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Do I have to me good at it or is someone just going to pay me to do it regardless? I guess motorsport
Online Chess is now officially Esport... so that... xD
I'd be the next Hikaru Nakamura, live stream chess stuff and act cool af.
Snooker.
Are we calling chess a sport? In that case why not magic the gathering or black jack
MtG is pay to win these days (by virtue of the series shifts to crazier or more collectible cards) and blackjack is designed to be RNG hell. Why subject yourself to either of those?
I read something about how some grandmasters think so hard that they burn as many calories as pro athletes. Their brains are going so wild that it can cause extreme fatigue and the shakes.
As a stoner mtg player, some people can drink and smoke while playing. Some people start taking twenty minute turns
That’s a pretty dumb measurement. Tons of people get in the zone when high. I’m way better at soccer after getting high.
Sport should be a physical thing. If you can play the same game online (chess) then it’s not a sport.
Esport? Sure. Still not a sport, same way an email isn’t a piece of mail.
Ranked Competitive Sex.
Foxy Boxing
Disc Golf!
Ping pong. You might think all the humiliating losses as my reflexes slow down might become hard to take, but if they don't bother me now, why should it bother me later?
If esports count, I'd like to be like this guy and get a contract to play rhythm games professionally
Otherwise... Probably swimming or race walking, not too many professional sports I could think of that one can do into their 60s without wrecking their body
Rowing or swimming. As long as I'm not trying to be world record level, I won't be ruining my body. If I'm just training as much as they do, it won't be much worse than a full time job.
I would have picked skydiving, but the lead exposure is a little too much for me to want to do it as a 10 jumps a day type of job.
Wait, lead exposure from skydiving?
Marion Tinsley died at age 68 while still holding the World Checkers Championship. A number of chess players including Ivanchuk and Anand are in their 50s and still mighty strong, though not WC strength.
Isn't checkers solved? I guess it wasn't back then, but it's not exactly repeatable now.
At that time it wasn't solved and it was unknown whether Chinook was at Tinsley's level. Now it's solved in the sense that a humongous computer search has proved it to be a draw, but there is still competition between humans. Chess is generally believed to be a draw too. A mathematical or computer proof of that wouldn't change things very much though. The best way to beat another human might involve playing into positions that are lost for you, if you can get into a complex enough position to confuse your opponent into a mistake.
My brother and I would tie checkers every time if we were paying attention.
It’s basically like ticktacktoe. You have to be unaware of like 3 moves to lose.
Edit: Oh I guess when all pieces are stuck the last player with a move wins? We never knew that and would just call it a draw and play a different game instead.
I'm not a checkers player but really strong players do win games against each other. Also it was 8x8 checkers that was solved. Human competitive play is sometimes 10x10 which is probably beyond current technology to solve the same way. Tinsley played 8x8 though.
Billiards.
Race car driver
The wizard who is forcing you to do this said you have to actually be playing, you can't be in a manager or commentator type role
It's a real sport nowadays: https://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/quidditch.html
How about E Sports? I'm not competitive good, but I can play video games all day.
Cricket. There are many different roles in the team and you get to hang out outside with your teammates all day. Also, if it rains you go inside and have something to eat.
Every last one of you could have chosen drone racing and yet none of you did.
Drone racing.
Esports/mlg. I actually wanted to explore video gaming as a competitive career as a kid, throughout my teens and a bit beyond. Disability and near-death struck at 21 and dashed that, though. I still play rather well for racing games, but fps I struggle competitively due to partial blindness and loss of the use of my right hand. I use an ambidextrous Logitech G903, using both sets of side buttons (both left and right side), if you're wondering; all critical functions and movements go on the mouse, with secondary (like map, equip/use, toss item, inventory/hotbar...) remaining on the keyboard.
Also, while not a sport...
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I also looked into being a 'working guy'. My sex drive has always been -really- high, and that stupid saying 'find something you love and you'll never work a day in your life'... well, I definitely love pleasing people. Nearly all my relationships failed because of, or directly linked to, my unquenchable needs (it's not my fault you are studying for a full load of courses and I've been at it for 4 hours, okay?), so...
Oh powerlifting, and I wouldn't be competitive. Just lift whatever I could, and lose the competition, forever. I guess that's amateur though? Hmm.
I cannot imagine anyone paying me to play any sport at all.
Why not pick the laziest sport and try to become a real world Happy Gilmore ( minus all the rage enduced swearing or childish antics on the field ).
Table Tennis. (A.K.A. Ping Pong, but that's actually a trademark)
Football kicker
Ice skating and/or inline skating. Not sure how safe that is to do for so long, but I like going fast.
Not the most professional, though there are world cups, but playing pétanque is surely something you can do til 65 and beyond!
Olympic walking. I'll be taking it really really easy. I'll have headphones and an ice cream cone
Snooker.
This or some other cue / billiard sport. The question doesn't specify I have to be good at it.
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