I guess we are not Athletes

[Dye Angel Guy]

I have been in this game for a long time (12 years) and now that I am 22 and all these college kids tell me I am not an athlete really pisses me off. Granted these days I do not play nearly what I did in High School and none of the people in Iowa saw me play in High School in Georgia but appearently we are not athletes.


As I recall when I played with Team Ultimate out of Canton/Holly Springs Georgia from Ultimate Paintball Georgia that we were practicing everyday after school and reffing on the weekends plus playing on the weekends. During summer we practiced for hours each day plus reffing thurs, fri, sat, and sun. I am pretty sure I fullfilled the athlete requirement as does everyone on here like a football player does. If being an athlete means hitting the gym everyday than no I am not an athlete but I am pretty sure that is not the only requirement.

This was only brought up today because of an athlete's foot commerical on TV and some one said their brother had it and I said, "does he not wash himself" and my roommate said, "you have to be an athlete to know". I was silent. I really had nothing to say at that point except for,"so I am not an athlete?".


I just love it when people laugh when you tell them you play paintball...

[SpitFire1299]

The definition of athlete- an individual who demonstrates skill in a sport, trains and competes as part of her/his regular routine or career goal.

You officially are an athlete.

[Dye Angel Guy]

See now that is what I thought.

[Hexis]

See, the moral of the story is is do not get upset by what people say, espicially so when they have a limited command of the language.

[athomas]

If anyone says you are not an athlete, then they are also discounting many other sports types as well.

[Maggot6]

Think about it this way...Would you say Hacky Sack is a sport? Obviously 99/100 people would not. And the one person would often say it was just to be funny. This is because you probably see hacky sack as kicking a hemp bag around while stoned...

However, when you see things like this http://www.flipsider.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=35 representing hacky sack, generally peoples views of stoned teenagers changes...

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Now, what do people think of when they hear paintball? Mainly camo suits sitting in the brush for 2 hours waiting to shoot someone. NOT people sprinting with full gear in shiny suits around astroturf and thousand dollar bunkers, such as this.. http://jayloo.com/videos/gallery/1/41.html

I try not to get pissed off whenever people say that I am not an athelete for Paintball, or things of the sort. I don't (usually) try to show them the light. Just take it as it is, and remember how ignorant they are while you are bunkering the cocky kid from other side of the field...

By the way, hacky sack is a sport..Called footbag...World Championships in Frankfurt are going on as we speak......

[Lohman446]

You are playing a game that involves hiding behind big balloons and shooting little gobs of gelatin at each other. Please don't take it too seriously.

[SpitFire1299]

Maggot6.. i think hacky sack is a sport.

[Toll]

Ask them if they'd like to play you a game or two, since it's not really heavy on athletic requirement.

[olinar]

thats the dumbest thing i have heard in a while,i hear that all the time from my bro and ge got me into the sport.he says i spend too much and i dont play enough.true i dont play as much as id like to but i still but the stuff for it. its the same thing as playin football and something like that in high school and hopin to get drafted. as a matter of fact i think the sport of basketball was started by a coach tryin to get his players to do better inanother sport.

[Dye Angel Guy]

Basketball was something like that and they used a peach basket for the first goal, go Georgia.

[SCpoloRicker]

thats the dumbest thing i have heard in a while,i hear that all the time from my bro and ge got me into the sport.he says i spend too much and i dont play enough.true i dont play as much as id like to but i still but the stuff for it. its the same thing as playin football and something like that in high school and hopin to get drafted. as a matter of fact i think the sport of basketball was started by a coach tryin to get his players to do better inanother sport.

I think I agree with this guy, all things considered.

[SlartyBartFast]

Obviously the friend considers communal showers and change rooms to be central to being an Athlete.

But, seeing as the discussion was about athlete's foot, it's a pretty ignorant statement to say that catching it has to do with not washing. Particularly one of the prime places to get infected is from shower room floors.

[mobsterboy]

Obviously the friend considers communal showers and change rooms to be central to being an Athlete.

But, seeing as the discussion was about athlete's foot, it's a pretty ignorant statement to say that catching it has to do with not washing. Particularly one of the prime places to get infected is from shower room floors.

i knew it. All the football players are GAY!

jk
but really, next time he thinks its not a sport, just take him along and have him run to the snake off the break. After the 4th or 5th time, he'll be begging for his contact football with his padding and such. Its not that you physically exert yourself during paintball, its that your usually pushing yourself to the limits trying to manuveur around the field and then you get lit up. So then you walk off the field tired, sore and aching, but somehow ready for another round of it, like you didnt get lit up enough the first time

[SlartyBartFast]

i knew it. All the football players are GAY!

Well, showering together, changing together, the whole towel slapping thing, tight pants, grabbing each others behind, group hugs...

Seems obvious to me. The usual hatred of homosexuality just looks like repressed feelings.

lol

but really, next time he thinks its not a sport