What is the Hardest Sport in the World?

[@DanishMan77]

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[@alexpyles8044]

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[@namne11]

he has discovered the biggest bait for men of culture.

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

@DanishMan77 Not remotely click bait. The video features the title subject.

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

Men Of Culture: Bon Jour. ;)

[@Quilt82]

In waterpolo you are 100% getting punched and kicked in the face while someone is trying to drown you.

[@Me-eq3sg]

Yes waterpolo was my sport you get kneed in the back a lot in my position. If u put your head under water it is fair game. Definitely really hard but I agree it is not a very fun sport to watch even for me with a better understanding of the sport than 99.99 % of people

[@chicken29843]

Also insane cardio

[@lirich0]

waterpolo is nothing compared to free solo because if gravity wins, you die

[@GreeGraa]

He would know this if he didn’t only watch upskirt angles

[@juliawodzinska2602]

Artistic swimmer here, big respect to waterpolo players, I cant imagine eggbeating in a crowd *and* someone is out to get me lmao

[@timpoels1911]

This is such rage bait, the engagement on this one is going to be insane

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

I just wish there was a full contact finish the intro hard e-sport video.

[@mcclunky3093]

shoutout to Ohio climbers, our state's hardest route is 100 ft from a sewage treatment plant

[@lazubug]

😮wtf!

[@stromwagon]

It's fine. The wind blows the other way.

[@lovelandfrogman9620]

Marne road?

[@mcclunky3093]

@@lovelandfrogman9620 haha yep

[@kashiro2492]

Oh yeah what is it I'm from cbus lol

[@josephdolan7566]

Multiple pro surfers have died surfing just in recent years. Pros have broken necks, backs, legs, and more. Fins on a board can slice skin easily and a board becomes a projectile weapon when wiping out. More wildlife than just sharks too, jellyfish, stingrays, and sea urchins are all part of surfing.

[@retlom779]

also because the waves sucks away water from the beach alot of times there are very sharp corals or rocks right bellow the water you can see and when you crash. the water will push into it and it tunrs BAD

[@frenche2480]

Also if you fall in a 6/7m or more wave, there's always more coming afterwards, so you get stuck, the big waves pushes you underwater, then you have a secomd to go back up, take a breath, and the next wave hits you. It's very hard, you have to wait for the series of wave to end to finaly come out. Now imagine with 10m 12m 15m waves... yeah people die

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

@DepressedBirder You got me bro; LOL!

[@truekejner]

As you have to learn how NOT to drown or basically die at the spot once you start surfing bigger waves it is quite a hard sport comparing to other sports like gymnastics in which your daily training routine doesnt involve survival drills, haha

[@dayton9136]

You have a one in 2.5 million chance of dying on a surfboard lol

[@karook707]

i used to do figure skating and now im a climber and i would say figure skating is like doing a slab and dyno at the same time with no direction or any sense of balance most of the time without beta

[@bananamandem7815]

Former Gymnast turned rock climber here: Gymnastics is not a little harder than rock climbing, it is arguably the hardest sport in the world. Part of gymnastics difficulty comes from having to learn so many disciplines at a high level to even be remotely close to competitive, which is why - as you mentioned - they look like sculptures, since each event uses so many muscle groups. As for the disciplines, Men compete in 6 events (Floor, Vault, High bar, Rings, Parallel bars, and Pommel horse) and women compete in 4 (Floor, Vault, Uneven bars, Balance Beam). As for scores, each routine is given a difficulty rating and an execution rating. The difficulty rating is your baseline that cannot be changed, and is added to your execution score, which can have points taken off for something as small as a pointed toe or a bent knee. On the physical side of the sport, you must have elite balance, grip strength, explosiveness, Ariel awareness, and flexibility, just to even have a shot at competing at any level, let alone professional. The mental aspect is not much easier. As you mentioned, the fails for gymnastics are not fun to watch, and I can confirm they are not fun to experience either. Falling in gymnastics could be something as little as stumbling on a landing or dismount, or slipping off the high bar and - if you land wrong - breaking bones, and that is the risk with almost every move performed at a high level. I think Rock climbing is very difficult, but gymnastics is by far leagues harder.

[@emma5757]

came here to say this. the fails he watched are no where near as bad another fails i have seen.

[@ehgeese]

I think the main reason rock climbing will fall behind with that reasoning is because you can pick and choose the disciplines a lot more. In gymnastics you are assigned disciplines and skills based on your gender, and you just have to get good at all/most of them. In rock climbing, you do have a fair few diverse disciplines with high skill ceilings (competition climbing, speed, bouldering, sport, trad, aid, ice etc) but in order to qualify as a top climber you don't need to be good in more than one or two of those disciplines. So as a sport when we talk about who the best climbers are it's totally OK to not even have touched most of the disciplines. That's not going to happen in gymnastics.

[@sarahlove9698]

I came here to say this. I never excelled in gymnastics, but I'm good enough at rock climbing. To say gymnastics is only barely harder is laughable.....but I also feel like our friend Climbing Stuff has been a bit weirdly sour lately and is just being a turd.

[@itstabularr]

Also former gymnast to rock climber 100% agree. People underestimate gymnastics so much.

[@devote]

boooooring... seriously though youre right

[@user-vi9vf2bu4q]

with all sports - professionals will make it look effortless

[@appa609]

Nah Adam does not make it look easy

[@ronczeg6453]

The thumbnail tho xD

[@gulag_inmate69]

It worked

[@ronczeg6453]

@@gulag_inmate69 I would've clicked anyway, but yup, it worked :D Nice nickname by the way

[@TheGumbyGuy]

"What sport makes you the hardest in the world?"

[@alexpyles8044]

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[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

@@TheGumbyGuy Noice.

[@5upl1an]

figure skating is very hard: you have to do the spins while also dodging Homelanders laser!

[@gaaldaniel9360]

Are they really doing that?

[@bubbyb0i6967]

The men’s Olympic rings are the pinnacle display of absolute strength and mastery of moving the human body through space, at least with the upper body. Nothing in climbing comes anywhere close to the difficulty of the insane techniques they pull off.

[@appa609]

Gymnastics could be the hardest sport if they restructured it to have a well defined goal. As it is now, it's physically demanding performance art.

[@IronJohn755]

I have to vote gymnastics. It's dangerous, violent, and the training and condition required to do anything those guys/girls do (especially guys) is totally insane. Even doing a single backflip is a rare skill. It helps that they're tiny, but it feels like the sport that the average athlete is least likely to be good at.

[@itstabularr]

As a former gymnast i have to agree. Only gymnasts will understand the crazy amount of hours you need to dedicate to become even somewhat decent.

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

Magnus Enters chat.

[@stormy1054]

He got level 20 in thumbnail and unlocked a new style lmao 😂😂

[@Barhum]

as a surfer and rock climber i can say that mastering surfing is way harder then rock climbing!

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

Once heard a friend of a friend say that if people only knew what was just a handful of yards away from them while they play in the coastline water, they would think twice. He would fly helicopters up and down the coast during times of high beach traffic.

[@fabov7751]

ok but as someone uninformed... what does mastering surfing even mean?

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

@@fabov7751 I dont think he used the correct adjective.

[@Mindcrawler23]

So you imply that you have mastered both or how would you know? Mastering anything is extremely hard or even impossible, so that's kind off a pointless measurement. I think the better measurement would be how hard it is to get into it. Starting with snowboarding or wind surfing to me definitely felt harder then getting into bouldering or indoor lead climbing. Heck, even riding a bike is harder then starting to climb. But then there is alpine multipitch or trad climbing which is a whole different beast that i never even dared to try, so there's that.

[@-gnicE-]

@@fabov7751 Teahupo'o big waves.

[@呪いのジンクス]

dude looked at 20 seconds of underwater footage of women's water polo and said "kitty kat scratches"

[@chloex7399]

The figure skating disrespect is crazy

[@sarahlove9698]

Did you see that woman's insane backbend while she's spinning on ice-skates? Sure, she just wakes up like that.

[@Kurls.]

I mean he didn't look at men's figure so no quad axel

[@Kurls.]

Wait till bro finds out they jump 4.5 revs while making it look easy

[@Rotwold]

⁠​⁠@@Kurls.yeah and compared to hockey where jumping isn't allowed while committing attempted manslaughter, it's pretty lit

[@Rotwold]

@@Kurls. yeah, compared to hockey where jumping isn't allowed while tackling your op's, it's pretty lit

[@sasha6854]

I would love to see a series where you go and try all of these sports! And then maybe revise your list as you go

[@Beam_of_Love]

Since motorsports includes endurance racing, I do think you really underestimate the physical fitness required for that. Everyone does. But piloting a race car for 2h (or more) in one sitting, especially faster ones, takes quite a toll. Oh yeah, and motorsports are still very dangerous, even with all modern safety measures.

[@J0mCD]

not only that, but also the gforces that can easily go from 3 to 5g in both braking and cornering. plus staying focussed and on the edge of grip for up to hours. definitely underrated

[@wyattmadson]

also about 6.7% of f1 drivers die while driving an f1 car (if my calculations are correct) i dont know if he realizes how dangerous motorsports are. also, i think le mans and nurburgring 24h are up there withthe hardest things in sports ever. edit: i just remembered group b 💀

[@nickdefrancis]

The car's doing the work. Not a sport.

[@wyattmadson]

@@nickdefrancis dont comment about something if you have no idea what you're talking about. even if that were true, motorcycle racing is still harder than most sports

[@nickdefrancis]

@@wyattmadson Dog are you telling me the cars aren't real? Next you're going to tell me being an airplane pilot is a sport? Get good bro, if you're relying on something else to do the work it ain't a sport, it's a hobby.

[@Tantalpyro]

In ice hockey people occasionally get their throat sliced by the skates, so I guess that makes it a bit harder too.

[@daniel1122345]

I grew up playing hockey and started climbing as an adult. I’d argue climbing is way harder. That risk is so minimal I wouldn’t even worry about it on the ice. Taking a hit on skates is probably the worst of it

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

Only by the activist ones.

[@TheRealTaco]

@@daniel1122345 are you sure you played hockey? hits are the easiest part of the physical aspect, taking pucks to the dick is way worse.

[@DustinKeiser]

If you take someone who’s never climbed before to the gym I bet they could climb a v0. Take someone who’s never surfed before it might be harder to catch a wave, it’s all subjective of course though.

[@en4833]

I mean, I was able to catch multiple waves my first day surfing. Of course they were real baby waves, but still.

[@FeatherInABook]

Genuinely, I think it's tied. Both have similar linear progressions and are both dangerous sports.

[@mikehayes3324]

As a relatively strong person, I think I climbed juggy V2 or V3 my first day in a gym, but as a pretty competent snowboarder, when I tried surfing for the first time, I was barely able to stand on the board once. Not to mention the cardio it takes to swim out and catch waves.

[@DustinKeiser]

@@mikehayes3324 ya it’s tough, also there are so many variables in surfing where the wall is always the same.

[@Henry-qt3py]

I think the difficulty of beginner surfing is overstated, if you have decent balance and strength (a rock climber should have that) then getting up on a rental board is a piece of cake. It's a gnarly sport for sure though at a high level and I know it takes serious skill and can be very dangerous even resulting in death.

[@ndazza]

Obviously the comments are gonna be filled with people telling you why you're wrong, but can I just say this shit was hilarious. The hot takes on sports you have no idea about was amazing. Quality thumbnail, quality content.

[@jeremiahjahn]

Chat GPT gave me a different list... Boxing: Exceptional cardiovascular fitness, strength, endurance, and mental toughness. Gymnastics: Extreme flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): Proficiency in multiple combat disciplines and mental resilience. Trad Climbing: Physical strength, endurance, mental toughness, technical skill, and high-risk management due to placing and removing protection. Lead Climbing (Sport Climbing): Physical strength, endurance, mental toughness, technical skill, and risk management with pre-placed protection. Ice Hockey: Physical endurance, speed, agility, and strategic thinking on ice. Speed Climbing: Requires explosive strength, speed, precision, and mental focus to ascend a route as quickly as possible. Bouldering: Demands significant power, technical skill, problem-solving, and mental toughness to climb shorter, highly challenging routes without ropes. Rugby: Physically demanding with strength, speed, and stamina; high injury risk. Water Polo: Combines swimming, endurance, strength, and physical contact. Soccer (Football): High cardiovascular fitness, agility, coordination, and strategic thinking. Triathlon: Endurance challenge involving swimming, cycling, and running. Decathlon: Versatility, strength, speed, and endurance across multiple track and field events. Rowing: High cardiovascular endurance, strength, and teamwork in repetitive motion.

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

I like this list, I'll vouch for the first 3. would have loved to try them all when I was younger. C'est la Vie

[@FaknOath]

Move number #3 to number one and you’re golden (you literally have to know boxing a long with at least 2 other martial arts to be able to survive in MMA).

[@bradman4399]

Pretty fair list but falling in surfing is insane. Like the power of a wave pulling you underiterally gave me ptsd

[@oscar_n_t]

petition for you to actually try all those sports. I bet you cant stand on a surfboard (aka a surfing v0) your first day doing it, its so hard

[@OrionReid-m5i]

@@oscar_n_t i mean, you can probably play a c major on piano first day way easier than on guitar, doesn’t mean its easier

[@oscar_n_t]

@@OrionReid-m5i yeah I didn’t say that it was harder or easier than anything else. I was more just saying it’s harder than he seems to think it is

[@oscar_n_t]

@@OrionReid-m5i and also I think a video where he tried all the sports would be funny

[@Henry-qt3py]

I think the difficulty of beginner surfing is overstated, if you have decent balance and strength (a rock climber should have that) then getting up on a rental board is a piece of cake. It's a gnarly sport for sure though at a high level and I know it takes serious skill and can be very dangerous even resulting in death.

[@Mindcrawler23]

Okay, but balancing a bicycle for the first time is at least as hard as standing on a surfboard. So would you say that basic bike riding is difficult? I mean, it all depends on the criteria, but advanced climbing for sure requires most of the different basic skills (strength, endurance, nerves, pain tolerance, flexibility, analytic thinking). Can't think of many sports, that cover such a large skillset.

[@StandardsandPractices]

"Five finger discount climbing alone" is my recommendation for getting around talking about free solo

[@DavidWKimber]

The degree to which you don't know anything about sports is hilarious, and the 'hardest sport' isn't anything that is really quantifiable at all. But, you are really funny so, you get a pass

[@CJski]

I think the best quantifier would be how long it takes on average to advance to a professional level. or something like that.

[@glopple]

@@CJskieh not necessarily because then Esports would be the hardest because in most games nowadays in order to go pro you need minimum like 10,000 hours for a lot of games or at least thousands of hours in other games. Also when you have 10,000 hours locked into a game you might not even be able to go to worlds still.

[@CJski]

@@glopple we’re talking about sports here bub

[@glopple]

@@CJski I mean if you count chess as a sport then you should count esports

[@CJski]

@@glopple who tf counts chess as a sport. Bro, we’re talking about *sports*

[@pizzapizzahotdog]

i think figure skating is much harder than climbing - core strength and body control is on another level

[@andrewandrus3296]

Surfing vs climbing is tough. I would most certainly prefer to climb El cap with a guide than to have to paddle out at Teahupoo or Waimea with a guide. If I caught a wave at teahupoo I would probably die, if I tried to climb el cap I would fail but probably not die.

[@JoaoPauloSoares61]

couldnt agree more

[@TrustinSimpson]

Certainly, but El Cap also isn't close to the most dangerous climb in the world. Climbing just about any x rated climb could certainly lead to death if you fail at it.

[@arthurg.machado6803]

You have to compare the hardest of each, which would be free solo for rock climbing VS any wave, free solo is worse. But with safeties on for sure rock climbing isn't nearly the most dangerous anymore. I'd argue is one of the safest.

[@travisladuke9662]

is someone more likely to climb a gym 5.5 or paddle out and catch the smallest easiest rideable wave?

[@KRTRWZRD]

​@@arthurg.machado6803at least you die a quick death free soloing. With surfing you get smashed first and then drown by wave after wave crashing on you slowly sucking the life out of your body.

[@andreaspetrov5951]

I think a better measurement for difficulty in sport would be: * How many hours would you have to train to reach top 10 in the world * Taking an arbitrary number, let's say 10000 people, and perform the same training as those top 10. How many of them are anywhere close the skill level required? This separates sports that require innate talent/genetics to even be competitive.

[@posapop27]

Agree! I think measuring how far the average person (with average athleticism) can progress in each sport with the same number hours of training would tell us a lot.

[@naumarcheriscool]

This is a fucking retarded measurment lmao, the "hours that it takes to get to the top" is basically determined by how many hours those at the top have put so its circular logic.

[@JohnWilfredSaunders]

If you count chess as a sport (debatable), I think that probably ranks pretty high in terms of hours needed to become expert. My view is that the bravery needed is a big factor in difficulty - ie the risk you take by playing the most violent / dangerous sports. So I’d rank highest things like boxing / MMA, free soloing, and extreme sports like skiing where there’s a risk of avalanches

[@hakesho]

The issue with any metric that involves comparison with the best is that it becomes a contest of how popular the sport is. The difficulty of reaching top 10 in a sport is largely about how many people you're competing with.

[@hybridwafer]

@@hakesho Sure but popularity drives competitiveness which drives development and evolution of the sport. This sets the baseline for what is considered proficiency in any sport.

[@jonathanhmarkham]

Ernest Hemingway famously said, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games” Surfing is insanely hard to learn because all the spots with good waves are very competitive and hard to catch waves. Like trying to learn to climb but you only get to do 1-3 moves a session. I still think climbing is harder after doing both for over 20 years.

[@ubbaderostfriese4001]

Surfing is so much harder than climbing. In any way. Fighting against the wave and current, being long time underwater with big waves and also being able to actually surf waves properly takes a huuuge amount of practice. You can climb and get good at it pretty fast. You learn lwad and trad climbing technique and you're set very quick. I've done both worlds

[@TrustinSimpson]

Certainly surfing is incredibly hard, and the barrier of entry is definitely way higher than climbing. However, the hardest sport grade in the world has only seen 3 people able to do it. The highest trad grade is 5.14d and very few have done it. V17 is the highest boulder grade and again, only a handful of people have done it. My point being, at the highest level I certainly think there's a case to be made that both surfing and climbing can be just as difficult, though I'd still think surfing probably edges out the win.

[@travisladuke9662]

and everyone in the water hates you. no one is saying "come on"

[@ubbaderostfriese4001]

@@travisladuke9662 hahahaha true! the fights over who can take the wave can be horrible

[@ubbaderostfriese4001]

@@TrustinSimpson Fair, but also consider that just a handfull of people are able to surf 20-30 m waves safely. Also very few people can land a backflip on a wave like Gabriel Medina did. However I agree that high climbing gets exponentially more difficult as you climb up grades, while surfing you're quite nicely set difficulty-wise for a long time once you overcome the entry part.

[@travisladuke9662]

every wave is a flash go

[@naumarcheriscool]

dude you are the only youtuber that makes me spill my fucking food laughing on the fucking sponsor sections 10/10 keep it up

[@lukeroberts6577]

You should check out the Isle of Man TT then rethink the motorsport one.

[@christophehuybrighs648]

As a climber who skates and surfs, I can honestly say that comparing anything is ridiculous as the difficulties lie in other areas. There is no straight comparison possible, it is a futile attempt.

[@TerjeMathisen]

We also have underwater rugby, which is like the worst parts of water polo and rugby combined, while having to hold your breath.

[@diametheuslambda]

Underwater hockey is a thing. This is a sport that punishes breathing and has gangs of people with sticks "accidentally" mistake you for a puck.

[@MR-MR-ud5oo]

Underwater hockey; LOL!

[@barreldreamz7852]

Someone who grew up surfing and rock climbing I promise you surfing is just as hard if not harder. And the fails are brutal because people die hitting the reef and people die hitting rock walls. Both brutal ALSO!!! FELLOW SOCCER HATER🤙🤙🤙🤙😎😎😎😎

[@glopple]

I think skateboarding isn’t the hardest but it imo it’s gotta be up there. It’s not physically the most impressive thing and not the most dangerous depending on which category you skate but it’s hard to be super consistent. With a lot of sports you’re not failing for most of the time. In skateboarding like you could see at the Olympics you’re failing a lot. It’s such a technical sport that i think it goes over peoples head. In order to be top tier you have to become a robot essentially.

[@danniemostert]

Skateboarding is very difficult to learn, I agree and somethings take such commitment that a lot of people would never get the necessarily experiences to learn to do certain tricks consistently anyway. But everyone who has skated (I have) knows that some people where able to excel at it living lifestyles that would be completely incompatible with being top competition level in some other sports. You could be a pro skater and basically be a drug addict, alcoholic, live a very unhealthy lifestyle with bad diet and little sleep, etc. Being a pro in most sports would not tolerate that lifestyle. I think that also counts for what makes it hard. As the dedication to training schedules, giving priority to training lifestyle instead of partying and a social life etc. is also what makes being good at some sports difficult. The kind of people who are good at skateboarding are good at it because for them it is also just a lot of fun to spend hours on the street with your friends, while also if you would want you could still be getting high, drinking beer, joking around, being free and creative. A lot of those people would not at all be able to spend the same 'training hours' on more traditional sports because very likely they would get just bored. Some very good skaters are also just not athletically built. I know some skaters very much are athletically built and are very fit. But looking at the history of skateboarding it is very easy to see you do not have to be to be a pro.

[@MarioNowas]

Surfing can be really dangerous if you get caught in an undertow of a wave, you lose orientation. And if it's quite shallow, the force of the wave slams you into the, sometimes even rocky, ground. You get unconscious and could potentially drown. Btw please look up Kitesurfing. Pros jump up to 36m (i think something around 120 feet) and do crazy S loops, double or even triple loops in Big Air. During that time, they have a free fall time. If they're not catched by the kite, they slam into the water from that height.

[@JanbekOzturk]

Endurance, Pain Tolerance and Consequences, my man you are describing the sport of Surfing. At first sight, having no concrete seems OK but physics aren't really on your corner. It's like getting hit by a concrete-truck that's also trying keep your head under the water for 30 seconds. Falling wrong will easily kill you in most spots in the world as well as getting stuck inside and SHARKS EAT YOU.

[@josephdolan7566]

Plenty of razor sharp reef out there too... Also the amount of ocean knowledge needed to even catch a wave is worth mentioning. Hell even sitting on a board out the back with swell bobbing you around takes skill.

[@matejnovosad9152]

Bro surfing is dangerous but way too easy physically to be anywhere up top

[@Unknown-eg7mf]

Body type plays a big role in deciding what sport are harder. A gymnasts wounded typically do good in rugby and a rugby player in gymnastics. I am sure rugby player can do basic gymnastics and gymnast can do basic rugby skills, but at the end of the day have to do what your body is best build for. Gymnastics - Short and light Rugby player - any size, but tall and heavy helps, and big bone structure

[@cale115]

The hardest thing skill wise, not enduring or physically, but pure skill, is hitting g a baseball pitcher at 95 plus mph that is moving crazy.

[@alexandermuller8587]

Before I watch the video: Depends what you define as hardest. If it is the the one with the biggest competition, then it is the most popular sport. Excluding team sports because then you theoretically could coast on your teammates backs. Then the answer would be tennis. If it is the most uncomfortable sport then something like 400m running. Something that gives you very high lactate values. If it is the most dangerous then something like cavediving. If it is the one you have to put the most hours in then it's ultradistance running or cycling or swimming. If it's the hardest to get into because it's expensive then it's F1 racing.

[@Snazzy16]

I would say Motorsport is arguably the hardest. Driving a car at multiple g forces, the heat in the cockpit, the crashes, the reaction time. It’s hard, very hard. You go into it with the impression that you will die anytime you get into that car. They also do it while it’s raining. Watch the Roman grosjean crash and you will understand how dangerous and hard this sport actually is.

[@ragegaze3482]

But it probably has very few competition compared to most sports on this list due to barrier of entry no? I would assume the hardest sport would simply be the one with the most people pretty much, the hardest to be pro at would be the sport with the most competition in most cases outside of extreme sports where the lack of competition is because it's so dangerous. Meaning doing the sport at all is hard. Although I'm assuming by hard we are talking about reaching a pro level

[@anelivb]

I did track and field for years before I started climbing. I also tried pole vault once. The pole snapped back and hit my coach in the nuts... I was not permitted to try again 😂

[@Alex-vc8ef]

How hard each sport is to pick up and to get somewhat decent at should be taken into account imo

[@barkni1913]

I played ice hockey for 8 years and my sister is a figure skater. I took up climbing as a more relaxed hobby lol. The injury risk in just normal training for both is just so much higher than climbing. My opinion on this has also been increased working as a first aider at the rink, calling ambulances all the time

[@tickenman_thebestgdplayer]

6:02 You don’t just fall into water when your surfing. A lot of Australia’s biggest waves are on top of shallow reefs, and when the wave sends you over the falls it slams you straight into floor.

[@whelmking6497]

Physically, nothing is harder than gymnastics. As Ido Portal says: gymnasts can do everything you do pretty well, but you can't even touch what they do. If you add in the mental/risk side, it's gotta be surfing, boxing/mma, or water polo.

[@olivertemp2003]

obviously its rock paper scissors

[@disgruntledwookie369]

As someone who did gymnastics as a youth and now a climber, I can confidently say that gymnastics is way harder. Like it's not even close. Gymnastics is definitely the hardest sport. It requires elite physical strength, mobility, and conditioning and that's without even talking about the skill it takes to do those tricks. Most people struggle to do a few pull ups or walk from one end of the beam to the other. Gymnastics is one of those things that unless you try it yourself you can't appreciate how hard it is.

[@GarryPadle]

Ever stepped on a skateboard without falling off, let alone jumped on a rail with it flipping underneath? Ever climbed V15? Ever ran 100m under 10 seconds? Point is, every sport is insanely hard, stop comparing sports. Mr. Head of Church of Dynology is not seriously comparing stuff.

[@Nielson_Memories]

If gymnastics is the hardest sport then parkour/free running is the number 1 above the number one. Gymnastics is just restricted walking on beams/swinging bars where parkour/free running actually goes beyond it

[@disgruntledwookie369]

@@Nielson_Memories to be fair... I'll give you that. Parkour is gymnastics on concrete with big consequences

[@middle-agedclimber]

​@@Nielson_MemoriesYou've gotta be kidding...

[@mxpxorsist]

@@Nielson_Memories and parkour is just a subdiscipline of climbing :P

[@Bachvent]

I think you mean rock climbing as sportive climbing but I'd argue that real mountaineering in hard, committed routes is one of the most extreme human experiences. The mental, technical and physical commitment, because the only way out is up, the dizzying heights in exposed sections, the lack of water, the hunger and extreme solitude, the UV, the high altitude, the physically/metabolically demanding effort, the organisation and the knowledge of the mountain and the environment in general required to prepare for major climbs in high altitude alpine climbs is unique to mountaineering of great difficulty. For example, I consider climbing great north faces/big wall like the Walker at the Grandes Jorasses, the Eiger's north face, or the Cerro Torre in winter to be the pinnacle of the human sporting experience. There is always a risk of falling, and the consequences of such a fall in sections or entire routes where the equipment is poor and/or the rock unprotected are systematically fatal. If you're not skilled and fast enough, your food will run out and you'll die of hunger, cold or thirst. You can suffer cerebral or pulmonary oedema or simply acute mountain sickness, you can get lost and suffer the same fate. If you lose a glove, you lose your hand; if you lose your sunglasses, you lose your sight; if you drop your ice axe, you're dead; if you drop your rucksack, you're dead and so on. If you get the weather wrong or get caught in a thunderstorm (which can happen quickly in the mountains), there's a real risk you'll be struck by lightning. Then the crows will feast on your eyeballs while your body waits, dangling from a rope, for your mates to take it down so that your mother can see you one last time. You can also be caught under an avalanche like a few of my friends. My father (a mountaineer and guide) used to say: "I'm nostalgic for the time when avalanches only existed in books and when friends were immortal ". Surfing costs the lives of many of its practitioners because of currents, accidents or even sharks (rare), just like paragliding or base jumping, but the combination of extreme technical, physical and mental difficulty, the need for knowledge of the rock/ice, the environment, the weather AND the inherent danger that can mean death at every turn is in my humble opinion, unique to alpinism. Anyway, great video, a lot of fun as always !

[@gordonsulc8319]

Look up WRC and Isle of Mann TT to correct your understanding of Motorsports.

[@ebbemortensen9764]

Regarding Motorsport, you should see the stress that F1 drivers are under for 2 hours straight. They might not need the fingerstrength of a rock-climber, but it is so unimaginably intense. Doing up to 5G multiple times a minute for extended periods of time for up to 2 total hours losing up to 4kg of waterweight. That shit is insane!

[@boulderink]

“Basically play golf” is amazing 😂

[@QuackQuackQuack]

You may have put motosport at #1 if you saw Isle of Man TT. Skill, endurance, reflex, memorising everything, insanely high risk.

[@ndazza]

That's not a sport. It's a sewer side pact

[@dayton9136]

MMA makes them look like chumps. Easy to plan and memorize everything when you don't have another person trying to kick you in the face or choke you out

[@Hiimken123]

27:53 I used to travel for bowling comps, and the only reason I can see bowling being one of the hardest sports is if people had to use the same bowling balls used in the 90s(?). A huge part in bowling is oil patterns, and as bowling ball tech gets better, the less of an impact oil patterns have (at least in my opinion).

[@JoaoPauloSoares61]

as a handball player i'd add it to that list. it's brutal af, and you need a lot of endurance and skills to be half good at it. defending is like fighting and you have to be very good to score against a good defense and a good goalie.

[@RPGgrenade]

I feel like this isn't fair when you don't have someone who's a practitioner of the sport to defend themselves. I would argue that physicality of rock climbing and its puzzle solving aspects definitely put it up there for sure, but there are other crazy sports out there where the difficulty comes not from the physical, but being able to remain absolutely zen despite death's door knocking (freediving comes to mind). A lot of these sports have also had fatal outcomes from them as well, with not muhc in the way of doing them with actual safety precautions. I know this is all tongue in cheek but having some pros to talk to would be pretty cool.

[@stanlay204]

Hardest is a wage term. Sometimes, you compare the difficulty of learning, the difficulty of performing, and how dangerous it is, and you also completely avoid the mental aspect of the sport. I find individual sports very mentally challenging as you are on your own, and there is a lot of competition. If you want to succeed, you need to do your best. Your life probably depends on others supporting you, and you don't want to fail them. Then you have one competition once a year, and if you are not prepared, you are out...

[@milkymat]

As a British person, hearing someone say “rugby is British people’s football” is about as triggering as it gets

[@ItsJustWolff]

The thumbnail LMAO

[@JahaGara-xt3rv]

Climbing is hardest, we got free climbing, we get rocks flying at us that we dodge, we only use our fingers and we do suck dynos and when we fall we get hit hard or have to swim

[@YarYarDaBar3111]

A good surfing documentary is "riding giants". Directed by stacey peralta. I didn't know much about surfing prior but yea its nuts.

[@JohnMcMuffinWindsor]

I would say it has to be an extreme sport like skateboarding or snowboarding, surfing or mountain biking or bmxing

[@lobi8730]

water polo is insane, i played for a few years and it is by far the hardest sport i have ever done in my life. you need to be good at so many different things to be good at water polo

[@agasteenbrink]

Strong thumbnail game lmao

[@sethsporrer9941]

I’m from Northern California and our surfing is very dangerous, and it doesn’t add up to even a tiny bit compared to big waves elsewhere. Big wave surfers are like the free solo climbers of surfing. One mistake and your time is up 100%. Also great videos man! Love the funny aspect

[@catmoonkenobi]

I'm from NZ and I'm all about you saying Rugby is harder than climbing 10/10 analysis zero complaints who could possibly argue with you man. But in all seriousness aside from some of the big boys up the front they're super well-rounded athletes. The strength to cardio to endurance ratio is off the chart.

[@TheCadocas]

Kinda did all of them, and can confirm that by a long mile, surf is the hardest. Especially starting off.

[@austinreid3378]

Fr hardest learning curve

[@naumarcheriscool]

Lmao, I also did quite a bit of them and no way, surfing is above a lot of the sports in the list. Boxing is 100x harder, with a steeper learning curve as well. It takes 2-3 years of continued practice just to start sparring, probably 5+ to seriously step into a ring of any kind.

[@Iluvsrocks]

ex-competitive surfer turned trad climber here! Both are equal in scariness and mental head game, but I find climbing harder on the body overall and surfing harder to progress in if you don't grow up in the sport. Just my personal opinion

[@chrishill5511]

"surfing harder to progress in if you don't grow up in the sport." This is true. Rock climber for 45 years, tried surfing in my 40's. Caught a few easy waves but realized that to get good at it I would need to spend a hell of a lot of time bobbing up and down on that board. Only kids have that much free time.

[@JohnWilfredSaunders]

I think there are very distinct dimensions of difficulty which may or may not be correlated… How hard something is to learn skill-wise (e.g. skateboarding tricks) is different to sheer physical attributes needed (100m sprint / deadlift), which is different again to bravery in the face of risks (free soloing). It would make more sense to me to consider the hardest on each dimension (and there are probably more like pain tolerance, endurance etc), rather than look for an overall ‘most difficult sport’. Ultramarathons and MMA are both insanely difficult, but in such different ways that it’s comparing apples and oranges

[@Mullet-ZubazPants]

Hockey takes the most collective skill of all these sports. Just getting from point A to B takes an uncommon skill, skating. But just because you're a great skater doesn't mean you can stick handle with a puck, or pass, or shoot... all this while someone is trying to run you over like a Mack truck

[@jgfylkjy]

the guy who shat himself was free soloing while very hungover

[@PortRhouse]

I don’t know, I think I’d take a nasty whipper any day before trying to surf a big wave, then falling and getting held underwater for 1 minute+ all while being thrashed against whatever sharp rocks might be down there and just trying not to drown. At least from a fails perspective, surfing definitely seems worse if we’re excluding free soloing.

[@pedropauli5018]

I love these shitpost kinda videos, you're the most funny on them lol

[@icedempyre6029]

Hell yea brother!!! I grew up playing ice hockey and while these days I am more into rock climbing I'm definitely proud of its placement and was wondering for the whole beginning of the video if it would be in there.

[@TheBonboni11]

As a surfer and boulderer, I'd say surfing is MUCH harder. For bouldering, either you make the move or you don't, or you try hard for a few seconds, but it's only tension and power. Then you get to chill for, like, 10 minutes laying on the mat. Break an ankle if things go really bad but thats about it. Nothing has brought me to my limits in my life like some sessions of surfing did. You are dying because your arms are toast from paddeling, you're super exhausted from all the wipeouts and holddowns, especially on a messy big day. Yet you can't give up because you'd literally drown. You get slammed and cut on the reef. It can be humbling.

[@ndazza]

Let me introduce you to the term "highball"

[@sethsporrer9941]

“Everybody knows how to drive a car” Come to La dude

[@nvp905]

10:29 as a motorsport enthusiast I must say motorsport is one of the most physical sports ever.

[@IEnoro]

If I had to rank them, leaving out surfing and motorsports because I know nothing about them: 1. Gymnastics 2. Decathlon 3. Figure Skating 4. Boxing 5. Waterpolo 6. Ice hockey 7. Rock climbing 8. Rugby

[@thequestionable2303]

The pure strength and athleticism of gymnastics is pretty crazy, especially men’s

[@carljohantihkan2035]

1.Strogn man 2.Motor sports 3.High altitude mounteneering/climbing/alpine climbing 4.MMA 5.Wingsuit flying from basejumping 6.Cave diving 7.Big wave surfing 1.Do you want to wrestle a 160-210kg man thats around 190-208cm? One wins when the other is on the ground or outside fo the ring. Steroids are needed and life expectance is therefore lowerd. 2. On average 2 people die in isle of man, Nürburgring Nordschleife claims 3-12 people each year and about 170 form just this track, 70 of these where proffesionals. 24h endurance races, at the Nordschleife, F1 pulling mad Gs and finally air racing pull over 10 Gs (10,6G!!!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fae9faV7gdWqobM 3. Do you count summiting a mountain climbing or mounteneering as on its own? Beacuse 96 of people died trying to summit K2 and 800 ish har survived. Also the insane acclimatization needed and endurance + normal alpine climbing. 4. As you mentioned boxing wtf? No kicks to the head, elbows knees, locks, throwing, swiping or grappeling pfff.... Rest is extremely deadly and all beat "normal climbing" you and I enjoy as rock climbing but if you group in summiting. When disgussing Big wave surfing you missed the part where a shark can rip your arm off at any time... and the waves are not like in your wave machine pool, Immagine being tackeld by the rugby dude, and then thrown into a washing machine.

[@Adr3nalin3CsGO]

Rally cross championships are crazy hard. I'm surprised that Motorsports video didn't include crashes from there

[@gengu467]

that motorcycle guy might just have done the fastest 0 to 100 backflip ever recorded

[@eliasgermer8762]

In my opinion, figure skating and gymnastics should be considered the hardest on this list. Just learning the basics seems extremely hard. Furthermore, it is one of those sports where, in competition, you ether do it perfectly or you are out.

[@rankala]

"Everyone can drive a car, you just need to expanding on that knowledge" Hottake: "Everyone can climb a ladder, you just need to expanding on that knowledge" Still thinking climbing is harder

[@Icetemplar]

You should do a follow up on AFL (Australian Football League). It's a very tough sport with a lot of technicallity to it as well. It's the biggest sport in Australia.

[@eemelirytkonen6904]

Downhill biking/Enduro/slopestyle should be on the list

[@josuezelaya_samara]

The motorsports may not be a lot of strength sometimes but endurance and also mentality

[@filbert9462]

Justice for tennis 🧎‍♂️

[@bullydungeon9631]

I was doing lead climbing on run out slab for the first time the other day and even though it was super easy i was scared half to death lmao, low tough boulders are quite a bit mentally easier than almost everything LOL

[@jiehua5340]

How hard can rock climbing be? I did v2 my first time, I can easily do that 9x so v18 can’t be that hard

[@matejnovosad9152]

I used to play ice hockey from 5 to 15 and now in my 20s I rock climb. And hockey is crazy. It is quite difficult physically but not as much as triathlon or so but technically and coordination wise it is crazy hard to be good at.

[@nathanielgerow4167]

I’ve been climbing and skateboarding each for 10 years consistently, and I can say that skating is definitely harder than climbing. Sad it didn’t make it onto the list.

[@rryannnnn]

I can't wait to see your take on this year's climbing Olympics!!

[@unlearningcommunism4742]

Waterpolo is played in Europe, especially in Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro), Hungary, Italy and Spain. Greece, France, Romania are way below. Try watching some good game Serbia vs Croatia or Hungary, for Men, and it will look waaaay better

[@prestonparker7321]

I wouldn't exactly call rock climbing a sport but more of a hobby, with that said I would agree that rock climbing would probably be the most difficult. I've probably played every sport or most every sport competitively IE golf, soccer, tennis, skiing, swimming, snowboarding, table tennis, disc golf professionally, hockey, but I would have to say the sport that requires the most skill and technique, most difficult, and requires a vast amount of knowledge would be disc golf. Disc golf requires knowledge of how wind affects the flight of a disc, which disc to use in different situations, and then is huge on form. Second most difficult would be tennis, and I'm speaking in terms of being competitive. I'd like to know if you've played disc golf and to hear your thoughts.

[@lusteraliaszero]

esports is undoubtledly more difficult than rock climbing if we're just talking the skill required to be the best, it's a simple numbers game, esport has more competitors who invest more hours, so the talent pool is simply bigger, the barrier to be the best is bigger, in that sense esport may well be in the top 10 hardest(even if divided into the various games, multiple would place). in those terms, soccer is probably the hardest sport. if the skill floor is what defines "the hardest sport" maybe it's an iron man or an ultramarathon? most people can't do them at all, so they're "hard to do" in an absolute sense. there's no such thing as a beginner ironman because an easy triathlon is not the same sport. mentally toughest? the 1500m run and the 60m bike time trial are notoriously hard if you're doing them properly. toughest in the sense that it's risky? maybe bare knuckle boxing, free solo is up there too. some street skaters feel really suicidal.

[@Everythingcovered-ee5fo]

6:15 isn’t British football known as, you know, football