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          • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            Of course it’s a sport. Multiple sports even. It takes skill, training and effort to be good at shooting. There are many different shooting sports.

            Of course just blindly firing a weapon is not a sport itself. Just as blindly kicking a ball is no sport.

            Why do you think shooting is no sport?

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              3 months ago

              If the only reason you’re sweating is because you’re out in the sun then I’m sorry, that’s not a sport, just like chess is not a sport even though it requires skills, training and effort.

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                  3 months ago

                  If Alexis Lagan and Katelyn Abeln can compete 1v1 in the same category then I’m sorry to inform you that physical fitness isn’t a criteria for whatever the competition is and we’re not talking about a sport.

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                3 months ago

                It does require phisical skill. You have to aim, perfect hand eye coordination, muscle memory, breath control. A sport doesn’t require a full body workout, if it did than bob sleighing or dressage or table tennis wouldn’t be sports either. Sport is about physical fitness but also about teamwork, competition, perseverance and much more.

                It’s like saying deathmetal isn’t music, because you can’t understand the words they sing.

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                3 months ago

                I’m sorry not every sport is pure ugga bugga, ape strong, and some instead require brain skills or precision.

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                  3 months ago

                  Should they be considered sports then?

                  noun plural noun: sports 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. “team sports such as baseball and soccer”

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                3 months ago

                shooting, darts, snooker, curling, boules, golf, archery, driving/car racing, horse riding, sailing, luge/skeleton, croquet, motorboat racing, table tennis, weight lifting, gliding, skiing, alpinism, ballooning, chess, firefighting, cannon shooting, kite flying, pigeon racing, military patrol, dog-sled racing, bridge, lifeguarding, scuba diving have all been part of modern day Olympics.

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                  3 months ago

                  And of this list there’s a whole bunch of stuff that isn’t a sport.

                  Unless you consider that painting is a sport? Because that was in the Olympics as well!

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    3 months ago

    Next time have the competition someplace sensible. Like a school. It just wasn’t our natural setting.

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    3 months ago

    For the air sports I might be able to let it slide, as air rifle/pistol is seen as more of a kids sport, to learn the basics. But their trap performance this morning was disappointing. So far, half of the shooting sports have been done, but the second half is more popular in the US, so there’s still time to see the US stretch it’s legs in shooting.