Hi everyone here,
just wonder if musicians also like sports,
I personally dislike sport and practise a lot on music....
but finding that it is not good because I'll actually need so sport to be heathy....
so spending sometime doing badminton...

I play netball for my school team. I do like sport too

I never enjoyed sport at school (always last to be picked in a team) and now I'm in my late 30s I pick and choose. Cycling is my favourite to participate in, athletics is my favourite to watch. Most sports have no relevance to me at all. I will never understand why people want to watch football, rugby or golf!

That's my opinion anyway - I'm prepared for opposite views!

Oh, watching sport - I really enjoy that. Any sports really, I am glued to the TV whenever there is an Olympics!

Rugby is a famous sport in NZ....soooooo many people is obsessed with Rugby just because of the famous All Blacks. I personaly never liked it though....

I'm a rower...well a cox really...and my team practice most days.

I love sport and was a keen runner (ran the London Marathon) before injurying my back.

I used to go and hide out in the music room at PE times.
Once even took drumming lessons because it was the same time as PE.

We LOVE watching the Olympics even though we are not sporty at all. I was always the last one in sports at school. The only "sporty" things VN and I do for health are ballet for both of us, tai chi for me but karate for her.

My fav sport if you can call it that is solitary long walks for at least one hour (pushing a buggy, of course!). It's very relaxing, clears the mind and restores one's perspective.

taekwondo

I hate watching sports, I think it's boring. I like trampolining though

i love sports!

Don't particularly like sprot, DEFINATELY not at school anyway!!! But that might be because the sports I like doing we don't do at school: Trampolining (I do a club at lunch time) cycling and swimming (but our school pool is disgusting!!)
Anna

Same here!
I used to play tennis and did trampolining (till I almost broke my neck) and we also have to do P.E. in sixth form. I'm doing swimming this term, but I'm more of a tennis/badminton/squash person really.

Me too!! I love badminton, swimming and table tennis though I'm best at badminton i guess...I don't get to swim as much as I'd like now though coz i dont have time.

Was a golie for the school but quit because I always got grazed knees at the end of the match, it's even worse when we have to play on concrete.

Play rugby sometimes, not good enough to join a local club but good enough to frighten the pants out of everyone else at school.

AP and I were talking to members of the trampolining club yesterday and it does seem that non-sporty people like trampolining as it doesn't appear to be overtly sporty, more just like good fun.

Love sport, will watch anything! Used be be a gymnast before dodgy back put a stop to it...

I like sport too, but not anything too hard!

Car Expert

Swimming or windsurfing.

I detest any kind of competitive sport.

I detested PE at primary school - going through the same rigmarole every day! In those days PE was daily! Help! It's supposed to be good for my health and I'm supp to be thankful! Perhaps I am in a way BUT surely, it doesn't have to be the same routine for a WHOLE year?

I quite liked it at school and didn't mind being in one or two teams from time to time. We didn't have to do it every day though, so perhaps that helped.

It's only since I've grown up (have I?? ) that I've got to dislike it so.

May be something to do with the way it's pushed down our throats on tv.

I don't like trampolining, but only because I am scared of it..

Noodelz - I have a reputation in the school netball team for injuring myself!

Trampolining is so fun!!
School PE can be really boring...I HATE HOCKEY! But we don't have to do it from y11 onwards if we dont want to ...we get more of a choice this year.

I hate school PE. But I like to go cycling, climbing out of school.

I wasn't to start off with, then I hirt myself and I got really scared, and now I'm just cautious! But it feels so good when you can finally do something by yourself! I don't think you get that so much with team sports.

I love sport.

I used to play football, tennis, and I did a lot of running and karate.

I love watching the athlectics and olympics

I can do running, but I have to get enough enthusiasm for it! I suddenly decided I wanted to run the other night, and ran to the other halls of residence and back, started off to quick, but wouldn't let myself stop and ended up shattered! I slept well that night though!

I used to play netball, cricket and hockey for my secondary school, but I used to hate how competitive it got! (soon learned "friendly" matches never are friendly!)

Since leaving though, music has become a bigger priority and I don't do so much sport (apart from a lot of swimming and surfing!)

I love the competivness, it pushes me harder. Without competition, what's the point of doing something?

No, I agree with Beth. I think that's another reason I like trampolining. For me, it's a self satisfaction thing

I do believe in the idea of a "sound mind in a healthy body", although anyone observing my first trip to a running track in 14 years last Friday may doubt that assertion!

However I do think musicians do sport a disservice if they only analyse its benefits in terms of whether it enhances/diminishes musical performance. After all musicians are also people, and I think sport has a great deal to offer everyone, musicians included, in terms of health, enjoyment of life and character development quite independently of musical advancement.

I think it is a great thing that those who dislike competitive sport have a wide range of challenging activities like rock climbing, canoeing, hillwalking, recreational swimming and diving etc etc to choose from. Personally I enjoyed competitive team sports the most (particularly rugby) - despite not being a particularly good team, our coach had the insight to match us against teams of about the same standard, so it was usually an enjoyable tussle.

...climbing out of school, eh?!

I would have love that escape! Just kidding - I know what you meant.

Heehee!

My favourite sports would be badminton, tennis and hockey I think... but I love watching all the sports at the Olympics too! And even though loads of people like football, I don't really like it...

I love watching sport, with a few exceptions I'll enjoy anything if it's played at a high enough level to be really skillful/exciting.

I have always been rubbish at *doing* it though.

There are a few sports I enjoy but none that I am good at at all! And quite a few of them I loathe to even try...

I enjoy watching quite a few sports but I'm not so eager to participate!

Loathe to even try...?

Like what?

Oh hello Tess! I like watching the Olympics and most sports except football, rugby, cricket and golf!

Tess: football (don't even like to watch it unless it's v important national game!) hockey, netball (those two probably partly on account of bad experience at school ) and not especially into doing anything particularly violent or dangerous - ie love to watch rugby but wouldn't want to play, don't really even like to watch boxing, and not fussed about martial arts though they're interesting to watch sometimes depending on which ones.

edit: after seeing noodle's post, yeah, golf booooooooooring

katyjay: LOL!

Hubby and I have a deal. He doesn't come to choir practice and I don't go to Leicester City matches.

I watched the gymnastics this afternoon and I'm wondering: how do they do it?

Car Expert

They are not worth going to anyway...they usually lose

My friends at school made up a sport game called "hand ball" which is like a square with four people in it and you'll have to try to get people out by hitting the ball across the boundary...it's quite cool. We got heaps of people everytime at lunches wanting to play it now... became a famous game.

You know the annoying thing with sports?? I know exactly how to do them, i know what all the rules are, I just CAN'T DO THEM!!!

I love sports! I'm not particularly good at most team games but I still love playing football, tennis, badminton. And especially cycling I managed 25 miles of hills in 2 hours last fortnight.

Golf is boring but quite tolerable only bec I actually enjoy the walk itself when I "caddy" or try to, anyway, for my hubby in times long past. The only game I find absolutely boring and intolerable is cricket. At my office, the bosses used to ask who wants to go to Lords on complimentary tickets (to be with clients)... count me out!

I run loads, but do a fair bit of gym work, ie rowing, cycling, stepping, cross-training etc.
Play the odd game of badminton too

I really love playing sport, used to play netball, hockey, rounders and do athletics for the school and squash and tennis out of school but found i didnt have time for music and sport, and music came first!!

The composer Arthur Honneger wrote a piece entitled Rugby, about the eponymous game; it appears to be rather less popular in the concert hall than his similar other work Pacific 231, about a train.

Debussy's ballet Jeux depicts a game of tennis, with some hanky-panky on the side, IIRC.