Team Sports or Individual Sports?

[DrunkDestroyer]

A little question I've been meaning to ask for a while.
I'm leaving it very open ended, answer to which you prefer, which is more pressured, which you performed better in and of course, why you chose your answers.

By team sports, here I mean sports more like Football (both kinds)- in which just as important as the skills are how well you know your team, your set plays, tactics, team mentality. (Although if you have experience in something like Tennis Doubles, feel free to contribute).

And when I say individual sports, I mean things like cycling, athletics, boxing, where all you need to develop are your skills for that particular sport (However you may still train with other people and in groups - again, feel free to share any experiences)


In fact, you can ignore anything I am saying here. Just compare/contrast the two, and hit Post. Argue. Discuss. And if you are the first person posting, please say something very objective so this thread gets going. Thanks!

[Acsabi44]

I prefer individual sports. I don't like to rely on others and if the team has to rely on my performance that's stress for me and bad for my performance.

I used to run short-distance. I was pretty good in 60m and 100m cause I'm very tall and I have long legs
Now I'm skateboarding.

[Retribution]

Individual sports. You can play more often with less people around, and like

I prefer individual sports. I don't like to rely on others and if the team has to rely on my performance that's stress for me and bad for my performance.

I used to run short-distance. I was pretty good in 60m and 100m cause I'm very tall and I have long legs
Now I'm skateboarding.

said, I don't like relying on other people or having other people rely on me.

[Sir Rebrl]

I have to say individual sports. I ran cross country in high school and I really enjoyed being able to compete with the members of my own team as much as I was competing with the other teams. It was the sense of competition that really drove me in practice to improve faster than anyone else on the team. I also really loved the feeling of focusing on nothing but your own breathing and heart beat and the slapping of your shoes on the course as you repeatedly surge past other runners to demoralize the other team and re-moralize your own. The adrenaline/endorphin rush was pretty awesome too.

To be honest, it was that balance between individual and team, leaning towards individual, that I really like in a sport.