Its not that I find tennis that boring a sport to watch (that honnor is a tie between cricket and lawn bowls) its just that I don't see how people can watch it for up to 6 hours. I mean for starters, you need at least 3 sets to win, and so you have to wait for forever before the competition actually starts to heat up and secondly they are doing the same time over and over and over again. I mean theres only one camera angle on the court, and the bulk of every single match basically consitis of each guy running a bit to their left, hitting the ball, shouting, while the other guy runs to the left, shouts and hits the ball and it takes them a gazzilion of these before someone scores, let alone does an actual good shot. I bet I could record a tape and play it at any tennis competition and no one could tell the difference.
No to be a good spectator sport, stuff has to actually happen, and I never get why people pack into see 8 men swimming a thousand laps in a pool, or run around a field for 90 minutes, thus I present to you my list of actual good spectator sports
- Figure Skating- Ok well as I figure skater I was always going to put this at number one, but it actually is a really good spectator sport. people skate for either 2 1/2 or 4 minutes, both times equally within someones short attention span, and the skating is interesting. Instead of doing exactly the same thing, figure skaters jump, spin, footwork sequences, its to music, and everyone is wearing a pretty costume, not to mention that part of the point of figure skating is to look good, so theres tons of audience interaction and its designed to be interesting, how can you not like a sport that is designed to be interesting. Also unlike many sports *cough*cricket*cough* they don't take forever in between programs, no theres skating, the skater gets off the ice where they wait for there scores which are delivered in less than a minute, after getting the scores the next skater gets on the ice, and we begin again. bam, its that simple, and although they do sometimes go over the highlights of the program, it always under a minute and there is not incessant repetitions of the same throw from 50 different camera angles in slow mo and whatnot.
- On a similar note, Gymnastics. Very similar to figure skating, its a sport that is ment to be watched, so and contains the vital 3 things, short periods of time you have to pay attention 2, interesting (and really incredible things happening, thats the thing with these sports, everyone can run around on a field, but very few people can launch themselves into the air, or comptenplate some of the spin positions like a gymnast or figure skater) things happening constantly happening, and no repetition of said things happening. Gymnastics loses out to figure skating, because figure skating is just the best, and also because some of the events like the vault theres a long waiting time between stuff happening, although you can usually spot someone warming up something cool, anywho
- diving- again like figure skating and gymnastic, drivers do incredible things, always interesting, always different, downside is there is usually a long wait between dives, but still, very impressive and good to watch
Notice how small the list is, that is because there are very few actual good spectator sports, I mean I am not a higly sporting person, but I'm pretty athletic, and even when I was really into netball, I still couldn't stand watching it being played, thus I've come to the conclusion that all sport is intrinsically boring and we should find a better way to waste our time, like write a blog that no one reads. Ohh I really need non-ratings to end
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