My personal guess is probably snowboarding. The couple times I did it as a kid I picked it up pretty quick and my naturally good leg strength would be a decent advantage there, while my disadvantages (hand eye coordination, arm strength) are a lot more muted. Given a Snowboard Kid family thing I might have gotten pretty good
Probably gymnastics. Especially when I was younger. The growth spurt I hit at around age 12 really hurt a lot of my odds I think, but without that I have a lot going for me. Flexibility, awareness of my own body in space, and naturally quite slender. If I was cis it would go even better. I doubt I would ever have been Olympic level because that is just unlikely, but I probably could have done well with it.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I was the worst 110 meter hurdler at the state championships in my senior year of high school (but I did qualify for them!)
I probably had the best chance there, but I don't think the issue was lack of resources or time, I just don't have the temperament to become world class at anything.
This, for sure. I was an above average distance runner, my coach in high school said I had some of the best natural running form he had ever seen (and he had been coaching for like 40 years or something absurd) but fuck if I had the mindset for training, or really even competition.
Maybe if the resources included a specialized coach who could not only work on a training regimen specific to me physically but also mentally, someone who could get past all the brain spiders, ADD, depression and other ansgt in middle school/high school? Big maybe, but I sure as shit ain't built for that naturally.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I was pretty fast in my youth with sprinting so probably that. Although the seemingly hereditary bad knee wouldn't help so sorry Earth 2 Paper
I'd like to say something like shot put but I lack sufficient B E E F to hurl stuff good. That said, I'm dense enough I can barely keep my head above water when swimming because my lower body wants to sink like a fucking rock. So, the real fast swimming stuff is out. Same with anything requiring general foot speed.
I think I know in my hillbilly heart of hearts it would be shooting.
Soccer or volleyball are the only two realistic choices for time appropriate sports in my prime. I'd love to say cross country or the 400 or 800, but realistically, I was never tall enough to ever hope to be world class at those events, despite being pretty competitive (especially in the 400). However, the smaller size does help me change momentum quite fast, which leads me to my real answer:
If we could magically make it a valid sport 20 years ago, Flag Football for sure. I'm still probably in the top third or so of the rushers at the regional and national tournies I go to, with my old and busted ass 39 year old body. 18-19 year old me would be a goddamned terror.
mmmmm gosh, with pectus excavatum, or at least the state mine is in (not lethal, but stifling) my ability to do like...any sort of sport is extremely limited, at best. i can walk forever, but once any sort of exertion for anything as simple as going up hills or stairs or even just like, running, is introduced, i struggle ;n; - can we make playing the violin a sport? spoilied for being a bit heavier for the mood of this fun thread -
i think i could have been okay with it since i learned it at a high school level in a matter of months and then coasted by without ever practicing at home once and just learned by sight-reading on the fly (and memorizing that), along with studying what my classmates were doing and tuning myself to match them while we were playing. then i started failing classes because mental stuff (which i recognize now to also be heavily gender-identity related) and wasn't allowed to play the thing i loved anymore ;;n;;
- yeah, i'd go with a new(?) entry of stringed instruments : 3 (i guess perhaps naively assuming there isn't any sort of bias against trans competitors in playing stringed instruments ;n;)
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astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
I can chuck things real fucking hard, so with years of Olympic caliber training, I might be able to develop half the accuracy I would need to make that work in some sort of hurling ancient weapons competition.
Back in elementary school in the early 90s, we somehow got away with playing a hyper-violent version of "soccer" that was actually a way for the boys to kick the shit out of each other with plausible deniability in a public setting and not get in trouble with authority figures
So, if we're talking pakuprime and not current day "just trying his best not to make things worse", probably Rugby. Didn't have the stamina for cross country even when I was walking three/six miles a day, or the coordination to be anything but an outfielder despite three years of baseball, but I could kick a ball in a direction and had the proper amount of unfocused rage to give/receive physical punishment (20-25 years ago)
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You mean like MMA?
They have judo and taekwondo don’t they?
no that was a typo, marital arts
like the marriage in X of Swords
they...do? There's boxing, judo, Tae Kwon Do, and both contact and non contact Karate
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sorry I misspoke, I meant bloodsport
It's the only sport I've had a world ranking in, so with some more training and some competition-grade squidgers I could get my eye in properly
Oh, so lawn darts
This, for sure. I was an above average distance runner, my coach in high school said I had some of the best natural running form he had ever seen (and he had been coaching for like 40 years or something absurd) but fuck if I had the mindset for training, or really even competition.
Maybe if the resources included a specialized coach who could not only work on a training regimen specific to me physically but also mentally, someone who could get past all the brain spiders, ADD, depression and other ansgt in middle school/high school? Big maybe, but I sure as shit ain't built for that naturally.
The hardest part would probably be standing the cold.
I think I know in my hillbilly heart of hearts it would be shooting.
I’d shred that pretty good, maybe not Gold medal, the competition is pretty stacked out there, but I’d have a shot at qualifying, I bet.
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If we could magically make it a valid sport 20 years ago, Flag Football for sure. I'm still probably in the top third or so of the rushers at the regional and national tournies I go to, with my old and busted ass 39 year old body. 18-19 year old me would be a goddamned terror.
So, if we're talking pakuprime and not current day "just trying his best not to make things worse", probably Rugby. Didn't have the stamina for cross country even when I was walking three/six miles a day, or the coordination to be anything but an outfielder despite three years of baseball, but I could kick a ball in a direction and had the proper amount of unfocused rage to give/receive physical punishment (20-25 years ago)