I wouldn’t disagree with it being like art, but also, you can objectively measure quite a lot of sports, I think. In some sports/roles age isn’t as much of a disadvantage I think, but probably in quite a few sports it is.
Speaking as a 57yo, I sure wish there was some sport where age wasn’t a disadvantage. Is getting your knees to make weird noises when you stand up a “sport”?
Well I mean, age is a disadvantage to most things except life wisdom, and there’s not really many sports centered on that. But if we make the definition “games”, then there is. Chess, for one? Until you start losing your memory in the old age, one would think experience just improves chess play. Hard to really call it a sport though. I think something like archery or shooting in general might not be too bad. You’re pretty stationary, it’s not about reaction times (unless you’re doing skeet or something) and it’s mostly about technique. Like that Turkish Olympic winner? He could’ve been 50, easily.
But what is always definitely a disadvantage is inexperience, I would say. Which is what youth basically is.
Middle-aged professional athletes, perhaps?
Fair. I think proper sports play is more akin to an art, but no doubt your physical prime is past you at a certain point.
I wouldn’t disagree with it being like art, but also, you can objectively measure quite a lot of sports, I think. In some sports/roles age isn’t as much of a disadvantage I think, but probably in quite a few sports it is.
Oh for sure. I don’t disagree in the slightest.
Speaking as a 57yo, I sure wish there was some sport where age wasn’t a disadvantage. Is getting your knees to make weird noises when you stand up a “sport”?
Well I mean, age is a disadvantage to most things except life wisdom, and there’s not really many sports centered on that. But if we make the definition “games”, then there is. Chess, for one? Until you start losing your memory in the old age, one would think experience just improves chess play. Hard to really call it a sport though. I think something like archery or shooting in general might not be too bad. You’re pretty stationary, it’s not about reaction times (unless you’re doing skeet or something) and it’s mostly about technique. Like that Turkish Olympic winner? He could’ve been 50, easily.
But what is always definitely a disadvantage is inexperience, I would say. Which is what youth basically is.