Sports Noobs against Pros - spawned from tdarko's tennis thread

[bravos1]

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I'm an athletic dude but not a professional sportsman.

I wouldn't be able to:
score a goal against a goalie


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This I disagree with, a penalty kick against a soccer goalie from anyone who can kick a ball reasonably well would hit the net at least 20% I would guess.



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While I agree with this you can't call penalty shots a good indication of soccer playing. Likewise, many relative amateurs would stomp Shaq and similar NBA players in a free throw contest, but what does that mean as far as overall hoops skills?

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True, but there are also many amatuers that can beat a random golf pro even after 18 holes. It happens every year in the open events. This is why I stated noob and not amatuer. I doubt that any person that has never shot a freethrow could outshoot even Shaq from the line (debatable). But even if you think about it from an amatuer since, you could take a highschool player and he could potentially beat Shaq in one one one if Shaq was required to dribble and run, etc, but we are not talking about amatuers like LeBron James and Freddy Adu before they turned pro.

[jdl22]

It may be possible to last five rounds in a fight if someone was very fit and did nothing but run around the ring trying not to get hit. If someone actually tried to fight it would not work at all obviously.

[bravos1]

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It may be possible to last five rounds in a fight if someone was very fit and did nothing but run around the ring trying not to get hit. If someone actually tried to fight it would not work at all obviously.

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Like So??

[beckham9]

perhaps table tennis could be done. the boxing would be the hardest by far i would assume. and running away would not work. you see that avatar someone has with the dude who runs over to the ropes and is followed an knocked out?

[mason55]

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perhaps table tennis could be done.

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bwahaha that would be one of the toughest.

[Dynasty]

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perhaps table tennis could be done.

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Haven't you ever seen Forrest Gumb. No way a noob could keep up.

As far as boxing goes, the question is whether a noob could last one minute rather than five rounds.

[daveymck]

The only sport I can think of would be motor racing of some sort, wouldnt be close starting together but with some sort of handicap maybe less poweful car or somthing would have a chance. Maybe drag racing?

[asofel]

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that's really [censored] funny

[asofel]

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Maybe if you call competitive eating a sport, the amateur might have a shot.

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Against Kobayashi? No chance.

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i'd like to cast a vote in the "negative chance" column

[Sykes]

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perhaps table tennis could be done.

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not even a chance. I would wager everything I own and will ever own on the professional in this match. Hell, if the professional was not goofing around and playing his A game, the noob would not even get a single point.