Is Scuba A Sport?
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TheRedHead:By that logic, chess would be a sport.
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Chess (and Golf - from another post) are GAMES ! Games imply winning/losing and competition.
Diving is NOT a game
Footslogger:
How about football which involves winning and losing and is played as a game but can also be viewed on SPORTScenter? Those guys look competitive, always knocking each other down to get the silly ball to win the GAME. Then there is bug season in the Florida Keys...
stargazer61
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I think a sport requires competition (an opponent). Of course some buddies could be in this category - if you make it back to the boat then you're a winner ...
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Sports Illustrated decided to feature the young sport of scuba diving in its May 23, 1955, issue.
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Kinda like, is a potato a vegetable when you eat french fries? Rifle shooting is a sport, but you don't burn too much calories. Playing chess is a sport, but a mental one. Running and jogging is a sport.
In the same way, scuba is a sport, but one that one should not really call an excercise in the way it was intended ( a relaxing way to enjoy sea/water life). I know that other have argued that it is an "aerobic" activity. I feel that it is only aerobic if you have to trek your gears for 1 mile back to the car after a drift dive.
In the same way, scuba is a sport, but one that one should not really call an excercise in the way it was intended ( a relaxing way to enjoy sea/water life). I know that other have argued that it is an "aerobic" activity. I feel that it is only aerobic if you have to trek your gears for 1 mile back to the car after a drift dive.
Does that include mini golf? Cause that windmill can be a pain in the buttjhbryaniv:
beester
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Sport means to me a physical activity that involves competition (broadest sense).
Therefor scuba (the dive itselve) is a recreational activity (a hobby). There is some physical strain during a dive but the goal is to keep this to a minimum (physical strain vs sac rate). Of course the competition aspect is non existing during a dive.
What IS sport imo is pooltraining. Our club organises 2 pooltrainings a week (total of 2,5 to 3 hours a week)... with a mentality that you should be in good physical condition to dive (if the **** hits the fan that extra margin of power/condition/breath holding capability could mean the difference between live and death.)
Since all things done during a typical pooltraining are in group there is a form of competition involved. If you swim half a mile you don't want to stay behind and have the rest of the group wait 5 min for you to finish the half mile. etc..
A typical training would be for example:
Swim half a mile
30 secs apnee at 10 feet followed by 25 yard swim underwater
2 times 50 yards swim underwater with 1 min interval to recuperate
10 times 25 yard swim underwater with a breathing interval that counts down from 10 secs to 1 sec (= 1 breath).
Swim (using fins) 200 yards full speed then 1 min apnee (30 secs interval to catch breath)
Swim 6 times 25 yards ... between every 25 yards get out of pool and do 15 push ups.
etc
I do consider the above sport... it has serious physical strain and there is an element of competition: Against the others in the group and against yourselve (not giving up, finishing the exercise).
So diving itselve no sport, training is sport!
Therefor scuba (the dive itselve) is a recreational activity (a hobby). There is some physical strain during a dive but the goal is to keep this to a minimum (physical strain vs sac rate). Of course the competition aspect is non existing during a dive.
What IS sport imo is pooltraining. Our club organises 2 pooltrainings a week (total of 2,5 to 3 hours a week)... with a mentality that you should be in good physical condition to dive (if the **** hits the fan that extra margin of power/condition/breath holding capability could mean the difference between live and death.)
Since all things done during a typical pooltraining are in group there is a form of competition involved. If you swim half a mile you don't want to stay behind and have the rest of the group wait 5 min for you to finish the half mile. etc..
A typical training would be for example:
Swim half a mile
30 secs apnee at 10 feet followed by 25 yard swim underwater
2 times 50 yards swim underwater with 1 min interval to recuperate
10 times 25 yard swim underwater with a breathing interval that counts down from 10 secs to 1 sec (= 1 breath).
Swim (using fins) 200 yards full speed then 1 min apnee (30 secs interval to catch breath)
Swim 6 times 25 yards ... between every 25 yards get out of pool and do 15 push ups.
etc
I do consider the above sport... it has serious physical strain and there is an element of competition: Against the others in the group and against yourselve (not giving up, finishing the exercise).
So diving itselve no sport, training is sport!
candudave
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According to the Cambridge dictionary sport
noun
1 [C] a game, competition or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job:
I think it fits.
noun
1 [C] a game, competition or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job:
I think it fits.
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