. Just getting a puck off the ice is something that takes a lot of people a lot of practice. The skating and having someone actively looking to crush you is a whole other thing.
Okay, you learned as a kid - that is way different than an out of shape adult doing it. Hoisting 50-100 pounds up on a board is quite different than doing so at 175-200 pounds. Balancing said weights are a different ballgame as well. And then again, you have to paddle pretty hard in advance of the waves heading your way. There's a lot of failure to launch that can tire the adult body out.
I feel like I'm Og with a club. Variable: make contact. The rest of that is fantasyland.
The assumption is you are athletic and pick things up easy. Per the OP.
I didn't read the OP.
Totally agree that golf is not a sport, but a game like bowling or billiards.
I'm assuming you were surfing on a longboard? Old retired dudes who have never surfed can get up on a longboard.
Nope, lived in Hawaii. Back then you wouldn't be caught dead on a longboard.
