Ball Sports Vs Martial Arts?

Question

I asked a similair question a while back but I didnt exactly get the answer I was looking for I was askin the question below but i meant are ball sports harder to achieve greatness at, than martial arts for example ,and I mean self defense if you learned martial arts and you got into a situation with a very angry person they have a chance of beating you if they hit you real hard then the fight might as well be over because it only takes one hit to end a fight and for example in ball sports you can get a regular guy and theirs no way he could do anything to a well polished player no matter what thats why I was asking do you think its harder to achieve greatness in ball sports than martial arts or would you feel more accomplished knowing that no average joe could be up to par with you but if your a martial artist if you get caught then all your hardwork seems to before nothing.

Answer 1

Learning a martial art is better because in ball sports you cant use those skills in an everyday fight

Answer 2

Do not forget punctuation and sentence structure are importent, or somebody could pass out reading your question if they forget to breathe.

As for your question ever seen pro's vs joes? Also keep in mind that most ball sports are team sports, where you can rely on other people to carry some of the weight if you are having an off day. Martial arts it is your own skill, and yours alone that determines how good you become.

A also agree with rasta that while there is an off chance a untrained fighter could get in a lucky shot, there is also a chance that in 100 pitches i might happen to get lucky.

Edit for wild rice- i cannot tell you how much your opinion does not matter to me.

Answer 3

martial arts is a lot more challenging. ball sports like basketball, baseball, football, etc are just games. that is all they are, games. you can't really use your skill in b-ball in a real life situation like you can with martial arts. stop playing those stupid games and just stick to fighting.

Answer 4

Personnally, it all depends on your aptitude for martial arts, and whatever sports you think of with 'ball sports'. I like martial art better, because I - and I'm being honest here - am one of the worst players in my school when it comes to sports like the ones you listed. Yet, with martial arts, I'm pretty good, and I keep getting better. It all depends on what you like, I guess, and what you're good at. If you aren't good at martial arts, you might say that basketball is much easier to 'achieve greatness' than Kenpo, Kung Fu, or whatever you take.

Answer 5

Although some ball sports and all Mixed Martial Arts are contact sports, it is hard to compare the two because the objectives of each kind of sport are so much different. The goal in football is to tackle the player with the ball on the opposing team, not to hurt him, whereas in MMA you are trying to hurt your opponent while he's trying to hurt you. In football, the man with the ball is trying to evade you, not hurt you.

Comparing a ball sport to a blood sport is kind of like comparing open heart surgery to space exploration. There are more differences than similarities.

Answer 6

I have done both sports and MA and I have found that they both complimented each other quite well. I was able to use knowledge from each in the other.  I would go with the MA personally for I have seen it many times with my own eyes.

Answer 7

learning a ball sport is easierfor me, you should try it.

Answer 8

Umm if you mean to go Pro at then not really...

Keep in mind there are THOUSANDS of Scratch Golfers who never make the tour, who would hand your butt. Thousands of street ballers out there that against the average joe would leave them looking pitiful, but STILL aren't ready for the pros.

Landing one punch doesn't end fights... sometimes one punch CAN end a fight, but the difference between Martial Artist much like other people who play sports is that the likelihood of you landing that shot is lower, and them landing is higher.

The same as you may win a hole or two against a scratch golfer, but chances are he is going to hit better shots, and hit them more consistently.

Being an advanced level of Martial Arts is like being a scratch golfer. You aren't invulnerable, but your practice has made the odds of you winning significantly higher.

By your reasoning if someone tackled Barry Sanders in a pickup game, Barry should feel his hardwork is worth nothing..

Seriously do watch Pros vs. Joes... you will see that Professional players, even Hall of Fame ones still will sometimes lose, get tackled or get covered...

h**l if someone can keep Jerry effing Rice from getting a touchdown on a passing route... does that make Jerry Rice suddenly not the GOAT?

I would say it is much harder to acheive greatness in Martial Arts simply by numbers...

How many GREAT Martial Artists or even fighters can you name?

How many great ball sports players can you name?

Unless you are a total sports moron, I am betting you can name more great ball sport players than Martial Artists.

Since there are Millions of practicing Martial Artists out there.. and only a handful considered truly great.

And there are millions of ball sports players out there, with hundreds, thousands amongst all the sports, considered truly great...

I would have to say it is easier to acheive greatness in Ball sports.

Answer 9

to answer i don't agree.

Did someone say wild rice did not shower hence the stench?

Al know Katana as a legit good answerer.

WOW the ATL really works!! Anti Troll League. Got wild rice removed three times now as well as one for Frank the tank.

Answer 10

depends i know if some average guy attacked me he'd have no hope. But on the same token everyones played street ball in their back yard and some are pretty good. I personally think ball sports are harder but thats b/c i was never good at them.

Answer 11

This is an impossible and unreasonable comparison.  A great football player has to know one aspect of the game - his position; there are coaches, teammates, second string players, etc. to help each player do his little bit of making a team great.  The average football player has to be on the field for 5-10 minutes at a time TOPS, and gets 1-2 minute breaks between downs to re-set and get input from the coaches.  Each play lasts on average 16 seconds.  

How is that even close to fighting all out; one-on-one, with no protection but a mouthpiece, cup, and thin little gloves?  Not to mention that fights last 3 - 10 minutes depending on the format...There is no football player on earth that could go all out for 5 x 5 minute rounds without gassing.  They just don't train that way.

Your comparison with 2 guys fighting doesn't hold up too well either...I mean put Joe Namath in a defensive lineup and what would he do?  NOTHING.  He is a hall of fame QB, but put him anywhere else on the field and he'd be way below average.   Put any guy off the street toe-to-toe with a trained fighter - boxer, jiu jitsu practicioner, judoka, whatever...and the fighter will win 99% of the time.  

You ever watch that show Average Joes on Spike?  The Joes sometimes out shoot, out run, out hustle the pros in most sports...but they NEVER beat the fighters.  They all walk away humble after they have to face fighters.  

Bottom line - everybody can fight just like eveybody can throw a football or run a TD.  To be great you have to be in another class no matter what the sport, but you just can't compare team sports to combat sports...it's not the same animal.

Answer 12

martial arts is by far harder to achieve greatness in than ball sports for all reasons mentioned above.

Answer 13

It might not make me famous but.....that's not why I do it.

I can't think of a famous martial artist who set out to be famous. That being said......

I decided at the beginning of spring (while my office was putting together our softball team) to combine, for a little psychological advantage, my Iaido with softball. As I already knew I could hit the ball with a bat, logic said I could slice it with a sword. Almost. Slowpitch I'm slicing (batting)  about .900(nine out of ten) but fast pitch I'm lucky to hit .333(about one third). We are hardly Pro but it certainly is fun, and to watch the expressions from the other team during warm-up is priceless. I've considered putting my jersey # on the back of one of my practice Gi.

For summer and a little outside fun, it sure beats tameshigiri, not to mention the sheer fear it puts into the other team,  but I recommend picking up a decent alternate blade that is rated for cutting.

:::WARNING::: it is possible for your blade to shatter (hasn't happened to me) if a fastball were to strike the side of the blade. I recommend a Hidari-kesa-giri as this would minimize the fallout from shrapnel.

'To strike fear in the heart of your opponent, is to have already won'

Answer 14

You really have no clue what you are talking about. And the idea that "anybody can land a lucky punch and beat anybody else" is a ridiculous myth. "Anybody" can't "swing wildly and land a punch." I have untrained, rugged guys come in my gym all the time and swing wildly on me. They are very easy to defend and counter punch. And I am a very average, non-professional, neophyte level boxer. The "Average Joe" has absolutely no chance at all of landing a "lucky punch" on a well trained and skilled boxer or striker, let alone a "lucky punch" hard enough and well placed enough to end the fight.

Any pitcher in the major leagues could throw me a hundred pitches to me, and I doubt I'd hit one of them. But if I were to box against a well trained professional caliber boxer I would have no greater chance of landing a "lucky punch" that would floor him. I'd be lucky to touch him at all and I train at boxing.