Is gymnastics harder than football?!?!?

I haven't read this, I won't read this, I will just think that I will make an amazing troll.

Ok I read it lol.

So you're saying that if 1,000,000,000 people compete against each other, there is an equal chance that 2 people competing against each other will be of the same standard as those who are in the top 0.1% of the 1,000,000,000 people ?

An EQUAL chance?

How does the number of people competing have anything to do with the standard of their abilities? I can have two professional football players go against each other and 10 gymnasts compete does that all of a sudden mean that the gymnasts are more competitive and are of a higher standard? No. Because that's illogical the amount of people competing doesn't change the standard to which one competes.

I am a gymnast and some people say football is harder and some say gymnastics is harder. Both are my favourite sports.

I think if you compare a professional football player against a professional gymnast......that gymnastics is harder.

Gymnastics combines flexibility, muscle, perfection, balance, toughness, etc. They are doing all these things on a 4inch beam or flying high on those bars....it's crazy! I think gymnasts have to give up a lot more to go further in the sport because it is so select. Also, many people don't realize how professional gymnast are up at 4 in the morning and stay at the gym till late at night....it's a tough sport. And after all is said and done....very few gymnasts ever make it to the top.

It's also hard to compare because gymnastics is really more of an individual sport. I know they compete as a team in worlds and the Olympics....but success is really dependent upon you. Football is much more team-oriented...of course there are some stand out players....but no matter how good the players are if there isn't chemistry they are not always great!

The more people that compete means that those who have the potential to be the very best footballers/gymnasts realise this potential.

professional gymnasts train up to 35 hours a week.

Football is the most popular sport in the world. Please give informed information instead of thoughts that pop into your head about China being BIG and stuff.....durrrrr.

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Well, thanks for getting personal. I'm not actually that fat, last time I checked I was 13 stone with 9% body fat.

So your friends generalise the whole of the football/rugby community? I don't think I would ever want to climb a rope like that, I was given legs for a reason. I don't challenge you to do 100 keepy ups with a football, because that would be silly, I would know you can't do that, you're a gymnast.

You guys obviously do not have a clue about gymnastics.Gymnastics carries a huge mental burden on athletes. The goal of the sport is perfections. Every routine an athlete steps into they are trying their best to not make a mistake. If they make a big mistake or a small mistake there is no reset button the routine must go on,it could also lead to serious injuries such as being paralyzed.

I swear they practice for like a endless hours a week, and even if they don’t, it must feel like it. Gymnastics requires, sickening balance, mental toughness, body control, and even a bit of speed to get to that vault.

The wipe outs in gymnastics look painful as hell, and never mind the fact that the injuries are some of the worst in sports. I have personally watched 3 athletes blow their achillies tendons and I don’t watch it that much.

Generally, gymnasts are short, but incredibly strong and quite young while competing at an international level. I would think that this amount of training would be incredibly stressful on them as they have been training from the time they could walk. Also, they don’t have as long careers as footballers.

Most of the population of the world could not even do one practice of what people in gymnastics go through.

and footballers just rock up on saturday after a week of playing xbox

you don't need to be good at football to do that.

i can do about 20 and i don't even play football(and yeah with an actual real football). I've seen 7 years old little boys that can manage 100 keep ups,its not difficult to do.I'd say majority of guys can manage atleast 30.

a average gymnast can easily do football training but an average footballer would struggle to do even the basic gymnastic training.

In a way, it is probably has some truth that football is more competitive. If we consider both footballers and gymnasts as a two markets, getting to the top of the football market would be much more difficult given the potential buyers in that market have so much to chose from. Gymnastics is a relatively small market in comparison as such not much competition as football to reach the top and be labelled "the best".

I could be wrong though here...



You don't compete against team-mates anywhere otherwise it isn't a team



This would be a false assumption, footballers (some of the best ones) are absolutely dedicated to playing the game. On basis are you saying gymnasts spend more time practising?



see above.

The difficulty of winning depends on who you are competing against not the amount of people you are competing against.

Exactly my sentiment, you are in fact proving me correct by saying this.

If you have 10,000 people competing against you it is a lot harder to be number 1 (win) than it is against 1 person, 99.99% of the time.

So sure you may be right 0.01% of the time, but I'm right 99.99% of the time.

You don't compete against team-mates anywhere otherwise it isn't a team

Except no. That's not what you are saying. Again you are trying to say the number of people which as I said only applies to getting onto a team. But then it is more relevant how many spots there are available. I could be competing against 10,000 beginners and it would be less competitive than if I were competing against 10 of the best people. The amount of people doesn't change how competitive it is.