Top 10 Most Painful Sports to Play
Players get broken bones and even worse injuries from playing. This is a very brutal sport (though not at all times).
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. I'm only 13 years old, and I've seen my teammate get his ankle cut open, and my friend broke her arm when we were even younger. Hockey can also be about heroics. Players jump in front of a puck and at least try to keep playing even if they are already injured. Even at a young age, you are still at risk of injury.
I play as a goaltender for a travel team, and even though we have not yet experienced checking, which is slamming people into the boards, we can still get hurt. I've been hit in the throat with a puck many times and even got myself cut by the blade of a skate. They intentionally make younger kids' skates less sharp for that reason.
It may only be my opinion, but from my experiences, hockey can be a very dangerous, painful, beautiful, and exhilarating sport. That's what makes this sport worth fighting through the pain and taking risks for.
Wear a face mask if you enjoy having two eyes.
Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end.People might say, "It's just putting an oar in the water and moving your arms." What it really is, though, involves putting great force into pushing off with your legs. Doing a 5k with coaches watching behind you to ensure your stroke rate goes up is terrifying. Going below a certain number will mark you as the weakling.
Ergs are called a death stroller for a reason. Once you finish the warm-up, your coach assigns you workouts and meters to complete. When you get up from the erg and walk, your legs tighten up, and you will most likely fall, which could cause a serious injury. I lost 10 pounds in a month just from rowing. I now weigh 115 at 5'5", and I'm 13. This is not a sport to joke around with.
I am sorry, but most people will never know how brutal and unforgiving running and racing in cross-country and track are. You really do not have help during a race from teammates like in other sports. You are on your own. Running isn't a game anyway! It is only you and the clock. Training and racing are the same - always painful, always uncomfortable.
I run cross country and have never endured this much pain in my life. You have to be mentally and physically motivated to do this sport. While running, I experience so much pain, and to make it even worse, the hills, rocks, roots, etc., make it a true journey through the woods.
After the practices and races, you feel so good that it is over, and you know it was worth the pain you went through. Plus, you have the support of a team that is like a family to you, who will always be there for you. I recommend this sport to anyone who can take it very seriously.
Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding can also be considered a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. My body is 12% scar tissue, not to mention the gnarly injuries I've endured.
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Diving - It hurts when you get it right. You can get instant bruising, broken ribs, cough up blood, concussions, nausea, and open cuts.
And now let's move on to the serious injuries: shoulder dislocations, chronic neck pain, back problems, other dislocations, and serious head injuries (think Greg Louganis) if you hit your head on the springboard.
And then, of course, there is probable death if you hit your head on the platform.
I reckon horse racing can be really dangerous because a horse could crush you without proper training.
Boxing is a martial art and combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.. This is a very bloody sport. I can't believe it isn't number one.
Imagine getting punched in the face...
You do NOT understand the pain! Bleeding from your toes becomes routine. And if you do not think it's a sport, you're right - it's like a sport, only harder. So, boom.
Try putting all of your body weight onto two big toes (pointe), and you'll know the pain. Also, it's really easy to get stress fractures in dance - I would know.
Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The goal of the sport is to immobilize another person using techniques that cause intense pain. For example, imagine having someone bend your arms, back, neck, and legs in ways they're not designed to bend in order to force you to submit because it hurts too much.
Wrestling… the pain is horrible. Let's say you're playing football with your friend, and you get nailed. That hurts pretty bad, right? Imagine that happening to you for an hour and a half straight, with no water breaks, and the heat turned all the way up, for three months straight.
To top it off, you have to starve yourself to cut weight. Then the next day, you go to a tournament, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to wrestle five matches.
Just watch the climbs in the Tour de France. The winners can take the most pain.
A constant 3-5 hour effort puts you through the most suffering ever.
It's the most painful sport - climbing mountain passes, which can exceed a 22% gradient, with lactic acid running through your legs, and your heart rate constantly nearing 200 bpm. This is the most competitive sport.
Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control.
Mixed martial arts is a full-contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, from a variety of other combat sports and martial arts.
Motocross, I think, is one of the most painful sports on the planet. You have to invest a significant amount of time, work, and money into it. Moreover, a single crash could ruin your life or prevent you from doing certain activities.
Additionally, it is possible to sustain such severe damage in this sport that the chance of death is relatively high. I believe these factors contribute to making motocross one of the most painful sports on the planet.
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played between two teams using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick. I've played box lacrosse my whole life. It's different from regular lacrosse in that everyone is a little more violent than in lots of other sports. We can hit way more and get into fights often. Along with the fact that most players can shoot 70+ mph with a heavy rubber ball, I've seen four people get hit in the throat by shots in one season alone. Most of them took a quick water break and went back in.
Once, I got hit by a shot right on my chest, and ever since then, if I sit in a strange position too long, my ribs start to hurt. In just 28 years, 23 people have died in this sport.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is played with a spherical ball. The objective is to score the ball in the other teams goal.
Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground. People don't understand how painful it can be. You've got to push yourself to your limit until you just can't move. After a while, you might even get bruised.
It takes all your force, agility, and teamwork. You have to make sure not to switch lanes or pass the baton too late. It's a lot of stress because, even though you're on a team, when you're running, you're alone. I have a team, and I am the fastest, so my team depends on me to win. It's stressful, like a lot of sports.
Swimming is an individual or team sport and activity. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with events in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. I have done swimming all my life, and it hurts so much. I feel like I'm suffocating all the time. Don't even get me started on butterfly or long-distance. You can feel the lactic acid building up, and your coach yelling at you for needing to breathe just to live.
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding.