Do Any Sports Appeal To You?

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Racing was too loud for me too ^ but I didn't have a choice because I was a kid, and my dad used to make us go. It was also too bright and sunny and too ... everything ... but at least I did it.

My brother had a dirtbike. I just wrote about that before my post got eaten somehow. My friend's brother was a really high-level BMX rider and he was killed on a jump around age 17.

I did mountain biking for a few years, just recreational but I was really quite good at it. Went to the Rockies as well as the Appalachians to ride. One of my partners was into long-distance cycling so I used to that for a year or two which is hard to believe, but I guess we tend to do things in relationships. FXE we'd ride from Leaside down to Cherry Beach, around Harbourfront and to the Island, then home through Cabbagetown and Riverside along the Don. I guess I was pretty fit back then.

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Later.

Skiing - First time I went at Mont-Tremblant as a child I hit a tree. Haven't done much more but I've been to a few ski resorts mostly for mout

Lol -- partial paragraph there? Don't even remember writing that.

I guess I'll infer what I was saying. I haven't done much x-country but a little bit including at the Island, High Park, and Blue Mountain. I've been snowshoeing if that counts! I mostly went to ski resorts for mountain biking.

My family was also really into snowmobiling which I hated at the time, but now I realise it must have been fun.

It's funny how I sound kind of sporty in this thread. lol - I'm totally not except for the mountain biking era.

The rest of it was me being dragged places with my family, or being a single mum (all the hockey stuff). I was a soccer mum too because what choice did I have? I was never so glad when my son and his friends got old enough to drive themselves because it was freaking social torture having to sit around by myself at all the practices and games.

Snowmobiling - The men were always drunk and I'd be stuck on the back of a machine totally helpless. We'd stop and have hotdogs on a hibachi for lunch lol. I was always terrified and thought the tree branches were old people's hands trying to grab me. I can still hear them smacking my helmet when we went through dense trails. We also went across frozen lakes a lot and that was really scary since one of my phobias is going through ice. That's likely how it started I guess? One time my mum's machine flipped over and landed on top of her upper body / head. If she didn't have her helmet she would have died. She broke a lot of ribs. I think it was in Bracebridge somewhere? My brother was once stranded in the middle of a lake by himself and for some reason his machine caught fire. I can still see him waving his arms out there, and he was so far away no one could tell who it was at first. Then dragging the incinerated one home on a trailer with everyone staring and pointing. Wow - yeah, I'll do it again lol.

You missed some.

Board sports, adrenaline/extreme sports, cycling, hiking/running, motor sports, water sports, wind sports etc all appeal to me.

There are others you’ve missed that don’t fit into your few choices, either.

Nice that there’s such a variety.

DOING sports & rec things appeals to me
way more than being a fan or watching stuff on tv/internet. But I still watch some things sometimes - rather watch some extreme Redbull event or another than watch any sort of team sport match or whatever.

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I watch MMA, but the only 'sports' I engage in are mtbiking, rock climbing/mountaineering. Is fly fishing a sport?

Racing, and everything cars. Esp. rally and touring (RIP Ken Block, Sabine Schmidt). I have two cars, and both are modified (by me), though I've never competitively raced them. The majority of video games I play are racing games. I also drive and tinker with R/C cars.

Watching is fun. Driving is even more fun.