One favorite sport besides paintball?

[spyderkiller]

What is everyone's one favorite sport besides paintball? Personally, mine is baseball.

[shartley]

Billiards. And talk about another sport that can eat your bank account!

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[Flip540]

lacrosse

sometimes if we have a late game a couple of us go out and play billiards.

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[Bub3814]

Play football, but my FAVORITE sport outside of paintball is billiards...

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[krafty]

Whitewater kayaking


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[spyderkiller]

ooooohhhh....billiards fun....we have a pool table at my church. i am the master...out of the people there i mean...haha i could never hold my own against you shartley...

what, is that a little brown on my nose?

[Xzion]

Aside from paintball, Id have to say Billiards. Unfortunatly I never have much time to even play that http://www.automags.org/ubb/frown.gif

[fenris69]

theres other sports?

[MagMan5446]

FOOTBALL!!!

Football is life.

[Zo]

Hockey baby, hockey owns you all =)

[XspyX]

Tennis

[spyderkiller]

Wow we've got everything from skiing to rock climbing to tennis in here. I'm surprised noone has put bird watching yet. haha jk.

[Ant]

SOCCER!!!!!
I've been playing since i was four...So that would make this my 14th year playin. Awsome sport plus it keeps ya in good shape!

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[Zo]

<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ant:
SOCCER!!!!!
I've been playing since i was four...So that would make this my 14th year playin. Awsome sport plus it keeps ya in good shape!

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Soccer? i am sick of soccer. i am probably the only one in my town that DOESNT play soccer

[magman518]

fencing is definently the second best sport!

[Thordic]

Lacrosse baby, woo ha!

You're girlfriend really loves my six-foot shaft... http://www.automags.org/ubb/wink.gif

Its the fastest game on two feet, and not to mention the ONLY true American sport. Its the only sport that hasn't been imported in some shape or form.

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[zvanut]

baseball, golf, and i play some billiards, oh yeah not to mention that i am the fooseball and table tennis champion of my family.

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[Marbelizer]

hockey all the way baby!!!!

[Cha0tic]

been playin soccer for some time. play for a club team and hopefully the state team this year. 15 year old playin on the u-17's....not to brag or anything.

[wyn1370]

hockey

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[MarkedClown]

Golf... I like hitting the ball as hard as I can lets all my frustration out.

[jasonmoe]

Only one.... well id have to say it is rockclimbing.

J

[MaGSkEr]

Skiing

[automagseeker]

golf http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif

[mikey101]

skatebording

[TamaPlaya]

Mountain biking

[mykroft]

Skiing, downhill or cross-country, with Mountain Biking running a close 3rd

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[Rrok]

Although I have played hockey since I was four.I believe it has become more of a chore than anything. I would have to say my second favorite sport is snowboarding, and my third would have to be rock climbing. I climbed a 5.10 in Bar harbor Maine my second time climbing ever. (If any of you care.) lol.

Rrok

[Xzion]

<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Thordic:
Lacrosse baby, woo ha!

You're girlfriend really loves my six-foot shaft... http://www.automags.org/ubb/wink.gif

Its the fastest game on two feet, and not to mention the ONLY true American sport. Its the only sport that hasn't been imported in some shape or form.

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but Lacrosse isnt American, it was developed in Canada and introduced into the US in the 1870s.

[Thordic]

<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Xzion:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Lacrosse isnt American, it was developed in Canada and introduced into the US in the 1870s.
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Last time I checked Canada was still part of North America. :-) And it was developed by native Americans, who were here long before there was a boundary between Canada and the USA. These indians didn't live exclusively in Canada.

The sport as we know it today may have come from Canada, but its roots are in both countries.

Did you know Lacrosse is the national sport of Canada? Not hockey, as some may believe. http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif

[shartley]

Well, we don't want arguments over this now do we? http://www.automags.org/ubb/wink.gif I was getting a few quotes and links ready for you all, but came across this fantastic article found on www.lacrosse.org (http://www.lacrosse.org) :


<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">History of Native American Lacrosse

By Thomas Vennum Jr.
Author of American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War

Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands.

Early data on lacrosse, from missionaries such as French Jesuits in Huron country in the 1630s and English explorers, such as Jonathan Carver in the mid-eighteenth century Great Lakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipment used, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, game strategy, or the rules of play. The oldest surviving sticks date only from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and the first detailed reports on Indian lacrosse are even later. George Beers provided good information on Mohawk playing techniques in his Lacrosse (1869), while James Mooney in the American Anthropologist (1890) described in detail the "[Eastern] Cherokee Ball-Play," including its legendary basis, elaborate rituals, and the rules and manner of play.

Given the paucity of early data, we shall probably never be able to reconstruct the history of the sport. Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps older game using a single post surmounted by some animal effigy and played together by men and women remain speculative. As can best be determined, the distribution of lacrosse shows it to have been played throughout the eastern half of North America, mostly by tribes in the southeast, around the western Great Lakes, and in the St. Lawrence Valley area. Its presence today in Oklahoma and other states west of the Mississippi reflects tribal removals to those areas in the nineteenth century. Although isolated reports exist of some form of lacrosse among northern California and British Columbia tribes, their late date brings into question any widespread diffusion of the sport on the west coast.

On the basis of the equipment, the type of goal used and the stick-handling techniques, it is possible to discern three basic forms of lacrosse—the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. Among southeastern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yuchi and others), a double-stick version of the game is still practiced. A two-and-a half foot stick is held in each hand, and the soft, small deerskin ball is retrieved and cupped between them. Great Lakes players (Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Winnebago, Santee Dakota and others) used a single three-foot stick. It terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, scarcely larger than the ball, which was usually made of wood, charred and scraped to shape. The northeastern stick, found among Iroquoian and New England tribes, is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box as well as field lacrosse. The longest of the three—usually more than three feet—it was characterized by its shaft ending in a sort of crook and a large, flat triangular surface of webbing extending as much as two-thirds the length of the stick. Where the outermost string meets the shaft, it forms the pocket of the stick.

Lacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball. Native terminology, however, tends to describe more the technique (cf. Onondaga DEHUNTSHIGWA'ES, "men hit a rounded object") or, especially in the southeast, to underscore the game's aspects of war surrogacy ("little brother of war"). There is no evidence of non-Indians taking up the game until the mid-nineteenth century, when English-speaking Montrealers adopted the Mohawk game they were familiar with from Caughnawauga and Akwesasne, attempted to "civilize" the sport with a new set of rules and organize into amateur clubs. Once the game quickly grew in popularity in Canada, it began to be exported throughout the Commonwealth, as non-native teams traveled to Europe for exhibition matches against Iroquois players. Ironically, because Indians had to charge money in order to travel, they were excluded as "professionals" from international competition for more than a century. Only with the formation of the Iroquois Nationals in the 1980s did they successfully break this barrier and become eligible to compete in World Games.

Apart from its recreational function, lacrosse traditionally played a more serious role in Indian culture. Its origins are rooted in legend, and the game continues to be used for curative purposes and surrounded with ceremony. Game equipment and players are still ritually prepared by conjurers, and team selection and victory are often considered supernaturally controlled. In the past, lacrosse also served to vent aggression, and territorial disputes between tribes were sometimes settled with a game, although not always amicably. A Creek versus Choctaw game around 1790 to determine rights over a beaver pond broke out into a violent battle when the Creeks were declared winners. Still, while the majority of the games ended peaceably, much of the ceremonialism surrounding their preparations and the rituals required of the players were identical to those practiced before departing on the warpath.

A number of factors led to the demise of lacrosse in many areas by the late nineteenth century. Wagering on games had always been integral to an Indian community's involvement, but when betting and violence saw an increase as traditional Indian culture was eroding, it sparked opposition to lacrosse from government officials and missionaries. The games were felt to interfere with church attendance and the wagering to have an impoverishing effect on the Indians. When Oklahoma Choctaw began to attach lead weights to their sticks around 1900 to use them as skull-crackers, the game was outright banned.

Meanwhile, the spread of nonnative lacrosse from the Montreal area eventually led to its position today worldwide as one of the fastest growing sports (more than half a million players), controlled by official regulations and played with manufactured rather than hand-made equipment—the aluminum shafted stick with its plastic head, for example. While the Great Lakes traditional game died out by 1950, the Iroquois and southeastern tribes continue to play their own forms of lacrosse. Ironically, the field lacrosse game of nonnative women today most closely resembles the Indian game of the past, retaining the wooden stick, lacking the protective gear and demarcated sidelines of the men's game, and tending towards mass attack rather than field positions and offsides.

Bibliography:

Culin, Stewart. "Games of the North American Indians." In Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1903, pp. 1-840. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907.

Fogelson, Raymond. "The Cherokee Ball Game: A Study in Southeastern Ethnology." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1962.

Vennum, Thomas Jr. American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War. Washington, DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.</font>

So, as you can clearly see, it is NOT a "Canadian" sport, and in fact not just one limited to the North East either. It was quite wide spread throughout ALL North America.

The equipment and rules used today however, tend to be more closely derived from those used by people in the North Eastern United States and South Eastern Canada.... which at the time was NEITHER the US nor Canada. http://www.automags.org/ubb/wink.gif

I hope this takes care of any conflicts.... but if not, we can get on our gear and settle this the Lacrosse way! http://www.automags.org/ubb/wink.gif (Yes I have played a few games in my time. http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif Good sport. )


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[Miscue]

Table Tennis/Bowling

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[Yama]

Snowmobile, when there is too much snow for paintball.

[Xzion]

I never said it wasnt a north american, perhaps I got a bit confused when just 'american' was used, wasnt trying to start an argument or anything.... I understand that it was in both canada and the US. I apologize if it sounded otherwise.

[shartley]

Xzion:
Hey, no problem. I did not take offense anyway. Often times questions or statements lead to real good information.

And let's face it, that article WAS some real good information. http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[Xzion]

wow, you mean I prompted something worth while... whats the world coming too http://www.automags.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[magman007]

LACROSSE!!!!! I love the game! i play left attack and haca a warrior blade witha a rock it pocket and a titan classic shaft( not to fond of the pro) I love the sport, try going to www.e-lacrosse.com (http://www.e-lacrosse.com) they have stick dying contests and tips on stringing your head, also they have great product reviews, every one who plays or likes lacrosse e-mail me at fender00786@aol.com man i love that game!!! also tell me what youre stick is!

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[Dubstar112]

... you guys are wierd... i have never heard of anything but paintball...

snowmobiling is a blast.. try it.

[Ni cD]

Foosball!!! BAM!!!

[Whisky]

I like to play golf, but i like watching football. Oh and walleyball is very nice to play too.

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[ReTroMagBoy]

first to say BASKETBALL!
i am pretty good,a little too short, but still got skill.... http://www.automags.org/ubb/eek.gif

[MagMan5446]

No one here plays football!!!!!!

[Thordic]

Football is for wusses who need a break every couple of seconds to catch thier breath :-)

[spyderkiller]

Hey I Play football!!! but baseball is my fav like I said before. Our football team is currently 1-0 http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Yama]

i am in wrestling.....and no i dont grab guy's balls.

[magmanpaintball]

MOTOCROSS!!!!

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[spyderkiller]

hey yay for wrestlers too!! I wrestled varsity last year at 125 lbs. as a freshmen. got my butt kicked pretty bad by all the seniors but hey it was fun http://www.automags.org/ubb/smile.gif