An r/AskReddit thread asked the internet a simple question: which sport do people think they can play without any training? The answers, all 707 comments of them, did not disappoint. Tennis came out on top, with one commenter pointing to the belief that 12% of men think they could score a point on Serena Williams. As the thread pointed out, tennis isn’t a strength contest. It’s control and strategy, which is why a varsity player will beat a confident beginner without breaking a sweat.
Combat sports took the next beating. Boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and MMA all made the list, along with the now-famous thread quote:“Every single man you ask with ZERO combat training thinks he can fight.”Baseball, golf, darts, bowling, swimming, soccer, water polo, skiing, and even pickleball got named too. Basically, if it’s on TV, somebody out there is sure they could hang.
The whole thread is really about the gap between watching and doing. Pros make impossible things look easy, and the rest of us fill in the blanks with pure confidence. So we want to know: which sport are you absolutely certain you could play with no practice? Drop it in the comments.
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