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In response to "agree or disagree, games vs sports: "if there's no physical risk, it's not real, and if it's not real, it's not a sport. It's a game." -- nm" by Max

Is there physical risk in golf?

Posted by David (aka David) Jun 23 '17, 12:58

Disagree strongly.

Responses:

Yes, in the sense of the repetitive toll it takes on the body to execute swings with the level of precision necessary. -- nm - znufrii Jun 23, 13:09 8
- The same is true of people playing videogames. -- nm - David Jun 23, 13:12 5
  - That's just poor ergonomic interface design. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 23, 13:14 4
    - Any action that requires repeated replication of the same movement will take a toll on the body. - David Jun 23, 13:19 3
      - "Time to raise my APM!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 23, 15:10
      - Which is why I'm arguing that risk does not, in and of itself, make it a sport. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 23, 13:27
      - see: groiny's groin -- nm - oblique Jun 23, 13:20
- Shoulder and back pain = sports. Wrist and thumb pain = not sports? -- nm - Mop Jun 23, 13:12 1
  - Ditto my response to David. -- nm - znufrii Jun 23, 13:16
Getting run over by Trump in his golfcart -- nm - Amoxy Jun 23, 13:08
The guy talking metrics yesterday have a story about a presentation he made a Goldman Sachs. - Mop Jun 23, 13:03 4
- What surprised me was, there are multi million dollar prizes for video game competition -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 13:24 2
  - My boy is gonna help me retire! -- nm - Mop Jun 23, 13:26 1
    - NFL first round draft level money -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 23, 13:29
- Exactly. -- nm - David Jun 23, 13:12
argue chess and poker. -- nm - Max Jun 23, 13:02 2
- lots of great movies about physical risk involved in poker :) -- nm - crash davis Jun 23, 13:37
- Competitive games. Not sport. -- nm - znufrii Jun 23, 13:05
Tiger Woods if you are a cute blonde -- nm - peglegpete Jun 23, 12:59
lightning strikes -- nm - decline Jun 23, 12:59 5
- You've been watching too much Caddyshack. -- nm - David Jun 23, 13:01 1
  - Rat farts. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Jun 23, 13:13
- that's a risk if i'm, like, playing scrabble by the pool. -- nm - Andie Jun 23, 13:00 2
  - Everyone stay away from Andie's pool! -- nm - Max Jun 23, 13:01
  - so scrabble is a sport too! -- nm - decline Jun 23, 13:01
water hazard alligators -- nm - Epiphany Jun 23, 12:58
whoa -- nm - Spawn Jun 23, 12:58

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