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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

The most extreme professional sport

 

Soccer, basketball, boxing, and baseball were the sports that I participated in faithfully from child to adulthood. I was lucky enough to compete in soccer and boxing on a professional level. Other activities like wrestling, track, handball, racquetball, and lacrosse were used to prepare me for soccer and boxing. Each of these complements the other to enhance skills and increase your talent. You can never be too good at any sport and someone will be there to overtake you when you relax. You can take it to the bank with you.


Hockey was not a sport that many people were interested in when I was little. There were no known tracks he knew of in New York City where it was located and the local sports heroes came from baseball, basketball, and soccer in that order. Even when I was in college in the early 1970s, I had no interest in นักเตะสุดโหด. I learned more about the sport during college because Buffalo students loved the Sabers, and the first televised superstars featured a hockey player by the name of Rod Gilbert. The fact that his physique was of normal height and did not do very well in the different competitions did not pique my interest in chaos on the ice.


All of this changed in 1983 when I became a New York City firefighter. My fire station was located in Coney Island and I saw the engine race against the truck on the Abe Stark track. Although none of those competing were fantastic skaters, I had found a new respect for the skill it takes to accelerate through ice on blades, I have trouble getting up and shooting a stone like a piece of rubber at a goal. When attempting this feat, there are people trying to dislodge it from the ice at an incredibly fast speed. I began to follow the sport while continuing my boxing career. Wayne Gretzsky scoring 92 goals in one season is a sports record that will never be broken. There were 100 if you count the playoffs and the many records he holds far surpass any other major professional athlete.


When you watch a hockey game up close, there is nothing like it. I always thought live fights were the biggest thrill until I went to a professional hockey game. They roll on their skates at an average of 13 miles per hour, and slap hits average 100 miles per hour. The blow is brutal and you have less protection than a professional soccer player. Most hockey players are missing some teeth due to puck and fist contact, as fights are common after a brutal blow while traveling at neck speed. The way athletes can stop and move forward while changing direction while carrying a deadly weapon (the baton) is incredible and exciting. Blocking the puck with your body is another art form left only to people with the strongest will. Elbows, high sticks, cross-back controls, and discs and gloves on the face make this sport only for the toughest of the tough.


Boxing and soccer are great and test the strength and desire of all athletes, but I must be honest and declare hockey the most extreme of the major sports that I have competed and studied in. This is not a game for the faint of heart, but one in which only the strong compete.

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