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Notxor wrote:Nisam znao da ima ovoliko stručnjaka za sportske povrede i to na daljinu, bez gledanja...

...pre nekoliko godina sređivao nešto u kući i pošto sam hteo da se što pre posao završi,  pomagao majstorima duplo mlađim od mene, nosio cement, pločice, pesak i od tad mi je desno rame u rcuku - u nekom položaju - kad plivam kraul npr. osećam neprijatan bol, pa ako je konzilijum raspoložen...

Notxor wrote:A lepo si mogao ovde da pitaš, a ne da čekaš drugaricu

We sized them up. We measured them, top to bottom. We've done our own Tale of the Tape, and we've come to a surprising conclusion. Pound for pound, the toughest sport in the world is . . .
Boxing.

The Sweet Science.

That's the sport that demands the most from the athletes who compete in it. It's harder than football, harder than baseball, harder than basketball, harder than hockey or soccer or cycling or skiing or fishing or billiards or any other of the 60 sports we rated.

In Page 2's Ultimate Degree of Difficulty Grid, boxing scores higher than them all.

But don't take our word for it. Take the word of our panel of experts, a group made up of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, of academicians who study the science of muscles and movement, of a star two-sport athlete, and of journalists who spend their professional lives watching athletes succeed and fail.

They're the ones who told us that boxing is the most demanding sport -- and that fishing is the least demanding sport.

We identified 10 categories, or skills, that go into athleticism, and then asked our eight panelists to assign a number from 1 to 10 to the demands each sport makes of each of those 10 skills. By totalling and averaging their responses, we arrived at a degree-of-difficulty number for each sport on a 1 to 100 scale. That number places the difficulty of performing each sport in context with the other sports we rated.

On the grid below, click on each sortable category to find out how our 60 sports rank in each skill. A glossary key is included at the bottom of the grid that explains each category.

So put on the gloves, get in the ring and let the roundhouse hooks begin.





Key

ENDURANCE: The ability to continue to perform a skill or action for long periods of time. Example: Lance Armstrong
STRENGTH: The ability to produce force. Example: NFL linebackers.
POWER: The ability to produce strength in the shortest possible time. Example: Barry Bonds.
SPEED: The ability to move quickly. Example: Marion Jones, Maurice Green.
AGILITY: The ability to change direction quickly. Example: Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm.
FLEXIBILITY: The ability to stretch the joints across a large range of motion. Example: Gymnasts, divers.
NERVE: The ability to overcome fear. Example: High-board divers, race-car drivers, ski jumpers.
DURABILITY: The ability to withstand physical punishment over a long period of time. Example: NBA/NHL players.
HAND-EYE COORDINATION: The ability to react quickly to sensory perception. Example: A hitter reacting to a breaking pitch; a drag racer timing acceleration to the green light.
ANALYTIC APTITUDE: The ability to evaluate and react appropriately to strategic situations. Example: Joe Montana reading a defense; basketball point guard on a fast break.

Fitness play-off: how tennis stars compare with other athletes

Damian Farrow
Professor of Sports Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University

Ever wondered how elite tennis players compare to their contemporaries in other sports?

Does Rafael Nadal have the same leg power as world 100m sprint champion Usain Bolt? Would Australian Sam Groth’s booming serve (he currently holds the record for the fastest ever serve, 263km/h) make him a good baseball pitcher? And would the sheer athleticism of the [Williams sisters](http://williamssisters.org/](http://williamssisters.org/) ensure a career in basketball, or any other sport, if it wasn’t tennis?

Unlike many sports regulated by a time clock, the duration of a tennis contest is unknown. On average a match lasts between one and four hours, though the longest professional tennis match was at Wimbledon in 2010 when [Nicolas Mahut and John Isner] took 11 hours and five minutes, over 183 games, to decide their battle.

This variation in match demands influences the physical profiles of the players and consequently their strengths and weaknesses compared to other athletes.

Aerobic endurance
The gold standard technique of assessing a person’s aerobic fitness is to measure their maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max). This measures the respiratory and cardiovascular systems’ ability to deliver oxygen to the working muscles, and the muscles’ capacity to utilise that oxygen to produce energy.

Australian male high-performance tennis players reportedly have relatively high maximal oxygen uptakes (mean of 58.2 ml O2/kg/min), indicating that skilled tennis players have good cardiovascular endurance.

So how do these results compare with elite endurance athletes such as cyclists?

Elite Australian under-23 road cyclists have exceptionally high VO2 max scores, ranging between 70-80 ml O2/kg/min. This means that at maximal exercise, cyclists are more efficient at supplying energy aerobically – ideal for a continuous endurance sport.

So while a tennis player’s endurance is important, particularly to aid recovery between points and avoid fatigue, it’s not good enough to swap the racket for a saddle.

Leg speed and power
Popular measurements of leg speed include the time taken to run ten metres and leg power testing, which often involves assessing the height a player can jump from a standing two-foot take-off (called a vertical jump test.

While Australian female tennis players can break the tape in approximately 2.01 seconds for ten metres, our notoriously fit and fast Australian Women’s hockey team (the Hockeyroos) average 1.95 seconds. Not such a bad result for the tennis players.

When considering leg power, national level male tennis players (16 years plus) average an approximate jump height of 54cm. In comparison, elite under-20 Australian national level basketball players jump an average of 65cm.

Again, the tennis players’ results stand up reasonably well. In general terms, the comparatively similar results of tennis players to other sports more renowned for these capacities certainly illustrates the importance of leg power and speed in tennis.

Overhand throwing
The enormous speeds modern tennis players generate on their serve cannot all be put down to their technologically advanced tennis racquets. Rather, elite players possess an excellent tennis-specific overhand throwing technique.

Sports scientists have investigated the movement coordination patterns of the tennis serve and overhand throw and determined that similar kinematic sequencing occurs between both movements.

So it’s not surprising to hear anecdotal evidence of strong throwing arms on many elite tennis players when playing sports such as cricket and baseball. It may also be a reason why the average female tennis serve is not as fast as their male counterpart.

Vision
In addition to their exceptional physical skills, elite tennis players are often admired for their Superman-like vision. A quick check-up from the optometrist would reveal they only possess the same 20:20 vision as the rest of us with normal, uncorrected vision.

There is some evidence to suggest the best players can track a fast-moving ball for longer than lesser-skilled players and indeed athletes from sports where tracking a fast-moving object is not essential – swimming, for example.

But like baseball and cricket batters, tennis players seemingly can’t “keep their eye on the ball” until racquet-ball contact – despite their coaches demanding they do!

All-round talent
Compared with many other Olympic sports, it’s clear tennis requires a well-rounded athlete able to be as explosive as a sprinter, yet have adequate staying power to last marathon five-setters. That’s before we even consider the sublime dose of technical skill and hand-eye coordination required to actually hit the ball.

Few other sports come to mind that demand the athlete possess so many different physical and skill qualities to succeed. To watch these fine athletes do battle on the hallowed courts of Melbourne Park is an honour indeed.

rumbeando wrote:
Compared with many other Olympic sports, it’s clear tennis requires a well-rounded athlete able to be as explosive as a sprinter, yet have adequate staying power to last marathon five-setters. That’s before we even consider the sublime dose of technical skill and hand-eye coordination required to actually hit the ball.

Few other sports come to mind that demand the athlete possess so many different physical and skill qualities to succeed. To watch these fine athletes do battle on the hallowed courts of Melbourne Park is an honour indeed.

Notxor wrote:Fotomontaža! Novak ne može da bude u vodi do kolena jer hoda po površini vode.

Ferenc Puskás wrote:Bejzbol zahtijevniji od vaterpola, oukej.

Filipenko wrote:Pricate o tenisu kao da je rec o nekom napornom sportu koji je atletski zahtevan, a najbolji igraci su kojekakvi ficfirici koje kada bi ih sreo na ulici u zivotu ne bi rekao da su se ikada bavili bilo kakvim sportom. I sto je jos gore, za normalne sportove poput fudbala, kosarke i slicnih, gde zapravo ima kontakta i ozbiljnog trcanja, potpuno su vrljavi i bangavi.

U realnosti oni veoma malo trce, mecevi nisu naporni i naravno da je moguce sa laksim povredama odraditi turnir. Mislim, pobrojte samo sve te pauze i valjda ce vam se samo kasti. Mene zato i iritiraju toliko njihova prokenjavanja o satro povredama, a posebno ovog Djokovica kome je uvek najteze pri protivnikovom vodjstvu u setovima i negde oko 4-4 ili 4-5 u gemovima.

"Rejting finala AO je znatno je opao, posebno u muškoj konkurenciji, gde je Đokovićeva deseta pobeda bila 'najmanje gledano muško finale u poslednjoj deceniji'. Nije samo američki fenomen, televizijski brojevi u Australiji su takođe značajno smanjeni", napisao je Rotenberg.