Author Topic: Which other sports/pastimes do you take an interest in? (Read 8338 times)

alan · « **on:** 24 January, 2009, 04:53:24 pm »

For me
football
archeaology

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:24:56 pm »

You mean there are other sports and pastimes ?

BornAgainCyclist · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:32:24 pm »

Sailing (instructor)
Power Boating (instructor)
Walking

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:37:30 pm »

Loads of stuff.

Walking.
Anything natural - birds, mammals, fish, trees, wild flowers, weather.
Chess.
Listening to music.
Playing the piano, mostly Beethoven & Bach.
Current affairs.
Rugby.
Tai chi.
Beer.
Maps and exploring the countryside.

numbnuts · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:43:24 pm »

Kayaking and fishing

alan · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:48:52 pm »

not playing the guitar

ChrisO · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:49:37 pm »

Sports:

Swimming (do)
Football (watch)
Cricket (watch)

and err.... do computer games count ?

Noodley · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 January, 2009, 05:51:46 pm »

Nothing much. In fact, not even too much cycling sometimes.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 January, 2009, 06:21:02 pm »

Playing the guitar badly.
Mazda MX-5s

I used to do a LOT of photography (and it's the only thing I ever had a real, exhibition-class talent for), but digital has killed it for me. You just don't know what you're looking at any more, and the old skills of precise framing (I never cropped a shot) and perfect printing have almost gone. I think I taught about 100 people to print, and that was just b/w; I did quite a bit of colour printing too before I moved house and lost my darkroom.

mike · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 January, 2009, 06:23:49 pm »

photography (badly)
learning the piano (slowly)

About the only thing I was any good at was rowing, but work took over and I didnt have time to train enough, so I started cycling instead. Shame I'm still built like a rower, really.

nightrider · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 January, 2009, 06:33:39 pm »

Music.
Play.Clarinet and Sax.

onb · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 January, 2009, 06:39:49 pm »

Squash

Caving

redshift · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:05:47 pm »

Playing at kayaking
Aikido
Walking
Playing at playing the guitar and keyboards

I'm also
Amateur guitar builder
Amateur wood turner
Amateur drum restorer
Getting into custom knife making and leatherworking
Professional procrastinator

Mostly I make stuff, but I 'have a go at' lots of things. Some stick, some don't.

TimO · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:27:43 pm »

I'm not sure I do anything else that I count as a sport, although others seem to think walking/hiking comes under that category, and I do like to go for a wander in the hills and moors when I can, camping as well if possible.

Otherwise, I'm a keen reader of science-fiction, and I've got a moderately big film and TV collection on DVD, although that's not exclusively science-fiction by a long shot.

I have been a licensed radio amateur, and I've always been interested in Electronics and Computing (well since I was a single digit age old).

I've always been interested in puzzles and challenges, mathematical recreations, knots and things of that ilk.

I've got a guitar and mandolin, mainly since my father makes them, and I can play them badly, along with the tin whistle. I don't claim an expertise, but I enjoy making some sort of music, although I doubt my neighbours or anyway else in the vicinity would have a similar level of enjoyment!

Juggling is fun, and I've been making things out of modelling balloons, mainly for my five year old niece and her friends. At some stage I've got to manage to get past the dog shaped animal and distorted teddy bear level.

I'd love to be good at photography, but I'll have to live with just taking lots of shots and occasionally getting one which I like. I've got a good DSLR, and good compact camera, and a cheap and cheerful one that lives in the bottom of my pannier, just in case. I've also still got my old 35mm SLR and compact camera, but I doubt either of those is likely to see the light of day again.

Basically I'm interested in lots of things (someone once said I seemed to be interested in everything.

), but probably not an expert in anything.

clarion · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:29:29 pm »

Quote from: numbnuts on 24 January, 2009, 05:43:24 pm

Kayaking and fishing

I'm afraid I misread that second one, in a rather NSFW way.

IanDG · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:30:21 pm »

womens beach volleyball

rower40 · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:49:04 pm »

Going backwards on flat-calm water in a ludicrously narrow vessel. Teaching others to do ~~the same~~ it better than I can.

Trains. But in a good (i.e. professional) way.

Beer. Except that I've given up drinking (for a while, anyway). I still have to look after the stuff (cleaning pipes, making sure the cellar is stocked, etc.)

alan · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 January, 2009, 07:53:11 pm »

Quote from: windy on 24 January, 2009, 07:30:21 pm

womens beach volleyball

a.k.a. bikini letching

chris · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 January, 2009, 08:50:23 pm »

I use to sail dinghies very competitvely, but having kids meant that I did not have the time to get good results. I wasn't happy with mediocre results when I knew I could do better. So I gave up completly. That led to me spending more time cycling.

I do a bit of kayaking when I get the time.

l also like playing the piano (badly), mostly ragtime and Berthoven sonatas.

Greenbank · « **Reply #19 on:** 24 January, 2009, 08:56:50 pm »

Football (watching and playing)
Cricket (watching and playing only once a year)
I play golf once a year and always think about putting more of an effort in but never do.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 January, 2009, 08:57:14 pm »

Vintage wristwatches for one. I've been in a quiescent period for a couple of years as my recreational funds, such as they are, tend to go towards cycling.

Another quiescent hobby: fly fishing and tying flies.

Jurek · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 January, 2009, 09:04:50 pm »

Music (listening, and occasionally playing the piano).
Cooking. (and eating)
Fixing stuff and building stuff - very broad, I know.
Paper engineering.
Gathering information (but only until my spaceship is fixed, after which I shall return home)

Edit - also prone to having an interest in architecture.

David Martin · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 January, 2009, 09:06:05 pm »

I fall off climbing walls for fun (at about mediocre to fair).
Play clarinet (when I get it repadded) and sax though nothing terribly hard.
The sailing dinghy gets an outing every so often.
I like taking pictures. Digital has invigorated it for me, despite me still liking film.
Child rearing also seems to take up much of my time.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 January, 2009, 09:06:23 pm »

Walking (but not so far lately)
Photography (still with a manual film camera)
Listening to music
Playing the piano (slowly getting better again)
Beer
Edit: and astronomy (not much recently with small children waking up at night)

andygates · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 January, 2009, 10:03:37 pm »

Triathlon, and general tinkering.

Author Topic: Which other sports/pastimes do you take an interest in? (Read 8338 times)

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