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Eugene
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
 
2004-12-20, 17:52

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Originally Posted by Kickaha
Baseball: you don't move constantly, plays have long breaks between them, there's no contact except accidental or sliding into someone. There's no sustained aerobic activity, strength is important to many, but not essential for most positions, and the relative hand-eye coordination, while necessary, isn't that much different than many other sports due to the intermittent action.
No constant movement? Football has 10 seconds of movement broken up by half minute long gaps, and only half the team plays at a time, but it figures highly on these charts.

Contact? Oh, incidental doesn't count now... What about beanballs? Comebackers? Leaping over fences to make catches? Nipple erasing face-first sliding catches?

Oh, and hand-eye coordination is less important somehow because there are breaks in the action. Aren't there line changes in hockey? I wonder why there's stoppage time in soccer...

Back to Lance now. Is his coordination less important because he likely does next-to-zero upper-body conditioning, or because there's no contact in his sport?

You're right, I'm not satisfied with your answer(s).
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