GodricHumans, apparently, throw like gods
kadupretty much all of our sports
The rest of the post is great, but this is simply not true
sarsaparilyptusJust he good ones
You can throw things at any sports.
If you’re not a coward.
NeatoEnglish hooligans checking in.
Chess referees hate this!
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Soccer includes accurate throwing from the goalie. I'd posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.
That's all the big ones in US and EU that I can think of.
Baseball, basketball, soccer, football, cricket, rugby, hockey, what am I missing?
Lacrosse, European Handball
Good catches. They both fall under throwing, too.
The post says “based around the concept of throwing”, including soccer in that list is a stretch - soccer is entirely based on our great control over our legs and feet, the goalie throwing the ball is an afterthought.
the goalie throwing the ball is an afterthought.
Games have been lost for less.
You’re literally punished for hitting the ball with your hand in football. Have to agree with you here, bar the terminology.
That’s because we are too good at throwing balls with our hands. That’s the exception that proves the rule.
hard disagree; “concept of throwing”, imo, is accurately predicting some complicated physics and then making the split second adjustments to fling an object from your body elsewhere with enough force to be useful; that it’s kicking rather than hand based doesn’t seem relevant imo, it’s still about accuracy and weird spin and dexterity.
I’d posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.
That’s just throwing with extra steps.
Ditto kicking.
Football hooliganism is also based around accurate throwing of objects.
Soccer is just throwing with your feet
“pretty much all” is a stretch, but it’s hard to disagree with that throwing things accurately is an aspect of a lot of our sports. And definitely the extreme dominant trait in American sports.
Yes - humans can throw things so some sports feature throwing.
Humans can kick, so some sports have kicking. Humans can punch, guess what, sports have punching. Humans can think logically, would you be surprised to hear about mind games?
I’d be more shocked if we had sports based around flying naked or extracting energy from sulphuric salts.
You’re kinda intentionally missing the point.
If you had to pick one uniquely human aspect to group together as many sports as possible, what would you pick?
Teamwork is out because wolves hunt in packs and lions hunt in prides. Logic is arguable, everything we do is based in either emotion or logic, so it’s not a good answer imo.
So what do you have left? Kicking and throwing are probably your best bets.
what would you pick?
If I want to create a set with the largest amount of sports? They’re team based. Humans are particularly good at forming teams, recognizing team members, allocating mental tasks to others and deep communications. In fact, these characteristics are a very large reason behind our taste for sports and cheering.
team work is out
Huh… if team work is out because wolves can do it, throwing objects is out because several animals can do it.
You might say they can’t do it as well as us… but wolves can’t do team play as well as us, so the argument is the same.