Expensive sports

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willy_baller

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why are all the most fun sports so expensive? I ski play hockey and paintball and skiing is the cheapest. its impossible to keep up with paying for all that! is it just me or are all the really fun sports super expensive?
 
DH mountain biking. Shit always breaks, need to buy lift tickets, bikes are super expensive, same with armour and helmets. But it's also the most fun you can possibly have.
 
word.

field lacross isn't too bad, skateboarding is pretty cheap, same with fruit booting
 
Skating is really cheap. Can get a board for under $100 and then all you need is the occasional bearing and wheel change.
Airsoft is pretty cheap too. A decent gun will set you back a couple hundred dollars but field fees are usually $10 or something and BB's cost nothing and most people roll with electric so no money on gas.
Cliff jumping is free, as is hiking.
 
Polo. each player needs 10 or so horses, that they have to transport to each game.

beat that.
 
Maybe I'm just cheap, but I found skating to be pretty expensive. I mean, it's not as expensive as say skiing, but I found it to be more expensive than I anticipated. I went through a lot of boards so that got a bit expensive. And shoes lasted like 2 weeks. But maybe it just felt expensive because I was 13 and trying to save my allowance to buy the shit haha.

Come to think of it, a lot of sports are kinda expensive. When I think of a cheap sport I think of like soccer or basketball. Just buy some shoes and a ball and you're set.
 
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horseback riding. regardless if its a sport or not. you decide.they expensive to keep, all the equipment,vet bills,and comp fees are ridiculously priced,
 
gold brick stacking. I used to be a stack-master, but these days the sport has taken a turn for the worst. Steroids, loose women, the works. It's not about the love of gold bricks anymore.
 
equestrian.

I used to ride really competitively, and was 9th in the nation at one point, and it's soooo expensive. The horse that I borrowed in my last year cost $125,000 and thats not even getting into the horse show costs, and vet bills etc on top of that.
 
My Theory:

I honestly think that every single sport gets expensive at some point, as well as every hobby. If you want to master anything, you need to commit and be focused on that one thing, because its physically and economically impossible to master more than one thing.
 
Ion with a virtue board, after market barrel, sick trigger, big ass nitro tank, proto jersey, proto pants, proto mask

i donno, i gotta go check because i feel like there is more. i'll give you a sweet deal, i just dont want it anymore, i havent played in years, and its just collecting dust
 
Try Horse riding. Like Dressage, or jumping. I can think of no other sport where your gear (or horse) is worth the better part of a million dollars.
 
hockey isn't bad? my family is putting out about 7 grand this year for me to play. (im helping)

and thats every year, im betting you don't buy a new boat every year
 
Its pretty damn hard to do though. When I say master I mean truly master though. I'm going to use musicians as an example of mastery because I can communicate that better than speculating on mastery of skiers.

John Petrucci.

Incredibly talented guitar player, and he has undoubtedly mastered his instrument (sure, thats subjective but lets just go with that for now).

However, this came at a cost - 6 hours a day when he was attending Berkely for guitar. Pretty crazy when you think about it. Classes all day on guitar, practising in all his spare time.

Now, the generally agreed upon time requirement for mastery is 10 000 hours of dedicated, focused practise. At 6 hours a day, not missing a single day, this would take 4 and a half YEARS. 6 hours a day for most people is completely unfeasible. 3 hours a day would take 9 years. Its difficult to even practise 3 hours a day for most people though, because doing good, focused practise is incredibly exhausting. Lets say an hour a day. That means it would take 27 years (I need to practise more...).

Now sure, you can argue that if you master one instrument you can pick up another and master it, and that may be possible but you can't do your 6 hour guitar practise and your 6 hour piano practise in one day and expect to not go insane or broke. If you try to master something else, you WILL lose your mastery because there's not enough time to practise.

Another phenomenon that prevents you from mastering more than one thing is that its very difficult to build skills that you haven't already been partially trained for later in life. If you achieve a mastery by the age of 25, you are completely unfit to master something else because you are far past your prime learning window. This contributes to the difficulty of achieving multiple masteries.

With these phenomenon taken into account, I personally believe that its not feasible to master 2 things within a lifetime, never mind maintaining that mastery. However, thats just my opinion and I'm completely open to debate! For further reading, check out the book "The Talent Code". I really enjoyed reading it, and if you ever want a good kick in the face to get you started on your way to your dreams, its definitely worth your time.

Sorry for going off topic.
 
i agree with part of this, but equestrian doesnt NEED to be expensive.

a few years back my sister got 2nd her class in Stuart horse trials, beating out like two olympians or some shit. this on a $4,000 horse. all the shit she won was worth more than her horse. sure, its easier to work and succeed with a horse that cost a quarter of a million dollars, but if you work your ass off and are really skilled you can turn alot of horses into really fucking good performers.

 
skateboarding, skimboarding and biking aren't too expensive. scuba diving, however...
 
it seems like everything i do cost too much haha.

Skiing, MTB, Wakeboarding, lax, golf, and camera gear is the worst. so expensive.

longboarding is chill though.

 
my expensive hobby/sport is film/photog. holy balls I have money invested in my setup
 
I ride hunter jumpers and it is really expensive :( like just everything related to horses is expensive such as your helmet, breeches, tall boots...it stinks. But I just got an equestrian team started for my school......I know not money related but I'm really excited!
 
thats awesome. I used to ride saddlebreds/ still kinda do occasionally but I can't afford it anymore now that i'm in college. Luckily my parents would pay for my horses (the first two were under $30,000 each, and the third one we leased and the owners sold her for $125,000- so ridiculous) but i had to pay for all my shows which were sooo expensive, local ones were like $1000 each and when i went to kentucky it was like $5000 each time, and my saddle suit which was like $4000, and the saddle was $2500. Jesus I can't believe I invested so much money in it, but its so worth it :)
 
ski racing,

a good pair of race skis will set you back a thousand or so dollars and then bindings another few hundred, gs suit a few hundred dollars, good poles hundred or so, boots range from a few hundred to thousand.

soooo expensive
 
That's so cool! I'm going to try out a Paint Quarter Horse in a couple weeks and if I like him then I'm going to start half-leasing him and I'm really excited. And I know...it's so ridiculous...all the equiptment...geeze haha but I love it so it is totally 100% worth it! :D but I'm luck too, my parents pay for all my riding. But now that I have the equestrian team I might pay to have more lessons than I currently have.
 
the only way hockey is gonna be cheap is if you bought some skates and a stick at a used store. And then you skate on a random pond
 
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